SF Tidbits for 5/15/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Jim C. Hines interviews Karen Lord.
- World SF Blog Roundtable with Aliette de Bodard, Joyce Chng, Requires Hate, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, and Ekaterina Sedia.
- Sword and Laser interviews Lev Grossman (video).
- Alma Katsu interviews Alethea Kontis.
- Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews interviews Chris F. Holm.
- Prime Books (Erin Stocks) interviews Maureen McHugh.
- SF Squeecast Episode 12 (podcast).
- I Should Be Writing interviews Peter V. Brett (podcast).
- Erin Underwood interviews Melinda Snodgrass.
- Dark Wolf interviews Chris F. Holm.
- Sense of Wonder (Cristina Jurado) interviews Gavin Rothery.
News
- Ramsey Campbell – First Guest of Honor Confirmed for Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013.
- Angry Robot Now Recruiting – US-based Sales & Marketing Manager.
- 20th Century Fox Options Self-Published Novel.
- Charlaine Harris to End Sookie Stackhouse Series Next May.
- Get Rowena Cory Daniells' King Rolen's Kin trilogy as DRM-free ebook for just £3 each!.
- Twitfic, a Twitter Fiction Anthology by Adam Callaway is A 99 cent Kindle eBook. (Also on B&N and Smashwords.)
- Weird Lovecraft Conference Calls for Papers.
- "Green Arrow" Gets a CW Series.
- Bus-Size Asteroid Zips by Earth Inside Moon's Orbit.
- Cory Doctorow’ next YA novel: Pirate Cinema.
- Congratulation to SciFi Songster John Anealio, who’s opening for Paul & Storm at Nerdtacular in Salt Lake City, Utah!
- This year’s Hugo Voter packet will be available between Wednesday May 16, 2012 and the close of the Final Ballot on July 31, 2012.
Events
Articles
- Kate Elliott (Rochita Loenen-Ruiz) on Decolonizing as an SF Writer.
- Genreville (Rose Fox) on Crowdsourcing Recommended Reading (Asian-American literature).
- Cheryl Morgan on Coode Street, Campbell & Gender.
- International Speculative Fiction (Aleksandar Žiljak) on Science Fiction in Croatia.
- Book View Cafe (Ursula K. Le Guin) on The Narrative Gift as a Moral Conundrum.
- Chuck Wendig On The Privilege Of Being A Writer.
- Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Add a little … character.
- Biyuti on Diaspora and the loss of language.
- Damien G. Walter on The Unspecified Reader.
- Bookworm Blues (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on Special Needs in Strange Worlds.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Outlining From A Finished Draft For Pantsers (How I Do It).
- Juliette Wade on When do you give up or start over?
- Book Life Now (Cassie Alexander) on How To Find An Agent or Editor Without Making Yourself Insane.
- Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on The Rule of Threes: Expressive Character Design.
- Bleeding Cool on Celebrating Ray Bradbury At San Diego With Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Dave Eggers And More. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- A Dribble of Ink (John H. Stevens) on Genre Predispositions and The Weird.
- Jason Sanford on Today in SF History: Theodore Sturgeon rewrites an already published story.
- Keith Brooke on A novel, by any other name.
- Boing Boing (Mark Frauenfelder) on Frazetta swiped from the best.
- Tor.com (Zack Parsons) on Unexplored Dystopias.
- Guardian (Cory Doctorow) on The problem with nerd politics.
- The Millions (Chris Barsanti) on Worlds Beyond Your Ken: A Guide to the Nebula Awards.
- Catherynne Valente on Announcements Concerning Prester John and Night Shade Books. [via James Nicoll]
- SFScope on Mayday! NYRSF Readings Present John Shirley and Michael Cisco.
- Barebones e-zine on Batman in the 1970s Part 18: May and June 1972.
- Boston.com on Waltham steampunk festival 2012. [via Andrew Porter]
- Guardian (Anthony Horowitz) asks Who's helping who in the cover blurb game? [via Paul Di Filippo]
- The Barnes & Noble Review Jeff VanderMeer reviews The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi.
- Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews on Anne Lyle’s Alchemist of Souls.
- Technology Review on Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years.
- Universe Today on Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years.
- ManMetLife on Paolozzi: Art meets Science Fiction. [via Andrew Porter]
- Forbes on HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy.
- The Onion on 'Game Of Thrones' Running Out Of Unkempt Old Men To Cast.
- The Verge on Steve Jobs wanted publishers to 'throw in with Apple' to create '$12.99 and $14.99' ebook market. [via eoghann]
- Amazon's Next Kindle Will Be Front-Lit and Its Next Kindle Fire Will Be Bigger.
- ePublish a Book on Paper Book vs. Digital Book – Who reads which, where and why? Useful statistics.
- The Guardian (Cory Doctorow) on Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers.
- Paperback Writer (Lynn Viehl) on Build Your World Ten.
- Buzzfeed lists The 10 Worst Special Effects Ever In Movies. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
- Topless Robot lists 10 High-Risk Sci-Fi/Fantasy Careers.
Art
- Jason Chan Book Covers Update.
- 25 Awesome Robot 3D Art Concepts.
- Alternative Doctor Who Posters.
- Best Covers: DC Comics solicitations for August 2012.
- Concept ships be DeeGS.
- @CoolVibe: “Hound of Griselbrand” by Svetlin Velinov.
- @CoolVibe: “Cable” by Mike Capprotti.
More Fun Stuff
- Excerpt: The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, Chapter 3.
- Book Depository Live: Amazing Map Shows Book Buying Around The World.
- How to shrink an actor for Snow White and the Huntsman.
- Russian satellite's 121-megapixel image of Earth is most detailed yet.
- DIY Tesla gun is real and very dangerous. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Adventures of the League of STEAM – “Bitter Gnomes and Gardens”.
- VIDEO: Why the "Star Trek" Universe is Secretly Horrifying.
- Beware the Hairy Mango #114 – “No More Doggie Style” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.