SF Tidbits for 12/1/11
- Lisa Findley interviews C.S.E. Cooney.
- Terri Windling profiles Phoebe Traquair & Jane Yolen.
- Book Obsessed interviews Marjorie M. Liu.
- Gollancz interviews Brandon Sanderson (video).
- Rowena Cory Daniells interviews Mark Charan Newton.
- Ghost in the Machine Podcast interviews Theresa Bane and Crymsyn Hart.
- Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Mark Lawrence.
- Mur Lafferty interviews Ann
VanderMeer
. - Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews N.K.
Jemisin
.
News
- Harlan
Ellison Drops His Lawsuit Against In Time
. - SFWA’s
term of probation for Night Shade is lifted
. - How
Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars
. [via Paul Di Filippo]
Events
- Science
Fiction and Fantasy Events in Toronto, December 2011
. - Gaslight Arcanum Online Book
Launch and Live Q & A
.
Articles
- Nancy Fulda on Informal Checklist for Author Web Sites.
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Earning/Maintaining a Reader’s Trust: Starting a Story with Cultural Touchstones, Narrative Voice, and Precision (part 1 of 3).
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on 10 Mistakes SFF Writers Make With Research.
- Malinda Lo on This is what YA sci-fi looks like.
- Juliette Wade on Gender in Language: A Worldbuilding Hangout Report.
- Locus Roundtable: Genre Accessibility.
- John Scalzi on Remaking
Scifi Films: The Economic Argument
. - Adam Christopher on EMPIRE STATE WorldBuilder: first
projects announced
. - Heather Massey on Is
It Too Soon To Define The Promise of Sci-Fi Romance?
- Jason Sanford on Yes,
Not All Flash Fiction Is Bad
. - Beth Revis on The
Most Important Thing in the Story
. - Fantasy Faction on Parents
and Children in Fantasy
. - Galen Dara on not nanowrimo.
- Altucher Confidential on 5
Unusual Things I Learned from Isaac Asimov
. - Andrew Liptak reviews Ready
Player One
by Ernest Cline. - Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) reviews Boneshaker
by Cherie Priest
. - Cindy Orr on Digital
Libraries in Science Fiction
. - USA Today on Roddenberry
put ‘Star Trek’ light-years ahead
. - MSN lists 10
Silent SF and Horror Masterworks
. [via BillCrider’s Pop Culture Magazine
] - Kirkus Book Reviews lists Best Teen Books of
2011
. - EatSleepLiveFilm lists Top 10 Alien
Films
. - SFX lists 20
Sci-Fi Scots
.
Art
- Lost
Art #10 A Bit of Color — Super Science Style
. - Environment
Concepts Featuring Volta Visual Artist Riana Møller
. - Beautiful
Illustrations by Shinobinaku
. - Science
Fiction and Fantasy Posters by The Modern Stylographer
. - @Planet-Pulp: “Star
Trek Ep. 28 – City on the Edge of Forever
” by Blain Hefner. - @ItsArtMag: “The
Condemned
” by Ksalonen.
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