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
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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