Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 1/11/13

Interviews & Profiles

• Suicide Girls interviews Cory Doctorow.
• Geek’s Guide To The Galaxy interviews Brandon Sanderson.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Mark Teppo.
• Locus Roundtable (Karen Burnham) interviews Cecelia Holland, Rich Horton, Russell Letson, Paul Graham Raven, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Michael Dirda, Cecelia Holland, Karen Lord, Ellen Datlow, Paul Witcover, Cat Rambo, Jeffrey Ford, Andy Duncan, Karen Joy Fowler, Gardner Dozois, F. Brett Cox, and Fabio Fernandes.

News

• Major US deal for fantasy novelist John Gwynne.
• Julian May’s The Saga Of The Exiles Reissued.
• Triumph Over Tragedy is now available.
• Table of Contents – International Speculative Fiction #3.
• Baffling Magnetic Structures Spotted in Venus' Atmosphere.
• Milky Way Galaxy Half As Massive As Thought.
• Einstein Was Right: Space-Time Smooth, Not Foamy.

Events

• LoneStarCon 3 Progress Report #3

Articles

• Gail Z. Martin on Why I Still Write About Heroes.
• The Galaxy Express on Linking The Science Fiction Romance Data.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Fearless Inventories.
• Athena Andreadis on The Hugo Awards: Tweeter Expands My Horizons.
• Neal Asher on The Hobbit (Part One).
• Charles Stross on Tapeworm Logic.
• Tobias Buckell on I told my intern… (thoughts about being a writer).
• Curiosity Quills Press on "What the Hell is That?": Writing Contemporary Horror.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Keeping Out the Intruder Words.
• The Night Bazaar (Zachary Jernigan) on Genre Hell Hole … Or Genre Glory Hole?
• Futurismic (Paul Raven) on Science fiction and science, part I: you’re doing it wrong.
• More Red Ink on Happy Birthday, George Alec Effinger (Part 1 of 3).
• Tor.com (Emily Asher-perrin) on Where to Begin With Star Wars Books.
• Fandomania on Fangirl’s Guide to Doctor Who.
• Smart Pop Books (Michael Marano) on River Tam and the Weaponized Women of the Whedonverse.
• Little Red Reviewer on SciFi Author Brian Stableford.
• Paizo Blog on Tell Me About My Characters.
• Gollancz blog on Paul McAuley’s short stories, part two.
• Andrew Liptak on The Amazing Adventures of E.E. 'Doc' Smith.
• Pornokitsch on The Kitschies: 2012 Submissions by the Numbers.
• Tor.com (Grady Hendrix) on The Great Stephen King Reread: Different Seasons.
• Stainless Steel Droppings on Dragonflight Group Read, First Half Discussion.
• DAW Books on Book Discussion: Elemental Magic edited by Mercedes Lackey.
• WhatCulture on 5 Ways To Make Wolverine Great Again.
• LitReactor on Winter is Come: Fantasy Winters.
• L.B. Gale on Babes in Fantasyland: 5 Types of Infants in Speculative Fiction.
• Fantasy Literature on Thoughtful Thursday: Books we loved in 2012.
• The World in the Satin Bag on 10 Books I'm Looking Forward to in 2013.

Art

• Must-See Concept Art by Dan LuVisi.
• Galaxy Saga mech.
• Concept ships by Daniel Vijoi.
• Coastal Trading Outpost by ~Hideyoshi on deviantART.
• Create a "Two-Faced" Digital Painting in Photoshop.
• Cover launch! Before The Fall by Francis Knight.

More Fun Stuff

• VIDEO: Real World Kerbal Space Program – Gun Launched Space Missions. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• VIDEO: Lego zombie hunters.
• Making of Hulk.
• Darth Vader CD Player.