September 11, 2012 Links and Plugs

Signal-boosting Amal El-Mohtar's call for GymCon at World Fantasy.

Interviews and Profiles

• Orbit (Kristen Painter) interviews Amanda Carlson.
• Creative Juicer interviews Janice Hardy.
• Writing Excuses on Pantsing (podcast).
• My Memories of a Future Life interviews S.J. Tucker.
• Rambling On interviews John Klima.
• Shout Out Bristol interviews Cheryl Morgan (podcast).
• Lapham's Quarterly interviews China Mieville (podcast).
• Tor/Forge's Blog conversation with Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross.
• Buzzy mag interviews John C. Wright.
• SFX interviews Tom Hiddleston.
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Kevin Hearne.

Advice/Articles

• Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Double Trouble: Two Racists for the Price of One.
• N.K. Jemisin on Things People Need to Understand, issue 223.2.
• Genevieve Valentine on Things You Should Know About the Fallout. 
• Sam Henderson on Readercon harrassment and perceptions of reality. 
• Free Thoughts Blog (Stephanie Zvan) on We Don’t Do That Anymore.
• Jo Fletcher Books On the Importance of Sales Reps.
• Kat Howard on Who gets to be the sympathetic character.
• Chuck Wendig on Readers Are The Victims Of Bad Author Behavior.
• Fantasy Matters (Jen) on Top 10 Vampires That Aren't Really Vampires (and Some That Might Actually Be).
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on The Right Way to Write.
• Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews (Rowena Cory Daniells) on How I discovered fantasy...
• Tor/Forge's Blog (Robin Maxwell) on Me Jane.
• The Night Bazaar (Courtney Schafer) on There Can Be Only One.
• Ian Sales on Toward working definitions of science fiction and fantasy.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror (Richard Salter) on Who on Earth would want to Edit an Anthology?
• Charles Stross on Signing Tour: The Reality TV Show.
• The Independent on Being Modern: Fan fiction.
• Smart Pop Books (Keith R. A. DeCandido) on Pryde and Joy.
• David Brendon's Fantasy & SciFi Weblog on eFantasy – Proudly South African-Edited Fantasy eZine.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on My Top 12 Memorable Moments From ChiCon 7.
• SciFi Ideas on 10 Ideas for a Time Travel Story.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 12 Greatest Science Fiction War Stories.
• Brenda Cooper on Reading Recommendation: Nexus by Ramez Naam.
• Lois Gresh on Zombies, Ramsey Campbell, & Luther BBC Show.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on Seven (or More) Queens That The Doctor Met Before Nefertiti…
• The Qwillery (Kristine Grayson) on Surprise!
• Black Gate (Howard Andrew Jones) on Death and the Book Deal.

Art

• The Sighting by *steve-burg.
• Red Mystery by *steve-burg.
• Snowbound by *steve-burg.
• Landing by Kai Spannuth.
• Stronghold by Dmitry Dubinsky.
• Lava Genie by Paul Davidson.

News

• Peter Harrington to sell Lord Byron's copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
• A house fit for a hobbit: Home of Tolkien publisher goes on sale.
• Updates: Abercrombie and Morgan.
• Penguin Group Launches InkLit, A New Graphic Novel Imprint.
• Catwoman Cover Changed After Internet Outrage.
• "Trek" Sequels Gets A Title.
• Chicon 7 Apologizes for Access Issues.
• Watch the Hugo Ceremony, If You Dare.

Events

• The NY Review of SF Readings -- Bowes & Hernandez.

The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan

September 10, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Odyssey Workshop interviews Meagan Spooner.
• Book Chick City interviews Gwenda Bond.
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.
• Joly McFie recording of Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (video).
• Midnight Madness interviews Director Don Coscarelli.
• Los Angeles Times (Rebecca Keegan) profiles Director Andrew Stanton.

