SF Tidbits for 11/29/11
- Urban Fantasy Investigations interviews Marjorie M. Liu.
- Fantasy Magazine (Wendy Wagner) interviews Ellen Kushner.
- Strange Horizons (Nicholas Seeley) interviews Sergei Lukyanenko.
- Arena–Irish Radio interviews Ann & Jeff VanderMeer.
- I Should Be Writing interviews Ann VanderMeer (podcast).
- Innsmouth Free Press interviews Jesse Bullington.
- Speculate! interviews Maurice Broaddus (podcast).
- SFF World interviews Michael J.
Sullivan
.
News
Events
- Auction to help
out Terri Windling
. - Now through Christmas: buy
any Nonstop Press book and get a second book, of equal or lesser value, for
free
.
Articles
- Charles Stross on The
Big Six publishers cutting their own throats with eBook DRM
. - Jamie Todd Rubin on 12
reasons I love e-books (and a few areas for improvement)
. - Damien G. Walter on Why
crap books sell millions
. - Mur Lafferty’s Problem
With Classics
. - Charles Stross on World
building 201: Heuristics
. - Judith Tarr on Worldbuilding
with Horses: Infrastructure
. - Courtney Schafer on Appeal Is Ageless.
- Fantasy Magazine (Kat Howard) on The Pen and The Sword.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Write Tip: If You’re Not Signed Up for Kindlegraph, Why You Should Be.
- Small Beer Press (Kathe Koja) on Victorian opulence.
- Printasia (Aliette de Bodard) on Process and its Evolution.
- Juliette Wade on Secondary characters can add dimension and tension.
- Seanan McGuire on Thoughts on Writing #46: “Easy” Is For Other People.
- Jim C. Hines on Amazon Reader Reviews.
- Howard Waldrop & Lawrence Person review Hugo.
- Lawrence Person on Hugo and Georges Méliès.
- The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) reviews The
Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
. - LA Times (Chris Barton) reviews Chuck
Palahniuk’s Damned
. - Txchnologist asks Will
NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13’s Plutonium From the Sea?
[via Paul Di Filippo] - Slate Magazine on SETI
and the problems with searching for alien life
. [via Paul Di Filippo] - Tansy Rayner Roberts on Australian
Award-Winning Women (in SF, Horror and Fantasy)
. - Gamma Squad lists 10
of the Greatest Comic Book Video Games
.
Art
- Minimalist
Posters of Iconic Movie Masks
. - @Approaching Pavonis Mons: “New
Art riot # 6
” by Alastair Reynolds. - @CoolVibe: “Inferno” and “Robot Rock” by
Jonathan Simard.
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