SF Tidbits for 11/19/11
Interviews & Profiles
- Civilian Reader interviews Gav Thorpe.
- MTV interviews Lev Grossman.
- New Notes from Coode Street features Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.
- The Qwillery interviews Rob Ziegler.
- Suvudu interviews William Schafer.
- SFX interviews interviews Adam Christopher.
- SciFi Diner Podcast interviews Aaron Rosenberg.
- Suvudu interviews Andy Behrman.
- Dan Persons interviews Dr. Michio Kaku.
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Michael Dempsey.
News
- John Anealio will be the Musical Guest of Honor next year at Fencon IX in Dallas, Texas. Congrats, John!
- Brent Spiner Calls Star Trek‘s Vision Of The Future A Joke.
Events
Articles
- John Stevens on A Few Brief Thoughts About Books and Reading (With Illustrations).
- Laura Anne Gilman on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 46.
- Matt Forbeck on Novelizing a Game.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt asks Is There Room for Positive Stories in Science Fiction and Fantasy?
- TG Daily on that legendary Star Wars poster.
- What Culture on Top 5 Stephen King Film Adaptations We’d Like to See.
- The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Fight the System.
- Cracked.com lists 5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed Everything.
- Furious Fanboys list The 10 Best Special Effects Movies Ever.
- Flick Feast lists Top Ten Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s.
Art
More Fun Stuff
- ShadowBytes WebComic: Sick, Right?
- Free NaNoWriMo Song.
- Ellen Datlow’s photos from November 16th KGB reading with Jack Womack and Claude Lalumière.
- Read the first chapter on Autumn: Disintegration by David Moody.
- How to draw and paint Stormtrooper.
- Comic Crits: The Shatnerverse by William Shatner. [via Fred Kiesche]
- Del Rey Spectra 50 Page Fridays: For Love of Mother-Not by Alan Dean Foster.
- VIDEO: Muppets Audition for the Role of Yoda.
- Steampunk Lego inventions.
- Admiral Snackbar.
- 8-Bit Marvel Characters.
- Batman Stamps.
