December 5, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) interviews Livia Llewellyn.
• Weird Fiction Review (Lynne Jamneck) profiles Kathe Koja.
• Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan interviews Ursula K. Le Guin (podcast).
• Apex Magazine (Maggie Slater) interviews Alethea Kontis.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Robert Boyczuk.
• The Qwillery interviews James L. Sutter.
• The Next Big Thing with Narrelle M. Harris, Amanda Pillar, Stina Leicht.
• Omnivoracious (Chris Schluep) interviews Karen Marie.
• Lightspeed (Caleb Jordan Schulz) interviews Ken Liu.
• Lightspeed (Jennifer Konieczny) interviews Brian Evenson.
• Tor Books Blog (Julie Crisp) interviews Paul Cornell.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Adam Connell.
• Philip Athans interviews Erin M. Evans.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Bradley Beaulieu (podcast).
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Drew Karpyshyn (podcast).
• Mass Movement #34 featuring Gareth Powell, Gary McMahon, Eric Brown, Rowena Corey Daniells.

Advice/Articles

• Galley Beggar Press (Cheryl Morgan) on Wizard's Tower Press.
• Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on Do You Outline Your Novel? Should You?
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Things I’d Like To Say To My 18-Year-Old Self.
• Haikasoru on The 2012 Haikasoru Holiday Shopping Guide.
• Time Top 10 Fiction Books.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Cassie Alexander) on Moonshifted.
• Inkpunks (Caroline Ratajski) on Listmaking and Letting Go.
• The Guardian (Paul Krugman) on Asimov's Foundation novels grounded my economics.
• Orbit (Will McIntosh) on If there is an apocalypse, it will probably be soft…
• Apex (Vylar Kaftan) on You’re Not Supposed to Write That: Taboos in Speculative Fiction.
• Paul Kincaid on What Rough Beast, part 2.
• Alastair Reynolds on A compass.
• A. Lee Martinez on Finding Pseudoscience.
• Oxford University Press Blog (David Rothery) on Mars: A geologist’s perspective.
• Space.com (Mike Wall) on NASA Needs Stronger Direction to Lead In Space: Report.
• The FW (Kevin Maher) on 12 Lost Movies You May Never Get to See and 12 Sequels You Probably Didn’t Know About.

Art

• Crash by Patrick Reilly.
• Fantasy Castle.
• The Sentinel by Chris Moore.
• 1970s Space Colony Art from NASA.

News

• Hyperpulp 3.
• TSR returns with Gygax Magazine.
• Coming Soon – Archangel Protocol.
• Buy One Get One Free on Strange Chemistry Launch Titles.

Ink by Damien Walters Grintalis

December 4, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) interviews Erin M. Evans.
• ActuSF interviews Michael Moorcock, Nancy Kress, Norman Spinrad (video).
• ActuSF interviews Michael Moorcock, Robert Charles Wilson, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Nancy Kress (podcast).
• The Connecticut Forum interviews Neil Gaiman (video).
• John Joseph Adams interviews Jennifer Pelland. 
• Buzzy Mag (Jean Marie Ward) interviews Robin Hobb (video).
• Only the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy interviews Courtney Schafer.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Dave Swavely.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Jason Denzel.
• Locus Online Michael Dirda and Gary Wolfe (podcast).
• Lawrence M. Schoen on Walter H. Hunt.
• Tor Books Blog (Julie Crisp) interviews John Gwynne.
• The Qwillery interviews Coreene Callahan.
• SFWA on The Norton Jury on the Norton Award: Why It’s Important for All SFWA Members.
• The Next Big Thing with Matt Forbeck and Myke Cole.

Advice/Articles

• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Joe Monti.
• Nick Mamamatas on Even the Underground Needs Editors.
• Grasping for the Wind (Irene Helenowski) on Promoting Science Through Science Fiction.
• World SF Blog (Nick Wood) on Africa in Science Fiction.
• Worlds Without End on Nightmare Magazine's Top 100 Horror Books.
• N.K. Jemisin on Fantastic Profanity.
• Smart Pop Books (Bruce Bethke) on Star Wars as Anime.
• Slate (Kim O'Connor) on The Ghost in the Machine. [via Paul Di Filippo] 
• WhatCulture! (Jonathon Carley) on 10 Embarrassingly Shoddy Doctor Who Monsters.
• Book View Cafe (Ursula K. Le Guin) on Pard and the Poets.
• Juliette Wade on A character's mental voice is like all the goofy (or not) quotes they've ever memorized.
• Kat Howard on And it never goes out.

