SF Tidbits for 5/7/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Erin Underwood interviews Tracy L. Carbone.
• Small Beer Podcast interviews John Kessel.
• The Boston Globe (Amy Sutherland) interviews Paul Krugman.
• 40kBooks interviews Honey Brown.
• Keith Brooke interviews Paul Di Filippo.
• AbeBooks profiles George MacDonald. [via Bill Crider]
• WBUR (Adam Ragusea) interviews M.T. Anderson. [via cynsations]

News

• RIP: Richard Scott Simak. [via Andrew Porter]
• SFWA Seeks Literary Executors – can you help?.
• Deadline for Bram Stoker Award™ Jury Submissions Announced.
• VIDEO: Zombies take to the streets of Prague. [via Paul Di Filippo]

Events

• Upcoming Schedule for Special Needs in Strange Worlds.

Articles

• Alisa Krasnostein On gender breakdowns of awards lists.
• Cheryl Morgan on Africa in SF – The Prequel.
• Charlie Stross on The death of genre.
• The Cogsmith on Why is Diversity Important?
• Inkpunks (Morgan Dempsey) on First Person POV and Developing Other Characters.
• Melissa Snodgrass on The Avengers.
• Locus Online Reviews (Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person) reviews The Avengers.
• Nicole Murphy on When The Heroine Swoops In To Save The Day.
• Fantasy Cafe on Women in SF&F Month: Resources.
• Keith Brooke on Seven things I hate about e-publishing.
• Giga OM (Mathew Ingram )on It doesn’t matter what e-books cost to make.
• Mythic Scribes on Using Fantasy to Enhance a Story.
• Rich Horton on Books: Priest, Barnes.
• Fantasy-Faction (Paolo Chikiamco) on Fantasy-Faction World Tour of Wonderment: The Philippines – Part Two.
• The New York Review of Science Fiction (Chris N. Brown) on Science Fiction in the Edgelands.
• NYTimes on Tim Burton Brings TV’s ‘Dark Shadows’ Back, as a Movie. [via Andrew Porter]
• The John Carter Files on John Carter, the Flop that Wasn’t a Turkey (Part 3).
• Bookworm Blues (Paul Weimer) on Special Needs in Strange Worlds: in praise of Miles Vorkosigan.
• Underwords Introducing “Why SF?”…a New Interview Series.
• Comic Book Resources asks What should we call this age of comics?
• Cracked.com on 6 Ways Iron Man Is Objectively Better Than Batman. [via Bill Crider]
• Huff Post (Matt D. Wilson) on The 11 Best Supervillain Superpowers.
• Hypable lists Top 10 Best Monsters on Doctor Who.

Art

• The Digital Illustrations of Steve Argyle.
• 20 Comic Superheroes Artwork for your Inspiration.
• FAN ART: Nicktoons Characters As The Avengers.
• @Minimal Movie Posters: “The Dark Knight Rises” by Jonas Ståhl.
• @CGHUB: “Deep Sky” by Tiago Hoisel.
• @ItsArtMag: “Lorna`s Fantasy Wonderland” by ayueelvafirste.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Existence by David Brin.
• Download sample chapters of The Warlock’s Curse by M.K. Hobson.
• The Weird: An Introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
• Cover Design: Future Lovecraft, edited by Moreno-Garcia and Stiles.
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes Storyboards Reveal Alternate Opening.
• Doctor Who Theme…heavy metal style.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2012 May 6 – In the Center of the Omega Nebula. [via The Lensman’s Children]
• SciFi WEb Series: 20 Dollar Show.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #106 – “Postcog” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Batgirl paper toy.