SF Tidbits for 9/12/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Distraction No. 99 interviews Gwenda Bond.
• The Agony Column interviews Charles Yu (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews Scott K. Andrews.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Benjamin Kane Ethridge.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Peter Adam Salomon.

News

• Terry Brooks’ Shannara series heading to TV.

Events

• Lint the Movie with Steve Aylett.
• Literary Death Match.
• Hour of the Wolf to air interview with Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross.

Articles

• John Picacio on The Hugo Awards / Best Professional Artist Winners.
• Omnivoracious (Richard Kadrey) on Sandman Slim Author Richard Kadrey’s Infernal Play List: Ten Hellish Songs.
• Small Beer Press (Daniel A. Rabuzzi) on A Raffle of Laughter on Solemn Occasions.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Of My Personal Rules For Writing And Telling Stories.
• Book Life Now (LCM) on Dealing with Burn Out.
• Magical Worlds (Misty Massey) on Critters in Fantasy.
• Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on Encountering Wannabee Writers.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Brent Weeks) on The Blinding Knife.
• Civilian Reader (Graham McNeil) on Big Versus Small.
• CNet (Charles Cooper) on Publishers’ worst nightmare: Amazon again on discount warpath.
• Weird Fiction Review on Sword and Mythos: Double Trouble from Innsmouth Press.
• Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) on Patricia Piccinini’s Mythic Imagination.
• Alien Romances on Theme-Worldbuilding Integraton Part 2: The Use of Misnomers.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Chronicles of the Lensman: Triplanetary by E. E. “Doc” Smith (1948).
• Sheila Williams on Science Fiction That Scars Children.
• Robert Silverberg on Decline and Fall.
• James Patrick Kelly on Unreal Life.
• David Brin on The Case for a Scientific Nation: Part Two.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Recommended Reading List: August, 2012.
• ShortList.com on Top 10 Scariest Stephen King Scenes.
• Cheryl Morgan on The YA Hugo: Pros & Cons.

Art

• Soviet Space Art.
• Conceptual Art by Richard Anderson.
• Concept ships by Ian Galvin.
• Scroll by Yuehui Tang.
• Antipodal Evolution by by Vitaly Samarin Alexius.
• Warrior by Kim Young Min.

More Cool Stuff

• Tardis Trash Can.
• A Children’s Map of Westeros.
• An Illustrated Anatomical Guide To Popular Monsters by Brad McGinty.

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