SF Tidbits for 9/17/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Angry Robot Podcast interviews Madeline Ashby.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Sarah Beth Durst.
- Locus interviews Nancy Pearl.
- Gail Carriger interviews Morgan Keyes.
- The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe, and Paul Kincaid (podcast).
- Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist interviews Nick Kyme.
- New Statesman (Laura Sneddon) profiles Grant Morrison. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Air & Space (Diane Tedeschi) interviews Gary Westfahl.
- NPR (Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!) interviews George R. R. Martin (podcast).
News
- Sidewise Awards for Alternate History Winners Announced.
- Brian Aldiss: Challenging Readers’ Minds for Fifty Years.
- Librarians! Teachers! Sign up for free copies of Rapture of the Nerds!
Articles
- Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Girls and reading, the social act.
- David Brin on The New Modernism: Blending Science, Engineering, Art, and Human Imagination.
- Arts Beat (Brian Stelter) on ‘Game of Thrones’ Sets Pace at Creative Arts Emmys.
- Karen Burnham on Changing Up Spiral Galaxy.
- Space.com (Clara Moskowitz) on Why Humanity Needs to Travel to Other Stars.
- Mike Brotherton on What are the Best Science Fiction Mysteries?
- Gollancz on Our Submission Guidelines.
- Matt Forbeck on 12 for ’12: Kickstarting Advances.
- Terri Windling on Wildness.
- Patrick Hester (@atfmb) offers up The Obligatory Chicon 7 (wrap up) Post.
Reviews
- SF Site (D. Douglas Fratz) on Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews James P. Blaylock.
Art
- Metamorphosis.
- Cyberpunk vagabond by ~ptitvinc.
- Wyrm.
- Metropolis by martiniere.
- Hanger by martiniere.
- Rebornlab by matiniere.
- Fantasy Book Critic on The Books of 2012 in Covers, Second Iteration (with comments by Liviu Suciu).
More Cool Stuff
- Lawrence Person’s Pictures from the 2012 Chicago Worldcon: Sunday.
- The New Robocop Suit.
- Cthulhu lemon!
- Watch this: ‘NASA Remembers Neil Armstrong’.
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