SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-06-24
Interviews & Profiles
- Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Karen Joy Fowler.
- SciFiChick interviews Keri Arthur.
- Strange Horizons interviews Frances Hardinge.
- My Bookish Ways interviews Matthew Johnson.
- The Qwillery interviews A.J. Colucci.
- Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Geoff Jones.
- Submit questions now for a June 26th interview with Diana Gabaldon’s editor, Jennifer Hershey.
- Readers interview Kevin Hearne.
News
- 2nd Quarter Finalists Announced In The L. Ron Hubbard Writers of The Future Contest.
- BiblioSanctum gets a new home.
Events & Event News
Crowd Funding
- Beyond Words: 2016 Fantasy Author Calendar.
- Grisly is a sci-fi/horror short film that pays homage to both comic books and the science fiction movies of the 1950’s.
- Support Clarkesworld, an online science fiction & fantasy magazine.
- Support Apex Magazine, an online sf, fantasy, and horror zine..
- Support Stone Telling, a magazine of boundary-crossing poetry.
- Support the Growth of Hadley Rille Books: A Quality Small Press Publisher.
Articles
- Jim C. Hines on Rape, Abuse, and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
- J. Kathleen Cheney on Historical Research.
- Judith Tarr on Dispatches from the Crone Wars.
- Steven M. Long on The New Kid: Speculative Fiction and the Outsider Narrative.
- M.R. Carey on Sympathy for the Devil.
- David B. Coe on My Blog Tour Begins…With a Post About Blog Tours.
- Kevin Lucia on Five Horror Authors You Should Read Right Now.
- Tim Pratt on The story behind Heirs of Grace.
- Gav Reads on Crowdsourcing: LGBT-Friendly SF&F.
- NYTimes on Booksellers Score Some Points in Amazon’s Spat With Hachette.
- Joseph Mallozzi on Top 10 Worst Superhero Names.
- James Wallace Harris on The Many Robert Heinleins We Remember.
- The Pulp Super-Fan on A look at Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze.
- Tor Books on Why SFF is Alive and Kicking.
- Bookworm Blues on Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica.
- My Bookish Ways reviews Shattered by Kevin Hearne.
- Little Red Reviewer on If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love, by Rachel Swirsky (Hugo Nom).
- Diabolical Plots on Daily Science Fiction February 2014 Review.
- FilmDebate on Godzilla & The Problem with American Monster Movies. [via This Is Horror]
- Dean Wesley Smith on Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing: #10…There is Only One Way to Publish a Book.
- @FastCo.: SyFy’s Head Of Programming On Carving Out An Identity In A World Gone Genre.
- The Guardian on Mary Poppins’s real-life model appears in unseen PL Travers story. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- LitReactor on 6 Horror Magazines You Should Be Reading.
- Gamm Squad on 6 Facts You Might Not Know About Bruce Campbell And The Evil Dead. [via Neatorama]
- Ian Sales lists Friday Five: 5 Trips to the Moon.
- Joseph Mallozzi on Top 10 Worst Supervillain Names.
- ShortList Magazine on The Greatest Wisdom From Sci-fi Novels.
- Damien G. Walter on My nominations for Speculative Fiction 2014. (Congrats, Paul!)
Art
- The Art of Xiaodi Jin.
- Sci-Fi Art: Bounty Hunters.
- The Concentration City by Maciej Drabik .
- The Golden Age: CONAN ~ The Lancer & Sphere Paperback Book Covers by Frank Frazetta & John Duillo.
More Fun Stuff
- Resistance (Excerpt) by Samit Basu.
- Excerpt: Vampire Trouble by Sara Humphreys.
- Warner Bros. investors needed to see this film before making Tim Burton’s Batman a reality.
- Watch a 15-Year-Old Jennifer Connelly Audition for Labyrinth.
- Star Trek USB Drives, Star Wars USB Drives and DC Superhero USB Drives.