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

Posted on April 21, 2016 by PipedreamerGrey in Tidbits // 0 Comments

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

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