SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-11-06
Interviews & Profiles
- The Qwillery interviews J. Kathleen Cheney.
- Moya Bailey interviews Adrienne Maree Brown.
- Lightspeed Magazine interviews Maria Dahvana Headley.
- Lightspeed Magazine interviews Sean Williams.
- Apex Magazine interviews Jim C. Hines.
- Sword & Laser interviews Nicholas Kaufmann.
- Reddit Readers interview Max Gladstone.
- SFFWorld interviews Christopher Paolini.
- VIDEO: SF writers on writing, for Nanowrimo.
News
- Ursula K. Le Guin wins Impact of Imagination on Society Award.
- Book View Cafe Blog announces Across the Spectrum edited by Pati Nagle and Deborah J. Ross, Wolverine’s Daughter by Doranna Durgin, and The Complete Lythande by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
- Producers of Nazi Spoof Iron Sky to Launch Franchise.
- Liftoff! India’s First Mars Probe Launches Toward the Red Planet.
- NASA’s Kepler spacecraft sends home data suggesting odds of space life are better than we thought.
Events & Event News
- May 22-25, 2014 in Madison, WI: Feminism, Fans, and the Future: Traveling the Shifting Worlds of Writers, Readers, Gender, and Race in Science Fiction | Science Fiction Research Association.
- Superheroes For Hospice To Have Charity Comic Sale.
Crowd Funding
- Fantagraphics 2014 Spring Season: 39 Graphic Novels & Books by Gary Groth. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- RARRR!!! Monster-Building, City-Stomping Card Game.
- The 2014 John Picacio Calendar by John Picacio.
- War Stories: Modern Military Science Fiction by Andrew Liptak.
Articles
- Alexis Lothian on Science Fiction and the Feminist Present.
- Joan Haran and Katie King on Science Fiction Feminisms, Feminist Science Fictions & Feminist Sustainability.
- Rebekah Sheldon on Somatic Capitalism: Reproduction, Futurity, and Feminist Science Fiction.
- Lucy Baker on A Curious Doubled Existence: Birth Here and in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga.
- Deanna Day on Toward a Zombie Epistemology: What it Means to Live and Die in Cabin in the Woods.
- Paula Gardner and Britt Wray on From Lab to Living Room: Transhumanist Imaginaries of Consumer Brain Wave Monitors.
- Marlene Barr on Creating Room For A Singularity of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange’s We, Robots.
- Clarissa Ai Ling Lee on Emmy Noether, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and their Cyborgian Counterparts: Triangulating Mathematical-Theoretical Physics, Feminist Science Studies, and Feminist Science Fiction.
- Jamie “Skye” Bianco on Queer Urban Composites: Any City or ‘Bellona (After Samuel R. Delany)’.
- Jilly Dreadful on The Cyborg in the Basement Manifesto, or, A Frankenstein of One’s Own: How I Stopped Hunting for Cyborgs and Created the Slightly Irregular Definition of Cyborgean Forms of Storytelling.
- Kieran Gosney on Weird Divide and Connection: African Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- Rachel Bach on on Upsetting the Default.
- Deborah J. Ross on Meeting Marion.
- Mary Robinette Kowal on How I Beat Pat Rothfuss At Being Pat Rothfuss.
- Wesley Chu talks about THE DEATHS OF TAO.
- @Rigid squares of paper: Philip K. Dick on Science Fiction.
- Brian Ruckley on E-book and Translation Developments, But I Don’t Really Know What They Mean.
- James Wallace Harris on Models for Writing the Great American Science Fiction Novel.
- David Brin on Sci Fi Blasts from the Past…and Future.
- Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten Film: Radio Ranch (1940).
- Shawn Speakman on The Power of Hollywood Over Book Sales.
- Nick Mamatas on Laziness Leads to Sloth, Sloth to Incompetence, Incompetence to Stupidity, and Stupidity to the Dark Side of the Force.
- Niall Alexander on Short Fiction Spotlight: The Time Traveller’s Almanac.
- Michael Panush on My Superpower.
- Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas on The SF/F Community: An Essay.
- Melville House on How Margaret Atwood declines blurb requests.
- Whatever on The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor.
- Stellar Four on Some History with Eliza Crewe.
- Bookworm Blues on Hell Bent by Devon Monk.
- My Bookish Ways on Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig.
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter on More Than This by Patrick Ness.
- Charlie Jane Anders on All the Most Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books in November.
- Gail Carriger on Recommended Reading.
- Buxxfeed on 30 Forgotten Horror Films That Are Worth Revisiting.[via Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine]
Art
- Concept Art by Bryan Wynia.
- The fantasy illustrations by Guicaimumu.
- Stunning Digital Art by Khyzyl Saleem.
- Concept Art by Martin Deschambault.
- Sci-fi Art: Space Port.
- Guardians by m4gik.
More Fun Stuff
- Download Some of the Best from Tor.com 2013 For Free.
- Luminous Chaos (Excerpt) by Jean-Christophe Valtat.
- BEYOND THE RIFT by Peter Watts preview: “The Things”.
- Functioanl Nerds #168 – Clancy, Yngwie and Twitter, Oh My.
- Now posted: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, issue #3.
- Now posted: Ansible 316, November 2013.
- Now posted: Functioanl Nerds #168 – Clancy, Yngwie and Twitter, Oh My.
- SF Gateway Author of the Month: Kate Wilhelm.
- Write Some Very, Very Short Scifi for io9.
- Doctor Who: Risk.
- Gandalf Is On The Staff.
Damn, Is this a Feminist Blog Link site or a SF one???
Women have just as much buying power as men do.
Use Romance, Y/A Fantasy and Paranormal Romance as a example.
Buy it and they will keep)come(ing).
Yesterday, I got a link to a new online SF magazine that just published lots of great content in their latest feminist-themed issue…so yeah, lots of feminist SF links today 🙂
I hear ya, Just the Real Law of any free capitalist land is Greed, and Greed doesn’t care where the money comes from.
If I could be a agent for the next J.K. Rowling/Suzanne Collin etc. I would jump up and down till my ankles broke, and then I would roll around high-fiving the squirrels and chip monks.
Plus I see plenty of so-called feminism that has become unfocused and perverted. As much of it has turned to being Condescending, Victimization or Hypocrisy.
I do find it funny that E.(Erica)L. James B/D & S/M Shades of Grey books were the biggest books of last year(and mostly by female buyers)
Fight the Good Fight of Course. But everyone needs to remember that in America the only speech that needs defending is speech that could be considered offensive.
Anyway I still love the links and keep up the good work!