SF Tidbits for 12/13/11
- The Functional Nerds interviews Cherie Priest and Sam Sykes (podcast).
- Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Pat Cadigan.
- Angela Slatter interviews Rae Carson.
- Gail Carriger interviews Adam Christopher.
- Suite101.com profiles John
Wyndham
. - Pornokitsch interviews Lev
Grossman
.
News
- The 12 Blogs of Christmas: One. The This Time Next Year Game.
- TransAtlantic Fan Fund Announces 2011 Winner.
- Helen
Lowe Wins Creative Writing Residency
. - Fantastic
Filipino Speculative Fiction – Alternative Alamat Now
Available
.
Events
Articles
- Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on Villains: Evil and Otherness.
- Aqueduct Press (Andrea Hairston) on Subversive Joy.
- Aqueduct Press (Lisa Tuttle) on Pleasures (Reading) of 2011.
- Chuck Wendig on 25 Things Writers Should Know About Rejection.
- Books LIVE (Lauren Beukes) on Recommended Reading Gift Guide Part 1.
- Robert Jackson Bennett on Smugglivus 2011, and the nature of vaudeville and race.
- Richard Parks on Short Stories Rock: Thoughts on a WFC Panel, 2002.
- Nicola Griffith on Publishers: pay writers more, it’s good for you and Manifesto.
- Greg van Eekhout on I did another one.
- The New York Times (Richard Russo) on Amazon’s Jungle Logic.
- Adrienne Kress on A response to Gawker’s post about Bieber’s Steampunk music video.
- Inkpunks (Andrew Romine) on Boldly Going Where Everyone Has Gone Before.
- Black Gate (Matthew David Surridge) on The Enjoyment of Fantasy: Open Letters to Adam Gopnik, Mur Lafferty, and John C. Wright.
- Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Queering SFF – So, This Thing I’ve Been Working On… Beyond Binary.
- Tor.com (Stubby the Rocket) on Redshirts Shopping Guide.
- Benjamin Rosenbaum On Screen Time.
- Chris Nakashima-Brown on SF for MFAs.
- Jamie Todd Rubin on A
visit to a “local” bookstore
. - Jo Walton on Edgar
Pangborn’s A Mirror for Observers
. - Lightspeed Magazine (Jeff Lester) on Science
(and Swindlers) Can Read Your Mind
. - B&N Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Soft
Apocalypse
by Will McIntosh, This Shared Dream byKathleen Ann Goonan, Count to a Trillion by John Wright
. - Marty Halpern on Story
Order (Or, Developing the TOC)
. - Charlie Jane Anders on 10
Satirical Novels that Could Teach You To Survive the Future
. - Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art
of the Genre: Redheads hate clothes
. - Clive Maxfield asks What’s
the best Generation Ship science fiction book/film/song?
- Parliament & Wake on Why
Steampunk (still) Matters
. - Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten
Film: Supergirl (1984)
. - The Retroist on The
Supernatural World of Doctor Strange
. - Retrevo lists Epic
Nerd-Approved Movies To See Before You Die
. - AbeBooks lists on Admirable
Anthologies
. [via BillCrider’s Pop Culture Magazine
]
Art
- Concept
ships by Thomas McDowell
. - Dark
& Life Like Fantasy Art Featuring Caelicorn
. - 30
Fascinating Fairy Concept Artworks
. - Movie
Poster Minimalism: 41 Stripped-Down Examples
. - Poster:
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance
.
More Fun
Stuff