Advice/Articles

• Justine Larbalestier On Humility.
• io9 (Annalee Newitz) on The Great Geek Sexism Debate. 
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders and Mandy Curtis) on 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: The Original Series.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Rowena Cory Daniells) on The Power of Story.
• The Futurist (Brenda Cooper) on Where the Wild Things Are Not.
• The Futurist on The 22nd Century at First Light: Envisioning Life in the Year 2100.
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia on I’m Sexy and I Know It: Cheesecake, Beefcake with Swords.
• The John Carter Files (Dotar Sojat) on Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Origins of Barsoom.
• The Qwillery (J.R. Turner) on Redemption.
• David Barr Kirtley on How Many Downloads Do Geek Podcasts Get?
• Jamie Todd Rubin on The Hugo Award-Winning SF Signal!
• Warren Ellis on How To See The Future.
• The Atlantic (Megan Garber) on The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature's Fractals.
• Wired (Jakob Schiller) on SETI’s First Artist-in-Residence Transports Viewers to Alien Worlds (via Paul Di Filippo).
• Carrie Cuinn on Other Blogs You Should Be Reading.
• WhatCulture! (Douglas Hoch) on 5 Ways Star Wars Prequels Are Better Than The Original Trilogy.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Teens, reading, and power.
• The World SF Blog (Lavie Tidhar) on Heinlein and Racism.
• Clarkesworld on UK Submissions and Authors - Clarkesworld Magazine Data.
• Genreville (Rose Fox) on What Conventions Are and Aren’t.
• Cheryl Morgan on Semiprozine – It’s Not That Hard.

Art

• Statues of the Virgin Mary transformed into saintly superheroes.

Events

• The Golden Age of Science Fiction Noble Science and Engineering library at ASU Tempe Campus September 12, through October 2012.

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

September 7, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Inkscratchers interviews Gwenda Bond.
• Suzanne Johnson interviews Rio Youers. 
• The Bat Segundo Show interviews Jeffrey Ford.
• Rocket Kapre interviews Charles Tan.
• First World Fantasy Convention, 1975 (podcast).
• SFX (Dave Golder) interviews Iain M Banks.
• SFX (Jonathan Wright) interviews Neal Stephenson.
• The Book Smugglers interviews Tim Powers.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Kevin J. Anderson.

Advice/Articles

• SFWA (Cat Rambo) on Advice on Writing Mentors. 
• Cheryl Morgan on The Hugos: What’s Changed?
• Jim C. Hines On Being Blown Off.
• Ian Sales on The Hugos are broken, science fiction is broken, everything is broken.
• Bare Bones e-zine (Jack Seabrook) on Ray Bradbury on TV Part Three: Alfred Hitchcock Presents “Design for Loving”.
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on Exploring Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Book Review: A Plunge Into Space by Robert Cromie.
• A Dribble of Ink Review of King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.
• SFX (Jayne Nelson, Neil Ransden) on 10 Inspirational Disabled Characters From Sci-Fi And Fantasy.
• Staffer's Book Review on WorldCon Link Round-up (for those of us who didn't make it).
• Dagan Books (Carrie Cuinn) on What We Spend Our Money On.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: A Good Offense.
• Stroppy Author on How to speak publisher: E is for editor.
• Black Gate (Sarah Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: How to Use Your Proud Geek Heritage to Survive The Scarlet Letter.

Art

• Stunning Digital Illustrations by Sakimi-chan.
• Scorched Earth by DavidGaillet.
• Cyberpunk by Dges.
• Tony Fleecs’ comics-themed retro pulp covers.

News

• The Other Half of the Sky: Table of Contents.
• Lawrence Person Pictures from the 2012 Chicago WorldCon: Friday.
• A New Novel from Rhys Hughes!
• Amazon Unveils $119 Kindle Paperwhite.
• Wonder Woman Series Being Developed By The CW.
• Settlement Approved Between DOJ & Three Publishers.

Events

• Full Blooded Book Tour.

Apex Magazine #40

September 6, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Karen Thompson Walker.
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Alastair Reynolds (podcast).
• Sword and Laser interviews R.A. Salvatore (podcast).
• The Story Board with Patrick Rothfuss, Amber Benson, Bradley Beaulieu, and Mary Robinette Kowal (video).
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Morgan Keyes.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Cindy Pon) interviews Kenneth Oppel.
• 2012 Site Selection WSFS Business Meeting (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (video).
• My Bookish Ways interviews Paul Goat Allen.
• Speculate! interviews Mary Robinette Kowal and Michael Underwood (podcast).
• Omnivoracious (Maggie Stiefvater) Chats with Elizabeth Wein.
• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) interviews Haskell Wexler.
• The Future and You interviews Michael Z. Williamson, Philip R. Cox and Janet Morris (podcast).
• The Qwillery interviews Alex Hughes.

