SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-07-31

Interviews & Profiles

• Tor.com interviews Kate Elliott.
• Innsmouth Free Press interviews Ada Hoffmann.
• Nerdist interviews George R.R. Martin.
• Bradley P. Beaulieu interviews Joshua Palmatier.
• Tom Rizzo interviews Bill Crider.
• Functional Nerds interview Jeff Patterson.

News

• BVC Announces The As You Wish Series by Mindy Klasky,
• A Fall of Princes, Avaryan Rising Vol. III, by Judith Tarr and Death and the Lady by Judith Tarr.
• Star Trek’s Shuttlecraft Galileo to Be Unveiled at Houston Museum Today.

Events & Event News

• Book launch for Edward Willett’s Right to Know at When Words Collide in Calgary August 10.
• Sep 28, 2013: Guardian Masterclasses on How to write science fiction.

Crowd Funding

• Daily Science Fiction Fall 2013 by Daily Science Fiction.
• CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE: Steampunk vs. Aliens Anthology by Joshua Palmatier.

Articles

• BookSworn (Helen Lowe) on When Characters We Love Die.
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia on V.C. Andrews and Lovecraft: A Love Story.
• My Bookish Ways on Undead and Unsure by MaryJanice Davidson: “The 12 Days of Betsy” Tour.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on My Favorite Bit: Chris F. Holm talks about THE BIG REAP.
• L.B. Gale on Profiles in Parts & Wholes: Battlestar Galactica Edition.
• Andrew Fox on Pacific Rim: Building the Modern Kaiju.
• Brad R. Torgersen on Influences: Allan Cole & Chris Bunch.
• A. Lee Martinez on Present Tense.
• Cory Doctorow on Kill City Blues: Sandman Slim versus the elder gods of the dead mall.
• Anthony Ryan on Story behind Blood Song.
• Missions Unknown (Scott Cupp) on Forgotten Film – The Call of Cthulhu (2005).
• Boing Boing on 75 years of Superman: How the boy in blue continues to leave his mark on pop culture.
• Patrick Hester on Awkward Interviews.
• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on The Uses and Value of Realism in Speculative Fiction.
• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on The Convergence of Utopia and Science Fiction.
• Suvudu on A Great Fall With Greater YA Books.
• Tor.com on Brain Power: What Makes A Superhero?
• LiveScience on Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse: Just Do the Math.
• On Starships and Dragons on Top 10 Favorite Book Beginnings and Endings.
• Laura Lam on 10 Books that Shaped Pantomime.
• BuzzFeed on 19 Book Cover Clichés.
• Stanley Kubrick’s List of Top 10 Films (The First and Only List He Ever Created).
• War Stories website lists 16 Military SF films.
• My Bookish Ways on Top 10 (+3) Must Read Titles of August 2013 (SF/F/Horror).

Art

• The Chase by Tham Hoi Mun.
• Star Trek Art at Geek-Art Store.
• SUPERHERO – HEAT by JohnAslarona.
• THE MASK by JohnAslarona.
• XLII by JohnAslarona.
• BRUCE ALMIGHTY by JohnAslarona.
• THE CREATOR by JohnAslarona.
• Concept spaceships with environments by YongSub Noh.

More Fun Stuff

• Free at Amazon.com through August 3rd: Sword of the Ronin (The Ronin Trilogy) eBook by Travis Heermann.
• Read the first chapter of Right to Know by Edward Willett.
• Dangerous Women: “The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens” (Excerpt) by George R. R. Martin.
• Giveaway: Night Pilgrims (Saint-Germain) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
• 37 Things Only “Star Wars” Fans Will Find Funny.
• Space History Photo: Launch Preparation.
• Gallery: 55 images for NASA’s 55th anniversary.
• J.R.R. Tolkien Reads From The Two Towers, the Second Book of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
• VIDEO: Star Trek Galileo Shuttlecraft – How It Was Restored To Flight Status.
• Early SFBC Advert.
• Star Wars Character Coaster Set.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #187: “Nuts Aur Us” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• StarShipSofa #300 w/ fiction by Harry Turtledove. Hear SF Signal get whooped by Geeks Guide to the Galaxy!