SF Tidbits for 11/30/11
- Angela Slatter interviews Allyson Bird.
- Weird Fiction Review interviews Liz Williams.
- Fantasy Book Critic interviews Anne Sowards.
- Lightspeed Magazine (Robyn Lupo) interviews John Crowley.
- The Functional Nerds interviews Ed Lazellari (podcast).
- Angry Robot Podcast interviews Peter Crowther.
- SFWA (Tehani Wessely) interviews Barry Deutsch.
- Inkpunks (Sandra Wickham) interviews Lou Anders.
- Tor.com (Peter Orullian) interviews Lev Grossman.
- Tor.com (Ryan Britt) interviews John
Landis
. - Geek Speak profiles John
Picacio
. - Guys Can Read interviews R.A.
Salvatore
.
News
- Ray
Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 finally an e-book
. - Orbit
Short Fiction To Launch Internationally
. - Tor.com
Mobile Goes Live
. - Reprint Recommendations Requested for Military SF Anthology: War and Space: Recent Combat edited by Sean Wallace.
Articles
- The New Yorker on Young-Adult
Fantasy Books
. [via TheCultural Gutter
] - Brit Mandelo on On
Changing Reading Habits or Savoring the Experience
. - Deborah J. Ross on Thanks,
Anne McCaffrey, and Genre Boundaries
. - Jason Sanford on Strange
Horizons and Writing What You Read
. - David Moody on Visiting
the end of the world
. - Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Recommended
Reading List
. - Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Legend
by Marie Lu
. - Paul McAuley reviews Hugo.
- Slate Magazine on Communicating
with aliens through an interstellar beacon
. [via Paul Di Filippo] - Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten
Film: Destroy All Planets (1968)
. - Jamie Todd Rubin on Why
I Went Paperless
. - Chuck Wendig on 25 Things You Should Know About Your Completed Novel.
- Theodora Goss on Simplicity.
- Maria Dahvana on Litgeek Giftguide (By Genre #1) – Gifts for The New Weird Woman and Litgeek Giftguide (By Genre) #2 – Gifts for The New Weird Guy.
- Los Angeles Times (Jeff VanderMeer) Book review: ‘Micro’ by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston.
- Scotsman (Stuart Kelly) Book review: The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories.
- Janice Hardy (Marie Lu) on Wait a Second! Creating Secondary Characters.
- Clarion Blog (Ernest Cline) on Quick! To the Authormobile!
- Weird Fiction Review (China Mieville) on M.R. James and the Quantum Vampire.
- Jay Lake on Perseverance.
Art
- Concept
ships by Ioan Dumitrescu
. - @CoolVibe: “Anti-Venom”
and Ghostbusters
– Peter Venkman. by Fabrizio Fioretti.
More Fun
Stuff
Thanks so much for the links back to the Cultural Gutter!