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.