SF Tidbits for 11/22/11

Interviews and Profiles

• CityFM89 interviews Lauren Beukes (podcast).
• Fantasy Magazine (T.J. McIntyre) interviews Lavie Tidhar.
• SF Squeecast with Catherynne

  M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, and Paul

  Cornell with Very Special Guest George R.R. Martin (podcast).

• SF-Fantasy.de interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Jacqueline Carey interviews Peter

  Orullian(Video, Part 2).

• Chimeras interviews Mark

  Lawrence.

• Weird Fiction Review (António Monteiro) profiles Jean Ray.
• If You’re Just Joining Us interviews Lauren Beukes (podcast).
• My Bookwish Ways interviews Marianne de Pierres.
• The Agony Column interviews Charles Frazier (podcast).
• Amazon interviews Terry Pratchett (video).
• WUNC 91.5 interviews John Kessel (podcast).

News

• Adventures of 2.0 Speculative Fiction Challenge 2012!
• Mark Charan Newton New Two-Book World Rights Deal With Pan Macmillan.
• New Penguin titles suspended from OverDrive.
• 2011 Aurora Award Winners.
• Lucasfilm announces

  StarWarsIdentities.com, a new interactive museum exhibit set to debut April 19

  at the Montreal Science Centre. [via Blastr]

• War

  Of The Worlds Musical To Star Holographic Liam Neeson.

• Isuue

  #300 of Chris Garcia’s Hugo-winning fanzine Drink Tank features 300

  contributors, including John Scalzi, Greg Benford and Lou Antonelli, whose

  short story “The Quantum Gunman” was typed on a portable typewriter at Deep

  South Con and took three hours from start to acceptance.

• Golden Gryphon Press 50% off sale.

Articles

• Stina Leicht on What Films & TV Teach Us About Being A Writer.
• Kate Elliott on If I had rebooted Star Trek.
• Nicola Morgan on How to be a Professional.
• Jim C. Hines on Dear Dean Wesley Smith – I’m Keeping my Agent, Thanks.
• Gameranx (Elizabeth Deloria) on Fashion Designer Creates Amnesia and Assassin’s Creed Inspired Collection.
• Janice Hardy on Why Am I Doing This Again? Plotting Through “What’s Next?” Part Two.
• Nathan Bransford on Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies? (Part II).
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Tips from the Pros: Shelly Mazzanoble on How to Be Inspired.
• The Independent on How

  women are winning sci-fi’s battle of the sexes.

• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) The

  Phantom Tollbooth: 50th Anniversary Edition.

• John C. Wright on Home

  Fires by Gene Wolfe.

• Jeffrey Ford on The

  Other Side of the Mountain: An Appreciation.

• Gio Clairval on The

  Mountain Dead From Life.

• Mark Plummer on Paraphernalia:

  Anniversary Drinks.

• The Atlantic on Famous

  Authors’ Harshest Rejection Letters.

• Blastr lists 18 amazing

  storyboards for a Neuromancer film that never happened.

• Space.com lists 10

  Amazing Things NASA’s Huge Mars Rover Can Do .

Art

• Download

  Free Wallpaper for Halo: Primordium.

• Alastair

  Reynolds’ New Art Riot # 4.

More Fun Stuff

• Infographic: Reading

  Digitally.

• Infographic: 9 Astonishing Facts About Amazon.
• Lifesize

  Lego Boba Fett.

• Renaissance

  Wonder Woman.