SF Tidbits for 1/31/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Gollancz interviews Sarah Silverwood.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Kristine Ong Muslim.
- Geek Chocolate interviews Alastair Reynolds.
- Manga Maniac Cafe interviews Myke Cole.
- The Qwillery interviews Myke Cole.
- Geek Dad (Ethan Gilsdorf) interviews Peter Bebergal.
- Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Ben Marcus.
News
- Strange Chemistry Announces Gwenda Bond!
- Neil Gaiman, Todd McFarlane settle ‘Spawn’ legal dispute.
- 2012 Galileo Awards nominees.
- Introduce Yourself to The Wheel of Time for Only 99 Cents.
- John Scalzi is Running For SFWA President (Again).
- Jeff Patterson will be selling art prints at Boskone in a few weeks.
Articles
- Mike Brotherton on Astronomy Misconceptions in Literature.
- Damien G. Walter on 7 literary Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels you must read.
- Janice Hardy on Person? Place? Thing? Let’s Talk About Nouns.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on The Necessity of Discipline.
- io9 (Charlie Jane Andes) on Young Adult Novels That Aren’t The Same Old Dystopias.
- io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Who Never Wrote Sequels or Trilogies.
- Publishers Weekly (Cory Doctorow) on Digital Lysenkoism.
- Juliette Wade on Using projection/anticipation to improve your manuscript.
- Inkpunks (Morgan Dempsey) on Go to a Workshop? No Thanks.
- Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Curse Like an Orc, Woo Like an Elf: The Secret to Fantasy Languages.
- Richard Parks on So Where DO You Get Your Story Ideas?
- Arielle Saiber on Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction.
- Weird Fiction Review (Teodor Reljic) on Is China Miéville a Weird Gateway Drug?
- Discovery News asks What If The Apollo Program Never Happened? [via Paul Di Filippo]
- News From Me on Cereal Killers and Forrest J. Ackerman. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Giant Freakin Robot on The 10 Best Alternate Universes In Sci-Fi.
Art
- The Zombie Presidents Of The United States.
- @CoolVibe: “Daydreamer” by Ekaterina Pushkarova.
- @CoolVibe: Would you play with me, Mister? by Ekaterina Pushkarova.
- @ItsArtMag: “Legend of Lizards” by alexnegrea.
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