SF Tidbits for 11/22/11
- 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, whoseshort 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
More Fun Stuff
Thanks for including our challenge link! We’ve gotten a bunch of people joining us from here. 😀