SF Tidbits for 7/4/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Apex Magazine (Maggie Slater) interviews Kij Johnson.
- The Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Glen Hirshberg.
- Lightspeed (Andrew Liptak) interviews Jake Kerr.
- Lightspeed (Robyn Lupo) interviews Aidan Doyle.
- Reddit interviews Chris Roberson.
- GeekWire interviews David Brin.
- Lucky Bat interviews Gregory Benford.
News
- Angry Robot have announced they are going to start giving away the digital version of each of their novels free with the physical paperback, in selected indie bookstores.
- Harvey Award Nominations.
- Call for Papers: Representations of Ghosts in Media and Popular Culture.
- J. K. Rowling eBook Will Cost $19.99.
- The Black Prism by Brent Weeks for $2.99.
- A&E Orders 10 Episodes Of ‘Bates Motel’.
- New Trade Paperback of Alien Influences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) on 101 Weird Writers Needs Your Help.
- Kim Kardashian’s younger sisters penning sci-fi novel aimed at young adults along the lines of The Hunger Games. [via The Website at the End of the Universe]
Articles
- Strange Chemistry on Introducing the Vampire Academy Series.
- Smart Pop Books (Linda Antonsson and Elio M. Garcia Jr.) on The Palace of Love, the Palace of Sorrow.
- Apex Magazine (Christopher J. Garcia) on What It Is We Miss When We Don’t Read Fanzines.
- Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on Sexuality in Fantasy, A Few Thoughts.
- Ad Astra (Douglas McKinney) on The Universal Motivator.
- Ad Astra (Isaac Bell) on To the Stars, Through Difficulties.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on How Not to Approach an Editor.
- Black Gate (Howard Andrew Jones) on Confessions of a Guilty Reviewer.
- Black Gate (Ryan Harvey) on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 6: The Master Mind of Mars.
- Alan Rinzler on What should you expect from a developmental editor?
- Chuck Wendig on Ask A Wendigo: The Speed With Which One Ejaculates Prose.
- The Barnes & Noble Review (Veronique de Turenne) reviews Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson.
- Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Film: The Tingler (1959).
- Smart Pop Books (Linda Antonsson, Elio M. Garcia, Jr.) on The Palace of Love, the Palace of Sorrow.
- Mashable lists 10 Amazing Spider-Man Parodies.
- SFX lists Sci-fi And Fantasy’s Greatest Reboots.
Art
- Cover Gallery: UFO Flying Saucers And Outer Space (1968 – 77). [via Boing Boing]
- Medieval Avengers Fan Art.
- Book Chick City | COVER ART: Portlandtown by Rob DeBorde.
- Robot concepts by Aaron Lam.
- @CoolVibe: “The Fiddler” by Donald Bradford.
- @CoolVibe: “The Green Throne” by Kekai Kotaki.
More Fun Stuff
Thanks so much for the linkage guys! 🙂