Art

• Takeoff by Raphael-Lacoste.
• City Center by Pawel Turalski.
• Le Grand Jeu #3 by MANCHU.
• Daemone by MANCHU.

News

• Sunburst Award Society Announces the Winners of Its First Copper Cylinder Awards.
• Cover Posing for a Good Cause.
• Sci-fi Classic Solaris has UK Stage Premiere.
• First Novels Based Upon Warmachine Steam-Powered Fantasy Wargame and the World of the Iron Kingdoms Role Playing Game.
• Children’s & YA eBook Revenues Rose 196% in August.
• Ansible 305, December 2012.
• Nominations for Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards.

Electric Velocipede #25

December 3, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• MBLife interviews Lauren Beukes. 
• The Agony Column interviews Charles Burns and Chris Ware (podcast). 
• Locus interviews Ted Kosmatka.
• The Coode St. Podcast episode 125.
• SF Mag interviews Ernest Cline.
• Amberkatze's Book Blog interviews Tate Hallaway.
• Zachary Jernigan interviews Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam.
• Raw Dog Screaming Press interviews Jeffrey Thomas.

Advice/Articles

• Angela Slatter on Inappropriate author behaviour tips.
• Book View Cafe (Marie Brennan) on The grammar of a folktale plot.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on The Norton Award now that YA is hip.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Timmi Duchamp) on Science Fiction Aesthetics and Sensibility.
• Book Life Now (Ethan Young) on What Do I Look Like to You?
• Theodora Goss on Being Responsive.
• The Sunday Guardian (Aishwarya Subramanian) on The mystique of the Other & the charms of composite language. 
• Book Geek on Jaine Fenn's Top Ten Other Worlds.
• SFWA (Caren Gussoff) on The Monster in the Laundry Basket: Part Two.
• SF Site (Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams) on Top Ten Time Returns -- The First Five.
• SF Site (Derek Johnson) on The Casablanca Problem.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on Robert Silverberg’s “Raft of the Medusa” in the January 2013 Asimov’s.
• David Marusek on Two opportunities for writers.
• Matthew Cheney on Locus 20th & 21st Centuries Poll.
• Rich Horton on Locus All Centuries Poll.
• SFX (Dave Golder) on Top 51 Sci-Fi Spaceships.

Reviews

• Wayne Simmons (David Moody) reviews Day of the Dead.

Art

• Hysterical Minds.
• The art of Joe Jusko.
• Mortal Kombat Art - by Sergey Svistunov.

News

• Norton Award Blog Tour.
• Jeff Millar, RIP.

London Falling by Paul Cornell

November 30, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Hour of the Wolf interviews Richard Bowes (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews Cecy Robson.
• Sense of Wonder interviews Tim Maughan.
• Locus Online Roundtable on Author Promotion.
• [SFFWRTCHT] K.D. McEntire.
• The Next Big Thing with Aliette de Bodard.

Advice/Articles

• Malinda Lo on Heteronormativity, fantasy, and Bitterblue (1, 2). 
• SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Theme.
• Book Life Now (Jaym Gates) on Portfolios.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Nancy Kress) talks about Flashpoint.
• Jonathan McCalmont on Annoyed With The History of Science Fiction.
• Flogging Babel on The Origin of "Sword and Sorcery".
• The Qwillery (Jennifer Harlow) on Transcription of a Conversation with Special Agent Beatrice Alexander, F.R.E.A.K.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Steven Montano) on Cross-Genre Writing (Or, Attack of the 50-Foot Machine-Gun Toting Vampire).
• Rudy Rucker on SFictional Higher Realities. [via Paul Di Filippo] 
• Jamie Todd Rubin on My Locus 20th and 21st All Century Picks.
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on There and Back Again: A Hobbit's Tale.
• Patrick Hester on Evolution of an eBook Cover.
• The Verge on Escape to Earthship: building a home for the End of Days.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Getting Rid of the Middle Man.
• The Hollywood Reporter on Hollywood's 25 Most Powerful Authors.
• Book Riot (Rebecca Joines) on Book Subscription Services: The Gift That Keeps on Giving.

Art

• Star Wars Celebration VI Art - David Rabbitte.
• Goblin by Jorge Gecov.
• Gibo and Roni.
• Stranded relic ship by MOZCHOPS.

