July 31, 2012 Links and Plugs

And we're now at Weightless Books.

Interviews and Profiles

• Buzzy Mag interviews Jo Walton (video).
• The Agony Column interviews Deborah Harkness (podcast).
• Apex Publications interviews Jennifer Pelland.
• io9 interviews Saladin Ahmed.
• JSAScribes interviews Sarah Langan.

Advice/Articles

• Electric Velocipede (John Klima) on A Remembrance of the Future.
• The New York Times (Colson Whitehead) on How to Write.
• Catherynne M. Valente on Concerning Readercon.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Essay in the New Haven Review: The Art of the Literary Fake (with violin).
• Fantasy Book Critic (Andrew Gordon) on The Literary Odyssey of Ilona Andrews.
• Smart Pop Books (Heather Swain) on A Supernatural Love Story.
• Rachelle Gardner (Shawn Smucker) on 5 Tips For Making a Living as a Writer.
• Stroppy Author on How to speak publisher: E is for e-books.
• Janice Hardy on In the Beginning: Which Type of Opening Works Best?
• Gollancz (MD Lachlan) on the particular perils of historical fantasy.
• Black Gate (Howard Andrew Jones) on Genre Prejudice.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on A Writer's Audience: Important or Not?
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on Histoires à dormir debout Marcel Schneider (1913-2009).
• Cheryl Morgan On Harassment Policies.
• Farah Mendelsohn on How con-runner politics work.
• World SF (Tim Maughan) on Science Fiction Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.
• Bare Bones e-Zine (Jack Seabrook & Peter Enfantino) on Batman in the 1970s Part 29: January, February and March 1974.
• The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) reviews vN by Madeline Ashby.

Art

• This Blog Rules on 25 Stunning Alternate Movie Posters.
• Dragons Lair by Ironshod.
• Fantasy by Michael Anthony Gonzales.
• Laughing Squid on Salvador Dali & His Surrealist Artwork Get a Batman & Joker Makeover.

News

• Hobbit films will be a trilogy Peter Jackson confirms.
• Announcing T L Costa.
• Announcing the Futuredaze Authors.

Crowdsourced Funding

• Unstuck: New Literature of the Fantastic and the Surreal.
• Antiquities and Tangibles: A Short Fiction Collection.

Events

• Stephen Baxter signing Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice.

Electric Velocipede #24

July 30, 2012 Links and Plugs

My anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology is now available as an eBook.

Interviews and Profiles

• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Seanan McGuire.
• Cosmos Magazine (Ajai Raj) interviews Marianne de Pierres.
• Literary Rambles interviews Natalie Dias Lorenzi.
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe. 
• Tiger Beatdown interviews Neesha Meminger and Ibi Zoboi. 
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (podcast).
• Omnivoracious (Stephanie Reid-Simons) interviews Clive Barker.

Advice/Articles

• Margo Lanagan on Private Reading, Public Places.
• Jim C. Hines on Why I Cancelled my Reddit Q&A.
• Adrienne Kress On being considered a Fake Geek Girl.
• Susan J. Morris on What I Mean By “Consider Your Audience”.
• Farah Mendelsohn on Launchpad 2012, Laramie, Colorado.
• Joshua Palmatier (Jon Sprunk) on Jon Sprunk.
• Staffer's Book Review (Douglas Hulick) on in the Trenches.
• Suvudu (Maurice Broaddus) on Faith in the Fantastic.
• Smart Pop Books (Karen Traviss) on Driving GFFA 1 Or How Star Wars Loosened My Corsets.
• Tor.com (Niall Alexander) on An Ode to Jasper Fforde: Introducing His Works and Worlds.
• Alex Bledsoe (Michael Underwood) On Influences.
• SFX on Top 10 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Teddy Bears.
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on 10 Graphic Novels That Would Make Awesome TV Shows.
• Starship Reckless on Those Who Never Got to Fly.
• BBC (Paul Rincon) on A home from home: Five planets that could host life.
• BBC News Magazine on A Point of View: Would you want to live forever? 
• Justine Larbalestier on Writing to the Market.
• SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Dialogue Attribution.
• Huffington Post (Andrew Kessler) on Why You Should Be More Interested in Mars Than the Olympics.
• James W. Harris on The Chinese Should Be Writing Some Great Science Fiction About Now!
• Locus (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Super-Science Fiction.

