SF Tidbits for 1/17/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Gollancz interviews Jon Sprunk.
- Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Stephen Graham Jones.
- Audible SF/F interviews Robertson Dean.
- Book Banter interviews Ben Loory (podcast).
News
- Spectrum 19 — Call for Entries.
- Howard Hopkins Services and Emembrances.
- Subterranean Press announces Dying Of The Light by George R.R. Martin.
- The Walking Dead Season 3 will be 16 episodes long.
- A&E Making a Psycho Prequel Series. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Winners of the 8th annual Broken Frontier Awards.
Articles
- World SF Blog (KS Augustin) on World SF 2011 Retrospective Part 1.
- Warren Ellis on What A Comics Script Is For.
- Bryan Thomas Schdmit on Write Tip: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Book Sell Sheets.
- Audible SF/F on Ridiculously Huge Preview of 2012.
- SF Novelists (Marie Brennan) on Competence is hot.
- Janice Hardy on Have You Met Ted? Introducing Characters.
- Clarion (Lynda Williams) on Writing as a Violent Act.
- Sleeping Hedgehog (Ellen Datlow) on Best of 2011.
- Omnoviracious (Susan J. Morris) on Total Reader Immersion: Writing Evocative Descriptions.
- Juliette Wade on Don’t underestimate the power of nonfiction.
- Rick Klaw on Nexus Graphica.
- Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding.
- [Added by Editor] Bibliophile Stalker (Charles A. Tan) reviews Under the Moons of Mars edited by John Joseph Adams.
- LiveScience asks What If Humans Were Twice as Intelligent? [via Paul Di Filippo]
Art
- Minimalist Star Wars Posters.
- @CoolVibe: “Abstract Dragon” by Jean-Sebastien Rossbach.
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