August 31, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Guardian Books Podcast interviews Margo Lanagan and Melvin Burgess.
• The New York Times interviews Junot Diaz.
• The Hour of the Wolf interviews Michael Bishop (podcast).
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Leah Petersen.
• Gollancz interviews Daken, the Mad Axe.
• Grady Hendrix interviews Rebekah Webb.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Tim Marcquitz) Fading Light Anthology Multi Author Interview part four (2 of 2).
• Chuck Wendig interviews John Anealio.
• Locus interviews E. Lily Yu.

Advice/Articles

• Lee & Low Books on Diverse Dystopias: A Book List.
• Gollancz (Darren Shan) on Lady of the Shades.
• Fantasy Faction (Nyki Blatchley) on Classic Female Fantasy Writers.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on A Warning To All Writers Who Need Help Indie Publishing.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Any Day Now by Terry Bisson.
• Book & Such (Rachelle Gardner) on How Do Authors Benefit From Agents?
• The Intern on lasagna for fifty: why writing with a book deal is a whole different game.
• Black Gate (Sarah Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens (Part II).

Art

• Racing Cars by Liu Yang.
• Holy Man’s Journey by Sabin Boykinov.
• Concept ships and planes by Stephen Chang.
• 006 by Liang Hao.
• Checkpoint.
• Block13.
• Infernal Prince.

News

• Vaginal Fantasy Book Pick: Cthulhurotica.
• 2012 Hugo Awards to be Announced Sunday in Chicago.
• New Matthew Hughes Website.
• Post Apocalyptic Web Series ‘Drifter’ Press Release.
• Publishers to Pay $69M in eBook Pricing Settlement.
• Angry Robot Publication Schedule Update: January to June 2013.
• Cover Art & Synopsis for “Gods of Risk” by James S.A. Corey.

Cthulhurotica edited by Carrie Cuinn

August 30, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Step into a Fantasy World interviews Marianne de Pierres. 
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Amy Butler Greenfield) interviews Tiffany Trent.
• Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing interviews Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton (podcast).
• Flickering Myth interviews James Sallis.
• The Future and You panel recording with Eric Flint, Janet Morris, Lee Martindale, Holly McClure, Chris Morris and Daniel M. Hoyt (podcast) .
• Jess Resides Here interviews Nick Mamatas.
• When Gravity Falls interviews Gary McMahon.
• The World SF Blog interviews Samit Basu.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Richard Kadrey.
• Grasping for the Wind interviews Nathalie Mallet.
• Gollancz interviews Isak Stormcaller.
• The Outer Alliance Podcast interviews Bart Leib and Kay Holt talk Crossed Genres.
• The Agony Column interviews Richard Kadrey (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• N.K. Jemisin on Flipping the scrip: Can we? Should we?
• Jeff VanderMeer on Dean Francis Alfar: Read New Fiction, Buy His New Collection.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Mars in Science Fiction (Part 3).
• Justine Larbalestier on How To Enjoy Critical Reviews of Your Own Work.
• Locus Roundtable (Bogi Takács) on Geographic accidents: the Gregor Man trilogy by Péter Zsoldos.
• Chuck Wendig on So, Just What The Hell Makes A Good Book Trailer?
• Book Life Now (Geardrops) on Blogging Through the Doubt.
• The Book Smugglers (Susan Jane Bigelow) on Inspirations & Influences.
• L.B. Gale on What the Romance Genre Can Teach Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers.
• Smart Pop Books (Richard Harland) on O, To Be in Oxford.
• File 770 on Bradbury’s FBI File.
• The Next Best Book Blog (Jeff Somers) on Where Writers Write.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Romans and Aliens: R. M. Meluch’s “Tour of the Merrimack” books.
• Andrew Wheeler on The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde.
• Martin Sketchley on Wake Up and Dream by Ian R MacLeod.
• Black Gate (Michaele Jordan) Reviews Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations.
• EarthSky (Larry Sessions) on Ten things you may not know about the solar system.
• Galleycat on LeVar Burton on How Science Fiction Influences Technology.
• Ian Mond on Burnt Out on Short Fiction.

