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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