Readercon

• Genevieve Valentine on Readercon: The Bad and the Ugly, Readercon: The Verdict, Updates on The Readercon Response.
• Under the Beret on The Readercon Thing.
• Readercon on Statement from the Readercon Board of Directors.
• Matthew Cheney on An Unenforced Policy Is Worse Than None.
• Lynne M. Thomas on Why I won’t be attending Readercon this year as planned. [rant] and Readercon follow-up: still not going.
• Nick Mamatas on The Readercon Creeper and Readercon speaks!
• File 770 on Readercon Bans René Walling for 2 Years.
• Elizabeth Bear on what is the sound of one heart breaking? and if every angel's terrible why do you watch her sleep?
• Ekaterina Sedia on That Readercon Thing.
• Veronica Schanoes on Open letter to the Readercon board and Letter/petition to the Board of Readercon.
• Cogitationitis on I don't know what to think...
• Clarkesworld on Very disappointed.
• Sam Henderson on Are you freakin' kidding me?
• Nicholas Kaufmann on Not Cool, Readercon — Part 2.
• Livia Llewellyn on Oh, Readercon: NO.
• Rose Fox on "This is the opposite of what I wanted".
• Brit Mandelo on Readercon. 
• Jaym Gates on No Tolerance Doesn’t Always Mean NO Tolerance.
• Mike Allen on Readercon.

Art

• Harry Potter Ilustrations.
• Concept space scenes by Henry Pashkov.
• Battle Armor Suit Mark 4 Gunfighter by Henry Pashkov.
• Starship Factory by Andree Wallin.
• Wasteland – scorpitron 2.0 by Andree Wallin.
• The Moebius Passage by `tigaer.
• Landing at dusk by ~Aeon-Lux.
• New World by Ken Barthelmey.
• Time Ladies: Adorable Gender-swapped Doctor Who.

News

• Saturn Award Winners Announced.

Shimmer #15

July 27, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Outer Alliance interviews Elizabeth Hand. 
• Locus Roundtable interviews Anil Menon and Vandana Singh (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews Rachel Swirsky and Robert J. Sawyer (podcast).
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author SB Knight.
• Shalako Publishing interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Dan Goldman.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Saladin Ahmed (podcast).
• Turndog Millionaire interviews Matt Forbeck (video).

Advice/Articles

• Time (Lev Grossman) on I Hate This Book So Much: A Meditation. 
• Staffer's Book Review (Anne Lyle) on Tearing It Down to Build It Back Up.
• Steven Barnes on Why Zombies..? 
• Elizabeth Bear on The problem of balance…
• Justine Larbalestier on YA Novelists Are In It For The Money.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Gregory Frost) talks about the short story “Vulpes”.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: The End of Reversion Clauses (Deal Breakers 2012).
• Kat Howard on When Our Monsters Save Us.
• John Scalzi on Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be.
• Nick Mamatas on Why Are Geeks Bullied, Excluded, and Taunted?
• Lit Reactor (Rajan Khanna) on Race and Races in Fantasy.
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on Looking far, far into the future: Olaf Stapledon.
• Tobias Buckell on Work Habits.
• Ian Sales reviews Robopocalypse.
• Slate (Robert Weintraub) on A New Dimension of Filmmaking.
• Geeks of Doom (FamousMonster) on 5 Batman Villains Who Deserved The Christopher Nolan Treatment.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Agatha H and the Airship City.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on Wrong and Wrong: Reviewers, Cliques, and Bullying.

Art

• Spaceship paintings by Dwayne Vance.
• Cover Release: Stray Souls by Kate Griffin.
• Alvaris Falcon on 36 Epic Looking Sci-fi Artworks.
• Concept robots by Angel Alonso.
• District 10 by Andree Wallin.
• Deep Impact by Andree Wallin.
• Defiler of the Moon by Kerembeyit.

News

• Angry Robot to Publish Joseph D’Lacey’s Black Feathers Duology.
• Gail Carriger The Official Option Announcement.

July 26, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Reading Cafe interviews Marjorie M. Liu. 
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Ursula K. Le Guin (podcast).
• SFFWorld interviews Steven Erikson.
• Civilian Reader interviews E.J. Swift.
• Angry Robot Books interviews Martin Bland.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Cindy Pon) interviews Kendare Blake.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Ari Marmell.