Art

• Captain America: The First Avenger by Alex Malyon.
• Concept ships from DUST 514.
• Game Characters by Stanley Lau.
• Shadow Dragon by Afried Li.
• Primal Halfling Counterattack by Kerem Beyit.
• Cover by Francesco Francavilla.
• The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks.
• Lavie Tidhar’s Bookman Histories, omnibus edition.

News

• Welcome Ann VanderMeer, New Consulting Fiction Editor for Tor.com.
• MacMillan Audio To Release Custom Wheel of Time iPhone Covers To Pre-order Customers.
• Stan Schmidt Retires from Analog.
• Second LoneStarCon 3 progress report mailed.
• Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine.
• ABC Orders Pilot for S.H.I.E.L.D TV Show.
• Announcing Geek Love, An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity.
• StarShipSofa No 253 Chris Beckett.

Limited Edition Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar

August 29, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) interviews Johanna Sinisalo. 
• Subterranean Press (Kat Howard) interviews Gwenda Bond.
• Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) profiles Chris Mars.
• The Guardian (Damien Walter) interviews Ian Livingstone.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Theodore Quester) interviews Kat Howard.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Erin Stocks) interviews Michael Swanwick.
• Lightspeed Magazine (The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy) interviews Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Michael J. Sullivan (podcast).
• Reddit interviews Chuck Wendig.
• Marshall Payne interviews Tali Spencer.
• Layers of Thought interviews Robin Maxwell.
• Abduzeedo interviews Mike Deodato Jr.
• SFX interviews James Moran.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Julia Rios (podcast).
• Nottinghill Games interviews Matt Forbeck.

Advice/Articles

• The Story Prize (Jeffrey Ford) on Storing Away the Colorful Bits and Pieces.
• Amal El-Mohtar on Stone Telling 8: Together, Apart.
• Robert Jackson Bennett on The types of online reviews that drive writers totally nuts.
• Nathan Bransford on The Publishing Process in GIF Form.
• Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on Gatekeeping in the World of Ebooks.
• Chuck Wendig on Things I Learned While Writing Mockingbird.
• Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Popcorn Time.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Morgan Keyes) on Darkbeast.
• Smart Pop Books (Mikhail Ilyubanksky, PH.D.) on Are the Fangs Real?
• Fantasy Book Critic (G.T. Almasi) on Fear is the Mind Killer.
• The Remake Chronicles (Adam-Troy Castro) on We Can Remake It For You Wholesale: The Two Versions of Total Recall.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines.
• My Bookish Ways on Top 25 Anticipated New Releases in September 2012!
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin On Where Genres Come From and How to Stitch Them Together.
• The Teeming Brain (Matt Cardin) On living well in Ray Bradbury’s dystopia: Notes toward a monastic response.
• Staffer's Book Review on The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks.
• Tor.com (Liz Bourke) on Sleeps With Monsters: What Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover Stories Reveal About the History of Women in SFF.
• Jennifer Brozek (Matt Forbeck) on What I Love About Monster Academy.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on One Simple and Incredibly Painful Way to Fix Your Novel Draft.

Art

• Starship Winter and Starship Spring by Eric Brown (PS Publishing).

News

• Going Alien Goes Live! 
• Cast Your Vote: SciFri Book Club September Pick. 

Jabberwocky Issue 13 August 2012

August 28, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Weird Fiction Review (Lisa L. Hannett) profiles Margaret Irwin.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Brit Mandelo.
• Robert Smartwood interviews Brian Keene (podcast)..
• The Seekrit Projekt Interviews Michael J Winegar (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews Tim Powers (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews GT Almasi.
• Fantasy Book Critic Fading Light Anthology Multi Author Interview part four (1 of 2).

