SF Tidbits for 7/23/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Fantasy Faction interviews Christopher Paolini.
- Sword and Laser interviews Daniel Suarez (video).
- The Writer and the Critic with guest Jonathan Strahan (podcast).
- The Guardian (Richard Lea) interviews M. John Harrison.
- Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Daniel H. Wilson (podcast).
- Rowena Cory Daniells interviews Helen Lowe.
- Big Scary Blog interviews Jonathan Maberry.
News
- Winners Of the 2012 SF&F Translation Awards published.
- Garner and Martin to Receive World Fantasy Lifetime Awards.
- Women in Comics, Europe.
- Eric Rosenfield ReaderCon Wold Newton Reading Video.
- Indiegogo Project: Jules Sherred’s Five Little Zombies And Fred.
- Canadian Karin Lowachee Named Shared Worlds’ Amazon.com Writer-in-Residence.
Events
Articles
- Locus Roundtable (Stefan Dziemianowicz) reviews The Weird.
- Locus Roundtable (Anil Menon) on The Virgin Fish of Babhughat.
- Damien G. Walter on Science Fiction is the most valuable art ever. Discuss.
- Helen Lowe on The Magic of Winter Worlds.
- Matthew Cheney on Readercon 23.
- The Qwillery (Joanne Reay) on Spiked Coffee.
- Justine Larbalestier on Becoming a Brand Versus Writing What You Want to Write.
- Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Fun stuff, and dramatic tension.
- John Scalzi on Tor/Forge Totally DRM Free, Plus Anecdotal Notes Regarding Redshirts.
- Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Timmi Duchamp) on Panel deportment and demeanor.
- Book Life Now (Monica Valentinelli) on Anthology Publicity.
- Inkpunks (Robert Jackson Bennett) on Trying to make the jump.
- Suvudu (Charles Tan) on Why Philippine Speculative Fiction.
- Jeff VanderMeer on Shared Worlds: First Day and Public Reading Schedule.
- io9 Show on The Scariest Food Items Science Has Ever Created (video).
- Cracked.com (Luke McKinney) on 7 Ways Batman is Objectively Better Than Superman.
- Mike Brotherton on Missing a Slew of Semi-Recent Science Fiction Movies — Which are Best?
Art
- Terrifying Illustrations of Martin de Diego Sádaba.
- “La Vie Électrique” by Albert Robida, 1890.
- The LOTR trilogy posters by mondo.
- Wolverine by Brett Parson.
- Theme Planetby ~OmeN2501.
- Origin of Civilizationby ~Aeon-Lux.
- The magic lightby ~Natsuki-3.
- Front Mission: Against the Sunby `ukitakumuki.
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