SF Tidbits for 6/8/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Reddit interviews Kate Elliott.
- [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author-Musician-Dancer Jennifer Pelland.
- Brad Torgersen interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
- Dead Robot Society Balticon 2012 Panel #3 – Alien, Magic-wielder, God, or Demon, Balticon 2012 Panel #4 – Small Press Versus Large Press (podcast).
- Hour of the Wolf interviews Jaym Gates and Felix Gilman (podcast).
- The Guardian interviews Ray Bradbury.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts interviews John Richards.
- Tehani Wessely interviews Nyssa Pascoe, Lezli Robyn.
- Kathryn Linge interviews Andrew J McKiernan, Joanna Fay, Felicity Dowker, Joel Naoum.
- Helen Merrick interviews Kate Eltham, Peter Nicholls.
- Sean the Bookonaut interviews AK Wrox.
- Jason Nahrung interviews Simon Brown, Rjurik Davidson, Scott Robinson, Janeen Webb, Alison Goodman.
- David McDonald interviews Matthew Chrulew, Robert Hood, Nick Stathopoulos, Brendan Duffy, Jack Dann.
- Ian Mond interviews Stephanie Gunn, Sara Creasy.
- Prime Books interviews Angela Slatter.
News
- 2012 Audie Awards winners.
- HarperCollins to publish Ray Bradbury tribute book.
- Warner Bros. preps Justice League, eyes other DC faves for bigscreen.
- Magefable Kickstarter.
Advice/Articles
- The Inferior 4 (Lisa Goldstein) on Puzzling Over the New Yorker’s Science Fiction Issue.
- Small Beer Press (Gavin Grant) on A Day in the Life of a Publisher (not) at BEA 2012.
- Amal El-Mohtar on More Thoughts on Feminist Characters: Sandbaggers and Female Exceptionalism.
- Book Life Now (Tracie Welser) on How Not to Pursue Sense of Wonder.
- Locus Roundtable (David C. Kopaska-Merkel) on Doorbell! Speculative Poetry Tucked into a Basket on Speculative Fiction’s Front Porch.
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on BEA 2012 (Day 2): Speculative Fiction Programming Rationale and the Death of a Teacher.
- Book View Cafe (Nancy Jane Moore) on The New Yorker Discovers Science Fiction.
- Claire Evans on It Evolved Into Birds: Ten Science-Fictional Thinkers On the Past and Future of Cyberpunk.
- Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on A Tribute to Ray Bradbury.
- Chuck Wendig on Your First Bradbury.
- The New York Times (Michiko Kakutani) on Up From the Depths of Pulp and Into the Mainstream.
- Tobias Buckell on Ray Bradbury passes. He inspired me to persevere through rejection to success.
- Nick Mamatas on Ray Bradbury.
- National Review (Orson Scott Card) on Thoughts on Ray Bradbury.
- Los Angeles Times (Lynell George) on Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights.
- News from the Sean Qualls on The Dillons on the Dillions.
- Lisa Goldstein on Puzzling Over the New Yorker's Science Fiction Issue.
- L.B. Gale on The Frankenstein Drafting Process.
- The Night Bazaar (Bradley P. Beaulieu) on Step away from the paladin. Slowly…
- The Blog That Time Forgot on 80 Years of Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword – Chapter V.
- Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Book: Danger : Dinosaurs! by Richard Marsten.
- NYTimes (Jane Smiley) on Is Fiction Changing, for Better or Worse? Fiction Is an Exercise in Empathy.
- Wired on How to Book Your Ticket to Space.
- Flavorwire on 15 Fictional Spacecrafts We’d Like to Call Home. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Gary McMahon on Top 5 Horror Films.
- This Is Horror on 11 Firsts From Return of the Living Dead.
- Sci-Fi Songs on The 5 Favorite Musical Artists of Author Robert Jackson Bennett.
Art
- Picturing Ray Bradbury.
- New Dirk Gently Covers.
- The Surreal World of Dariusz Zawadzki.
- DC / Marvel Superheroes Posters – Alex Litovka.
- The Matrix reimagined as a '60s pulp sci-fi novel.
- @Minimal Movie Posters: “Shaun of the Dead” by Mark Welser.
- @CoolVibe: “Infected” by Josh Nizzi.
- @CoolVibe: “Punisher” by Johnson Ting.
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