Advice/Articles

• Cheryl Morgan on This Is Not “Fandom”.
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on Echoes.
• Book Reporter (Stephen Hubbard) on Stand Alone Fantasy Titles.
• Smart Pop Books (Nathalie Haynes) on Girls, Guns, Gags.
• Bare Bones e-zine (by Jack Seabrook & Peter Enfantino) on Batman in the 1970s Part 33: 1974 Wrap-Up.
• The New York Times (Steve Smith) on A Warm Welcome for ‘Doctor Who’ in New York.
• Fluffington Post (SkitSketchJeff) on Is Kindle Killing the CTA Book Recommendation?
• Patrick Hester on Tabletop Gaming.
• The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) on Suited by Jo Anderton.
• Flavorwire (Jason Bailey) on Flavorpill’s 10 Most Anticipated Fall Movies.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on Why Superheroes Should Never Date Each Other.
• Stone Telling Roundtable: Multiple Perceptions with Julia Rios, Lisa M. Bradley, Ching-In Chen, Kathrin Köhler, Alex Dally MacFarlane, and Sofia Samatar.
• Book View Cafe (Usula K. Le Guin) on Libraries and Ebooks.
• Justine Larbalestier on The Supposed Power of Reviews.
• Juliette Wade on Wrestling with reader expectations and cliché.
• The Intern on dark house, empty bowl: on leaving the world for a novel (and making it back alive).
• Chuck Wendig on Bad Author Behavior As A Response To Bad Author Behavior… Is Still Bad Author Behavior.
• Locus Roundtable (Chris N. Brown) on Jorge Luis Borges and Manuel Antonio de Rivas.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on A King Named Sue: Picking Perfect (Character) Names.
• Aliette de Bodard on Science, engineering and large projects: SF in the 19th Century.

Art

• The Lure of a Good Book: Who’s Reading What? [INFOGRAPHIC].
• Cover Launch: Peter F. Hamilton's Void Trilogy.
• Emperor's Tomb by Ming Fan.
• The Inner Noise by Jana Schirmer.
• Resistance: Fall of Man concept robots by John Wu.
• MoobyDick by MANCHU.

News

• Strange Chemistry Has Launched!
• Wildly Popular Chinese SF Trilogy to Get English Translation by Chinese Publisher.
• Volunteer Opening at Abyss & Apex.

Crowd Funding

• Sword and Mythos Anthology.
• Electric Velocipede.

Stone Telling #8

Speculative Fiction Collections 2012

Last week, for the day job, we released the collection How to Traverse Terra Incognita by Dean Francis Alfar:

If there's any book by a Filipino author that I urge you to buy, it's this (you can also read the blurbs for the book from authors and editors I admire such as Lynne M. Thomas, Ann VanderMeer, John Grant, Rachel Swirsky, etc.).

But there's also A LOT of collections that have been released or will be released this year. In many ways, 2012 is the year of speculative fiction collections. Here's some books which I want to highlight (and you might have missed):

Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan

Crackpot Palace: Stories by Jeffrey Ford

At the Edge of Waking by Holly Phillips

The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano 

Errantry by Elizabeth Hand

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories by Charles Yu

At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson

The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings by Peter S. Beagle

Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren

The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard

The Unreal and the Real: Where on Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Woman Who Married a Cloud by Jonathan Carroll

 Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bear

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Moscow but Dreaming by Ekaterina Sedia

Birds and Birthdays by Christopher Barzak

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress

The Best of Kage Baker by Kage Baker

Permeable Borders by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Technicolor and other Revelations by John Langan

Space Is Just a Starry Night by Tanith Lee

Edit: From the comments, more collections!

