SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-01-01

Happy 2014! Here’s hoping all of our readers have the Best Year Ever. 🙂

Interviews & Profiles

• Sword & Laser interviews Marie Brennan.
• SFX interviews Juliet E. McKenna.
• SFX interviews Jo Fletcher.
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Tim Sullivan.
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Michael Blumlein.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews J.R. Vogt.

News

• Scott Edelman parts as Editor of Blastr. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Michael A. Burstein named president of Society for the Advancement of Speculative Storytelling.
• Author’s Guild Appeals Google Books Copyright Decision.
• January 2014 Ebooks from Angry Robot, Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A.
• Book View Cafe Announces A Feral Darkness by Doranna Durgin.
• Walker of Worlds calls it quits.
• Jay Lake’s entire genome goes open source.

Events & Event News

• January 8th, 7:00PM at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY: Book launcg for Chuck Wendig’s Cormorant.
• January 7th: The NY Review of SF presents Jennifer Marie Brissett & Sam J. Miller.
• January 12th: Harlan Ellison to appear on The Simpsons.

Articles

• Mary Robinette Kowal on A bit about the writing of The Wind Comes.
• J. Kathleen Cheney on The Things the Writer Isn’t Telling You (Even When We Want To).
• Neil Gaiman on Why I’m coming back to the blog once more.
• The Way the Future Blogs on The Story of The Space Merchants, Part 4.
• Chuck Wendig on Writing Resolutions: 2014 And Beyond.
• The Guardian on Marcus Sedgwick: ‘Inspiration is everywhere’. [via Alexandre Maki]
• John Crace on Iain Banks: a death foretold?
• Auxiliary Memory asks Why Were The Two Most Famous Science Fiction Novels of the 20th Century Not Written By Science Fiction Authors?
• Shadowhawk’s Shade on 12 Days of Best SFF Characters of 2013: Day #7.
• Bookworm Blues on Duel Review: Quick Fix & Copperhead.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe.
• Lifetime on Dear Home Office, do you have an X-Files department?
• Cult Box on Doctor Who exec promises ‘raw, different direction’ in Series 8.
• The Daily Dot on The race to be the first person to step foot on Mars narrows. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Salon.com on The year the book became a luxury object.
• Book Riot on Sh** Book Snobs Say: Translations.
• Kameron Hurley on Rollicking 2013 Roundup: My Life as a Grimdark Video Game.
• M. L. Brennan on Books I Loved In 2013.
• Aliette de Bodard on 2013 in review.
• Emma Newman on A glance back at 2013.
• Paul Cornell on Goodbye 2013.
• Joe Abercrombie on 2013 in Review.
• Michael R. Underwood on 2013 in Review.
• Adam Christopher on 2014: The experiment.
• Fantasy Cafe on Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction Books.
• Film School Rejects on The 13 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films of 2013.
• Lytherus on The Best Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2013.
• Comic Book Resources on CBR’s Top 100 Comics of 2013, #25 – 11.
• The Book Smugglers on The Most Excellent Books of 2013.
• Book Riot on The 10 Best Top 100 Books Lists.

Art

• Video Game Art: Isaac.
• 3D Robot Heart by Aleksandr Kuskov.
• Hide and Seek by Marek Okon.
• Batman 1972.

More Fun Stuff

• Everything Wrong With Gremlins In Roughly 8 Minutes Or So. [via Alexandre Maki]
• Now posted: The January 2014 issue of SQ Mag.
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY First Official Image Featuring Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt, and Dave Bautista.
• Beautiful Dungeons & Dragons Walkthrough Maps Illustrated by Jason Thompson.