News

• Neil Gaiman is writing an American Gods pilot for HBO.
• Trent Zelazny and Warren Lapine raising funds and reading stories for Shadows and Reflections: a Roger Zelazny Tribute Anthology.
• Authors get option to take their 35-year-old books back this Jan.
• Return to Rowena Cory Daniells' best-selling fantasy world with exclusive ebook The King's Man.
• U.S. had plans to nuke the moon.
• 3D printers could use Moon rocks, say scientists.
• Birth of Baby Planets Spotted Around Distant Star.
• The Story Plant seeks to create magic.
• The short fiction word rate at Analog and Asimov's is increasing from 6-8 cents per word to 7-9 cents per word.

Midnight and Monshine by Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter

November 29, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Dragonwell Publishing (Anna Kashina) interviews Ellen Datlow.
• The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Steven Erikson (podcast).
• Orbit interviews Iain M. Banks.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Cassie Alexander.
• Civilian Reader interviews Adrian Tchaikovsky.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Colin F. Barnes.
• This is Horror interviews August V. Fahren.
• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) interviews Hugh Macdonald.
• The Last Big Thing with Jeffrey Thomas.
• The Agony Column interviews Chris Ware (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Sarah Rees Brennan on Heteronormativity, fantasy, and Bitterblue – Part 1. 
• Rachelle Gardner on Do You Have Impostor Syndrome?
• Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews (Mihai) on A prosperous week for the Romanian speculative fiction.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on How and why I use online alpha-readers while writing novels.
• Brian Ruckley on Why I’m On Twitter Now (Corporations Are Not Your Friends).
• Gollancz (Mark) on George R.R. Martin and How I Learned to Love The Big Bang Theory.
• Grady Hendrix on A Wrinkle in Time, Christianity, and Madeleine L’Engle.
• Locus Online (Gary Westfahl) on The Joke Is on Us: The Two Careers of Robert A. Heinlein.
• The Guardian (James Bridle) on One big fiction, read and written by us all.
• The Guardian (Adam Roberts) on Christmas gifts 2012: the best science fiction.
• The Guardian (Michael Brooks) on Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books.
• SFWA (Caren Gussoff) on The Monster in the Laundry Basket: Professional Jealousy in the Open–Part One.
• Graeme's Fantasy Book Review on My Last Blog Post.
• Kirkus Reviews (Elaine Szewczyk) on Best Fiction of 2012.
• Kirkus Reviews Best of Fiction 2012: Science Fiction & Fantasy.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Science Fiction Series Spotlight: Iain M. Banks' 'The Culture'.

Reviews

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews The Scarlet Plague.

Art

• Vampire Earth Book 1, Enter The Wolf Greg Manchess.
• Concept ships by Kory Hubbell koryface on cghub.
• Skyrim - by Mlad.
• Mynæ-Crisis – The End of Embargo by Fahrija Velic.
• The stunning SF illustrations of Peter Elson.

News

• Astronomers puzzled over huge black hole in the middle of small galaxy.
• Simon & Schuster Announce Self-Publishing Service.
• J.R.R. Tolkien Estate Files $80M Suit Against The Hobbit Producers.
• The Gaiman Foundation Contributes $60,000 to CBLDF for Education Program November 28, 2012.
• George R. R. Martin’s A World of Ice and Fire – A Game of Thrones Guide for iPhone and iPad.

November 28, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Random Revelations interviews Laura Lam.
• Jon Gibbs interviews John Grant.
• Tor (Bella Pagan) interviews Cherie Priest.
• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) interviews Berit Ellingsen.
• The Writer and the Critic episode 25 (podcast).
• Last Short Story episode 3.
• The Next Big Thing with Kirstyn McDermott, Tansy Rayner Roberts.
• Locus Roundtable on Spoilers.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Cat Rambo (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews DD Barant.
• The Qwillery interviews Joseph Nassise.

Advice/Articles

• Juliette Wade on Some thoughts on culture shock and cultural sensitivity.
• Chuck Wendig on How Chuck Wendig Writes A Novel.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Blake Charlton) talks about opening sentences.
• Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) on Flights of Fantasy in “Exhale,” the Latest Exhibition of Jeremy Geddes.
• BBC News on Understanding space suit technology.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter Publisher Spotlight: HiLoBooks.
• John Wiswell on Bathroom Monologue: 6 Badass Revolutionary War Alternate Histories Nobody Uses.
• The Night Bazaar (Walter Greatshel) on To Be or Not To Be, that is the question.
• Philip Athans on How Not to Open a Short Story.
• Ian Sales on From the Sublime to the ridiculous.
• Gav Reads on A SF Masterworks Challenge?
• Staffer's Book Review on State of the Blog on Thanksgiving (and Beta Reading).
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Television Cliffhangers That Make Great Series Finales.

Art

• Spaceships by Dmitry Vishnevsky.

