Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 11/2/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Speculate! interviews Amber Benson and Anton Strout (podcast).
- The Enchanted Inkpot (Cindy Pon) interviews Sarwat Chadda.
- Tor Books Blog interviews Jeff Noon.
- My Bookish Ways interviews James Lovegrove.
- Macabre Republic interviews David Herter.
- David Brin on The Postman (video).
- Weird Tales interviews Michael Reyes.
- SFFWRTCHT interviews Jean Johnson.
News
- ’1000 genomes barrier’ broken.
- Locus 20th and 21st All-Centuries Poll Ballot.
- NEW: The Voyager Blog.
- New Imprint: Heron Books.
- George Lucas to Donate Most of his 4 Billion to Education Charity.
- Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction. [via Andrew Porter]
- Show About Atlanta's Geek Culture, Released by Conman Productions, Premieres on Comcast's Xfinity On Demand.
- Book View Cafe Donating part of book sales to Sandy relief.
- R.T. Kaelin on Anthology for Victims of Sandy.
Events
Articles
- Chuck Wendig on 25 Motivational Thoughts For Writers.
- Book Life Now (Mercedes M. Yardley) on How To Write When You Don’t Have The Time.
- Weird Fiction Review (Elwin Cotman) on WFR’s 101 Weird Writers: #15 — Elizabeth Hand.
- Weird Fiction Review (John Clute) on The Darkening Garden: Strange Stories.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: John Picacio.
- Ian Sales on The journey is the metaphor, not the spaceship.
- Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on A Kind of Fairy Tale: George MacDonald.
- Wired (Michael V. Copeland) on Why Buzz Lightyear Is Worth Billions More Than Han Solo.
- Brian Ruckley on The Force is Strong With This Mouse.
- Tor.com (Grady Hendrix) on The Great Stephen King Reread: The Shining.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: No Reader Left Behind.
- Harper Voyager (Mark C) on Argh! Zombies!
- ThinkProgress (Alyssa Rosenberg) on Dear Internet, Joss Whedon Shouldn’t Run Everything, Including ‘Star Wars’.
- Den of Geek asks What did George Lucas ever do for us?
- Black Gate (Sarha Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: Escape as Homecoming.
- Cosmos (Lucie Bradley) on Giant supernovae offer insight into young universe.
- WhatCulture! (Brendan Foley) on New Star Wars Trilogy: 3 Do’s and 4 Don’ts.
- WhatCulture! (Peter Henne) on 5 Ways Star Wars Episode 7 Could Help Us Forget The Prequels.
- WhatCulture! (David Molofsky) on Star Wars Episode 7: 5 Actors Who Should Play Jedi.
- Book Riot (Rebecca Joines) on Book Riot Readers’ Top 50 Favorite Novels.
Art
- Edison Rex.
- “Batman: Li’l Gotham” Brings Stylistic Watercolor To Batman.
- Cover Reveal: Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes, Awesome Artwork by Tom Gauld.
More Cool Stuff
- Author D&D — Epic ConFusion January 2012 (Finally).
- The Conman Show is a broadcast series that explores the world of conventions and the people that attend them.
- Omni Magazine Free Downloads.
- Star Wars And Disney Characters Collide In These Movie Posters.
- 20 Disney ‘Star Wars’ Crossovers Coming Soon to Your Galaxy.
- Star Wars Episode 7 trailer.
- Channel William Shatner with new ‘Shatoetry’ spoken word app.
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