Advice/Articles

• Damien G. Walter on Is there any such thing as Realist Horror? 
• Staffer's Musings (Bradley P. Beaulieu) Says "Lose Yourself" Quoting Eminem?
• Brian Ruckley on Asking the Wrong Question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?
• Lit Reactor (Jon Korn) on Philip K. Dick: A Primer.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Have We Passed the Point Where Science Fiction is Fiction?
• Book View Cafe (Laura Anne Gilman) on Practical Meerkat Returns: The Panic at the End of the Tunnel.
• Black Gate (John O'Neill) on How Galaxy Magazine Saved Robert Silverberg from a Life of Smoking.
• Jeremiah Tolbert on Did Online Writers Workshopping Slow My Growth as a Writer?
• Shimmer (Elise) on Shimmer #15: Preorder.
• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) on Alien Territory: The Making of Prometheus.
• Smart Pop Books (Sophie Masson) on The Language of the Heart.
• L.B. Gale on “Adolescent” Reads and Disillusionment.  
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on "In Preparation for Necessary Mutations" - Walter Mosley’s Approach to Science Fiction.
• Dana's Dragon Note (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on The Saga of Davi Rhii - Keeping a Sequel Fresh.
• Mail Online on Japanese robot bar tempts customers with giant, scantily clad dancing robots - controlled by REAL women.
• Topless Robot (Rob Brickens) on 7 Great Morally Dubious Characters of Sci-Fi TV.
• Forbes (Suw Charman-Anderson) on Mark Coker: Significant Disruption For Traditional Publishers Still To Come.
• Audible SF/F Release Week: Vlad; Neil Gaiman Presents Ellen Kushner’s The Privilege of the Sword; Charles Yu; and Charles Stross’s The Apocalypse Codex.

Art

• A Guile of Dragons (A Tournament of Shadows, Book 1) cover.
• Minimal Movie Posters The Iron Giant by Jonny Eveson.
• Poseidon by genzoman.
• Theme planet.
• Deadwood.
• Futuristic City.
• Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Crashed Spaceships.
• All Things Urban Fantasy Cover Art Coverage.
• Concept ships by Brian Sum.
• Concept robots by rd7.
• Sculptor by kir-tat.
• Fantasy by James Wolf Strehle.

News

• Endeavour Award nominees.
• 2012 World SF Travel Fund Recipients.
• JK Rowling to build huge tree houses in Edinburgh garden.
• Eaton Awards.
• 2012 Booker Prize.

Events

• Shark Movie Mayhem at the Brooklyn Observatory.

Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 7 edited by Kate Osias and Alex Osias

July 25, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Buzzy Magazine interviews Delia Sherman (video).
• Sword and Laser interviews Michael Stackpole (podcast).
• Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Maria Dahvana Headley.
• Lightspeed (Andrew Liptak) interviews David Brin.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Scott Roche (podcast).
• Marshall Payne interviews Mike Allen.

Advice/Articles

• Locus Roundtable (Vandana Singh) on J. C. Bose and other Indian SF.
• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) on The Moment of Change from Aqueduct Press.
• David Brin on The First Synethetic Organism: Our Victor Frankenstein Moment?  
• A. Lee Martinez on Scar Issue.
• SFX on Iain M Banks’ Heroes And Inspirations.
• Smart Pop Books (Nick Mamatas) on Working Class Heroes.
• Alabama (Ann Marie Martin) on Ray Bradbury's sci-fi tales focused on human element.
• Book View Cafe (Sue Lange) on Weird Science: Is Special Relativity Wrong?
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Things You Should Know About Antagonists.
• James W. Harris on The Reincarnation Theory of Science Fiction?
• Salon (Greg Olear, The Weeklings) on Lame of Thrones.
• The Atlantic (Daniel D. Snyder) on What's Next for Superhero Movies?
• Michael May on Superheroes are not Comics. 
• Comic Book Resources (Greg Hatcher) on The Bad Old Days.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Character Profile of Miri Rhii.

Art

• Sci-Fi by Ruidan Lv.
• Welcome by djahal.
• Marine by neisbeis.
• Ship Ship by ChangYuan.
• Mech concepts by Nick Constantine.
• Nick Constantine concept spaceship art.

News

• Strange Chemistry Signs Ingrid Jonach.
• Forbidden Planet NYC is moving!
• World Song Kickstarter.

Sorry Please Thank You Stories by Charles Yu

July 24, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Rowena Cory Daniells interviews Helen Lowe. 
• The Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Maureen F. McHugh.
• Shirley Jackson Awards at Readercon 23 (video).
• The Agony Column interviews Carlos Ruiz Zafón (podcast).
• The Qwillery interviews Ben H. Winters.
• Tor Books Blog interviews Fantasy Faction.
• Geekwire (Frank Catalano) interviews David Brin.

