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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