SF Tidbits for 6/13/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Catherine Schaff-Stump interviews Elizabeth Bear.
• The Skiffy and Fanty interviews J.A. Pitts (podcast).
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.
• Prime Books (Molly Tanzer) interviews Robert Reed.
• International Speculative Fiction interviews Fábio Fernandes and Djibril Al Ayad.
• Staffer’s Book Review interviews David Anthony Durham.
• MPR News with Chris McKitterick and Gary Wolfe.
• BuzzyMag interviews Keith R.A. DeCandido (video).
• Functional Nerds (Patrick Hester and John Anealio) Balticon Podcast Editing Panel w/ podcasters John Mierau, Paul Elard Cooley, Tim Dodge, and Mike Stokes.

News

• RIP Jim Young.
• Hugo Award Pin Replacement Program.  [via Andrew Porter]
• Announcing The Fierce Reads Anthology: A Tor.com Original (FREE!).
• J.J. Abrams To Produce God Particle.
• Open Call for Submissions – Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology.

Events

• Book Club with Iain M Banks.
• Architecture Fiction: Under Tomorrow's Sky.
• Jenny Colgan signing at Forbidden Planet.

Articles

• Frederik Pohl on The Bradbury Chronicles: Conclusion.
• Aliette de Bodard on Presenting the Cultural Imperialism Bingo Card.
• Saladin Ahmed on Pulp Pastiche and a Plea for Patrons.
• Weird Fiction Review (Michael Moorcock) on Breaking Free: An Introduction to Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Reasons This Is The Best Time To Be A Storyteller.
• Chuck Wendig on The Victimization Of Lara Croft.
• Gollancz (Myke Cole) on The Rules of Writing.
• The RAW Story (John Shirley) on Me and you and Ray Bradbury.
• Mary Roobinette Kowal (Sean Williams) on About Troubletwisters: The Monster.
• News From Me on The Ray Bradbury-Julius Schwartz-Al Feldstein Story – Part 1.
• Blastr on Image of the Day: Bradbury’s predictions vs. real-world equivalents.
• The Mad Hatter’s Bookshelf & Book Review (Jeff Salyards) on Why I Love Bloody Fantasy So Much.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965).
• Kat Howard on When you don’t get to hit the replay button.
• Inkpunks (Erika Holt) on The Deep End: My Plunge Into the SFF Community.
• io9 (Robert T. Gonzalez) on This Spoiler-Filled map tracks the travels of every major character from A Song of Ice and Fire!
• Tor.com (Liz Bourke) on Sleeps With Monsters: Why Are Fantasy Films All About The Men?
• Elizabeth Bear on Dr. Slushkill (or) How I learned to stop worrying and love the rejection letter.
• SFWA (Jeff VanderMeer) on Writers and Their Literary Estates: Story Reprints.
• NewsFromMe on The Ray Bradbury-Julius Schwartz-Al Feldstein Story – Part 1. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• NYTimes.com (Henry Fountain) on A Martian Joined Ray Bradbury and Me for Dinner in Paris.
• Sense of Wonder on Bradbury: Fireproof Science Fiction, by Cristina Jurado (and many others).
• Laughing Squid on Ray Bradbury on Writing Fahrenheit 451 in a Library.
• RevolutionSF (Ron Nastrom) on Big Bang Theory, Wil Wheaton, and Dixie Trek: When Worlds Collide.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) reviews Claws and Saucers by David Goldweber.
• Jonathan Green on Warhammer Wednesday: Dark Heart.
• John Coulhart on Recovering Viriconium.
• LitReactor lists Five Fabulous Female Fantasy Forces.

Art

• Apocalyptic environments of Alex Drummond.
• Horror Love.
• Interceptor ship concept by Fausto De Martini.
• Robotic concepts by Fausto De Martini.

More Fun Stuff

• Cultural Imperialism Bingo.
• Exceprt from London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction by Michael Moorcock Breaking Free: An Introduction to Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone.
• Cover Art and Exceprt for The Hermetic Millennia by John C. Wright.
• Excerpt: A Kingdom Divided by Alex Rutherford.
• Check out the first 5 pages of Before Watchmen's Silk Spectre.
• Infographic: Bradbury's predictions vs. real-world equivalents.