You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home by Alex Jeffers

Windeye: Stories by Brian Evenson

Earth and Air by Peter Dickinson

Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck

And as impressive as this list is, I'm also hoping the following authors get their own short story collections in the near future (if they haven't yet):

• Rachel Swirsky
• Ken Liu
• Genevieve Valentine
• Lavie Tidhar
• Theodora Goss (a new one)
• Catherynne M.  Valente (a new one)
• Aliette de Bodard
• Amal El-Mohtar
• Mary Robinette Kowal (a new one)
• Naomi Novik

August 27, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Writer and the Critic with Angela Slatter and Lisa L. Hannett (podcast). 
• Keith Brooke interviews Lawrence Schimel.
• Flames Rising (Nancy O. Greene) interviews Davida Gypsy Breier.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Paul Tremblay.
• Jess Resides Here interviews Paul Tremblay.

Advice/Articles

• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on The Writer-Reader Contract.
• Charles Stross (Kari Sperring) on The myths of Avalon.
• The Night Bazaar (G.J. Koch) on How to Con for Fun and Profit.
• The Guardian (Damien Walter) on China Miéville was the star turn at the Edinburgh International Book festival.
• The  Guardian (Sam Jordison) on Reading group: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen's real-life map.
• The New York Times (David Streitfeld) on The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy.

The Apex Book of World SF 2 edited by Lavie Tidhar

I Screwed Up

This is a post reprimanding myself.

Did this post need to be public? No, as it was between myself and another party. But to some extent, I screwed up and it's not something I'm intending to hide.

Over the weekend, I lost a friend. Here's a summary of events:

• Earlier in the week, the other party got into conflict with a mutual acquaintance on Twitter.
• The other party posted a blog entry on the subject a few days later.
• I commented on the blog post.
• A conversation took place on Facebook and when it was evident that the other party could not see my point, I informed them that I would be posting a rebuttal on my blog.

What happens next is where things eventually break down.

• The other party asks that I don't post my rebuttal.
• I decline.
• The other party states that they will delete their post.
• I agree with them and state that if they will delete their post, I will not post my rebuttal.
• The other party accuses me of bullying.
• I tell the other party that they should retain their post and that I would post my rebuttal.
• The other party deletes it anyway.

Now I am both against deleting of blog entries and bullying, but intentions are usually irrelevant when it comes to the consequences of your actions.

I should have backed off when they offered to delete their blog entry. Maybe I should have just posted my rebuttal instead of informing them ahead of time. I shouldn't have encouraged the deletion, even when I later told them repeatedly to retain the post.

The other party considered this tactic bullying. It didn't seem so at the time to me but maybe it was bullying. I did use the statement "If it [the blog entry] stays up, I'll post my rebuttal," which comes off as threatening.

The fact that I found the blog entry to be reprehensible (because the narrative was a one-sided account of what happened and the other party was basically congratulating themselves while demonizing others involved) was besides the point. The situation could have been resolved better.

August 24, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Unstuck interviews Amelia Gray, Aimee Bender, Rachel Swirsky, Karin Tidbeck.
• The Qwillery interviews Rob Reid.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Daniel Abraham.
• Suvudu (Lev Grossman) interviews Terry Brooks.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Doyce Testerman.
• The Agony Column SF in SF recording of Terry Bisson, Richard Kadrey and John Shirley (podcast).
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews D.B. Jackson (podcast).
• Hour of the Wolf interviews Connie Willis (podcast).
• Wizards of the Coast panel on What is the Sundering? (video).

Advice/Articles

• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on This Fall’s Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.
• Locus Roundtable (Dale Knickerbocker) on Chōhei Kambayashi and Juan Miguel Aguilera.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Rachel Swirsky) talks about her novelette “Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia”.
• Caught In the Dreaming on How To Lose An Audience.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Some Thoughts on Anthropological Science Fiction as a Sub-Genre.
• New Haven Review (Jeff VanderMeer) on The Art of the Literary Fake (with Violin)    On knowing a fake when you see one.
• Smart Pop Books (Tracy R. Gleason, Nancy S. Weinfield) on An Analysis of Slayer Longevity.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: The End of the Unprofessional Writer.
• Kirkus Reviews (Dean Wesley Smith) on The Self-Publishing Bestseller on ‘How I Did It’.
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on Rounding out the Science Romances.
• Bare Bones e-zine (Jack Seabrook) on Ray Bradbury on TV Part Two: Alfred Hitchcock Presents "And So Died Riabouchinska".
• Shimmer (Elise) on A Shimmer Primer.
• Chris Beckett on Intrusion, by Ken MacLeod.
• My Bookiwsh Ways on This Case is Gonna Kill Me by Phillipa Bornikova.
• Gamma Squad (Dan Seitz) on 5 Reasons Superman and Wonder Woman Doin’ It is A Terrible Idea.
• Justine Larbalestier on Changing My Mind: On What to Do About Cranky Authors.
• Black Gate (Sarah Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens (Part I).

