SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-10-22

Interviews & Profiles

• The List interviews Libby McGugan.
• Reading & Writing podcast interviews Debbie Viguie.
• Civilian Reader interviews Freya Robertson.
• Book View Cafe Blog interviews Shannon Page.
• Jules Sherred interviews John Scalzi.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Jeremy Zerfoss.
• Suvudu interviews Eric Smith.
• Publishers Weekly interviews Chip Kidd.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Colin F. Barnes.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Joseph D’Lacey.
• Science Fiction interviews The Cast of ‘Comic Book Men’.
• Anthony R. Cardno interviews Jeremy C. Shipp.

News

• Short that aired pre-Empire Strikes Back will come to Netflix, iTunes in 2014.
• Call For Reprint Submissions: Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women.

Events & Event News

• The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival : October 25th-27th, 2013, Lille, France.
• Tuesday, November 5, 2013: NYRSF Reading with Rajan Khanna & Fran Wilde.
• The Radio Theatre Company announces cancellation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show 2013 Tour.

Articles

• Ann Leckie on It’s not a real heart, it’s a real artificial heart.
• Lauren Panepinto on The Making of a Cover: Interior Maps .
• Morgana Santilli on Ooky Spooky Animanga Part V: The Japanese Fascination with Spirits.
• Me Deeply in My Early Teens.
• Philippa Ballantine on Story Behind The Shifted World.
• K.B. Laugheed on Why We Need Stories.
• Howard Andrew Jones on Vance, Robert E. Howard, and the Role of Women.
• Rob Reid on Why my first novel will only cost you $0.99.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on The Power of Threes [WHO-50—2012].
• Max Gladstone on Star Wars: A Long Time Ago, in a Hive Far Far Away?
• Michael A. Burstein on We Find the One Quite Adequate.
• Michael Swanwick on The Easy Way To Win A Major Science Fiction Award.
• Patrick Hester has a MileHiCon Wrapup.
• Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg on Influences (good).
• Nicholas Kaufmann on That Misprint in Dying Is My Business.
• The Guardian on Edgar Allan Poe’s shockingly unsensational storytelling.
• The New Yorker on What Stephen King Isn’t. [via This Is Horror]
• LitReactor on Founder of Book Genome Project Calls Self-Publishing A Literary “Darknet”.
• 2001italia on 2001: The aliens that almost were.
• Film School Rejects asks Could We Ever Truly Contain ‘The Thing’?.
• Spectacular Optical on A History Of British Folk Horror. [via The Cultural Gutter]
• Mulholland Books asks you to Fund a New Novella by Joe R. Lansdale. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
• Blastr on 25 scary stories by Stephen King and other great horror writers you can read NOW. [via Bill Crider]
• Little Red Reviewer on Three Days to Never by Tim Powers.
• Foz Meadows on The Roots of Early Love Go Deep: Five Stories Which Affected.

Art

• The Art of Mike Nash.
• Amazing Concept Art by Volkan Yenen.
• Various Conceptual Illustrations by Fabian Schlaga.
• Disturbing Illustrations by Claudio Romo.
• Cover Reveal: BETE by Adam Roberts.
• Awesome Star Wars Character Poster.
• Arnie Fenner on 3D.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt from “Outbound” by Brad R. Torgersen.
• 30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God: From Isaac Asimov to Margaret Atwood.
• Infographic shows you how award-winning science fiction is born.
• Superman Meets Orson Welles.

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