Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 12/24/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Azra Alagic interviews Angela Slatter.
• Keith Brooke interviews Robert Freeman Wexler.
• Next Big Thing with Janice Hardy.
• Kirkus Reviews (Amy Goldschlager) interviews Adam Connell.
• Robot Six (JK Parkin) interviews Faith Erin Hicks.
• Examiner interviews Anne Rice.
• Matthew Sylvester interviews Jonathan Green.
• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) interviews Justin Isis.

News

• Blue Shifting by Eric Brown.
• Speculative Fiction 2012 The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary.

Events

• Long Island, New York’s I-Con 32 Postponed.
• Syfy Channel Christmas Eve Movie Marathon.
• Win free stuff from The 2012 Science Fiction Romance Holiday Blitz!

Articles

• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) on End of the Year Booklist: What Are Your Favorites?
• Book Life Now (Troy D. Smith) on Using Meyers-Briggs to Keep Your Characters in Character.
• Nora Swisher on Day Seven and Eight.
• Three If By Space (Adam P. Knave) on What to expect when you’re expecting Science Fiction finales.
• Books Worth Reading on Author Worth Reading: Octavia Butler and Madeleine L’Engle.
• Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien News & Articles (Michael Martinez) on How Faithful is Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” to Tolkien’s Book?
• Orbit (James Long) on Our Top Five Monsters from Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Geek Exchange (Andrew Liptak) on 12 Dystopian Future Films to Ride Out the End of the World (if you still think there’s a chance), 7 TV Shows that Document the Collapse of (non-Mayan) Society, and 10 Post-Apocalyptic Books (and a Graphic Novel) to Read After December 21st.
• Geek Exchange (Brian Konner) on GEEK’s 20 Greatest Joker Moments Ever, Part I.
• NPR (Maggie Stiefvater) on 5 Young Adult Novels That You’ll Never Outgrow.

Reviews

• Los Angeles Review of Books (Amy Goldschlager) reviews The Fractal Prince.
• My Bookish Ways reviews The Martial War.
• Carrie Cuinn reviews Fireside Magazine.
• Andrew Wheeler reviews Dodger.
• Wall Street Journal (Tom Shippey) reviews Nexus.

More Cool Stuff

• “Building a Future on Mars”.
• The Nearest Stars to Earth.
• An Excerpt from Seven Kings by John R. Fultz.
• 29 Years of Beautiful, Inspiring and Important Images of Earth from Space.
• Star Wars Droid Leg Lamp, Inspired by ‘A Christmas Story’.
• Enterprise NCC-1701 Christmas lights.
• Ziggy Stardust and Transformers.
• TARDIS Bookshelf.
• Cthulhu Slippers.

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