SF Tidbits for 6/11/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Odyssey Workshop interviews Rhiannon Held.
- The Guardian Books Podcast with Nick Harkaway, Simong Ings, Ben Marcus.
- Speculate! interviews Ian McDonald (podcast).
- The Qwillery interviews E.J. Swift.
- Odyssey Workshop interviews Rhiannon Held.
- The Roundtable Podcast interviews Myke Cole.
News
- 2012 Audie Awards Winners.
- Ditmar 2011 Winners.
- Scientists plan $1.5bn laser strong enough ‘to tear the fabric of space’. [via David Klaus]
- Funding reached for We See a Different Frontier. (Call for submissions)
- Neal Stephenson’s Making A Game, Called CLANG. [The Wertzone]
Articles
- NYTimes (Bruce Sterling) on Bradbury’s Just-Suppose World.
- Boston Review (John Crowley) on Ray Bradbury.
- Erin Underwood on Ray Bradbury, In Memory Of … (1920-2012) — SF Writers Pay Tribute to an Icon.
- Reason.com on Ray Bradbury: Enemy of the State. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund on 1948: The Year Comics Met Their Match.
- Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Hero vs. Villain.
- Inkpunks (John Remy) on Revision: Art or Craft?
- Orbit Books (David Brin) on How will the world end? Some thoughts from 2050.
- Damien G. Walter on What neuroscience tells us about the art of fiction.
- Moses Siregar III on Why You Shouldn’t Read Fahrenheit 451 Before Seeing Prometheus.
- David Herter on The Tsar of the Forests. (Thanks, Chris!)
- Black Gate (John O’Neill) on TSR’s Amazing Science Fiction Anthologies.
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund on 1948: The Year Comics Met Their Match. (Thanks, Patrick and Paul!)
- Film School Rejects lists 7 Directors Who Got Their Start in Science Fiction.
- SFX lists 10 SF & Fantasy Movie Flops That Shouldn’t Have Been and Sci-Fi’s Weirdest Musical Moments.
Art
- Website of artist Alexander Tooth.
- The Art of World of Warcraft.
- Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Ice-Covered Cities.
- Ray Bradbury’s NEMO! Cover Revealed.
- @Minimal Movie Posters: “The Big Bang Theory” by Akshar Pathak.
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