SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-03-29

Interviews & Profiles

• Reading & Writing podcast interviews Kat Richardson.
• The Qwillery interviews Debbie Viguié.
• Redditors interviews Janny Wurts.
• EW.com interviews Max Brooks.
• Talks at Google features Patrick Rothfuss.
• SFX interviews Gareth Edwards.

News

• Diana Gill Joins Ace and Roc Books as Executive Editor.
• Newly Launched: Inscription Magazine – science fiction and fantasy stories for teens. [via Tor.com]
• Coming November 2014: The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A Kingkiller Chronicle Novella.
• Speculative Fiction 2014 editors announced.
• Dexter’s Lab Comic Will Be Published by IDW.
• Private Space Taxis Are a ‘Critical Need’ for US, NASA Chief Says.

Events & Event News

• HUGO NOMINATION DEADLINE: March 31st.
• Southern Reach: Annihilation Book Tour Schedule for April and Beyond.
• Now through September: The Maison d’Ailleurs — Museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary voyages. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• April 25-27, 2014: The Dorkly Fan Art Expo Submission – C2E2 – Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.

Crowd Funding

• Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar by Axanar Productions.
• Aghast – A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic by George C. Cotronis.
• ARTIST ALLEY TEES by Artist Alley Tees.
• Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat: The Graphic Novel by Andrez Bergen.

Articles

• Violette Malan on Do You Have the Time?
• Thea James on Divergent: From the Page to the Screen.
• The Ranting Dragon on Ten Fantasy and Science-Fiction Novels Worth Reading in April 2014.
• The Guardian on Hitchhiker’s cast reunites in theatre where it all began.
• Sarah Chorn on Books I’m Eyeing.
• Renay at LadyBusiness on Ignorance, Anxiety, Lifelong Learning and The Other Half of the Sky.
• R. Graeme Cameron on Eager to Celebrate SF: The Zoryany Shlyah SF Club of Kiev (Part 2).
• Paul Kincaid on The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, Diana Wynne Jones’ The Islands of Chaldea, Ken MacLeod’s Descent, and Nick Mamatas’ The Last Weekend.
• MyPrettyFloralBonnet on A Beginner’s Guide to YA Dystopian Novels.
• Kristin Centorcelli on Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry.
• Kenny Soward on More Than Your Average Zombies.
• John O’Neill on Explore the Echoes of a Vanished Product Line in Lost Empires of Faerûn.
• Huff Post asks Which Fantasy City Do You Belong In?
• Howard Andrew Jones on Genre Prejudice.
• George Dvorsky on Why Asimov’s Three Laws Of Robotics Can’t Protect Us.
• Ethan Gilsdorf on The Dune in our Heads.
• Dorkly on Darth Vader Has Some Questions For the Emperor.
• Daily Galaxy on Searching for the Origins of Water in Planetary Systems.
• Ari Marmell on What We Darn Well Better Not See in Star Wars VII.
• Andrew Liptak on 33 SF/F Books Coming Out In April 2014 That You Need To Read.
• Andrea Johnson on The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan.
• Abby Rapoport on George Takei, Living Long and Prospering from Social Media. [via Paul Di Filippo]

Art

• Spaceships by Michael Daglas.
• Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld: Cover Revealed.
• Cool Art: FREE ‘Doctor Who’ Prints by Tim Doyle.
• Juba.

More Fun Stuff

• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember (Excerpt) by Annalee Newitz.
• The Clockwork Dagger (Excerpt) by Beth Cato.
• Excerpt: first two chapters of Karl Schroeder’s Lockstep.
• 50 Page Fridays: Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling.
• Lies That Sci-Fi Movies Have Taught Us About Space.
• This ‘Game of Thrones’-inspired necklace costs $25,000.
• Star Wars Symphonic Suite.
• Vote For The 250 Greatest Sci-Fi Moments Of All Time.
• Excellent Resource: Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics: A Topical Index.