SF Tidbits for 11/29/11

Interviews and Profiles

• 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

• Announcing… Zoo City – the movie!
• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.
• Nebula

  Nomination Period Open.

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.

More Fun Stuff

• VIDEO:

  Man with jetpack races actual jets.

• 6

  Beautiful Videos Shot In Space.

• Gift Boing Boing Gift Guide 2011.
• Ghostbusters,

  as told by Dr. Suess.