SF Tidbits for 12/7/11
- Angela Slatter interviews Kim Falconer.
- Chimeras interviews Courtney Schafer and Alison Sinclair.
- Read in a Single Sitting interviews Nancy Di Fabbio.
- Lightspeed Magazine (Christie Yant) interviews Vylar Kaftan.
- Lightspeed Magazine interviews Richard Dawkins.
- Samuel Montgomery-Blinn interviews Saladin Ahmed.
- The Functional Nerds interviews Matt Forbeck and Jay Garmon (podcast).
- Dead Robots Society interviews James L. Sutter (podcast).
- Dark Cargo interviews Mike Allen.
- Little House Entertainment interviews Peter S. Beagle (video).
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Rudy Rucker.
- Weird Fiction Review interviews Ramsey
Campbell
. - Deus Ex Machinatio interviews Chuck Wendig.
- Examiner.com interviews Charles
Prepolec
and J.R.Campbell
. - Sydney Morning Herald profiles Neal
Stephenson
.
News
- Expanded Horizons Fund Raiser.
- NIU Libraries acquires papers of Chicago-born sci-fi writer Fred Saberhagen.
- Alan
Moore, Occupy Comics, slam Frank Miller
. - Nancy A.
Collin’ Urban Fantasy Heroine Sonja Blue Is Back With and Original Story,
Search And Destroy
. - Canadian
Fiction Anthology Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound Now
Open For Submissions
.
Articles
- The Guardian (Alison Flood) on Are publishers putting the squeeze on bloggers?
- Lisa Hannett (Karen Miller) on Write for Yourself.
- Juliette Wade on Tightening your plot by layering.
- Weird Fiction Review (Angela Slatter) on As the Weird Turns.
- Chuck Wendig on 25 Financial Fuck-Ups Writers Make.
- Robret V.S. Redick on Things I Won’t Do to Support My Writing Career.
- David Golding on No Future? The Lack of Science Fiction Published in Australia.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Urban Fantasy: The Outcast Hero.
- Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Burping the book baby.
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Earning/Maintaining a Reader’s Trust: Character/Narrator Consistency and Reliability (part 3 of 3).
- Mary Robinette Kowal on Debut Author Lessons: How to deal with self-promotion and award seas.
- Nancy Fulda On Being Visible Without Being Obnoxious.
- Douglas Cohen on Realms of Fantasy: Closure Update.
- Tobias Buckell on Impostor Syndrome.
- Rudy Rucker on The
Death of Philip K. Dick and the Birth of Cyberpunk
. - A. Lee Martinez on Characters.
- Brenda Cooper on Reading
Recommendation: SEED by Rob Zeigler
. - Paul McAuley on Introduction
To Stories From The Quiet War
. - Damien G. Walter on Norwegian
Wood
by Haruki Murakami. - Cory Doctorow on Ian
McDonald’s Planesrunner
. - The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on The
Cult of LEGO
. - Apex Book Company (Susan J. Morris ) on A
Flowchart of Fantasy
. - Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Reading
Joanna Russ: The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
. - Andrew Liptak on Ender’s
Game
and Military Strategy. - Fred Kiesche on The
Very Best
. - Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) reviews Touch
of Power
by Maria Snyder. - Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Orgotten
Film: The Laughing Dead (1989)
. - The Solaris Editors’ Blog on Space
Opera
. - NextNewMovies on Starship
Troopers and the state of Hollywood sci-fi remakes
. - Famous Monsters Of Filmland lists Top
5 Moments in Twilight Zone History
. - Space.com lists NASA’s
Top 10 Gamma-Ray Sources in the Universe
. - Topless Robot lists 12
Sci-Fi Weapons of Mass Destruction
.
Art
- Picturesque
Fabel 2 & Killzone 2 Concepts Featuring Skybolt
. - A
Look into Shashthree’s Latest “Experiment”
. - @CoolVibe: “Kingfisher” by Vijoi
Daniel Iulian.
- @CoolVibe: “The
Lich
” by Chao Yuan Xu.
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