Art

• The Art Of Daniel Dociu.
• A millisecond’s hesitation by Kim Van Deun.

News

• Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A team up with AudioGO for Audiobook Goodness.
• SF master Eric Brown brings you the sequel to the smash-hit best-seller Helix!
• NASA Names Curiosity Landing Site After Ray Bradbury.
• Chicon 7 Mobile Support.
• Kickstarter Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity.

Future Lovecraft edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles

August 23, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Comic Book Resources (Josie Campbell) interviews Lauren Beukes. 
• Lightspeed Magazine (Theodore Quester) interviews Delia Sherman.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Robyn Lupo) interviews Charlie Jane Anders.
• Last Short Story podcast Episode 1.
• The Verge (Noah Davis) interviews Neal Stephenson.
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Terry Brooks (podcast).
• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) interviews Katherine Sarafian, Steve Purcell, Patrick Doyle.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Adam Christopher (podcast).
• Galleycat interviews Kelly Link, Lee Martin & Jacquelyn Mitchard.
• International Speculative Fiction (Roberto Mendes) interviews Charles Tan.
• Spinetingler Magazine (Brian Lindenmuth) interviews Nick Mamatas.

Advice/Articles

• Magnetic Crow on Are we making any progress yet? (On Weird Tales, Marvin Kaye, and the whole Save the Pearls debacle).
• Geekdad (Michael Harrison) on The Tome of Ideas Could Jumpstart Your RPG Campaign.
• Apex (Jessica Nelson) on The In/Human Element: The Characters Who Stare at Goats.
• Justine Larbalestier on What to Study to Become a Writer.
• Tor Books Blog (Neal Asher) on The Thing About Power.
• Lyda Morehouse on Fan Fiction Addiction.
• The Night Bazaar (Katy Stauber) on To Con or Not To Con?
• Tor.com (Lee Falin) on The Science of Allomancy in Mistborn: Iron and Steel.
• Graham Edwards on Revisiting Cinefex (24): Cocoon, The Goonies, Back to the Future.
• WFS (Paul Saffo) on Looking Back: The Wonders We Didn’t Expect.
• Staffer's Book Review on A Series of Short Audio Reviews.
• Grady Hendrix on The Long Loud Silence.
• Juliette Wade on The First/Last sentence experiment.
• David McDonald (Lisa L. Hannett) on Knowing What You Write.
• Locus Roundtable (Harry Markov) on The Act of Walking on Water.
• Paul S. Kemp on I Got Yer Readin’ Suggestions Right Here: The Legendary Appendix N.

Art

• Cover Reveal: Shaman of Stonewylde.
• Michael Whelan's John Carter Covers.
• Science fiction illustrations by Gilang.
• Science fiction illustrations by Nikolay Yeliseyev.
• Steampunk Tyler by Troy Packer.

News

• Turing & Burroughs, Beatnik SF Novel, Coming Late September.
• Nicholas Kaufmann Signs Two-Book Deal with St. Martin's Press.

 

How to Traverse Terra Incognita by Dean Francis Alfar

August 22, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Guardian interviews Jane Rogers. 
• Tor.com (Liz Bourke) interviews Sherwood Smith.
• E.C. Myers interviews Hal Johnson.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Tim Dodge.
• SFX interviews Eric Brown.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Paul Tremblay.
• Suvudu interviews Victor LaValle.
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Terry Brooks.

