SF Tidbits for 12/1/11

Interviews and Profiles

• 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 Bill

  Crider’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.

More Fun Stuff

• Beware

  the Hairy Mango Episode 91: “The Careerist’s Guide to the Sea, Part 3” by

  Matthew Sanborn Smith.

• 138

  Years of Popular Science Magazine in a Single Infographic.

• Robot

  hysteria in the 1930s (slide show). [via Paul Di Filippo]

• If You Give

  a Romulan a Kitty.