SF Tidbits for 1/10/12
Interviews and Profiles
- The Once and Future Podcast interviews Diana Rowland.
- Breakfast With The Author spotlights Lawrence Santoro.
- Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Lucius Shepard.
- Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) profiles André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
- Tiffany Trent interviews Stephanie Burgis.
- Publisher’s Weekly (Barbara Vey) interviews Marjorie M. Liu.
- Jen Wylie interviews Lou Antonelli.
- Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #39 interviews Matthew Hughes (PDF).
- Kindle Daily Post interviews Marissa Meyer.
- SFX interviews Kris Holden-Ried.
News
- Subterranean Press Free Tad Williams ARCs.
- Now recruiting – editor required for brand new Angry Robot imprint.
- Players Roll the Dice for Dungeons & Dragons Remake.
- HWA Lifetime Achievement Awards.
- Mythic Delirium 26: announcing the table of contents.
- Will McIntosh’s Hugo Award-winning “Bridesicle” to become a novel.
- Wizards of the Coast anounces that a new edition is under development.
- Subterranean — New Stories by Jonathan Carroll and Kat Howard.
Articles
- Juliette Wade on Why the internet is a trap – and how this writer deals with it.
- Janice Hardy on The Line Forms Where? Knowing Where to Start Your Novel.
- Mike Shatzkin on Some things that were true about publishing for decades aren’t true anymore.
- Richard Parks on The Downside of Persistence.
- Ari Marmell on The Shared DNA of Epic Fantasy and Steampunk.
- Kate Elliott on Re-reading and the Experience of Narrative.
- The Fictorian Era (Mercedes M. Yardley) on Your First Hate Mail: How Life Can Change After Working For a Magazine.
- The Guardian (Sarah Crown) on Science fiction for children: what would you recommend?
- Lisa L. Hannett (Theodora Goss) on Letting Stubborn Stories Breathe.
- Fantasy Matters (Mark Schelske) on The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: Killing A Main Character In Science Fiction And Fantasy.
- Theodora Goss on Fantasy Magazines.
- io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on The Rules of Magic, According to the Greatest Fantasy Sagas of All Time.
- Weird Fiction Review (Elwin Cotman) on Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Urban Hells.
- Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Home Practice.
- Omnivoracious (Stacy Whitman) on Writing Cross-Culturally.
- Frederik Pohl on Cyril Kornbluth, Part 3.
- Neil Gaiman on Of Introductions and Viriconium.
- Jim C. Hines on Jig vs. Jig: Fan Writer and Other Hugo Stuff.
- The B&N Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Distrust That Particular Flavor.
- Apex (Don Campbell) on I, Transhuman.
- William King on The E-Book Experiment: 6 Month Report.
- Black Gate (G. Winston Hyatt) on In a Lonely Place: The Weird Horror of Karl Edward Wagner.
- A Book of Days asks What Does “Punk” Have To Do With It?
- Jay Lake on A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.
- Strange Horizons (Robyn Fleming) on Dice and D-Pads: Jumping to Beginnings.
- Wired on Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us.
- WhatCulture on The 10 Golden Rules of Superhero Movies.
- Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review on Zombies in Speculative Fiction.
- Topless Robot on The 15 Most Devastating Space Vessels in the Star Trek Universe.
- Robert J. Sawyer on Four “must-read” science-fiction books.
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