SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-10-11
Interviews & Profiles
- Horror Writers Association interviews Lucy Snyder.
- Weird Fiction Review interviews Margo Lanagan.
- Horror Writers Association interviews Amber Benson.
- Disquieting Visions interviews Gail Z. Martin.
- Skiffy and Fanty interviews Nick Mamatas.
- Southsider interviews Jason Sizemore.
News
- Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, Second American in Orbit, Dies at 88.
- Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” is Coming to the Big Screen.
- Lonely Alien Planet Discovered Without a Parent Star.
- Publishizer is a new crowd-funding platform for authors.
Crowd Funding
- Star Trek Continues Webseries.
- Blade Raiders: Grimalkin Graphic Novel by Grant Gould.
- The Hacker Chronicles Digital Series Pilot.
Articles
- Kameron Hurley on The Blog Post that Lost Me Half My Audience.
- Brenda Cooper on Backing into Eden Chapter 15: GMO Ethics.
- Juliette Wade on Architecture – A “Dive into Worldbuilding!” Hangout report with Video.
- Rowena Cory Daniells on Story behind King Breaker.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Standards.
- Michelle Sagara West on Why We Love Lindsey.
- Genevieve Valentine on Ten Worlds About Ben Affleck’s Batman.
- Charles Stross on Polemic: how readers will discover books in future.
- Paolo Bacigalupi on Two Truths + A Lie (video).
- Whatever on The Big Idea: Anton Strout.
- Anton Strout on The Twinsanity of Writing Life.
- Claude Lalumiere on Story behind Super Stories of Heroes and Villains.
- Andrew Liptak on Short Story Sale: Fragmented, to Galaxy’s Edge Magazine.
- Andrew Liptak on The Fantastic Worlds of Lord Dunsany.
- Bookworm Blues on Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams.
- Paul Weimer on Mining The Genre Asteroid: Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand.
- Boing Boing on 1970 road trip with science fiction great Thomas M. Disch and poet Marilyn Hacker.
- Fantasy Faction on Foundations of Fantasy: The Odyssey.
- Slice of SciFi on Voyagers and Visionaries of Science Fiction: Metropolis.
- Scott Lynch on The Right Way to Buy My Books is Your Way.
- Gollancz blog on A Special Message from Simon Spanton on the Publication of The Republic of Thieves.
- The Daily Dot on Confused Stephen King fans review the wrong book on Amazon. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- SFX on Doctor Who Missing Episodes Returned: Everything You Need To Know.
- io9 on 10 Myths About Science Fiction (And Why They Matter).
- Books Worth Reading on Required Science Fiction: A Top 10 List.
- Mark Charan Newton lists Ten Books On Classical History That Every Fantasy Fan Should Read.
Art
More Fun Stuff
- Regan Wolfrom’s Speculative Fiction Writing Wroundup for 10/10/2013.
- Ashley, Kate Locke, Margot Adler, Terence Taylor at NYRSF 10/01/13.
- Samsung Hypes Smart Watch With Wonderful Look Back at Sci-Fi’s Greatest Wrist Gadgets.
- Check out the never-before-seen (fake) pilot for an ’80s Alien sitcom spinoff.
- Book Trailer: Lot Beta by Tom Merritt.
- Thief Game.
- More People You See At Every Nerd Convention [Comic].
The Star Trek Continues project is nothing short of incredible if for nothing else the episode’s look and the acting of Vic Mignogna as Kirk. How they got it to look like an episode filmed in the 1960s is a technical feat I don’t understand.