SF Tidbits for 11/23/11

Interviews and Profiles

• Tor.com (Peter Orullian) interviews Jacqueline Carey (part 2) (video).
• SFWA (John Ottinger III) interviews Paolo Bacigalupi.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Robyn Lupo) interviews John Crowley.
• The SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author-RPG Creator Matt Forbeck.
• Black Static (Peter Tennant) interviews Quentin Crisp.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Julia Sherred (podcast).
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Patrick

  Rothfuss, Robert V. S. Redick, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, Robin

  Sullivan, K.W. Jeter, Nancy Green, Jonathan Wood, Connie Willis,

  Collette Vernon, Laurie Tom, Eric James Stone and Louise Marley (podcast).

• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Christopher Paolini.
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Carolyn

  Ives Gilman.

• Twitter Fans interview A. Lee

  Martinez.

• Newsarams interviews Joseph

  Mallozzi.

News

• The British Fantasy Society Fifth update from Acting Chair Graham Joyce. 
• The World SF Blog Call For Submissions: Speculative Fiction Stories.
• Reprint Recommendations: Robots: Recent AI.
• VIZ

  Media to release Art for Hope digital art anthology in December – SFScope –

  Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror.

• U.K

  publisher Titan Books has entered

  into an agreement with the Estate of Philip Jose Farmer to bring

  a large selection of Mr. Farmer’s backlist titles back into print.

• Penguin

  Group Has Halted Library Lending For E-Books Citing Security Concerns.

• Free

  eBook Giveaway at Book View Café: Tritcheon Hash by Sue

  Lange.

• Dark

  Horse Digital Cyber Monday Deal. [via SF Scope]

• FableCroft sale.

Articles

• Cheryl Morgan on Worldcon, YA and Women.
• Juliette Wade on Hard Choices Require Consequences.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Reasons Readers Will Quit Reading Your Story.
• Weird Fiction Review (Scott Nicolay) on Dogme 2011 for Weird Fiction.
• Seanan McGuire on Open spaces in the dialog: why “I didn’t like it” and “bad” aren’t the same.
• Sinescope (Lynda E. Rucker) on Dark Enough: Women Writing Horror.
• Holly Black on TWILIGHT, fetish, and protecting girls from themselves.
• Gollancz Blog (Adam Roberts) on Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction.
• Marguariete Croft on be nice to people.
• Fantasy Magazine (Emma Bull) on Home

  on the Strange.

• Stina Leicht on A Little Help

  from My Friends.

• Bradley P. Beaulieu Rothfuss

  and GRRM or ‘How Many POVs is Too Many?.

• Lightspeed Magazine (Graeme McMillan) on Keeping

  the Dead Among the Living.

• Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten

  Film: The Lost World (1925).

• Ryan Britt asks Are

  Zombies Truly the Harbinger of Genre Crossover?

• Sarah Seltzer on The

  Bloody, Twisted, Inverted World of Twilight.

• SFX lists 48

  Other Things We Love About Doctor Who.

Art

• @: “Ze

  Asimov” by scala.

More Fun Stuff

• Fanthology ’87: An

  Open Letter to Joanna Russ. [via James Nicoll]

• A

  Dark Matter sneak peek.

• Sci Fi

  Lullaby-Lullaby Versions of Sci Fi & Fantasy Classics.

• Zombie

  Movies Trivia Game.