SF Tidbits for 8/28/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Weird Fiction Review (Lisa L. Hannett) profiles Margaret Irwin.
- Jeff VanderMeer interviews Brit Mandelo.
- Robert Smartwood interviews Brian Keene (podcast)..
- The Seekrit Projekt Interviews Michael J Winegar (podcast).
- The Agony Column interviews Tim Powers (podcast).
- My Bookish Ways interviews GT Almasi.
- Fantasy Book Critic Fading Light Anthology Multi Author Interview part four (1 of 2).
News
- Gollancz announces major new Michael Moorcock publishing project..
- Strange Chemistry Has Launched!
- Paul Levinson’s The Silk Code Published as eBook by JoSara MeDia.
- Wildly Popular Chinese SF Trilogy to Get English Translation by Chinese Publisher.
- Volunteer Opening at Abyss & Apex.
Crowd Funding
Articles
- Cheryl Morgan on This Is Not “Fandom”.
- Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on Echoes.
- Book Reporter (Stephen Hubbard) on Stand Alone Fantasy Titles.
- Smart Pop Books (Nathalie Haynes) on Girls, Guns, Gags.
- Bare Bones e-zine (by Jack Seabrook & Peter Enfantino) on Batman in the 1970s Part 33: 1974 Wrap-Up.
- The New York Times (Steve Smith) on A Warm Welcome for ‘Doctor Who’ in New York.
- Fluffington Post (SkitSketchJeff) on Is Kindle Killing the CTA Book Recommendation?
- Patrick Hester on Tabletop Gaming.
- The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) on Suited by Jo Anderton.
- Flavorwire (Jason Bailey) on Flavorpill’s 10 Most Anticipated Fall Movies.
- io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on Why Superheroes Should Never Date Each Other.
- Stone Telling Roundtable: Multiple Perceptions with Julia Rios, Lisa M. Bradley, Ching-In Chen, Kathrin Köhler, Alex Dally MacFarlane, and Sofia Samatar.
- Book View Cafe (Usula K. Le Guin) on Libraries and Ebooks.
- Justine Larbalestier on The Supposed Power of Reviews.
- Juliette Wade on Wrestling with reader expectations and cliché.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on The Returning Blog Tour Wrap-Up & GiveAway Blasts.
- The Intern on dark house, empty bowl: on leaving the world for a novel (and making it back alive).
- Chuck Wendig on Bad Author Behavior As A Response To Bad Author Behavior… Is Still Bad Author Behavior.
- Locus Roundtable (Chris N. Brown) on Jorge Luis Borges and Manuel Antonio de Rivas.
- Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on A King Named Sue: Picking Perfect (Character) Names.
- Aliette de Bodard on Science, engineering and large projects: SF in the 19th Century.
- Charles Tan on Speculative Fiction Collections 2012.
Art
- Cover Launch: Peter F. Hamilton’s Void Trilogy.
- Emperor’s Tomb by Ming Fan.
- The Inner Noise by Jana Schirmer.
- Resistance: Fall of Man concept robots by John Wu.
- MoobyDick by MANCHU.
More Cool Stuff
- Chapter Ten of Trust now online.
- The Lure of a Good Book: Who’s Reading What? [INFOGRAPHIC].
- William Shatner’s Science Fiction Social Network. MyOuterSpace presents Space Turkey.
- Darth Vader Onesie.
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