Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/11/13
Interviews & Profiles
- My Bookish Ways interviews Marie Brennan (+ Giveaway).
- Odyssey Workshop interviews Holly Black.
- Speculating on SpecFic interviews Karen Healey.
- Dark cargo interviews Lesley Connor.
- Robot 6 interviews Fred Van Lente.
- Amazing Stories interviews Christopher Nutall.
- Timothy C. Ward interviews Mark Tufo.
- Agony Column Podcast interviews Cory Doctorow.
News
- RIP: Anne Devereaux Jordan Crouse (1943-2013).
- HBO have signed up Game of Thrones and Wild Cards creator George RR Martin to an onoging TV development deal.
- Scientists Finally Confirm the Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs.
- New novel coming soon from Tim Powers, tentatively titled Depth Of Field.
- Odyssey Workshop Blog Has a New Home!.
- 2013 FAAn Awards Voting Now Open.
- Isaac Asimov’s face used to shill in sleazy ad.
Events
- Nine Worlds Conference: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Academia.
- Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust Announces Summer 2013 Workshop.
Articles
- Omnivoracious on Reinventing the Steel.
- Rachel Swirsky on Novelette Recommendations, 2012.
- Fantasy Faction (Victoria Hooper) on Writing Rules and Fantasy: Mary Sues.
- L.B. Gale on Setting Up the Obvious: Should Writers Ever Waste their Readers’ Time?
- The Galaxy Express goes Behind The Scenes of a Digitally Illustrated Book Cover.
- Eoghann Irving on The History of Science Fiction.
- The Qwillery (Zachary Jernigan) on Write, Write, Write: The Pressure to be Productive.
- Bleeding Cool on Orson Scott Card, Superman And Here We Go Again.
- Omnivoracious (Robin A. Rothman) on Get to Know the Walking Dead.
- Amazing Stories (Douglas Smith) on Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 6).
- Amazing Stories (Paul Cook) on Why Science Fiction Poetry is Embarrassingly Bad.
- Amazing Stories (J. Jay Jones) on Theodore Sturgeon, The Next Question, Well-Meaning Scientists and The Evil They Can Cause.
- Amazing Stories (Michael J. Sullivan) on Pulling Back the Publishing Veil: Return Reserves, Buy-in, and Sell-through.
- Salon.com on A fresh view of George Orwell.
- Stainless Steel Droppings on First Shift – Legacy by Hugh Howey.
- WhatCulture on The Joker’s 10 Most Iconic Moments Of All Time.
Art
- Spaceships, Spaceships, and More Spaceships by Adam Burn.
- Art For Art’s Sake.
- Character Design (game project).
- Babylon Machine by ~EyeSeeBlack.
- Home in the forest by logartis.
- Thor: The Dark World.
- Avengers Chicks by Cheto See.
More Fun Stuff
- Midwinterblood (Excerpt) by Marcus Sedgwick.
- Edgar Allan Poe Book – 1892.
- Notes from Coode Street Episode 134: On digital texts.
- Astronaut and Musician Perform 1st Original Duet from Space and Earth. [Thanks, Sheila!]
- What Makes a Hero?
- Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Color Crater on Mercury.
- MAN OF STEEL: General Zod’s Chest Emblem Revealed.
- How To Cook Alien Eggs. [via Eoghann]
- Cosmonaut Vogue.
- Mego Superman Vs Muhammad Ali .
- Victorian Batman.
- Four-Color Shadows: Axle and Cam-Bud Sagendorf.
- 60’s Catwoman and Batman Barbie and Ken.
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Not sure if you caught it but Swirksy recently put up her short story recommendations too. Forgive me if you posted to it and I just overlooked it.
Thanks for the link. I’m really enjoying getting back into Howey’s world. Need to get over to Tim Ward’s podcast interview with him.
That Home in the Forest art is great. Such a wonderfully eerie forest setting.