SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-08-08
Interviews & Profiles
- In conversation: Ursula K. Le Guin and Michael Cunningham.
- Wag The Fox interviews Nancy A. Collins.
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Nick Cole.
- The O’Reilly Radar podcast interviews Hugh Howey and Ramez Naam.
- A Fantastical Librarian interviews Laure Eve.
- Suvudu has a video interview with Andy Weir.
- Nerdist interviews Lev Grossman.
- The Atlantic interviews Lev Grossman.
- BBC News interviews the “less user-friendly” Peter Capaldi.
News
- J. Michael Straczynski Announces Babylon 5 movie reboot.
- Barnes & Noble and
AmazonGoogle team up for same-day shipping.
Events & Event News
Crowd Funding
- Uncanny Magazine Year One by Lynne M. Thomas.
- Dead Mage – a fantasy/western comic.
- Chalk Circles by Paul Jessup.
- Bring the stars to a new generation. SF for young readers.
- TESLA feature film final campaign.
- Support Cat Rambo creating Stories.
- Support Speculate creating Podcasts for Writers, Readers, and Fans.
Articles
- Justine Larbalestier on Ideas and Plots and Their Mutability.
- Alyx Dellamonica on That Was Awesome: Starfish by Peter Watts.
- Jon Sprunk on Writing a Fantasy Series.
- Jim C. Hines on Using Asian Cultures as Props.
- Variety on Starz’s ‘Outlander’ Woos Women with Strong Female Protagonist.
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says Authority takes readers to world in which they have no control.
- Mark Dery on William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God.
- Cory Doctorow on Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land.
- Bibliotropic on Blightborn by Chuck Wendig.
- Eric Brown on The Naming of Names.
- Matt Cheney on Octavia Butler’s Survivor.
- Martin Edwards on 10 Obscure Golden Age novels that deserve to be better known. [via Bill Crider]
- Charlie Jane Anders lists 10 Great Novels That Will Make You More Passionate About Science.
Art
- Galen Dara’s illustration for “Undermarket Data” written by An Owomoyela.
- Orbit Unveils cover for the stunning new Ian Tregillis novel, The Mechanical.
- Brilliant Digital Art by Gary Tonge.
- The Art of Ioan Dumitrescu.
- Poison Ivy by Wayne Parker.
- starhawk by Chris Ortega.
- Futurama 3d by Alexey Zakharov.
- Pirate Demon by Baldi Konijn.
- A dragon slayer by chao Huang.
- Time Lord by Edrice Waliyar.
- Ork by Diana Galimova.
- Who’s afraid of the Ogre? by Davide Spada.
- The Fall of Icarus.
- Classic Roald Dahl book covers redesigned. Horribly..
More Fun Stuff
“Barnes & Noble and Amazon team up for same-day shipping.”…. not true – bad headline.