Advice/Articles

• SFX (Alasdair Stuart) on An Introduction To Angry Robot’s New Young Adult Imprint.
• Locus Roundtable (Anil Menon) on The Virgin Fish of Babhughat.
• Staffer's Book Review (Teresa Frohock) Throws Down the Gauntlet to Herself.
• Smart Pop Books (Steven Harper) on Supermyth!
• Tor.com (Steven Padnick) on Extraordinary Abilities, Ordinary Disabilities.
• The Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) on Chrysanthe by Yves Meynard.
• L.B. Gale on A Continuum of Parenting in Science Fiction & Fantasy.
• A Dribble of Ink (Josh Vogt) on This is an Emergency Test of Your Magic System.
• The Night Bazaar (Paul Tobin) on Sleeping on the job IS my job.
• Bare Bones e-Zine on Batman in the 1970s Part 28: 1973 Wrap-Up.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Make Your Fight Scenes 20% Cooler.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on Ellen Datlow’s “The Best Horror of the Year”—A Sample from Every Story. 
• Juliette Wade on Must we always have monarchies? Seriously? 
• Inkpunks (Sandra Wickham) on Why Write Short Stories?
• Justine Larbalestier on No, I’m Not Dying For My Books to Become Hollywood Movies.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Ben H. Winters.
• A Brain Scientist's Take On Writing (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on How To Market Your Book At Cons.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Public Vs. Private-Finding The Fine Line Dichotomy Of Your Passions.

Art

• Alien World 2by ortheza.
• Fantasy by Kekai Kotaki.
• Robotic model by Furio Tedeschi.
• Spaceship concept art by George Munteanu.

News

• Call for Papers: Puppetry International #32: Puppetry in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Canadian Karin Lowachee Named Shared Worlds’ Amazon.com Writer-in-Residence.
• Margaret Mahy, 1936-2012.
• The Apocalypse Ocean map is now live & other Apocalypse Ocean details.

Above By Leah Bobet

July 23, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Fantasy Faction interviews Christopher Paolini.
• Sword and Laser interviews Daniel Suarez (video).
• io9 Show on The Scariest Food Items Science Has Ever Created (video).
• The Writer and the Critic with guest Jonathan Strahan (podcast).
• Eric Rosenfield ReaderCon Wold Newton Reading Video.
• The Guardian (Richard Lea) interviews M. John Harrison.
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Daniel H. Wilson (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Locus Roundtable (Stefan Dziemianowicz) reviews The Weird.
• Damien G. Walter on Science Fiction is the most valuable art ever. Discuss.
• Helen Lowe on The Magic of Winter Worlds.
• Matthew Cheney on Readercon 23.
• The Qwillery (Joanne Reay) on Spiked Coffee.
• Justine Larbalestier on Becoming a Brand Versus Writing What You Want to Write.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Fun stuff, and dramatic tension.
• John Scalzi on Tor/Forge Totally DRM Free, Plus Anecdotal Notes Regarding Redshirts.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Timmi Duchamp) on Panel deportment and demeanor.
• Book Life Now (Monica Valentinelli) on Anthology Publicity.
• Inkpunks (Robert Jackson Bennett) on Trying to make the jump.
• Suvudu (Charles Tan) on Why Philippine Speculative Fiction.
• Cracked.com (Luke McKinney) on 7 Ways Batman is Objectively Better Than Superman.
• Mike Brotherton on Missing a Slew of Semi-Recent Science Fiction Movies — Which are Best?
• Grasping for the Wind on [INFOGRAPHIC] The Best Selling Sci-fi Books of All Time.

Art

• Terrifying Illustrations of Martin de Diego Sádaba.
• “La Vie Électrique” by Albert Robida, 1890.
• The LOTR trilogy posters by mondo.
• Wolverine by Brett Parson.
• Theme Planetby ~OmeN2501.
• Origin of Civilizationby ~Aeon-Lux.
• The magic lightby ~Natsuki-3.
• Front Mission: Against the Sunby `ukitakumuki.

News

• Winners Of the 2012 SF&F Translation Awards published.
• Garner and Martin to Receive World Fantasy Lifetime Awards. 
• Robocq.
• Women in Comics, Europe.

Events

• SFWA Northwest Reading Series.
• aMAZEme.
• Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Workshop.

Goblin Fruit Summer 2012

Journey Planet #13

July 20, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Readers Summer Book Club interviews Karen Lord (podcast).
• The Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Genevieve Valentine. 
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) interviews Joss Whedon.
• SF Squeecast with Karen Lord (podcast).
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast Episode 64.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Faith Hunter.
• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) interviews Snow White and the Huntsman supervisors.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Phil Hornshaw and Nick Hurwitch.
• Comics Bulletin interviews Caitlin R. Kiernan.

