Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 12/27/12
[Editor’s note: Although the daily tidbits posts will continue, this will be the last one by Charles A. Tan. Thanks for all the tidbits, Charles!]
Interviews and Profiles
- Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on Leonard S. Marcus.
- Deborah J. Ross interviews Pati Nagle and Jeffrey Carver
- Locus Roundtable on Collective Nouns.
News
- NASA Plans to Turn Asteroid Into Space Station.
- Gerry Anderson Dies.
- According to Lois Lowry, The Giver Movie is On Its Way, Complete With Jeff Bridges.
- 40k Books on Is There Anything You Would Like to Ask to Bruce Sterling?
Articles
- Tor.com (Irene Gallo) on Art History Through Sci Fi Colored Glasses.
- Fantasy Faction (Cheryl Morgan) on Women to Watch Out For in 2013.
- The Book Smuggler (Rachel Hartman) Guest Post.
- Paul Levinson on Behind The Plot to Save Socrates (video).
- Innsmouth Free Press (Paula R. Stiles) on What’s So Great About Sword and Planet?
- Smart Pop Books (Ellen Steiber) on The Divine Cat.
- Wired (David Axe) on This Scientist Wants Tomorrow’s Troops to Be Mutant-Powered.
- John Joseph Adams on Hugo Awards Nomination Period Opens Jan. 1 + Free Stuff for Worldcon Members.
- Black Gate (David E. Harris) on Another Arbitrary Top 10 List: Fantasy Films.
- Salon.com on Two ways of looking at robots. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- WhatCulture! (Shaun Munro) on 10 Best Movie Villains of 2012.
- io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on The 12 Most Epic Action Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- Discovery News on 2012: Science Fiction Dreams That Came True.
- Kirkus Book Reviews on Bookshelves of Doom: 2012 in Review.
- Ed Kurtz on The Best Damn Books of 2012.
- BookRiot (Nicole Perrin) on Genre Kryptonite: Books You’ve Never Heard of By Authors You Have.
- BookRiot (Kim Ukura) on Genre 2013 Calendars for Book Nerds.
- BookRiot (Rebecca Joines) on Book Riot Readers’ Top 50 Favorite Novels.
- Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Warhammer 40K in a Nutshell.
Reviews
- Barnes and Noble Review (Amy Benfer) reviews The Last Dragonslayer.
- My Bookish Ways reviews Inheritance.
- Jamie Todd Tubin on Thoughts on The Hobbit.
- Maurice Broaddus reviews The God Engines.
Art
- Call of Cthulhu: Drunken Hallucinations by Tiziano Baracchi.
- Casseopeia Cover by Winona Nelson.
- The Last Moments by James Strehle.
- A postcard from my realm by Shue13.
- Concept Ship by Kaïro.
More Fun Stuff
- Sword and Laser Podcast #117: Is Gandalf a jerk?.
- Tesla in Time: The Animated Series!
- Jaydium Chapter 25.
- NecronomiCon: The Premier Lovecraft Convention in Providence.
- StarShipSofa No 270 Alec Nevala-Lee Part 2.
- Early release of Chapter Two – Ever After.
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