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 Amazon Google team up for same-day shipping.

Events & Event News

• Loncon 3 Members Smash Hugo Voting Record.

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

• I, for one, welcome our Bionic Kangaroo overlords.