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
Crowd Funding
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.
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