Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 3/4/13

Interviews & Profiles

• The Quietus profiles Michael Moorcock.
• Rambling On interviews Damien Walters Grintalis.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show (Paul Weimer) interviews Zachary Jernigan.
• Writers Who Kill interviews Dana Cameron. [via Bill Crider]
• The Geek Twins interviews Max Allan Collins.
• Dagan Books interviews Sam Fleming.
• Amazing Stories interviews Stephanie Osborne.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Lou Anders.

News

• Obituaries: Sheila Willis.
• Obituary: Petro Vlahos.
• Obituary: Peter Gilmore.
• Obituary: James Plumeri.
• Obituary: Patti Paczolt.
• Obituary: Henry Newton.
• 10 weeks after stroke, Peter David ‘is making steady progress’.
• David Heyman to Produce Adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World.
• REMINDER: 2013 Hugo Award Nomination Deadline Nears – March 10, 2013.

Events

• China Miéville Signs at Chicago Play on 3/16.

Crowd Funding

• The Crystal Crypt: Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.

Articles

• Smart Girls love SciFi (DL Richardson) on The Evolution Of SciFi.
• L.B. Gale on “If George R. R. Martin wrote it, who would die?” (Lord of the Rings Edition).
• Book View Cafe Blog (Sherwood Smith) on Caught in the act of greatness, part two: worldbuilding, character, and voice.
• Wired.com (Bruce Sterling) on Musica Globalista: MTV Weird Vibes #14, Seapunk.
• Joseph Mallozzi on Crushing Cancellations.
• Scott Edelman on My December 9, 2002 Science Fiction Weekly editorial about Cuban science fiction.
• Mike Allen on A 2009 essay on speculative poetry, reclaimed from the Wayback Machine.
• Joshua Palmatier on Dead Things by Stephen Blackmoore.
• George R.R. Martin on Calendars Are Coming!
• John C. Wright on A Peak Behind the Hermetic Millennia.
• Ballardian on Cosmic Sentinels and Spiral Jetties: J.G. Ballard, Robert Smithson & Tacita Dean.
• The SF Site (Rick Klaw) on Nexus Graphica: Five More Reviews in Search of a Column.
• Black Gate on The Best One-Sentence Reviews of Manly Wade Wellman: The Winners of The Complete John Thunstone Contest.
• Amazing Stories (Jane Frank) on The Artful Collector: Collecting Strategies Part 3 "The Easy Way".
• Amazing Stories (J. Jay Jones) on No. 9: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and Who's The Real Monster?
• Amazing Stories (Geoffrey James) on Why Sorcerers Have Long Grizzled Beards.
• Amazing Stories (Buddy Lortie) on The First Rule of Time Travel.
• Amazing Stories (Douglas Smith) on Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 7 in series).
• Amazing Stories (Mike Brotherton) on The Science Fiction Fan's Bucket List.
• BBC News on Robot warriors: Lethal machines coming of age. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Bleader on Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation.
• The Geek Twins on 7 Minor Characters in Scifi Movies Whose Fates Are Never Explained.
• Scientific American on 20 Questions with the Space Station. [via Mike Brotherton]

Art

• Evoke’s 29th Art Exhibition.
• Digital Art by Tida K.
• Checkpoint by adamkuczek.
• Awesome Digital Characters by Ashraf Ghori.
• Batman Posters – by Nicolas Alejandro Barbera.
• All of Margaret Brundage’s Weird Tales Covers.
• ALAN LEE – The 1993 Tolkien Calendar, JOHN HOWE – Illustrating Tolkien, and Ted Nasmith – The 1990 Tolkien Calendar. [via Paul Di Filippo]

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt from Brian McClellan's Promise Of Blood.
• Free Novel Saturday: Star Song by Edward Willett, Chapters 20 & 21.
• Excerpts From A Lost EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Documentary.
• Nostalgia Video: Tom Savini Speaks on Friday the 13th Films.
• Here’s What We’ll Wear in Space.
• Admiral Snackbar is a Real Thing.