Advice/Articles

• Theodora Goss on Teaching Fairy Tales.
• Chuck Wendig on The Death Of Genre: Drifting Toward A Post-Genre Future.
• Cheryl Morgan on Facts Are Not Opinions, Forthcoming Worldcons.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on The 2012 Hugo Awards Ceremony: A Newbie’s Perspective.
• Golden Gazette News (Paula R. Stiles) on Edgar Rice Burroughs—A World of Pulp Fiction Adventure.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on A Reaction to Klein’s Pyramid of Literary Quality. 
• Secretcrush on Worldcon Report: China and India's Fast Rising SF Market.
• A. Lee Martinez on Transformed.
• Locus Roundtable (Gary A. Braunbeck) on Appreciation for Adam Niswander (1946-2012).
• My Bookiwsh Ways on Bitter Seeds (Milkweed #1) by Ian Tregillis.
• Staffer's Book Review on The City's Son by Tom Pollock.
• David Mayeux on The lexical treasures of M. John Harrison.
• File 770 on Fan Hugos: Random Numbers.
• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: The Art of Robotech and a lifelong affair with Giant Robots.
• L.B. Gale on 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Fight Settings.
• Fandomania on Geeky Cover Songs, Part Four.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on The Most Thrilling Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in September!
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on 10 Must-Read September Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books.
• Tor.com Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for September.
• Shimmer on How Shimmer Falls in Love With Fiction.
• Chuck Wendig On Creepy Creepers Who Creepily Creep.
• Kat Howard on A Delicate Balance.
• Aliette de Bodard on Physical descriptions of Asians.
• Lou Anders on Dragon*Con 2012.
• Nick Mamatas on Worldcon Report, in Bullet Points.
• Lynne M. Thomas on WorldCon and the Hugos [picspam ahoy!].
• J. Kathleen Cheney on Now the WorldCon Report…
• Seanan McGuire on Chicon set list.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on What Happened During The Con.
• Stina Leicht on Post WorldCon Post and Other Stuff.

Art

• The Black Pearl by =ErikShoemaker.
• Concept spaceship art by Long Ouyang.
• Concept robots by Long Ouyang.
• A Lava to Construct Robotic Giant Factory by Afried Li.

News

• Ellen Datlow's Photos from Chicon VII.
• The Empire Tele-Calls Back: Indian Science Fiction in the Global Age.
• ChiZine Publications Will Launch a YA Imprint in 2014.
• SubPress Ebooks on Sale for $.99 to $2.99.
• StarShipSofa No 254 Allen Steele.
• Apex Magazine Issue 40 is live!
• Call for submissions: Spellbound - a fantasy magazine for children, reopened and now electronic.
• Judge Dredd returns, this time with helmet.
• 2014 Worldcon: London Wins Bid, Announces Guests of Honour.
• 2012 Parsec Awards Winners.

Events

• Titan Books Signing Bonanza!
• How to Write Science Fiction With... Joe Haldeman.
• The Kitschies present… Beukes, Miéville and Ness.

Peer Funding

•  Cthulhu + The Orient Express = An Anthology Announcement!.

The Indigo Pheasant  Longing for Yount Volume 2 by Daniel A. Rabuzzi

September 5, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Gwenda Bond.
• SFX interviews Juliet E McKenna.
• The Roundtable Podcast with Rachel Swirsky.
• Apex (Maggie Slatter) interviews Adam-Troy Castro.
• Lightspeed (Caleb Jordan Schulz) interviews Adam-Troy Castro.
• Lightspeed (Andrew Liptak) interviews Scott Edelman. 
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Jay Lake (podcast).
• Talking TV with Ryan and Ryan interviews George R.R. Martin (podcast).
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt interviews Faith Hunter.
• Weird Tales (James Aquilone) interviews Jon Sprunk.
• SQ Mag (Sophie Yorkston) interviews Jay Lake.
• SQ Mag (Sophie Yorkston) interviews Daniel I Russell.
• Steve Skojec interviews John Love.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Doyce Testerman.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Kim Curran.
• Ask Lev with Paul Levinson (video).
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) recording of Terry Brooks (video).

