SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-11-04

Interviews & Profiles

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Jaime Lee Moyer.
• My Shelf Confessions interviews Jacqueline Carey.
• Reddit readers interview Jaym Gates and Andrew Liptak.
• The Functional Nerds podcast-interview Wesley Chu.
• Schlock Magazine interviews Jeffrey Ford.
• Little Red Reviewer interviews Gareth L. Powell.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Blake Crouch.
• Jeremy L. C. Jones interviews Bradley P. Beaulieu.

News

• Robert Silverberg Health Update from Pat Cadigan: “Bob is cleared to fly home on Monday by his doctors”.
• Orson Scott Card announces new Ender’s Game YA book series called Fleet School.
• on Bards and Sages Publishing Readers’ Choice Awards. (Congrats, James!)
• HarperCollins goes direct-to-consumer for global e-book sales.
• New Short Fiction ePubs from Paizo.
• Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscripts of Frankenstein Now Online for the First Time.
• No Cloaks Allowed is a new SFF Blog & Podcast lanched by Gavin C. Pugh (GavReads) that will focus on diversity.

Events & Event News
Thursday Novemeber 7th, 2013: “An Evening With Ursula K. Le Guin,” a fund-raiser for the Salem Public Library Foundation at Hudson Hall, Willamette University.

Crowd Funding

• War Stories: Modern Military Science Fiction by Andrew Liptak.
• The 2014 John Picacio Calendar by John Picacio.
• RARRR!!! Monster-Building, City-Stomping Card Game.
• Museum of Science Fiction: Preview Location Fundraiser.

Articles

• Gail Z. Martin on When Magic is the Problem.
• Anaea Lay on Sapir-Whorf Must Die.
• Michael J. Sullivan on his different approach to publishing.
• A. Lee Martinez on A Thousand-and-One Space Wizards.
• Max Gladstone Shares Science Fiction Reading Advice.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on What I Did on My Summer Vacation.
• GF Willmetts on Fixed Points In Time.
• NPR on Providence Kindles Love Of Horror Writer H.P. Lovecraft. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Richard Derus reveiws The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman.
• Stainless Steel Droppings on Ender’s Game: A non-spoiler film review.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Shout-Out: Masks by E. C. Blake.
• The AudioBookaneers on The Shining by Stephen King and Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.
• The Daily Beast on ‘Ender’s Game’: The Military’s Sci-Fi Manual.
• The Verge on Del Toro’s ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ reveals his secret sketches and ideas. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Gail Carriger on 6 Questions About Curtsies & Conspiracies, Answered.
• The Geek Twins on 3 Scifi Shorts Good Enough to Score Movie Deals.
• Digital Gambit on Top 5 Fantasy Books.
• Publishers Weekly’s Best SF/F/H Books of 2013.
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 100 Science Fiction Films.

Art

• Illustrations by Ulises Serrano.
• Star Wars Invades Thomas Kinkade Paintings.
• concept ships: MONTHLY HEADER #93: Alejandro Burdisio.
• Organic Portrait by AlfonsoElola.
• EC with Sander Jansen#2 by Bernardumaine.
• Halloween 201E by fokis8.

More Fun Stuff

• 50 Page Fridays: Robin Hobb.
• Book Trailer Preview: When the World was Flat (and we were in love) by Ingrid Jonach.
• Finally, Game of Thrones Books You Can Read to Your Children.
• Skyboat Media spotlights Harlan Ellison.
• Anatomy of a Scary Film [Infographic].
• Dr. Beverly Crusher’s 1983 National Enquirer TV Commercial.
• Would you like to play a game? Try Walking Dead Risk.
• Two-Year-Old Dresses Up As All The Doctors.