Advice/Articles

• Eurogamer.net (Robert Purchese) on "It's been a poor, poor five years for fiction in the video game industry".
• Justne Larbalestier on Writing Dialogue.
• Strange Chemistry on Introducing the Iron Fey series.
• Staffer's Book Review (Courtney Schafer) on Holding onto Joy.
• Gollancz (Joe Abercrombie) On Editing. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Deal Breakers 2012. 
• Nick Mamtas on Don't Spend It All In One Place.
• Lit Reactor (Sarah Pitre) on YA Superstar: Meg Cabot.
• Modicrum of Talent on The Problem with Fantasy... .
• The Guardian (David Barnnett) on Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres.
• Flogging Babel on A Paragraph from Lucius Shepard's Skull and the Lessons I Want You to Learn From It.
• Andrew Wheeler reviews In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (J. A. Pitts) talks about Forged in Fire.
• Jim Van Pelt on Why I Like Speculative Fiction.
• Huffington Post (Mike Shatzkin) on Why eBook Subscriptions Would Never Work.
• Missions Uknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Firespell by by Chloe Neill, 2010.
• Kirkus Reviews (Patrick Hester) on Top 5 Batman Graphic Novels.

Art

• Ship concepts by Brad Wright, Evan Lee.
• High resolution robot images by Galan Pang.
• David and Goliath by by kheleksul.
• Machinery of Light, Wind Up Girl by Raphael Lacoste.
• Minimal Movie Posters on UP by Joel Amat Güell.
• Monster Brains on Fantastic Monsters Of The Films, 1962 - 63.

News

• Jeffrey Ford & Tenea D. Johnson to read at KGB August 15th.
• Photos from July 18th KGB reading with Wilce & Bobet.
• Authors Sue Harlequin Enterprises for eBook Royalties.
• A Dribble of Ink on Cover Art and Synopsis for Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks.
• Chapter One of The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer (Giveaway).
• Homeland (Excerpt).

We proudly published for the day job:


The Viewless Dark by Eliza Victoria

July 19, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Enchanted Inkpot (Lena Coakley) interviews Joanne Levy.
• Alethea Kontis interviews Joyce Lamb.
• Experiments in Truth interviews Matt Staggs (podcast).
• Wired (Geeta Dayal) interviews Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer (video).
• SFFWRTCHT Interview – Author Timothy Zahn.
• Civilian Reader interviews Paul Tobin.
• The Colored Lens interviews Larry Correia.
• A Fantastical Librarian interviews Graeme Flory.
• SFX interviews Paul Cornell and Peter F. Hamilton (video).
• The Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Nadia Bulkin.
• The Agony Column recording of SF in SF with Terry Bisson with Robert J. Sawyer and Rachel Swirsky (podcast).
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Todd McCaffrey (video).

Advice/Articles

• Steampunk Chronicle (Karina Cooper) on Greasing the Gears: Scandalizing Society behaviors.
• Rachelle Gardner on What’s Happening With My Publisher Contract?
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on The Uses and Value of Realism in Speculative Fiction.
• John Scalzi on Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You.
• Gollancz (Joe Abercrombie) On Revising. 
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Demystifying Sci-Fi Terms, with 10 Recommended Books (Part 3).
• Staffer's Book Review Elspeth Cooper Tries to Write One Book at a Time (and fails).
• Jeff VanderMeer On the Road: Stonecoast, Maine, ReaderCon.
• Jason Sanford on The anti-SF hatred oozing from Charles J. Shields' Kurt Vonnegut biography.
• Apex (Jessica Nelson) on The In/Human Element: The Slender Man.
• Antick Musings reviews Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez.
• Black gate (John ONeill) on Vintage Treasures: Henry Kuttner’s “The Graveyard Rats”.
• Janice Hardy (Jamie Todd Rubin) on Get Out of Your Head.
• Grasping for the Wind (Shane R. Collins and Danielle Rose) on How to Create a Sci-Fi Magazine.
• The Guardian (Justin McCurry) on Japan finally embraces e-reader revolution.
• The Guardian (Damien Walter) on Chasing rainbows: why myths matter.
• Mulholland Books (Joe R. Lansdale) on Walmart, I Can’t Quit You.
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on 10 of the Greatest YA Series of All Time.
• Life Defined (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) On The Careful Use Of Ordinary Moments To Build Character In Science Fiction.
• Life on Behind the Scenes on the ‘Batman’ TV Show. 
• Salon (David Germain) on Jackson confesses: He's no superhero comic fan.
• Justine Larbelestier On People Reading in Public.
• Book Life Now (Amy Sundberg) on So You Want to Start a Blog.
• Inkpunks (Sandra Wickham) on It's not a Race.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on Debut Author Lesson: The Launch Party.
• Khaalidah (Aliette de Bodard) On Worldbuilding, Patchwork and Filing off Serial Numbers.

