SF Tidbits for 12/7/11

Interviews and Profiles

• 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.

More Fun Stuff

• First

  5 Chapters of Cinder Now Available for Free Download.

• Excerpt:

  Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker

  by Rudy Rucker.

• Cheeky Frawg has a new home.
• Klingon Monopoly! [via

  Gravity

  Lens]