News

• BVC Announces Dragon Virus by Laura Anne Gilman.
• 2012 Utopiales Awards Announced.
• A World of Ice and Fire App Launches Today.

Events

• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman.

Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution edited by Ann VanderMeer

November 27, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Open Road Media interviews N.K. Jemisin on Octavia Butler (video).
• The Coode St. Podcast with Graham Joyce.
• Tor Books Blog interviews Cherie Priest.
• Sword and Laser interviews Robin Hobb (video).
• SFX (Tara Bennett) interviews JH Wyman.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Mark Nelson.
• Writing Excuses with Emma Coats (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews Charles Burns (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Adrienne Kress on So You Want To Dress Steampunk...
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Elevator Pitches: How to Talk About Your Book.
• Marjorie M. Liu on Journal the Journey...
• Electric Velocipede (John Klima) on A Remembrance of the Future.
• Fantasy matters (Megan Kurashige) on The Comic That Changed Your Life.
• Cheryl Morgan on Europe Goes For GUFF.
• Jim C. Hines on Inclusion Linkfest.
• Kate Elliott on What Cat Sews.
• The Guardian (Ally Fogg) on When the final ninjas slip away, we can still enjoy the fantasy. 
• BuzzFeed on Kickass Kickstarter Of The Week "The 2013 John Picacio Calendar".
• Locus Online (Gary Westfahl) on The Joke Is on Us: The Two Careers of Robert A. Heinlein.
• Locus Online (Cory Doctorow) on The Internet of the Dead.
• The Qwillery (Melissa F. Olson) on What do Vampires Want?
• Fantasy Faction (James Calbraith) on My God Is Lawful Evil: Alternate Morality in Alternate Worlds.
• Smart Pop Books (Heather) on The Panem Companion Victory Tour.
• io9 (Annalee Newitz) on 19 science fiction movies that could change your life.
• Neatorama (Zeon Santos) on 25 Things You Might Not Know About The Evil Dead.
• WhatCulture! (Shaun Munro) on 10 Movie Franchises That Need A Reboot.

Reviews

• Barnes & Noble Review reviews Sailor Twain.
• My Bookish Ways reviews Trapped.
• Mystery Theater reviews The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories.

Art

• The Two Mighty Kings by Jack Zhang.
• Concept robotics by Theo Stylianides.
• Terminus les Etoiles - The Stars my Destination by Manchu.

News

• Table of Contents: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven.
• Lavie Tidhar's Adolf Hitler's I Dream of Ants released.
• Machinima Interactive Film Festival.
• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
• Cambridge to open 'Terminator centre' to study threat to humans from artificial intelligence. [via Paul Di Filippo] 
• A Weird Fiction Kindle Story Giveaway.
• Kickstarter sale of 2013 John Picacio Calendar ends Wednesday, Nov. 28.

 The Lovecraft eZine #19

November 26, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Fantasy Book Critic (Mihir Wanchoo) interviews Rachel Aaron.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMere) interviews John Skipp.
• Duckter Yezno's Weird Word Orb Spurts interviews Rudy Rucker.
• Robot 6 interviews Chris Roberson.
• The Guardian (Joanna Moorhead) interviews Simon Tolkien. [via Andrew Porter]
• Euradionantes interviews Lionel Davoust (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Muddy Colors (John Picacio) on The Making of The Creative Fire. 
• Fantasy Faction (Eric Christensen) on Which Writers Are Asking The Hard Questions Today?
• Salon (Samjuel Sattin, The Weeklings) on Has the apocalypse gone the way of vampires? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Nocturnal Book Reviews (Chris F. Holm) on The Collector 101: A Syllabus.
• Wired Science (Adam Mann) on Tracking Mars: Curiosity Makes Its Mark on the Red Planet.
• Jim Van Pelt on One Paragraph Could Inspire a Career.
• Myke Cole on Librarians Rock.
• Mythic Scribes (Martin White) on What Fantasy Writers Can Learn From Horror.
• Oxford University Press (Dennis Baron) on The e-reader over your shoulder.
• Mike Allen on My ongoing free Kindle story giveaway: things I have observed and learned.
• The Inferior 4 (Paul Di Filippo) on My Brief Career as a Fanfic Writer.
• Comics Worth Reading (Johanna Draper Carlson) on I Found the Fake Geek Girl… 24 Years Ago. 
• Lou Antonelli on Comprehensive survey explains all things “Steampunk”.
• WhatCulture! (David Andrew McCabe) on Doctor Who Series 7: 5 Things We Want From The Last Cyberman.
• Tor.com (Ryan Britt) on The Dreamer and the Dream: 6 Fictional Science Fiction Authors.
• Flavorwire (Tom Hawking) on 10 TV Shows Better Than the Books They Were Based On.

