SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-03-12

Interviews & Profiles

• The Functional Nerds interviews Mur Lafferty.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Isla Morley.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Peter Liney.
• The Qwillery also interviews Peter Liney.
• Fantasy Faction interviews Jennifer Williams.
• Suvudu interviews Kim Harrison.
• Diabolical Plots interviews Brad Torgersen.
• Reddit AMA with David Edison.
• Reddit AMA with Marie Brennan.
• The Alternative Typewriter interviews Juliette Wade about writing advice.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Sofia Samatar about the short story “How to Get Back to the Forest”.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Robert Jackson Bennett about the short story “A Drink for Teddy Ford”.
• Tor.com profiles Douglas Adams.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews artist Mark Zug.
• Interzone interviews artist Ben Baldwin.
• Kindle Daily Post interviews Jordan Mechner, author of the graphic novel Templar.
• The Mary Sue interviews Scott Allie, Dark Horse Comics Editor in Chief, about women in comics.
• MTV (briefly) interviews Karen Gillan about Guardians Of The Galaxy.
• io9 readers ask questions to physicist Brian Greene about string theory.

News

• Alan Rodgers (1959-2014).
• Lambda Awards Finalists.
• Tor Books Announces the Acquisition of Charlie Jane Anders’s Novel All the Birds in the Sky.
• The Game of Thrones TV Show Creators Already Know What Happens at the End of the Book Series.
• Batman, Green Hornet team for a ’60s crossover.
• Now available: Shadow Unit 14 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, Leah Bobet and Will Shetterly.

Events & Event News

• Laura Anne Gilman’s schedule for Lunacon at the Westchester Hilton in Rye Brook NY, March 15-16.
• Edge-Lit 3 with Joe Abercrombie and Charles Stross at QUAD in Derby (UK), July 19.

Crowd Funding

• Table Titans Volume 1: First Encounters by Toonhound Studios.
• Devils’ Field: Lucy A. Snyder’s New Jessie Shimmer Novel by Steven Saus.
• Pirate Den by Gamesmith, LLC.
• Freaks & Weeping Children: An Anthology of Dark Fiction by Michael D. Woods.
• The Intergalactic Travel Bureau Tour by Olivia Koski.

Articles

• International Women’s Day (Angry Robots): Cassandra Rose Clarke on Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.
• Locus Roundtable on Samuel R. Delany, Grand Master.
• Fleetwood Robbins says I Wish It Weren’t Over!
• Chuck Wendig lists The Varied Emotional Stages Of Writing A Book.
• Jim C. Hines on Manufactured Outrage and Choosing to be Offended.
• Kim Harrison answers Where Does Inspiration Come From?
• Victoria Schwab On Making Time and Complicating Life on Purpose.
• Miles Cameron on Choosing A Favorite Historical Period.
• Nick Kelly on Writing the Fight.
• Elizabeth Bear says You Are the Silence in Between What I Thought and What I Said. About productivity in writing.
• Keith Cronin on Envy: a Lesson in What Not to Do.
• Brian Ruckley’s impressions about the Newcastle Film and Comic Con.
• Amy McCulloch on Wit, Skill and the Read. About her experience rereading Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy.
• Leah Cypess talks about her book Death Sworn at John Scalzi’s The Big Idea.
• Jessica Strider reviews Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan.
• Alvaro Zinos-Amaro reviews Five Novels by Norman Spinrad.
• Mike Brotherton reviews The New Cosmos Series.
• Kindle Daily Post lists Top 5 Dystopian Comics.
• Underwire says Bronies Are Redefining Fandom — And American Manhood.

Art

• Godzilla Stomps Austin in New Mondo Poster Reveal.
• Cover Reveal: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett.
• New Concept Art for Captain America: The Winter Soldier Debuts.
• Discover Soviet-Era Illustrations Of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976).
• The art of Nivanh Chanthara.

More Fun Stuff

• The Robin Hobb Birthday Scavenger Hunt Clue – With Pictures (by Laura Lam).
• Food: An Enchantingly Beautiful Dark Crystal Cake.
• Photos: Peter V. Brett’s Author D&D 2014 Photo Round-Up.
• Comic Strip: Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard.
• Podcast: Adventures in SciFi Publishing – Episode 250: Ser MJS.
• Podcast: Digesting Hannibal Episode 3: Hannibal S02E02 – Sakizuke. Hosted by Cassandra Rose Clarke and Alexandre Maki (yours truly).
• Trailer: The Last Ship.
• Trailer: Orphan Black – Season 2 Trailer: “One of a Kind”.
• Trailer: Marvel’s Tales to Astonish: Civil War.
• Trailer: Cloak.
• Trailer: Titanfall trailers and gameplay.
• Featurette: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Becoming Peter Parker.
• Video: Women Writers on Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elle Datlow, Jane Yolen, Elizabeth Hand, Kate Elliot, Octavia E. Butler, N.K. Jemisin.
• Video: Orbit Books held a Google Hangouts panel about Genre-Bending Thrillers with Michael Marshall, Jaye Wells and Malinda Lo.
• Video: Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance Midnight Release Party Q&A and Reading.
• Video: Talkin’ Comics Weekly (by Amy Dallen) – Deadpool: The Merc with the… Moves?
• Video: Yoda Kicks Off Star Wars Tournament with ESPN Interview.
• Video: Aliens P5000 Powerloader Baby costume.
• Video: Awesome Dad Animates His Son into a Dragon Ball Video.
• Video: Honest Trailers – Frozen.
• Music Video: The Legend of Zelda – Dungeon Theme Acapella – YouTube.
• Music Video: Elliot The Bull – “Colourblind”.