News

• 'Dark Knight Rises' Film Critic Receives Death Threats Over Negative Review.
• Oldest Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered.
• BVC Announces The Ex Files by Kelly McClymer.
• Gollancz Acquires The Red Knight.
• "One" by George Alec Effinger (Part 1 of 3).
• George R.R. Martin reveals which Thrones storyline he's 'dreading'.
• Hysterical Minds Presents “Symphony”.
• Rapture of the Nerds (Excerpt).
• Excerpt from Trinity Rising by Elspeth Cooper (Giveaway).

Events

• Mike Shevdon Signing, Waterstones Bedford, UK, July 20th.
• Trent Jamieson Night’s Engines Launch Party, Avid Reader, Queensland, July 19th.

Art

• Fantasy: Fall of a hero.
• Artificial Dream by Julie Dillon.
• Crash of the Mothership by Raphael Lacoste.
• City view matte painting by Raphael Lacoste.
• Dark Knight.
• Concept Art by Septagon Studios.

I Am a Magical Teenage Princess by Luke Geddes

July 18, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Marshall Payne interviews Ruth Nestvold.
• Gollancz interviews Charlaine Harris (video).
• Lightspeed Magazine (Caleb Jordan Schulz) interviews A.M. Dellamonica.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Robyn Lupo) interviews Peter Beagle.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Paul S. Kemp (podcast).
• The Functional Nerds interviews J.M. McDermott (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on The International Conversation: Philippine Speculative Fiction IV, edited by Dean Francis Alfar & Nikki Alfar.
• Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) on Tim Noble and Sue Webster Give a Few Extra Turns of the Screw.
• Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on Is This Story Too Big…Or Is The Book Too Small?
• The Atlantic (Alan Jacobs) on The Hivemind Singularity. 
• Steam Vents on Who’s afraid of the big bad beast? Not I. A new writers experience with Evelyn.
• SciFiNow (Matthew Handrahan) on An introduction to George RR Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire.
• Jessica Strider reviews Enclave.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (A. M. Dellamonica) talks about Blue Magic.
• Fantasy Faction on Why Fantasy?
• Fantasy & Scifi Lovin' News & Reviews on What Books Lured You Into the Genre?
• Smart Pop Books (Susan Vaught) on The Brutal Cost of Redemption in Westeros  Or, What Moral Ambiguity?
• A Fantastical Librarian on Author Query - e-reading statistics.
• Genevieve Valentine on Readercon: The Good! and Readercon: The Bad and the Ugly.
• Andrew Liptak on ReaderCon 23.
• The Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review (Robert Jackson Bennett) on What Does It Mean to Be Compelling?
• Staffer's Book Review (Kameron Hurley) Says Don't Lose Your Edge.
• Locus Roundtable (Cheryl Morgan) on Kontakt, An Anthology of Croatian SF.
• Chuck Wendig on Amongst The New Pulpeteers (Or, “What The Good Goddamn Is ‘New Pulp,’ Anyway?”).
• Inkpunks (Erika Holt) on What’s in a great first line?
• Wolfrom Writes on Self-Publishing Standalone Short Stories: Time to beat a hasty retreat?
• Madison Woods (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on Core Assumptions & The Writer.
• Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Existence.
• Slate (Seth Stevenson) on Meeting Our Cultural Overlords at Comic-Con.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Oversexed Rugsuckers from Mars.
• Omnivoracious (Lydia Netzer) on Books To Read in Trees.
• Black Gate (Ryan Harvey) on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 7: A Fighting Man of Mars.
• Tor.com (Shoshana Kessock) on Gotham’s Finest: What to Read to Prepare For The Dark Knight Rises.
• io9 (Cyriaque Lamar) on The Most Astounding Comic Book News of Comic-Con 2012.

Art

• Cleaning the Pressure Cooker by Raphael Lacoste.
• Ancient Enemies by Tycarey.
• The Dark Knight Rises Goes Noir.
• SciFantasy by Zeronis.
• Nimbus.
• Red Planet.
• Assassin's Creed Kingdom.

