[SF/F/H Link Post] Dungeons and Dragons; Octavia Butler’s Legacy; Rey as a Reincarnation of Darth Vader

Interviews & Profiles

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Faith Hunter, author of Shadow Rites.
• ENTROPY interviews Gavin Grant, editor of Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet collection and publisher of Small Beer Press.
• GMA interviews Sarah Maas, author of A Court Of Thorns and Roses, who says that We’re in a golden age of female writers.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Rudy Rucker, author of The Ware Tetralogy.
• The Qwillery interviews Steve Toutonghi, author of Join.
• SFFWorld interviews Christopher Nuttall, author of Their Darkest Hour.
• S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Chloe Bennet Talks Diversity In Marvel Films & TV Shows
• Suvudu interviews Richard Kadrey, author of The Everything Box.

News

• Aboriginal sci-fi Neomad wins Australia’s top comic book award
• Riddick Helmer David Twohy Will Write And Direct New Sci-Fi Flick Ice Moon Rising
• Robots That Know What You’re About to Do, because scientists have evidently decided that robots that kill you to your face are sooo eighties.
• We Just Learned Something Crazy About the Atmosphere of Venus

Events & Event News

• Author Ernest Cline (Ready Player One) returns to Austin Books & Comics in Austin, TX to sign the new paperback edition of his latest novel, Armada! The writer will be joining us on Saturday, April 23rd from Noon to 3:00 PM, and he’ll be bringing along his tricked-out DeLorean, Ecto-88 RSVP on Facebook
• Netflix’s next original is a sci-fi saga called “Travelers” from Stargate SG-1’s co-creator.
• The original Star Wars trilogy is returning to theaters this summer
• You Can Watch the Original Star WarsTrilogy in Theaters at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s “The Return of the Trilogy” will go on sale in most markets on May 4

Crowd Funding

• Lux Volume 1 – The Hollowing Graphic Novel – A dark story of post apocalyptic survival, which takes inspiration from old school, “Choose your own adventure” books.

Articles

• Book Review: Zeroes by Chuck Wendig “An exhilarating thrill-ride through the underbelly of cyber espionage in the vein of David Ignatius’s The Director and the television series Leverage, CSI: Cyber, and Person of Interest, which follows five iconoclastic hackers who are coerced into serving the U.S. government.”
• Movie Review: Eye in the Sky Confronts Complicated Ethics of Drone Warfare
• TV Review: Containment Offers No Cure to a Plague of Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Fantasies. New CW show boldly goes where many have gone before.
• 12 Crazy Things That Could Happen in Marvel Phase 4
• Books can be an essential part of every human being’s life-survival kit
• Feminism, Radicalization, and Injustice: The Enduring Power of the Witch Narrative: Witches are back in a big way in popular culture — but why? And what does this mean?
• A futuristic vision of the age of holograms
• Game over, man!: The Love/Hate Relationship between Aliens and its Tie-In Books
• Get Ready for Space Tourism and Mars Landings
• The Good Wife is secretly one of the best science fiction shows on television. Surprise!
• How Did Kylo Ren Escape Starkiller Base? 8 Mysteries Solved by Force Awakens Novels
• John Scalzi on The Big Idea: Paolo Bacigalupi
• The latest fan theory is that Rey is the reincarnation of Darth Vader.
• Looking back on the panic caused by Dungeons and Dragons in the ’80s and ’90s
• Octavia Butler’s Legacy, Impact, and Afrofuturism Celebrated
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Will Be A Science Fiction Period Piece: Old clothes, old spaceships, old robots. Period pieces have officially entered genre territory.
• Space and Sci-Fi Collide in an I-House Far, Far Away: “Has sci-fi increased space exploration and degraded the novelty of the fantastical science fiction universe by excessively promoting space exploration with its elaborate descriptions of space?”
• The Star Wars Comic’s New Stormtroopers Look Absurdly Awesome
• Star Wars 7: Daisy Ridley ‘doesn’t care’ who Rey’s parents are
• Star Wars Episode VIII is going to be completely unlike Force Awakens, says stars
• Star Wars Fans Feel the Force Calling Them Back to Original Cuts
• The Star Wars Line Of Dialogue Carrie Fisher Absolutely Hated
• Why is Scarlett Johansson’s Ghost in the Shell casting so problematic? The latest instance in Hollywood’s long history of casting white people as non-white characters.
• Why Star Wars Fans Should Rally Around Jake Lloyd

Art

• Aureliusz Falowski took the already expensive UCS Millenium Falcon model and replaced all the light gray parts with custom metallic silver ones to create an eye-dazzling pimped out ride for the galaxy’s most dazzling smuggler.
• Rogue One fan poster by Phil Noto
• The Star Wars Comic’s New Stormtroopers Look Absurdly Awesome

More Fun Stuff

• The 9 most creative costumes from the Star Wars Half Marathon
• Cover Reveal: It Happened One Doomsday by Laurence MacNaughton
• Disneyland teases fans with panoramic photo of groundbreaking at Star Wars-themed land construction site. Poor R2 gets all the grunt work.
• Google’s Parent Company Has 100 People Working on Its City of the Future. I, for one, welcome our new Search Engine Overlords.
• Infographic: Make Your Own DARTH VADER Suit for a Mere $18.3 Million
• Read an excerpt from Chains of Command by Marko Kloos at My Bookish Ways.
• Read the short story “Collateral” by Peter Watts at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read the short story “Dune Time” by Jack Nicholls at Tor.com.
• Real life Star Wars Jedi training school will teach kids the way of the Force
• Repel Imperial boarders with a life-size LEGO DH-17 Blaster
• Watch a trailer for for the Sci-Fi Mockumentary About a World Where Men Stopped Being Born, No Men Beyond This Point.
• X-Men: Apocalypse Mock-umentary Clip And Infographic