Reviews

• Rich Horton's Summary: Asimov's, 2012; Analog, 2012.

Art

• Chief vs. Knight - by John Liberto.
• Doodle Monsta by Furio Tedeschi.
• 30 Amazing Robot Illustrations.

News

• KGB November 21, 2012 photos by Ellen Datlow.

International Speculative Fiction #1

November 23, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Sense of Wonder interviews Jo Walton.
• Keith Brooke interviews Jeff Noon.
• SFWA (Fran Wilde) interviews Elizabeth Bear.
• SFX (Stephen Jewell) interviews Hannu Rajaniemi.
• The Agony Column recording of Tad Williams reading and Craig Childs (podcast).
• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Paul Cornell.
• Black Gate (Sue Granquist) interviews Ania Ahlborn.
• Rules the Waves interviews Robert Shearman.

Advice/Articles

• Book View Cafe (Nancy Jane Moore) on Giving Thanks for Feminism.
• Kobold Quarterly (Todd Gdula) on Real Steel: Tetsu-Ken.
• Grub Street Daily (KL Pereira) on Other Red-Headed Step-Children of the Literary World.
• Tor Books Blog (Mark Charan Newton) on Out with the Old... Legends of the Red Sun Jackets.
• io9 (Jess Nevins) on Pulp Science Fiction Under German Totalitarianism. [via Andrew Porter]
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on The 20 Best Cliffhangers Ever Shown on Science Fiction or Fantasy TV.
• Disquieting Visions (Gail Z. Martin) on When Magic Goes Off The Grid.
• Fantasy Literature (Max Gladstone) on Oh gods!
• Far Beyond Reality on Want to give something back for Thanksgiving?

 Reviews

• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) reviews Nexus.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Kop.

Art

• Halo 4 Concept Art by A.J. Trahan.

News

• Dark Regions Press Dark Friday Weekend.
• Tor eBook of the Month: Boneshaker.
• My Bookish Ways Turkey Day Giveaway.

Events

• Fantastic Fiction at KGB December 19th with Mary Robinette Kowal & Ben Loory.
• Lewis in Westminster.

Day job plug:

Flipside Publishing Black Friday Sale

November 22, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Galactic Chat interviews Joe Abercrombie (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews James Renner.
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews John Joseph Adams.
• Civilian Reader interviews James Smythe.
• C|Net (Daniel Terdiman) interviews Janice Liedl.
• David Brin video on The Postman.
• Speculate! Pyr Roundtable with Lou Anders, Brenda Cooper, Gabrielle Harbowy and E.C. Myers (podcast).
• Fantasy Book Critic (Liviu Suciu) interviews Christian Cameron.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Chris Baty.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Erin Cashman) interviews Lena Goldfinch.
• Weird Fiction Review (Marc Laidlaw) interviews Misha Nogha.

Advice/Articles

• Chuck Wendig on Failing Versus Quitting (Or, “Your Lack Of Confidence Is Neither Interesting Nor Unique”).
• Inkpunks (Sandra Wickham) on Writing About Fighting.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on Debut Author Lesson: Audio books.
• The Guardian (Damien G. Walter) on London: fantasy's capital city.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on Structure and Perspective in Children’s Stories and Films. 
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on How Space Travel Almost Killed Science Fiction.
• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) on Digging Up the Past: Frankenweenie Recreated in 3D.
• Worlds Without End (Scott Lazerus) on American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s from the Library of America.
• SFWA (Steven R. Stewart) on The #1 Rule of Everything.
• The Comics Reporter on The Ten Least Powerful People In Comics.

Reviews

• A. Lee Martinez on Skyfall.
• Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on The Hydrogen Sonata.

Art

• Halo 4 concept ships and environments by sparth.

News

• Empire State is SciFiNow magazine’s book of the year 2012.

Belkaa, Why Don't You Bark? by Hideo Furukawa

November 19, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Just wanted to mention the SF Signal review of one of my favorite collections for the year, Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford.

Interviews and Profiles

• The Agony Column interviews Junot Diaz (podcast).
• Deerfield, IL video of Cory Doctorow.
• The Coode St. Podcast episode 123.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Steve Volk (podcast).
• Fantascienza (Paul Di Filippo) interviews Dario Tonani.

