SF Tidbits for 3/3/12
Interviews & Profiles
- To The Best of Our Knowledge interviews Anne R. Dick (The Search for Philip K. Dick). [via Tachyon]
- CBC.ca podcast-interviews Robert J. Sawyer.
- AMC Blog interviews Bryan Johnson (Comic Book Men).
- EW interviews Allie Condie.
News
- WorldCon 2012 membership rates to increase on April 1st.
- Nebula Award Voting Open + Nebula Voters’ Packet – Whatever.
- New Singapore Speculative Fiction Anthology – Call for Submissions.
- Jeremiah Tolbert and Nick Mamatas launch Online Magazine Crime Fiction, The Big Click.
- New Greg Egan book, The Eternal Flame, coming in September.
- Humanity Must 'Jail' Dangerous AI to Avoid Doom, Expert Says. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Oxygen envelops Saturn's icy moon. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Librarians Feel Sticker Shock as Price for Random House eBooks Rises as Much as 300 Percent.
Events
Articles
- Kameron Hurley on The Dirty Little Secret to “Imaginative” Worldbuilding.
- Aliette de Bodard on Master Urban Fantasy List.
- Joan Slonczewski on “We Robot” Rights for Robots.
- Strange Chemistry (Amanda Rutter) on Swearing in YA Novels – Yay or Nay?
- Boing Boing on Philip K. Dick: 30 years gone, and a PKD festival.
- Cory Doctorow on What’s Inside the Box.
- Sarah A. Hoyt on Good Author, Here’s A Fish.
- Alastair Reynolds on Silent Running.
- SFX on Stop-Motion Monsters.
- SFX asks Why Are Spaceships All So Grey These Days?
- The Guardian (Eric Brown) reviews The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice, Age of Aztec by James Lovegrove, The Return Man by VM Zito, and Pure by Julianna Baggott.
- The Night Bazaar (Nathan Long) on Love Will Tear Us Apart.
- Gene Wolfe on writing a multi-volume series (2007). [via The Lensman’s Children]
- Mark Alan Walker on The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time.
- Topless Robot lists The 10 Best Batman: Brave and the Bold Episodes.
- The A.V. Club lists 17 successful adaptations of “unadaptable” books. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
- AbeBooks lists Most Expensive AbeBooks Sales in February 2012.
- Paul Weimer on The unwritten stories in my head.
Art
- Concept Ships: Sci-Fi Art by Nicolas “Sparth” Bouvier.
- Concept Artworks by Tuomas Korpi.
- Concept Art by Hong Kuang.
- 3D Surreal Art by Kazuhiko Nakamura.
- Tzeentch Knight – 3D Warhammer Art by Taras Skorobruh.
- Space And Sci-Fi Concept Art by Gary Tonge.
- Awesome (..and Lengthy) DC Character Line-up.
- Pop Culture Mathematics.
- “Arises” by Levi Hopkins.
- @deviantART: “6.000.000.000 A.C by kaaaay.
- Steven Topley – New work: Hello handsome.
- Retro Cover Art: Mutant by Hnery Kuttner.
- @CoolVibe: “Ink and Darkness” by Celine Simoni.
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