Advice/Articles

• Ustream (Brad Hunstable) on Hugo Awards: An apology and explanation. 
• Atlanata Magazine (Scott Henry) on In the Shadows.
• Justine Larbalestier on Racism in the Books We Write.
• Juliette Wade on "Mirror scenes" and how to avoid them for both appearance and culture.
• Inkpunks (Andrew Romine) on Invincible Convictions.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Gwenda Bond) on Blackwood.
• David Moody on James Herbert.
• Black Gate (John ONeill) on Singularity & Co. use Successful Kickstarter to Rescue Out-of-Print SF & Fantasy.
• Damien G. Walter on Why Sense of Wonder sucks.
• David Brin on The Near Future of Manned Spaceflight.
• Making Light on Regarding a Hugo Award category for YA fiction.
• Forbes (Bruce Dorminey) on Space Farmers: LEDs As Key To NASA's Permanent Lunar Life Support.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Anthony Ryan) on The Influence Of History On Epic Fantasy.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Most Epic Love Stories in All of Science Fiction.
• To Be Read (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on 5 Science Fiction Books Environmentalists Should Read.
• Deborah J. Ross (Chaz Brenchley) on Being Ready to Publish.
• Bookslut (Josh Zajdman) on The Forgotten Father of High Fantasy.
• George Mann on The Villains of N&H.
• Smart Pop Books (Darren Hudson Hick) on The Cost of Being Batman.

Art

• The Enchanted Inkpot YA Fall Covers, Take Two.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch Cover Rebranding.
• Factory Ship by Afried Li.
• Flash of the Blade by Halil Ural.
• Mistress of Time by Olga Anufrieva.
• More MK series combat bots by Alex Drummond.
• Concept ships by Joachim Sverd.
• Red Riding Hood on Blaz Porenta.
• Omega Class Seeker 052 by Bryan Flynn.
• Monthly Header #82 by Steve Burg.
• Block13 by Djahal.

News

• New Strange Chemistry Ebooks at the Robot Trading Company.
• Lost BBC archive of Neil Armstrong's moon landing found. [via Paul Di Filippo] .
• Virgin America Is Offering a Free Trip to Space for One Frequent Flier.
• "Author's Cut" Kindle Edition of The Silk Code just published by JoSara MeDia.
• Hugo winner Neil Gaiman coming back for Doctor Who S7.

Events

• Loncon 3 in 2014.
• The Peter F. Hamilton Great north Road Tour.
• FantasyCon 2012 Masterclass.

 Crowd-Funding

• Convert 2-D Programming to 3-D Experiences.

Blackwood by Gwenda Bond

September 4, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Weird Fiction Review (Desirina Boskovich) profiles Tanith Lee.
• Anaea interviews Ken Liu.
• The World SF Blog interviews Athena Andreadis.
• Rob Rogers interviews Ian Healy.

Advice/Articles

• io9 (Annalee Newitz) on How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on 2012 Hugo Awards Announced: Jo Walton’s “Among Others” Wins for Best Novel.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Creating Villains and Heroes with Killer Chemistry.
• Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) on Moving Past Lovecraft.
• The Guardian (John Ezard) on From the archive, 3 September 1973: Hobbit and Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien dies.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Ellen Booraem) on Fall YA Covers: Red to be Read.
• Cheryl Morgan on The Hugos and the UStream Fiasco.

News

• 2012 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners.
• The National Buy a Book Day Foundation.

September 3, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Supernatural Underground (Helen Lowe) interviews Juliet Marillier.
• Locus interviews John Scalzi.
• Sword and Laser interviews Gary Whitta (video).
• City University of Hong Kong (Christopher Mattison) interviews Dung Kai-Cheung.
• Flickering Myth interviews Michael McKean.
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews James Beradinelli (podcast).
• The Guardian Alan Garner answers questions.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Adam Christopher.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Thomas Morrissey (podcast).
• Clarkesworld (Jeremy L.C. Jones) interviews Nick Mamatas and Paul Tremblay.

Advice/Articles

• Rose Lemberg On liminal identities, exclusion, and othering.
• The Guardian (Henry Gee) on Different kinds of truth: religion, science and fiction.
• The Guardian (Conal Urquhart) on Top British writers hail birth 200 years ago of Grimm tales that bewitched them.
• BBC News Magazine on A Point Of View: JG Ballard and the alchemy of memory.
• Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on The Underwater Welder.
• Salon (Laura Miller) on The dreaded Amazon Breast Curve.
• Locus (Cory Doctorow) on Why Science Fiction Movies Drive Me Nuts.
• The Japan Times (David Cozy) on A Borgesian look at a fictional Hong Kong.
• Kathryn Cramer on Adirondack Memoir Retreat, October 25 to 28, 2012.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Writer/Reader Contract: What are we looking for?
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on Great SF authors share their biggest writing setbacks — and how they triumphed.
• SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Characterization Skills and Sources.
• Chuck Wendig (Richard Dansky) on What You Need To Know About Writing Video Games.

News

• Announcing the 2012 Chesley Award Winners.
• Finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award 2012 Announced.
• Loncon 2014 Guests in London.

Clarkesworld #72

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