SF Tidbits for 11/30/11

Interviews and Profiles

• 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 The

  Cultural 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

• Cthulhu’s

  Crazy Nightmare Before Christmas.

• Custom

  Action Figure Mod of George Mann’s Steampunk Superhero, The Ghost.