SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-09-26

Interviews & Profiles

• Corsets, Cutlasses, & Candlesticks interviews Elizabeth May.
• Authors on the Air interviews James Gunn (podcast).
• Speculate interviews David B. Coe / D.B. Jackson.
• Amazing Stories interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Nightmare Magazine interviews Peter Straub.
• Nightmare Magazine interviews Joe McKinney.
• Slate video-interviews Jonathan Lethem.
• The Qwillery interviews Elliott James.
• The Qwillery interviews V.E. Schwab.
• EW interviews Joss Whedon.

News

• Batman police spin-off commissioned by Fox.
• Edgy Wizard of Oz-inspired novel Dorothy Must Die announced.
• New Book Deal Announced fo Marissa Meyer: Heartless.
• “Author’s Cut” Kindle Edition of Paul Levinson’s The Consciousness Plague now available.
• Spotted: Galaxy 200 Million Times Heavier Than Our Sun.

Events & Event News

• Kaiju “Monster” Pets Writing Contest & Animal Shelter Fundraiser.

Articles

• Jennifer Ridyard on Why science fiction isn’t just for geeky boys.
• Orbit Books (Lauren Panepinto) on The Making of a Cover: Directions.
• Mur Lafferty on Why Point of View is so damn important.
• Karen Miller on The Tyranny of the First Draft.
• Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay on Recentering Science Fiction and the Fantastic: What would a non-Anglocentric understanding of science fiction and fantasy look like?
• Brandon Sanderson’s on Third Law of Magic.
• Anton Strout on Para-urban Rom-antasy.
• Smart Pop Books on The Politics of Mockingjay.
• Chuck Wendig on Dear Publishers.
• Geoffrey Girard on My Superpower.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show’s Worldcon Walkby Session #2: WSFS, Cross-species Romance, and Science Fiction.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Showon The World’s End.
• Nathan Hawke on Story behind Gallow.
• Tor.com on Science Fiction’s Greatest Movie Villains: Psychopathic or Not? (Part Two).
• Tor.com on Seven Kingdoms and Beyond: World-Building in Game of Thrones.
• The Austin Chronicle on LoneStarCon 3: The Howard and George Show: Howard Waldrop and George R. R. Martin really do like each other.
• Flickering Myth on Feeling Blue: Saschka Unseld talks about The Blue Umbrella.
• Amazing Stories on SW #20 The Unsung Heroes of Comics Vol. 1: Colorists.
• Gunaxin on The Most Important SciFi Fanboy.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.
• BBC News on Browsing the bookshop of the future.
• Bookworm Blues on The Incrementalists by Steven Brust & Skyler White.
• Geek Magazine on The Art of Juan Ortiz: Star Trek.
• Andrew Liptak on Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
• Paul Weimer on Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey.
• Paul Weimer on Mining the Genre Asteroid: Ringworld.
• Blastr on 11 iconic sci-fi artifacts (that are pointless when you really think about them).

Art

• Cool Art: Retro-Futuristic Travel Posters by Steve Thomas.
• Star Wars 1313 concept art, demo detail story starring Boba Fett.
• The meeting by ~TrungTH.

More Fun Stuff

• Regan Wolfrom’s Speculative Fiction Writing Wroundup for 9/25/2013.
• Check out a sneak peek of Star Wars: Razor’s Edge with Princess Leia.
• StarShipSofa #306 with fiction by Philip Suggars, Guy Haley & Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• To support the relase of Neil Gaiman’s Fortunately, the Milk…, several people took to YouTube to raise a glass, including Lauren Beukes, Lucy Saxon, Paul Cornell, Laura Heath, Kristina West, Chris Riddell, and several members of the Bloomsbury staff.
• Superman/Batman Leg Lamps.