SF Tidbits for 3/1/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Carrie Vaughn.
- Lightspeed (John Nakamura Remy) interviews Robert Silverberg.
- Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Walter Jon Williams.
- Solaris interviews Juliet E. McKenna.
- Ray Gun Revival (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) interviews Author Alex J. Cavanaugh.
- BBC News interviews John Cusack on Edgar Allan Poe (video). [via Paul Di Filippo]
News
- WANTED: Contacts Information for Literary Estates.
- Tor.com announces the Palencar Project.
- Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library reaches 100K books and touts indie writers.
- Saturn Award Nominees Announced.
- Judges announced for 2012 British Fantasy Awards.
- DNA reveals Neanderthal extinction clues. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Leonard Nimoy will guest star on The Big Bang Theory on March 29th.
Events
- Orbit Books – March Events.
- Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop: July 22-29, 2012, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. [via Mike Brotherton]
Articles
- Jeff VanderMeer on Panic Attack: Understanding Your Work Cycles.
- Make Use Of (Joel Lee) on 6 Must-Listen Podcasts For Novelists, Screenwriters & Storytellers.
- Allan Cole on Julie Adams: The Lady Even Movie Monsters Fell For.
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin reviews Ride the Moon ed. M.L.D. Curelas.
- Shimmer Five Authors + Five Questions : Advice.
- Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on The Importance Of Faith As An Element In Realistic SFF Worldbuilding.
- Inkpunks (Jesse Bullington) on I Have No Idea What The Hell I’m Doing.
- Hal Duncan on Ten Rules for a New Writer.
- Tachyon asks Saving the World One Good Book at a Time: Who Controls Your Amazon E-book Price?
- Jane Anders on Michael Chabon's 17-Year Quest to Write a Mars Adventure Movie.
- Sam Sykes on An Aeons’ Gate Retrospective.
- A. Lee Martinez on Playing Favorites.
- John Scalzi on Oscars Wrap-Up.
- Flickering Myth Movie Blog (Trevor Hogg) on Blending In: The Making of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
- SciFi Ideas on Story Idea: Oort Cloud Civilizations.
- Apex Publications (Michael A. Burstein) on Time Travel? There’s an App for That.
- L.B. Gale on Character Deaths and Gender in Major Geek Series.
- L.B. Gale reviews H. Rider Haggard’s Charlie She.
- The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) reviews The Snow Queen’s Shadow by Jim C. Hines.
- Josh Vogt reviews on Lightspeed – Year One edited by John Joseph Adams, Touchstone by Melanie Rawn, and Arctic Rising by Tobias S. Buckell.
- John C. Wright on A Princess of Mars and a Messiah of Mars.
- Haikasoru on The Future is Japanese.
Art
- Wicked Illustrations by Nebezial.
- Concept spaceship environments by Yohann Schepacz.
- Concept robots by Yohann Schepacz.
- Kickstarter: The Art of Carpe Chaos by Carpe Chaos.
- @CoolVibe: “The Keeper” by Marc Moreno.
- @ItsArtMag: “Alien Apes” by Ken Barthelmey.
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