SF Tidbits for 12/2/11
Interviews and Profiles
- Grasping for the Wind (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) SFFWRTCHT: A Chat With Author-RPG Designer Ari Marmell.
- Black Gate (Bill Ward) Interviews James L. Sutter, Part Three.
- Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Michael Reaves.
- Fantasy Magazine (Jennifer Konieczny) spotlights J.P.
Targete
. - Lightspeed Magazine(Caleb Jordan Schulz) spotlights Angel
Alonso
. - @Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Colleen
Mondor
. - SF Site (Trent Walters) interviews Douglas Lain.
- Philip José Farmer International Bibliography interviews Christopher Paul
Carey
. - BookBanter interviews Ernest Cline.
- Upcoming: Ask
Ekaterina Sedia anything you want about Heart of Iron
.
News
- News from Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazine.
- Turbulence goes to Titan.
- Spectrum
Fantastic Art Live! and Artist As Brand are aligning to bring creative
empowerment and prosperity to artists in Kansas City next May, 2012
. - Science
Fiction Author Todd McCaffrey Named as a Judge for the Writers of the
Future Contest
. - OrbitalDrop: The Hedgewitch
Queen
by Lilith Saintcrow eBook for $2.99. - Grahame-Smith’s
Unholy Night Headed to Big Screen
.
Articles
- Coffee and Ink on The erasure of women writers in sf & fantasy.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: The Writer’s Guide To Evaluating A Traditional Publishing Company.
- The Guardian (Damien Walter) on Can science fiction lead us away from economic collapse?
- Rachelle Gardner on An Agent’s Day.
- L.S. Taylor on Writing on the Fast Track (SiWC 2011 Notes).
- Neil Gaiman on Audiobooks: A Cautionary Tale.
- DF Lewis reviews in real time The Weird (33).
- Juliette Wade on Culture and language in The Fallen Queen by Jane Kindred.
- Kat Howard On being a writer.
- The New Yorker (Adam Gopnik) on The Dragon’s Egg.
- Nick Mamatas on How sausage is made–selling a short story.
- Damien G. Walter asks Can
science fiction lead us away from economic collapse?
- A. Lee Martinez on Get
Real (or Don’t)
. - Michael J. Sullivan on Book
Covers
. - Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams on Nexus Graphica: The Annual
Round-Up, Part One
. - Derek Johnson on Watching the Future: Thrill
Me
! - Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten
Book: Witch Got Your Tongue
by Livia J. Washburn, 2010. - Bryan Thomas Schmidt on The
Importance of Contextualization When Reading Classic SF
. - David Borgenicht lists 7
Life Lessons You Can Learn From Star Trek
. [via Paul Di Filippo] - Conor P. Dempsey list Book
Adaptations To Look For In 2012 And Beyond
. - Flavorwire lists 10 Twisted
Fairy Tales on Film
.
Art
- 8
Wicked Minimalist X-Men Posters
. - Superhero Pictograms.
- @CoolVibe: “Sunrise” by Jukka
Rajaniemi.
- @CoolVibe: “Pygmy
Esorifleu
” by Jukka Rajaniemi.
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