News

• Ellen Datlow's ReaderCon photos.
• Adam Christopher signing Seven Wonders.
• Preorder Dark Faith: Invocations with Dark Faith for $25.
• New Deal Announcement: The Trouble with Fate.
• Doctor Who To Start Airing In August.
• Doctor Who Series 7: First 3 episodes revealed.
• SF author Edward Willett's Circle the Crops to celebrate city centennial.
• Play Like A Girl in Stars.
• Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D. Moore Adapting Outlander.
• The First Chapter from Rapture by Kameron Hurley (Giveaway).
• An Excerpt from King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (Giveaway).
• 2012 Rhysling Awards Winners.

Team Human by Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan

July 17, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Terry Brooks chat with Patrick Rothfuss (Part III).
• Fantasy in Motion interviews Elizabeth Moon.
• Civilian Reader interviews MD Lachlan.
• Tor Books Blog interviews David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt.

Advice/Articles

• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on The Chimerical Brigade.
• Juliette Wade (Tim Wade) on How Sports Impacts the Wider Culture.
• Justine Larbalestier on Finished the First Draft; Time for the Real Work to Begin.
• Rachelle Gardner on Back to the Drawing Board.
• Marie Brennan on Failure Is Good for You.
• Janice Hardy on When Less is More: Taking Away Elements to Fix a Problem Scene.
• Clarion Blog (Michael Matheson) on Grounding Fictional Cultures.
• Book Life Now (Mercedes M. Yardley) on Success is Like Lightning.
• Gollancz (Joe Abercrombie) On Planning.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Long Live Adverbs: An Ode to Rebellious Writers.
• Locus Roundtable (Fabio Fernandes) on Doris Lessing’s Shikasta.
• SciFiNow (James Hoare) on 5 reasons you should watch 1995′s Judge Dredd.
• Staffer's Book Review (Mark Lawrence) on Scary Shit.
• SF Site (Rick Klaw) on Nexus Graphica.
• Night Bazaar (Paul Tobin) on I Got It Covered.
• Bare Bones e-zine on Batman in the 1970s Part 27: November and December 1973.

Art

• Stellar: The Women of Science Fiction.
• Invasion.
• Concept Robots by Jaime Jones.
• Concept Ships by Jaime Jones.
• Guardians Of The Galaxy concept art.
• Cover Art and Synopsis for River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay.
• New cover art for Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy.  
• The Last Engineer – Odile van der Stap.
• Charr Engineer.
• Fantasy: The Duel.
• Concept: Flooded Chinatown.
• Giant.
• Anthology Cover Art: Unfettered.

News

• American Science Fiction Classic Novels of the 1950s.
• Tor.com Ironskin (Excerpt).
• Wildflower 2012 Science Fiction Issue.
• Zombie Head Popcorn Bucket.
• Indiegogo Something Wicked Science Fiction & Horror Anthology Volume One.
• Need a little inspiration?: A Writing Workshop with Amelia Beamer.
• 2012 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.
• 2012 Prometheus Award Winners.

Point of Knives by Melissa Scott

July 16, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Coode StreetPodcast with Gary K. Wolfe, Caitlin R. Kiernan & Peter Straub.
• GalleyCat interviews Kristin Cashore.
• Shirley Jackson Awards interviews S.P. Miskowski and Nathan Ballingrud.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Peter F. Hamilton; Daniel H. Wilson and Lissa Price; Shawntelle Madison; Scott Sigler; Christopher Paolini, Brandon Sanderson and Robin Hobb; Rachel Hartman; Harry Turtledove; Rob Reid; Christopher Paolini (video).
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt (podcast).
• Speculate! interviews Ian Tregillis (podcast).
• Fantasy.fr interviews Glen Cook.
• Lisa Hannett (Lisa Hannett and Angela Slatter) interviews Robert Shearman.
• Locus interviews Tamora Pierce.

Advice/Articles

• Brain Pickings on Carl Sagan’s Reading List.
• Sherwood Smith on Beta reading and collaborations.
• Stroppy Author on No Words.
• Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Wendy’s Novel Outlining Omnibus.
• Odyssey Workshop (James Maxey) on When is it Time to Move On?

News

• 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners.

Suited by Jo Anderton

July 13, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author/Game Designer Erin Hoffman. 
• Reality Skimming interviews Hiromi Goto.
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Tara Bennett (podcast).
• Chuck Wendig interviews Lisa Cron.
• The New Author on A Conversation with Bryan Thomas Schmidt Part II.

