SF Tidbits for 12/13/11

Interviews and Profiles

• 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

• Book

  Tour info for Among Others by Jo Walton.

• Book

  Tour info for Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell.

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 by

  Kathleen 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 Bill

  Crider’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

• “The

  Education of Junior Number 12” by Madeline Ashby.

• Rise

  of the Apes Street Mural.

• VIDEO:

  Doctor Who “Yo Mama” Jokes.