Advice/Articles

• The Guardian (Charlotte Higgins) on China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books.
• The Guardian (China Miéville) on the future of the novel.
• The Guardian (Alison Flood) on Racism row over SF novel about black 'Coals' and white 'Pearls'. 
• The Guardian (Charlotte Higgins) on Social media and online comments 'causing writers to self-censor'.
• BBC Future on Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist?
• Damien G. Walter on Weird Tales editor has insulted us all.
• Book View Cafe (Sue Lange) on Weird Science: State of the Singularity–Robots.
• Smart Pop Books (Scott Lynch) on The Son of Skywalker Must Not Become a Jackass.
• Inkpunks (Erika Holt) on Query Letters, Synopses, and Samples: Tips From Penguin (Canada).
• The Outer Alliance (Barbara Ann Wright) on And Then I Tripped And Wrote a Lesbian Romance.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Mars Needs Moms (2011).
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Sarah Hendrix) on Setting-why it is important to get it right.
• Chris Beckett on Where do you get your ideas from? (2).
• Frederik Pohl on Harry Harrison Dead at 87.
• The Qwillery (Bec McMaster) on I need a hero…
• Chuck Wendig on Ask A Writer: “How Do I Write What The Audience Wants To Read?”
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Suzanne Brockmann.
• io9 (Michael Ann Dobbs) on Young Adult Fiction’s Hottest New Trend: Mermaids?
• Jim C. Hines on Good Books By/About PoCs.

Art

• Concept ships by Justin Murray.
• Digital Artist by Anna Ignatieva.
• Illustrations by Felideus Bubastis.
• Cover launch: The Mad Scientist’s Daughter.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Ellen Booraem) on Characters, Critters, & Gizmos: Middle-grade Fall Covers, Day Two.

News

• Save 50% on Forthcoming SubPress Titles.
• 2012 Hugo Awards Livecast Scheduled.
• Super Solaris Tuesday: what super fun delightful treats do we have prepared for you next year? Take a gander at the gallery of awesomeness …
• New acquisition announcement: Ben Jeapes is set to bring a world of fire and ice to Solaris with Phoenicia's Worlds … 
• Genocidal Organ is here!
• Einstein was right: matter is scattered randomly across the universe.
• Wanna-be Wolverine accused of aggravated assault.
• Feminist Spec Fic Anthology–Now Open Through September 7.
• Ernest Cline, author of READY PLAYER ONE, to appear on G4's “X-PLAY,” on Wednesday August 29th at 6:30/5:30pm CT to award winner a DeLorean complete with Flux Capacitor.
• Sergio Toppi, 1932-2012.

Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh

August 21, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Geeky Pleasures interviews Carrie Vaughn (podcast).
• Skiffy and Fanty with Jennifer Pelland (podcast).
• Twisted SciFi interviews Mike Allen.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Mihir Wanchoo) interviews Geoffrey Wilson.
• Salon (Five Books, The Browser) interviews Will Self.

Advice/Articles

• Amelia Beamer on The Cost of Encouraging, or, Thar Be Dragons.
• Spec Technique on A thoroughly non-racist kerfluffle.
• N.K. Jemisin on This is how you destroy something beautiful.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on Weird Tales Magazine faces a boycott after endorsing a “thoroughly non-racist book”.
• Genreville (Rose Fox) on Weird Tales Goes Back in Time.
• Matthew Cheney On Weird Tales.
• Shaun Duke on The Weird Tales / Save the Pearls Fiasco: Preliminary Reactions.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Weird Tales, Ann VanderMeer, and Utter Stupidity.
• Weird Fiction Review (Rochita Loenen-Ruiz) on Hunting for Stories in the Philippines.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on 10 Tips For Getting Past Writer’s Block.
• The Qwillery (E.J. Swift) on Opportunities and challenges in writing about climate change.
• Jim C. Hines on The Last Airbender Movie and Cultural Appropriation.
• The Night Bazaar (Courtney Schafer) on It’s All About Priorities.
• bare•bones e-zine (Peter Enfantino & Jack Seabrook) on Batman in the 1970s Part 32: October, November and December 1974.
• Smart Pop Books (Geoff Klock) on Frank Miller's New Batman and the Grotesque.
• Locus (Mihai Adascalitei) On Romanian speculative fiction.
• BBC News Magazine on Is Alice in Wonderland really about drugs?
• Ian Sales on Judging by its cover.
• Lawrence Person's Futuramen on Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft!
• Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Birdseye Bristoe.
• The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) on Debris by Jo Anderton.
• Justine Larbalestier on We Can’t Control Anyone But Ourselves.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Don’t Poke the Editor: Six Deadly Don’ts (and Dos) for Dealing with Editors.
• Paul S. Kemp on The Sundering.
• Aliette de Bodard on Cultural Appropriation.