Advice/Articles

• Things Mean A Lot on Spotlight on Small Beer Press.
• Omnivoracious (Eoin Colfer) on Unleashed Guest Blogger.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Writers and Business.
• Charlie Stross on Writing a novel in Scrivener: lessons learned.
• Justine Larbalestier on Writing about Racism in the Past.
• Requires Only That You Hate on the disease of geek pride – world-building and cultural appropriation.
• Mike Brotherton on What Personnel Are Needed on a Spaceship Exploring Strange New Worlds?
• Apex (Gary A. Braunbeck) on The Great Value of That Dirty Little Secret All Writers Have, Part One.
• SFWA (Guy Stewart) on When Did “Science Fiction” and “Apocalypse” Become Interchangeable?
• Kirkus Reviews (Patrick Hester) on Top 5 Spider-Man Graphic Novels.
• Film School Rejects on 34 Things We Learned From the ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ Commentary.
• SciFi Songs on 5 Favorite Musical Artists of Author Myke Cole.
• Worlds in a Grain of Sand reviews Throne of the Crescent Moon.
• Time on Christopher Nolan's Catwoman: A Modern Burglar for a Modern World.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Ghost Seas by Steven Utley, 1997.
• Bryan Thomas Shcmidt on Top 10 Writer Lessons Learned From Cons & Appearances.

Art

• Warhammer: Nurgle.
• Skycities by Tuomas Korpi.
• John Carter Concept Art by Jonay Bacallado, Senior Illustrator for Mayes Rubeo, Costume Designer.
• Fantasy: Crisis.
• Robot concept by Justin Spice.
• Clan Frigate by David Llewelyn.

News

• Chris Roberson & Dynamite Entertainment announce “Masks” a crossover of Pulp Heroes.
• Margaret Atwood Counts $54,000+ in Pledges for New Project.
• The Hubble Telescope Finds A Fifth Moon Around Pluto.
• Babylon 5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski Launching Media Company And New Series For Starz.
• Centennial play set by Crocus 80.
• The New York Review of Science Fiction is Accepting Submissions ~Pleasantville~.
• Unnaturalists Launch Part(ies).

Double Vision by Tricia Sullivan

July 12, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The First Million Words interviews Aliette de Bodard (podcast).
• The Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Michael Cisco and Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling.
• The Future and You interviews Chris Phoenix (podcast).
• The Qwillery interviews Michael R. Underwood.
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews John Scalzi and E.C. Myers (podcast).
• Strange & Random Happenstance interviews Gail Carriger.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Deva Fagan) interviews Rachel Hartman.

Advice/Articles

• World Literature Today (Michael A. Morrison) on Fun with Your New Head: Getting into SF.
• Tor.com (Irene Gallo) on New Art Inspired By Great Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books: The Book Show.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on More Than Alien: Larry Niven’s Protector.
• Justine Larbalestier on The Purpose of Bad Books.
• Juliette Wade on Does worldbuilding have value? Or is it a subcultural "disease"?
• Matthew Cheney on Nonfiction and Science Fiction.
• Strange Chemistry (Gwenda Bond) on All About the Books.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on Information Density and Selecting Planks for Story Scaffolding.
• Everything is Nice on Everything That Is Wrong With Commercial Fantasy In A Single Quote.
• Listverse (Edward Benjamin) on Top 10 Greatest Movies Never Made.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Parallel Worlds: The Grass Isn't Always Greener, But it is More Fun.
• Cool Vibe on Concept Art: 2012.6.1 wang xiaoyu.
• National Geographic (Rachel Kaufman) on "Frankenstein" Bog Mummies Discovered in Scotland.
• Fanboy on The Original Star Trek Exploration Set Recreated in Lego.
• Patrick Rothfuss on Why I Love My Editor...
• The Guardian (Chris Chambers and Petroc Summer) on Science journalism through the looking glass.
• All Things Urban Fantasy on Cover Art Coverage: 20 New Covers!
• BBC on Is plastic the new digital paper? (video)
• To Be Read (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on Opening The Door To Imagination: My Discovery of Science Fiction & Fantasy.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter Book Review: God's War by Kameron Hurley.
• Nicola Morgan on What does a proof-reader do? 
• Inkpunks (Ian McCaig) on wants, needs, and burning bridges. 

News

• Game Of Thrones new art posters.
• UK Cover Unveiled for Red Country by Joe Abercrombie.
• Terry Goodkind publicly names and shames ebook pirate.
• Crack the crypto in Agrippa, win every William Gibson book ever published.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic now free until level 15.
• Tom Baker to Return to Doctor Who.
• Download Free Wallpaper from the Winter’s Heart Ebook.
• Neil Gaiman Books Announced.

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