SF Tidbits for 12/12/11

Interviews and Profiles

• Fantasy Book Critic (Mihir Wanchoo) interviews Kelly Gay.
• The World SF Blog (Nick Wood) interviews Tom Learmont.
• Command Line interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Fantasy Magazine (Jennifer Konieczny) interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
• SFWA Nebula Awards interview (Tehani Wessely) with Pearl North.
• Writing Excuses with Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, and Delia Sherman (podcast).
• Weird Fiction Review interviews Steve Rasnic Tem.
• On the Flipside interviews Paolo Chikiamco.
• Fantasy Faction interviews Patrick

  Rothfuss.

News

• Gilbert Adair (1944-2011).
• NASA ignores

  Arthur C. Clarke, may attempt landings on Europa. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Steve Davidson will be the new

  proprietor of SF Awards Watch, Kevin Standlee revealed on the SMOFs list.

• Thomas

  Ligotti — The Agonizing Resurrection Of Victor Frankenstein

  Back in Stock.

• Ruler

  of Naught by Sherwood Smith & Dave Trowbridge Coming December 27

  from Book View Cafe.

• The speculative

  fiction anthology Angel Body is half price on Amazon UK until

  Monday 19 December 2011.

• Renegade

  Arts Entertainment is offering one of every comic book and graphic novel

  Renegade has published in 2011 for less than $20, until December 15th.

• Missing

  Doctor Who episodes found.

Events

• Broken

  Frontier Awards 2011.

Articles

• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on The Importance of Heroines.
• Nicholas Kaufmann on Herbert West – Racist.
• Rachelle Gardner on The Meaning of Persistence.
• Nicola Morgan on Crabbit’s Tips for Writers – 4: Publishing Yourself.
• Chuck Wendig on The Precarious Portentious Perils Of Self-Publishing.
• SFWA (Gabrielle Gantz) on Subject: Hello from your Publicist.
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on The Weird Questionnaire.
• William Shunn on Why you won’t go to hell for putting two spaces after a sentence.
• Aqueduct Press (Tansy Rayner Roberts) on Pleasurable Culture Consumed in 2011.
• Marty Halpern on The

  Alien Other.

• The Skiffy and Fanty Show on Nihilism

  in Genre Fiction Roundtable w/ Paul Genesse.

• Vandana Singh on Diffractions:

  Science, Emotions, and Culture (Part 3).

• Fantasy Magazine (Veronica Schanoes) on The

  Deathly Shadows in Our Lives.

• Gollancz blog on The

  Making of the Alastair Reynolds’ Blue Remembered Earth

  Trailer.

• Fabio Fernandes on The

  (so far unnamed) Massive Space Opera Reading Project.

• Jayme Gates reviews City of

  Ruin by Mark Charan Newton.

• Jamie Todd Rubin on Subscription

  guilt.

• Conor P. Dempsey on on Book

  Adaptations To Look For In 2012 And Beyond Part 2.

• Magical Musings on Urban

  Fantasy vs. Paranormal.

• Juliette Wade on Writing male point of view.
• Lisa Hannett (Kirstyn McDermott) on Banishing Obsessive Demons.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Tell it Like a Trickster: How to Write a Good Twist.
• Salon.com on The science of

  warp. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Harper’s Magazine (Jonathan Lethem) on The ecstasy of influence:

  A plagiarism. [via Boing

  Boing]

• The Week on Space

  worms. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Topless Robot lists 10

  Classic Doctor Who Companions Who Were Not Hot Chicks.

• SciFiNow lists on Top 20 best

  zombie movies.

Art

• @CoolVibe: “All

  of Sins” by Ural Koçak.

• @CoolVibe: “The monster

  in my closet” by Davide Tosello.

More Fun Stuff

• A

  New Batch of Angry Robot Sample Chapters!

• Infographic:

  Minority Report In Real Life. You Cannot Hide. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Spacemen

  magazine of the 1960s.

• SFX #217

  Preview.

• Origin

  Of A Superhero.

• BBC

  adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Original Foundation Trilogy.

  [Thanks, Fred!]