Advice/Articles

• Theodora Goss on Being Ruthless.
• Sarah McCarry on A Few Good Men.
• World SF Blog (Karin Tidbeck) on Landscapes.
• Book View Cafe (Marie Brennan) on Tale Types.
• Book Life Now (Minerva Zimmerman) on There Are No Starship Captains.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on What Geek Girls Wear (Is None of Your Business).
• ExtremeTech (Ryan Whitwam) on The downside of warp drives: Annihilating whole star systems when you arrive.
• The New York Times (Verlyn Linkenborg) on Throw Out the Rules! Read a Fairy Tale.
• Pop Matters (Dominic Umile) on Stephen King's Debt to Horror Comics.
• The Cut (Yael Kohen) on How Vampires Learned to Love Virgins So Much.
• SFX (Dave Golder) on Sci-Fi’s Greatest Flying Cars.

Art

• The Concept Art of Jamga.
• King Arthur Mummy Regular.
• King Arthur Mummy Advanced.
• Hellboy by Daren Bader.
• Conan poster for Mondo.

News

• MTV Buys Mystery Drama Produced By Kelsey Grammer. [via Gwenda Bond]

The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin

November 15, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The World SF Blog interviews Karin Tidbeck. 
• Gail Carriger interviews Lev A.C. Rosen.
• Digital Human interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Arabic Literature interviews Noura Noman.
• The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Fagfestival 2012 debate with Doctorow and Schønning (podcast).
• New Statesman interviews Terry Pratchett.
• MTV interviews George R.R. Martin (video).

Advice/Articles

• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on Ephemeral Horror and the Diffusion of Genre Markers.
• Book View Cafe (Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) on Faith in Fiction 12: Portraying religious diversity.
• Ada (Lisa Nakamura) on Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is? Gaming Rhetoric as Gender Capital.
• Chuck Wendig on Dear Geeks and Why Stories Should Never Begin At The Beginning.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (John Picacio) on the 2013 John Picacio Calendar.

News

• Silver Leaves ISFiC Press.

The Walls of the Castle by Tom Piccirilli

November 14, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• MotherJones interviews Philip Pullman.
• The Qwillery interviews A.J. Colucci.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Derek Haas.
• Sword and Laser interviews Dave Gross and James L. Sutter (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Strange Horizons (Rochita Loenen-Ruiz) on Movements: Identity and the Indigenous Spirit.
• SFWA (Mike Brotherton) on Ten Classic Hard Science Fiction Novels featuring Physics and Astronomy.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Ways To Unstick A Stuck Story.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Lev AC Rosen) talks about All Men of Genius.
• Kat Howard on A Book in the Door.
• Theodora Goss on Our Need for Romance.
• Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) on Mechanical Hybrids and Organic Angels: The Art of Richard A. Kirk.
• Thespec.com (Mark McNeil) on McMaster’s secret stash: The original clockwork Orange manuscript.
• Fortykey (Brian O'Leary) on Publishers Need to Think Themselves As Community Organizers.
• Tor.com (Ryan Britt) on Why Star Wars: Episode VII Needs NEW Characters.
• The Consumerist (Chris Morran) on Bookstore Combats E-Books With One Thing Your Kindle Can’t Offer.
• Gollancz (Michael J. Ward) on Just say… ‘yes’.
• Juliette Wade on Is character more important than worldbuilding? 
• Fantasy Author's Handbook on Character vs Gimmick: A Tale of Two Short Stories.
• SFX on 10 Episodes That Every Sci-Fi Show* Must Have.

Reviews

• Graham Edwards on Revisiting Cinefex (27): Aliens. 
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Knife Sworn.

Art

• Artemis by Michael C. Hayes.
• Foundation by Ioan Dumitrescu.
• Treehouse Valley by ~Kamikaye.
• The Many Covers of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’.

News

• BVC announces Flyers by Vonda N. McIntyre.
• Multiple Nebula Award Winner John Kessel’s Novels and Stories Now Available in Ebook Format from Baen Books.
• Tor.com is Seeking an In-House Publishing Liaison.
• New Genre Army: An International Conference on the Writing of Adam Roberts.
• Table of contents - Fish Eats Lion edited by Jason Erik Lundberg.

Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand

November 13, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Buzzy Mag interviews Alethea Kontis (video). 
• Locus interviews Tim Pratt.
• The Outer Alliance interviews Michael M. Jones (podcast).
• Ted x Rainier video with Terry Brooks.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Erec Stebbins.
• Diabolical Plots (Carl Slaughter) interviews Dean Wesley Smith.
• Locus Roundtable on Reviewing.
• Writing Excuses Episode 7.46 (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• io9 (Annalee Newitz) on 20 Essential Books About the Next Step in Human Evolution. 
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Writing Meaningful Description.
• Gail Carriger on Gail's Top 5 Tips for Coping with Writing Pain.
• Clarion Blog (Kristene Perron) on Writer’s Craft # 98 Murderous Men with Vaginas.
• Kate Elliott on Andevai’s Character Development (Spiritwalker Monday 32).
• Cheryl Morgan on It’s Not Amazon, It’s You.
• Alyx Dellamonica (Jaine Fenn) on Off my Lawn! Jaine Fenn versus “Write every day!”
• The Qwillery (Sharon Lynn Fisher) on You got Sci-Fi in my Romance.
• Brian Ruckley on Perusing the Podverse: Nerdist.
• Pornokitsch on Invisible Cities: Great Imaginary Cities.
• Bastard Books (Justin) on Urban Fantasy Anonymous.
• Wired Science (Adam Mann) on Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• BBC News (Jason Palmer) on Invisibility cloaks: Will we ever really have them? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Lisa Goldstein on A Review That -- Sorry -- Turns into a Rant.

Reviews

• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Queering SFF: Have A Little Theory, or Queer Theories by Donald E. Hall. 
• Tor.com (Grady Hendrix) on The Great Stephen King Reread: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

Art

• Knight vs Undead by Alexey Zaryuta.
• Sci-fi Art: BattleTech Board Game: Era Report 3062 by Bruno Werneck.
• Brownie Coats.

News

• Pam Fremon, F.N. Passes Away.
• Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Series Slated for Starz.
• Sword and Mythos Guidelines.
• The Black Library releases Inquisitor Ascendant.

Season of Wonder edited by Paula Guran

November 12, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Odyssey Workshop interviews Nancy Holder.
• The Coode St. Podcast episode 122. 
• NPR interviews Philip Pullman (podcast).
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Steve Bein.
• SQ Mag (Sophie Yorkston) interviews Gary McMahon.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Derek Gunn.
• Marianne de Pierres interviews Suzie Plakson.

Advice/Articles

• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Reading without a net.
• Charles Stross on 2512.
• Book Life Now (Carol Penn-Romine) on Crafting a Non-Fiction Book Proposal.
• Genevieve Valentine On Sagan.
• The Cultural Gutter (Carol Borden) on The Specter of Frankenstein.
• My Bookish Ways (Wil Mara) on The Gemini Virus.
• SFX (Dave Golder) on Isn’t It About Time You Gave Lifeforce Another Chance?
• Neatorama (Jill Harness) on God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut. [via Bill Crider]
• CNN (Blake Snow) on Why console gaming is dying.
• Slate (Torie Bosch) on How Would Lifelong Perfect Health Change Our Society? via Paul Di Filippo]
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Something Else Like... Roger Zelazny.
• IFC (Jordan Hoffman) on The top 10 Captain Picard moments from “Star Trek”. [via Bill Crider]
• WhatCulture! (Stuart W. Bedford) on World War Z Trailer: 10 Reasons It Will Probably Suck and 1 Reason It Might Not.

Art

• Iron Man 3 Teaser Poster.
• Shanghai Ruins by JonasDeRo.

News

• In Memoriam: Kevin O’Donnell, Jr., 1950-2012.
• Marine 'treasure trove' could bring revolution in medicine and industry.
• Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz dress fetches $480,000. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Doctor Who Mixes Neil Gaiman, Cybermen and Warwick Davis.

Crandolin by Anna Tambour

November 8, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• TVO interviews Nalo Hopkinson (video). 
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Leah Cypress) interviews Barry Deutsch.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Sharon Lynn Fisher.
• SFX (Stephen Jewell) interviews Lavie Tidhar.
• The Robot Reader interviews Tobias Buckell.
• The Future and You interviews Ramen Naam (podcast).
• SFX interviews Neil Patrick Harris.
• The Mad Hatter interviews John Brownjohn.
• Dark Matter Fanzine interviews Joe Abercrombie (video).
• Lightspeed (Andrew Liptak) interviews Sandra McDonald.
• Lightspeed (Moshe Siegel) interviews Aliette de Bodard.

Advice/Articles

• Erin M. Evans on Rules of Engagement.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on What is Science Fiction for? 
• My Bookish Ways (Sandy Williams) on 5 Things I Adore About Goodreads.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on A Sci-Fi Television Viewer's Guide to Science-Fiction Books.
• NPR (Leigh Bardugo) on Reading 'Dune,' My Junior-High Survival Guide. [via The Lensman's Children]
• Criminal Minds (Chris F. Holm) on The Hell You Say.
• Fantasy & SciFi Lovin' News & Reviews (Mercedes M. Yardley) on Women in Horror: Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?
• Smart Pop Books (Scott Westerfeld) on Introduction: Mind-Rain.
• The Wall Street Journal (Joe Queenan) on My 6,128 Favorite Books.
• Tor.com (Stubby the Rocket) on 15 Essential Zombie Reads.

