SF Tidbits for 8/7/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Walter Jon Williams, Nancy Kress and Michael J. Winegar (podcast).
• Diabolical Plots (Carl Slaughter) interviews Lois Tilton.
• CNN (Christian DuChateau) interviews Charles Yu.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Robert Thompson & Mihir Wanchoo) interviews Anthony Ryan.
• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) interviews Simon Strantzas.
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) profiles Marcel Schneider.
• Tor/Forge interviews Edward M. Lerner.
• The Awl interviews Lycia Naff, The Original Three-Breasted Prostitute From Total Recall. [Thanks, Kevin!]

News

• Mythopoeic Awards: 2012 Winners Announced.
• Damages Could Exceed $1 Billion in Authors Guild Case Against Google.
• Tim Pratt’s “Impossible Dreams” film.
• Neil Gaiman Announces The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
• Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch announce new anthology series.

Events

• Ellen Datlow’s Summer Book Sale.
• Baltimore Science Fiction Society hosts roundtable talk by local female authors on Fantastic Heroines of Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

Articles

• Jeff VanderMeer on Dreaming Well: Does the Future of Publishing Need More Imagination?
• Barbarienne’s Den on not really a fontiff post….
• Justine Larbalestier on Getting Started.
• Kat Howard on The Nice and Accurate Reviews of Critic X.
• Seanan McGuire on Adventures in Self-Promotion.
• Lou Anders on 2012 Of course they’ll be giant robots…
• Brian Ruckley on I Like Getting Photos From Mars.
• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on .
• Austen Authors (Vera Nazarian) on Austen on my Mind.
• Chris Beckett on Words and worlds (2).
• Tor/Forge Blog (Carrie Vaughn) on London: The Ideal Setting.
• Tor/Forge Blog (Col Buchanan) on The Wildness of My Head.
• Bar Bones e-zine (Peter Enfantino & Jack Seabrook) on Batman in the 1970s Part 30: April, May and June 1974.
• Ian Sales on Starcombing, David Langford.
• Slate (Robert L. Park) on Why Are People Not on Mars?
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on The 10 Best End of the World Novels.

Art

• Ben Baldwin – The Hanged Man.
• Ben Baldwin – The Hermit.
• Les Sonneurs Noirs.
• Nosferatu by Guillaume Vasseur.
• 2D Art by Svetlin Velinov.
• Concept Art by Byz Wader.

More Cool Stuff

• Amanda Hocking’s Wake.
• Trust – Chapter 4 now online.
• A list of free Lovecraftian movies.
• Designs for The Great Tower for London, 1890.
• The Birth of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

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