Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/27/13

Interviews & Profiles

• My Bookish Ways interviews Karen Heuler.
• The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log interviews Faith Erin Hicks.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Lois McMaster Bujold.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Mary Soon Lee.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews M. Bennardo.
• SFFWRTCHT (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) interviews Mandy Hager.
• Rambling On on Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Fantastical Imaginations interviews Francis Knight, Elspeth Cooper, Anne Lyle, Teresa Frohock and Courtney Schafer.

News

• Seth Grahame-Smith Polishing Script for Fantastic Four Reboot.
• New e-book editions from Aqueduct featuring Rebecca Ore and Richard Bowes.
• BVC Announces All a Woman Wants and Devil’s Lady by Patricia Rice.
• Laura Anne Gilman announces Portals duology: Heart Of Briar and Soul Of Fire.
• Titan Comics Launches It Came! — A 1950s B-Movie Comedy from the Vaults of Movie History.
• Galaxys Edge goes live on March 1st!
• Winners: The Kitschies.
• Lawmakers Vote to Rename NASA Dryden After Neil Armstrong.
• REMINDER: The March 10 deadline for casting nominating ballots for the 2013 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is now less than two weeks away.

Crowd Funding

• God Hates Astronauts: The Completely Complete Edition by Ryan Browne.
• FUNDED: 5 Cons: A 21st Century Fandom Documentary. [via File 770]

Articles

• Misty Massey on Ethics in Speculative Fiction.
• Marie Brennan on How to write a long fantasy series.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Emma Newman) on Between Two Thorns.
• Deborah J. Ross on Reaching More Than One Audience.
• Galen Dara on on Illustrating Oz.
• Tor.com (Liz Bourke) on Sleeps With Monsters: Epic Fantasy is Crushingly Conservative?
• Whatever on The Big Idea: Francis Knight.
• Heather Massey on What's The Potential For Sci-Fi Romance Audio Books?
• Mark Teppo on Building the Library of Violence for The Mongoliad.
• Tor.com on Short Fiction Spotlight: Reading the BSFA’s Best Short Shortlist, Part 3.
• John Scalzi on Your 2013 SF/F Award Nomination Awareness Post: Readers and Fans.
• The Qwillery (Peter Higgins) interviews Russian-ness.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on A Rant on Exclusion and Genre Pedantry.
• Amazing Stories (Lesley Smith) on Serial Fiction for Beginners.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on The Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian.
• Orbit Books on How to make a fantasy book cover: Fade to Black.
• Suvudu asks Vampire or Werewolf?
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on 7 YA Series Adults Will Enjoy With Their Kids.
• Salon on Femininjas: Women in fiction fight back.
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Asteroids.
• Discovery News on Mercury's Ancient Magma Oceans. [via Gwenda Bond]
• The Awl on How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us In A World Of Bad Interfaces. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• OEDb on Your Brain on Books: 10 Things That Happen to Our Minds When We Read. [via Gwenda Bond]
• Book Riot on New Takes on Fairy Tales.
• Andrew Liptak on Geek’s March 2013 Science Fiction And Fantasy Book Drop.
• Fantasy Book Critic (A. E Marling) on Ten Reasons Why We Love The Fantasy Genre.

Art

• Sci-fi Art: The Dome.
• Fantasy Art: Nim.
• Tea Time by TsaoShin.
• concept ships: Orbiter by Rasmus Poulsen.
• Indestructable Hulk by Jeff Dekal.
• Super Heros – Created by Noxbil.
• Captain America by Mxrcofer.
• Joker Smile by Mxrcofer.
• FANTASTIC FOUR Concept Art: Unconventional Designs For Dr. Doom & The Thing.

More Fun Stuff

• River of Stars (Excerpt) by Guy Gavriel Kay.
• The Shadow War (Excerpt) by Rod Rees.
• Extract from Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins.
• Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing #278.
• Book Trailer: Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins.
• The Year of Ted White. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Quantum Daughter. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• First Person Darth Vader: Lightsaber Battle.
• The Horror of Scientifically Accurate Spider-Man.
• Spider-Man opens a window, the only way Spider-Man can.
• Spider-Man High-Fives The Avengers…fails.
• Spock Socks.