Art

• Supers – Illustration – Robert M Ball.
• Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Nuclear Explosions + Mushroom Clouds, Part II.
• Helping Hand by by Trevor Claxton.
• Concept ships by Gia Nguyen Hoang.

News

• The Cybermen Return To Doctor Who… And Neil Gaiman Is Writing Them.
• Dark Lord: Teenage Years wins Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
• 2012 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Nominees.

Clarkesworld #74

November 9, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Agony Column interviews Cindy Pon (podcast).
• The Creative Penn interviews Chuck Wendig (video).
• Authors@Google with Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.
• [SFFWRTCHT] Jacqueline Carey.
• Civilian Reader interviews Adam McOmber.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Q&A with Dan Wakefield.

Advice/Articles

• Inkpunks (Andrew Romine) on Failure: You’re Doing it Right.
• Theodora Goss on Finding the Time.
• Fantasist Enterprises (Christopher Paul Carey) on Conversing with Giants.
• The Guardian (David Barnett) on Why the 2012 World Fantasy awards are a triumph.
• Karen Lord on SF Crossing the Gulf.
• SciFiChick.com (Alex Scarrow) on TimeRiders.
• The Qwillery (Tina Connolly) on Thoughts On My Book Tour.
• Black Gate (Sarah Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: Breaking and Entering in the House of John Gardner.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Want To Be Read 100 Years From Now? Here’s How.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: John Schwartz.
• Mashable (Clara Moskowitz) on James Bond’s 50-Year Love Affair With Space.
• Smart Pop Books (Garth Sundem) on The Malleability of Memory.
• Booklist on Top 10 SF/Fantasy: 2012.
• Booklist on Top 10 SF/Fantasy for Youth: 2012.

 Reviews

• Brenda Cooper on Glamour in Glass.
• My Bookish Ways reviews Skarlet.

Art

• Concept robots by John Stokes.
• Concept ships and environments by Jason Stokes Stokes on CGHub.
• Futuristic Digital Art – Jan Urschel.
• Art Deco Superhero Posters – Dave Ault.
• Cover Reveal: Cog by K. Ceres Wright.
• Towers – Futuristic Concept Art by Maxim Revin.

News

• Obituary: David Grove.
• Angry Robot to Publish Two Books in Jay Posey’s Duskwalker Cycle series.
• Cheeky Frawg Book Release: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (recommended by NPR).
• Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. (1950-2012).

Events

• New York Review of Science Fiction - After.

 Scheherazade’s Facade edited by Michael M. Jones

November 7, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• BoingBoing Marjorie M. Liu and Stephanie Chong interview each other.
• Fantasy Cafe interviews Courtney Schafer.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Colin F. Barnes (podcast).
• Believer (Emma Brockes) interviews Maurice Sendak.
• ComicBookMovie.com interviews George R.R. Martin (video).
• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Lou Anders (podcast).
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews James Berardinelli (podcast).
• Apex Magazine (Maggie Slater) interviews Alex Bledsoe.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Pip Ballantine (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• SFWA (Aliette de Bodard) on Common Myths About Science.
• Strange Chemistry on Top Ten Tropes in YA – featuring A E Rought.
• Strange Horizons (Mark Plummer) on Paraphernalia: The Time Traveller.
• Paul McAuley on Just Like Science Fiction.
• Weird Fiction Review (John Clute) on The Darkening Garden: Vastation.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor.
• Apex Magazine (Steven H Silver) on Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming.
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on 10 Great Authors We Should All Stop Pigeonholing.
• Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on The “S” Word.
• Juliette Wade on "Eagerness to please," and the weakness of database marketing for directing the future of SF/F.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Lee Moyer) talks about Literary Pinups 2013.

Reviews

• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Film: The Gorgon (1964).
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Ella Enchanted.

 Art

• Cover Art Launch: Gary Gibson's Shoal Trilogy Reissued.
• Huston, we have a problem.
• Illustrations by Michal Ivan.
• Hounds by Jiwon Pang.
• Spacequest: Art by Gray Morrow, 1976.
• Spaceship concept art by Francis Tsai.

News

• David Grove, 1940-2012.
• Apex Magazine Issue 42 released.
• Auction for Hurricane Sandy relief — Without a Summer manuscript.

Apex Magazine Issue 42