SF Tidbits for 10/20/11

Interviews and Profiles

• StarShipSofa interviews Tobias Buckell (podcast).
• The Qwillery interviews Bradley

  P. Beaulieu.

• SFF World interviews Kevin

  J. Anderson.

News

• Simon

  & Schuster gives its authors sales data access.

• Berkley/NAL

  to Launch E-book Imprint, InterMix.

• Booksellers

  involve superheroes in e-book battle.

• Ben

  Aaronovitch – National Book Award nominee.

• Bryan

  Singer’s Battlestar Galactica Movie Is Underway.

Events

• Upcoming

  SFF Events in November.

Articles

• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Why do we love science fiction, fantasy, or horror? 
• Janice Hardy on And Pretty Words All in a Row: Tightening Your Narrative Focus.
• Fantasy Matters (N.K. Jemisin) on Beyond Worldbuilding: Cosmobuilding, or, The Power of the Space Hoagie.
• Shimmer (Lisa Hannett) on Hewing Away the Rough Walls (Or, Five Ways to Put Your Story on a Diet).
• Matthew Cheney on A Contribution to VanderMeer Studies.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Cheating Death in SFF.
• Tor.com (Arnie Fenner) on Lovecraft, Asimov, GRRM, Heinlein & More: Painting SFF Writers.
• The A.V. Club on Defending

  the Matrix sequels.

• John Scalzi on My

  Scifi Film Writing Assignment for You.

• Kevin Bermeister on Time

  Travel, Your Mother and the Limits of Science.

• Graham Edwards asks What

  scares you?

• John Ginsburg Stevens reviews Embassytown

  by China Miéville.

• Jamie Todd Rubin on All

  Major Changes….

• Andrew Liptak on The

  Windup Girl, Revisited.

• The Atlantic on How

  Zombies and Superheroes Conquered Highbrow Fiction.

• Real Science: New Scientist on Comets

  may be creating oceans on alien planet.

• Bryan Thomas Schmidt lists 7

  Tips For Being A Good Beta Reader.

• Listverse lists Top 10 Great

  One-Sit Reads.

• Maximum PC lists The 34

  Best Webcomics for Geeks.

• Heather Massey lists Top Ten Geek

  Girl Sites.

Art

• Gallery:

  Dark Lord Conquers Earth in Star Wars: The Complete Vader.

• Concept

  ships by Adam Burn. (Wow!)

• Cartoon

  Characters All Grown Up. [via Neatorama]

• @A Creative Universe: “Dracula”

  by Mark Hammermeister.

• @CoolVibe: “Demon” by Kouji

  Tajima.

More Fun Stuff

• Download

  Tor/Forge Author Voices Volume #3.

• Movies

  Combined with The Appropriate Board Game.

• Teenage

  Mutant Ninja Noses.

• Star

  Trek Enterprise Light-Up Feeding System.

• Chrome

  Experiments – “Neon Flames” by Jonas Wagner. [via The

  Genre Files]