SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-01-24
Interviews & Profiles
- Art of the Genre: Interview with artist Jack Crane
- Brian Staveley talks about writing The Emperor’s Blades
- Check out this endearingly awkward interview with Joaquin Phoenix about Her!
- Chris Pine hopes for Kirk to “Go Dark” in Star Trek 3
- The Conversation: Novelists Adam Sternbergh and Lev Grossman on Genre Fiction and Nerd-dom
- David Cronenberg talks about the Kafka-esque soul of The Fly.
- Director Stuart Beattie discusses his fresh take on Shelley’s classic character in I, Frankenstein
- My Bookish Ways interviews Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy
- The Qwillery interviews John Dixon, author of Phoenix Island.
- Red Rising Author Pierce Brown on Dystopia, Science Fiction and Ancient History
News
- The 2013 Bram Stoker Preliminary Ballot has been announced!
- New Jersey teen pulls zombie prank on Walking Dead star
- Pew, Princeton survey shows U.S. ereading up
- StarShipSofa Announces Premium Membership.
Events & Event News
- Jeff Vandermeer is giving away 5 download links via one of his quirky contests: “Tell me why you in particular should be added to the expedition going into Area X! Entries should be at least a sentence long but not over 500 words. I will not be checking their truthfulness.”
- The Mars Madness exhibit, subtitled “Sci-Fi, Popular Culture and Ray Bradbury’s Literary Journey to Outer Space” opened today and will be on display until August 1, 2014 in the Special Collections at the University of Arizona.
Crowd Funding
- Cradle – an open-world adventure in a unique fantasy setting full of action and exploration featuring a one-of-a-kind combat system.
- Unidentified Funny Objects 3 – the 3rd annual anthology featuring offbeat and humorous science fiction & fantasy short stories.
- Women Destroy Science Fiction – a special issue of the Hugo Award-nominated magazine LIGHTSPEED entirely written—and edited—by women.
- Dark Resurrection Vol.2 Star Wars Fan Film Project.
Articles
- Review: The Signal Is An Ambitious Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller
- 10 Teen Girls Who are Toppling Dystopian Regimes
- The 10 Weirdest And Most Wonderful Libraries In The World
- 25 Things You Didn’t Know About the Original ROBOCOP
- “And the World Turned Gray: Gritty vs. Classic Heroes” by Kameron Hurley
- Are We Ready For Plenty Of Sci-Fi And Pirates in 2014?
- Can reading make you smarter? There is evidence that reading can increase levels of all three major categories of intelligence. I believe my discovery of Spider-Man and other comic books turned me into a straight-A student.
- Concerning Cake, Bilbo Baggins, and Charity: Patrick Rothfuss discusses his Reddit AMA
- Does digital publishing mean the death of the author? We used to know what it took to be a writer, but electronic publishing is piling pressure on myths of the author’s life.
- Four Reasons Why You Should Be Reading Young Adult Fiction
- The Grand, Obscure and Strange Items That Authors Collect
- If Her Wins the Oscar for Best Picture, It Could Change Science Fiction Forever
- Kameron Hurley discusses Editing in Process… over at More Red Ink.
- Keeping it Real – Female Protagonists in YA Lit
- Our Favorite Vintage Sci-fi Novels: Vintage sci-fi sounds intimidating. There is so much out there. Even if you decide to give it a try, where do you start?
- Scientists find secret to writing a bestseller
- Seven End of the Year Lists We Could Have Done but Didn’t
- Suvudu considers The Literary Merit of a Cover
- War of the Worlds is Still Relatable Today, argues Rinn at the Little Red Reviewer
- We, Frankenstein: The Deeper Meaning of the Frankenstein-vs-Demons Film
Art
- Evan Palmer retells J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Ainulindalë” as a series of watercolor paintings.
- Edoras and Lake-town captured in Legos
- New Museum Morphs Into a Cold War Vision Future for “Construction of a Spaceship Module“
- Robots, Rest & Rebuild: Twisting context and character, artist Pixel Pancho blends pop-culture icons with a delicate sense of decay
- Take a tour of Minecraft Middle Earth and listen to an interview with its creators.
More Fun Stuff
- Apex Publications names their Favorite Vintage Sci-fi Novels.
- Infographic: The History of Science Fiction
- Paul Di Filippo shares a vintage Advertisement for Ace Doubles
- Photo of actors Adam West and Burt Ward on the set of the movie Batman.
- Read Me! Please!: Book Titles Rewritten to Get More Clicks
- You can learn a lot about life from Dungeons and Dragons.
“War of the Worlds is Still Relatable Today, argues the Little Red Reviewer”
this was actually a guest post written by Rinn from Rinn Reads.
Updated — thanks, Andrea. 😉