SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-07-02
Interviews & Profiles
- Book View Cafe Blog interviews Sue Lange.
- A.C. Wise interviews E. Catherine Tobler.
- Jeremy L. C. Jones interviews Richard Ellis Preston, Jr.
- Jeremy L. C. Jones interviews J. M. McDermott.
- Literary Escapism interviews Jennifer Sights.
- Fantasy Faction interviews Django Wexler.
- Big Think interviews Ramez Naam.
- Rick Klaw interviews Jason Henderson and Tony Salvaggio.
- Suvudu interviews Peter Stenson.
News
- Penguin and Random House finalize merger.
- Telos Moonrise Launches With Steampunk And Horror.
- Gaiman’s new Sandman story gets its official title (and here’s the cover art).
- Science Fiction Hobby Games: A First Survey By Neal Tringham.
- Announcing… The Reef by Mark Charan Newton.
Events & Event News
- Tonight! NYRSF Readings with Kate Elliott & EC Ambrose.
- Thursday, 4 July 2013: Annalee Newitz: Scatter Adapt & Remember in Melbourne, Australia.
- Thursday, 4 July 2013: Book Launch for Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross at Waterstones in Edinburgh.
Crowd Funding
- Mythic Delirium: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry by Mike Allen.
- UPGRADED: A Cyborg Anthology edited by Neil Clarke by Neil Clarke.
Articles
- Kat Howard on Not naming names.
- Freya Robertson on Fake it until you Make it – Writing as a Career.
- Genevieve Valentine on Another Word: My Own Private B-Movie.
- Jay Posey on Bad Guys Are People Too.
- Martha Wells on The Death of the Necromancer on Black Gate.
- Lou Morgan on The Details in the Devil.
- Michael J. Martinez on Genre Mashups.
- Will McIntosh on Story behind Love Minus Eighty.
- Robert Sandiford on Not another black Superman story.
- Brad R. Torgersen on Writer Dad: Mike Resnick.
- Derek Johnson on Watching the Future: Traveling Through Another Dimension.
- A. Lee Martinez on The Balding Orc.
- Mark Plummer on Paraphernalia: Last and First Fans.
- Bradley P. Beaulieu on How I Ran Two Successful Novel Kickstarters in Less Than Six Months — Part II.
- Jason S. Ridler on Spock’s Pops: How Operational Research became Wartime Magic.
- Kindle Post US on SF&F Authors’ Recommended Summer Reading.
- Bookish.com on Superheroes From Comics Who Reclaimed Their Independence.
- Bookish.com on Generation Ships and the Founding Fathers of Sci-Fi.
- Guardian on Readers take control in a new age of print.
- Tor.com on Advanced Readings in D&D: Fritz Leiber.
- Tor.com Fiction Affliction: July Releases in Fantasy.
- Geek Speak John Picacio’s art & mindspeak grace new Popular Science article.
- KurzweilAI on Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach.
- Justin Landon on 5 (more) mainstream novels for science fiction and fantasy readers.
Art
- Cover Reveal: Wolves by Simon Ings.
- Cover Story: Ancillary Justice By Ann Leckie.
- Futuristic Spaceship Illustrations by Adrian Mann.
- Concept ships Sergey Glushakov.
- Art by Jason Gamber.
- Spaceships From British 1970s Paperbacks, Part 2.
More Fun Stuff
- Now posted : Ansible 312, July 2013.
- The Curiosity (Excerpt) by Stephen P Kiernan.
- How sci-fi predicted the future (or not).
- Infographic: Readers Around the World.
- Portraits of Popular Anime Characters Recreated On Rice Paddy Fields. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Dr. Zaius and the Daily Mail.
- Plush ‘Star Wars’ Wampa Backpack.