Art

• World War Z - The Battle of Yonkers.
• Awesome Fantasy Illustrations by Caravan Studio.
• Surreal Art – Igor Morski.
• Star Wars Trilogy Posters In The Style of Spaghetti Westerns.
• Space Journey on Martin Faragasso.

News

• Response to Weird Tales — Shimmer is now paying pro rates.
• Obituary: Ken Hunt.
• Barnes & Noble’s Nook Comes to the UK in October.
• 13th Century Church Gets New Life as a Bookstore.

Events

• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings  presents Richard Bowes Carlos Hernandez.

August 20, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Locus interviews Ann & Jeff VanderMeer.
• The Asian American Literary Review (Betsy Huang) interviews Ken Liu.
• Fantasy Book Addict interviews Brent Weeks.
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe, James Patrick Kelly, and John Kessel.
• SF Squeecast with Lynne M. Thomas, Elizabeth Bear and Paul Cornell, and Very Special Guest Lois McMaster Bujold.

Advice/Articles

• Amelia Beamer on A Modest Proposal.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on 9 Great Urban Fantasy Series You Don’t Want To Miss.
• Carrie Cuinn on More than an Idea.
• The Qwillery (John Hornor Jacobs) on This Dark Earth.
• Will Shetterly on Over 100 Black Female Superheroes.
• Giant Freakin Robot on Find Out What SF Writers In 1987 Thought The World Of 2012 Would Look Like.
• L.B. Gale on The Great Geekbates: Heir to Star Wars.

Art

• Concept Art by Francisco Garces
• War In Heaven by `spyroteknik
• Monsterpocalypse Two by ~OmeN2501
• Lord of the moons by Justv23
• The Frozen Temple by Marco Nelor
• Homecoming by ~OmeN2501
• Ominous Winds by ~Hideyoshi
• The Captive by ~TARGETE
• Stereo Loveby ~MaG1Xx
• LeeLoo Dallas Multi-Pass

 News

• KGB August 15, 2012 photos by Ellen Datlow.
• 2012 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards Winners.
• io9 (Lauren Davis) on ABC is developing the steampunk adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Yes, really.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone August 2012

August 17, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Pyr (Rene Sears) interviews K. D. McEntire.
• The Qwillery interviews Claire Ashgrove.
• A Fantastical Librarian interviews Aidan Moher.
• Hour of the Wolf interviews Harlan Ellison (podcast).
• SFFWRTCHT With John Picacio.
• SFFWRTCHT With Peter V. Brett.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Adam Christopher (podcast).
• SF Site (Dave Truesdale) interviews Edward M. Lerner.
• Speculate! Podcast Episode 54.
• Weird Fiction Review (Jeffrey Ford) interviews Derek Ford.
• Fora TV interviews Cory Doctorow (video).

