SF Tidbits for 8/16/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Civilian Reader interviews Gwenda Bond.
• The Guardian (Laura Barnett) interviews Joyce Carol Oates.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Tiffany Trent, Joanne Reay, Will Hill.
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast episode 66.
• Jedi News interviews Tim Lebbon.
• Roqoo Depot interviews Tim Lebbon.
• Flickering Myth interviews Davide Caputo.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Caroline Hooton) interviews Tom Pollock.

News

• RIP: Adam Niswander. [via Andrew Porter]
• Introducing Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology.
• NeuroNexus logo The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
• Toronto’s Lo-Fi Sci-Fi 48 Hour Film Challenge.
• Comiket 82 Ties ‘Turnstile’ Attendance Record at 560,000.
• Reminder: Baen.com posts a free science fiction or fantasy story in the middle of each month to support an upcoming novel. This month: “Landed Alien” by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (Dragon Ship).
• Now posted: StarShipSofa #251, with fiction by Gene Wolfe.

Events

• As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Paul Tremblay (Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye) & Alma Katsu (The Taker ) Wednesday September 19th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.
• Forbidden Planet’s upcoming events.

Articles

• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Queering SFF: Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Mars in Science Fiction (Part 1).
• The Qwillery (Lee Battersby) guest blog.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Lia Habel.
• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on “Science Fiction” and Literature – or Thoughts on Delany and the Plurality of Interprative Processes.
• BBC News Magazine (Colm O’Regan) on From robot trader to computer overlord?
• BBC News on Galaxy cluster’s ‘starburst’ surprises astronomers.
• Finn’s Wake on Walking With Blinders Through The Last Book Sale, part 4.
• Salon (Stephen Deusner) on “Mystery Science Theater” host: Yelling at the screen makes us smarter!
• Stuart Clark on My Guilty Pleasure – Babylon 5 – Season 3.
• StarShipSofa on 5 Amazing Reasons to subscribe to StarShipSofa in August!.

Art

• Tor Books Blog Cover Launch: Boneshaker, Dreadnought and Ganyemede.
• Liran Szeiman – Sugarflesh: Dark and emotional Illustration.

More Cool Stuff

• A sample from The Heretic Land by Tim Lebbon.
• Beware the Hairy Mango: “There’s a Crapp for That”.

Harry Harrison Tributes

• Locus
• John Rogers
• John Scalzi
• Tom Doherty
• Gollancz
• io9
• Black Gate
• Media Bistro
• Tor.com
• Sarah Peed
• Cheryl Morgan
• Neil Gaiman
• George R. R. Martin
• SFWA
• The Washington Post
• BBC
• The Associated Press
• Music Radio 77
• Boing Boing
• Blastr
• The Guardian
• James Meikle

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