SF Tidbits for 5/5/12

Interviews & Profiles

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) interviews A. M. Dellamonica.
• Missions Unknown interviews Damien Broderick and Paul DiFilippo.
• The Register-Guard (Randi Bjornstad) interviews Kate Wilhelm.
• Underwords interviews Tracy L. Carbone.
• Cartoon Brew interviews Don Bluth.
• This Is Horror interviews Paul Finch.
• Notes from Coode Street #100 features Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.

News

• Amazon updates Kindle Direct Publishing contract requiring authors seeking 70% royalty to set eBook price same as or cheaper than any other print/electronic edition.
• J.M. McDermott giving away free eBooks of the first two novels of his Dogsland Trilogy.
• "Fringe' Heads Into a 2-Part Finale and 1 More Season.
• UK publisher, Duncan Baird Publishers, goes DRM free.
• Locus Magazine May 2012 Table of Contents.
• Samuel L. Jackson tweets displeasure at negative MY Times review of The Avengers.

Events

• Fast Forward: May 11th lunchtime panel on “Fantastic Heroines of Sci Fi & Fantasy” (Washington, DC).
• Tickets are still available for the Locus/SF Awards Weekend – June 15-17, 2012 in Seattle, Washington.
• Event Wrap-up: SFScope on NYRSF Reading with John Shirley and Michael Cisco.

Articles

• Making Light (Abi Sutherland) on Talking it over.
• SFWA (Sarah Ockler) on Race in YA Lit: Wake Up & Smell the Coffee-Colored Skin, White Authors!
• Saron Lee on Books Between.
• Gail Z. Martin on What Authors Really Want.
• The Night Bazaar (Phil and Kaja Foglio) on Unreal Horrors.
• Bruce Sterling on Posthuman so over, Nonhuman so now.
• Smart Pop Books (Norman Spinrad) on Star Trek in the Real World.
• Cory Doctorow on A Prose By Any Other Name.
• Guardian (Cory Doctorow) on Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers.
• Paul Di Filippo on The Barry Malzberg Primer for Existential Twelve-year-olds.
• Mike Brotherton on My Favorite Avenger.
• Pornokitsch on The David Gemmell Legend Award Shortlist – In Conclusion.
• Far Beyond Reality (Jeff Salyards) on Green-eyed Gremlin.
• The Beat’s Dial H For Hero on China Mieville Gets Weirder Than Usual. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• LA Times on Time travel, DIY-style.
• Slate Magazine on Robot sex and marriage: Will society accept it? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Salon.com on Preparing for the big one – what can we really do about large asteroids? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Larry Ketchersid’s Thoughts on The Avengers.
• Jay Garmon on The DC Comics reboot I wish had happened.
• Buzzfeed on Questions "Star Wars" Never Answers.
• Buzzfeed lists 10 Things About "Star Wars" Fans Love To Hate.
• MovieFone lists Biggest Movie Plot Holes.
• MTV lists Five Reasons To See ‘The Avengers’.
• Huff Post lists 19 Superheroes With WTF Superpowers.

Art

• 19 Incredible Artworks of Batman Villains.
• Cool Mortal Kombat Artworks And Wallpapers.
• Concept spaceship art by Nicolas Bouvier.
• Fantasy Ink: Virgil Finlay Weird Tales Cover.
• Tor Books Reveals Cover for Next Halo Book: The Thursday War.
• Cover launch: The new-look Terry Brooks.
• Zombie Maggie.
• @The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log: “Zombie Maggie” by Graeme Neil Reid.
• @DeviantArt: “Earth 2250” by taenaron. [via AltEnergyShift]
• @CoolVibe: “Carnage” by Stjepan Sejic.
• @CoolVibe: “Mega Man – Apothiosis” by Jacque Choi.

More Fun Stuff

• 50 Page Fridays: China Mieville’s Railsea.
• TableTop Ep 3: Zombie Dice, Get Bit! & Tsuro: Ryan Higa, Freddie Wong, Rod Roddenberry.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #104 – “Fistfight in the Vegetable Patch!” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #105 – “The Manny Cure” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Star Wars Main Title Theme (Vocal Cover).
• Bordertown T-Shirts. [via Boing Boing]