Advice/Articles

• John Picacio on Be My Enemy Cover Art.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Anthropological SF: Eleanor Arnason’s A Woman of the Iron People.
• Smart Pop Books (Lawrence Watt-Evans) on A Consideration of Certain Aspects of Vogon Poetry.
• Gail Z. Martin on The End of the World As We Know It.
• SF Site (Rick Klaw) on Nexus Graphica.
• L.B. Gale on 10 Fictional Bookworms And What They Imply about Real Bookworms.
• The Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) on Libriomancer, by Jim C Hines.
• Comic Vine on The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Movie Plot Revealed.
• Lit Reactor (BH Sheperd) on Five Reasons To Get Excited About Guardians Of The Galaxy.
• John Anealio on 5 Favorite Musical Artists of Author Nina D'Aleo.
• Mental Floss (Andrew Shaffer) on How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read. [via Bill Crider]
• SFX (Dave Golder) on Top 50 Superhero Movies Of All Time: 2012 Edition.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Top 10 Practical, Everyday Money Saving Tips For (Starving) Writers.
• The Guardian (Imogen Russell Williams) on Fictional ghost cities: where teenage darkness finds a home.
• Lou Anders on Just a thought....
• Library Journal (Kristi Chadwick) on Hungry for SF: Genre Crossovers Retain Fans and Attract New Readers.
• Justine Larbalestier on Selling Yourself Online.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: A Tale of Two Royalty Statements.
• Inkpunks (Tracie Welser) on Writing Conventions and How to Survive (an Incomplete List).
• Terri Windling on Animal stories, continued.

Art

• Time Machineby ~Hideyoshi
• robot vs robotby ~lingy-0
• Lone Missionary by Svetlin Velinov
• The Hunger Games by Leah Jacobs-Gordon
• Roach Exo-Suit_001 by Matthew Burke
• Battle Sandwich by Christian Pearce

 News

• Colin Harvey Memorial Ebook Bundle – All Proceeds to Charity.
• New World Rights for Urban Fantasy Writer Suzanne McLeod.
• Weird Tales A Message from the Editor.
• Shimmer #16 Table of Contents.

Events

• Paul Tremblay and Alma Katsu read at KGB Bar September 19.
• 2012 Clarion Fall One-Day Workshops.

The Traitor Queen by Trudi Canavan

August 16, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Civilian Reader interviews Gwenda Bond.
• The Guardian (Laura Barnett) interviews Joyce Carol Oates.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Tiffany Trent, Joanne Reay, Will Hill.
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast episode 66. 
• Jedi News interviews Tim Lebbon.
• Roqoo Depot interviews Tim Lebbon.
• Flickering Myth interviews Davide Caputo.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Caroline Hooton) interviews Tom Pollock.

Advice/Articles

• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Queering SFF: Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Mars in Science Fiction (Part 1).
• The Qwillery (Lee Battersby) guest blog.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Lia Habel.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on “Science Fiction” and Literature – or Thoughts on Delany and the Plurality of Interprative Processes.
• BBC News Magazine (Colm O'Regan) on From robot trader to computer overlord? 
• BBC News on Galaxy cluster's 'starburst' surprises astronomers.
• Finn's Wake on Walking With Blinders Through The Last Book Sale, part 4.
• Salon (Stephen Deusner) on “Mystery Science Theater” host: Yelling at the screen makes us smarter!

Art

• Tor Books Blog Cover Launch: Boneshaker, Dreadnought and Ganyemede.
• Liran Szeiman – Sugarflesh: Dark and emotional Illustration.

News

• NeuroNexus logo The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. 
• Toronto's Lo-Fi Sci-Fi 48 Hour Film Challenge.
• Introducing Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology.
• Comiket 82 Ties 'Turnstile' Attendance Record at 560,000.

Events

• Forbidden Planet.

Harry Harrison Tributes

• Locus
• John Rogers
• John Scalzi
• Tom Doherty
• Gollancz
• io9
• Black Gate
• Media Bistro
• Tor.com
• Sarah Peed
• Cheryl Morgan 
• Neil Gaiman
• George R. R. Martin
• SFWA
• The Washington Post
• BBC
• The Associated Press
• Music Radio 77
• Boing Boing
• Blastr

Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford