SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-07-20
Interviews & Profiles
- Dark Wolf interviews Sarah Pinborough.
- Emma Newman interviews Frances Hardinge.
- Reddit readers interview Betsy Dornbusch.
- Innsmouth Free Press interviews Meeah Cross.
- My Bookish Ways interviews Chris F. Holm.
- LitReactor interviews John Skipp.
- Amazing Stories interviews Steve Jackson.
News
- HarperVoyager and HarperCollins Children’s Books acquire crossover trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
- Strange Chemistry Acquires Lisa O’Kane.
- Kkeith Brooke on New: Salvage by Eric Brown.
- Announcing All You Need Is Kill: The Graphic Novel.
- Telos Publishing acquires world rights to new Robert Rankin fantasy novel entitled The Abominable Showman, coming in 2014.
- Star Wars home of Anakin Skywalker threatened by dune.
- Enormous Hole In Sun’s Corona, Probe Finds.
- Amazon CEO finds Apollo 11 rocket engines.
Events & Event News
Crowd Funding
Articles
- John Picacio on Stand With Texas Women At Worldcon.
- Lyda Morehouse on Day in the Life of an Idiot.
- Freya Robertson on For Role Playing Gamers and Beginning Fantasy Writers – Some Retail Therapy.
- John Anealio says I Quit.
- John Scalzi on Today’s Reader Participation Post: Rank My Novels.
- Charles Stross on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34.
- A. Lee Martinez on External Characterization.
- Paul McAuley on Cover Space.
- Paul McAuley on Story Behind Quiet War.
- Steve Fahnestalk on A Fan’s History – Part 4 – A Visit with Heinlein.
- MD Jackson on Photographs, Fantasy, Cover Design and Neil Gaiman.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Dark Eden by Chris Beckett.
- GW Thomas on Poul Anderson: The Invisible Classic.
- My Bookish Ways on The Homecoming by Carsten Stroud.
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Publisher Spotlight: Flux.
- All Things From My Brain on Friday Flick: The Raven.
- Shelf Inflicted’s Jay Lake Pre-Mortem Readathon on Rocket Science, Mainspring, Escapement and Pinion.
- Kirkus Reveiws Blog on Watched That? Read This.
- Salon.com on Joss Whedon’s costume designer: “I love working in sci-fi and fantasy because there are no rules. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Time on 13 Worst Sci-fi and Horror Movie Titles.
- Blastr on 12 sci-fi buddy cop duos that fought each other while fighting crime.
- Carrie Cuinn lists 11 Exhausted SF Tropes You Should Avoid. Really..
Art
- Brilliant Concept Art by Mike Azevedo.
- Conceptual Worlds by Christian Hecker.
- Digital Illustrations by Christian Quinot.
- lopskull hide city by LopSkull.
- raven 05 by LopSkull.
- destroyer 19 150 by LopSkull.
More Fun Stuff
- Regan Wolfrom Speculative Fiction Writing Wroundup for 7/19/2013.
- Read a sample from The Black Prism.
- Patricia C. Wrede’s Worldbuilder Questions.
- George R.R. Martin destroys Paul and Storm.
- The first ever fully interactive Star Trek Navigraphic.
- Starship Century on Facebook
- 6 Star Wars and Indiana Jones Movies Visualised as Treasure Maps.
- Captain America reading Captain America. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Steampunk TARDIS.
