SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-08-23

Interviews & Profiles

• Live at CONvergence w/ Martha Wells, Carrie Patel, Mike Underwood, David Annandale, Shaun Duke and Paul Weimer.
• Angela Slatter interviews Angela Slatter.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Lucy A. Snyder.
• At Diabolical Plots, Carl Slaughter interviews Robert Gleason and David Edison.
• Fantasy-Faction interviews Patrick Rothfuss.

News

• Spider-Woman artwork furore gives Marvel pause over portrayal of women.
• Scalzi’s new sci-fi thriller Lock In gets a theme song.
• J.K. Rowling brings singing sorceress to life in new Harry Potter story.
• BBC Announces new dramatic zombie series The Living And The Dead

Crowd Funding

• QUANTUM ALTERATIONS: Stop Motion & Sci-fi | Indiegogo.
• Holdfast Magazine Anthology.
• Uncanny Magazine Year One by Lynne M. Thomas.
• Imagined Realms: Book 1 – New Fantasy Art by Julie Dillon by Julie Dillon.

Articles

• The Alternative Typewriter on What Clarion Means to a Minority Writer.
• Sara N. at Stellar Four on Outlander and the Female Gaze.
• Lou Anders on Writing for My Kids. . . . And Yours.
• Jim C. Hines on Inventing Nicola Pallas.
• Eric Brown on The story behind Jani and the Greater Game.
• Brooklyn Ann on Why Vampires Make Good Aristocrats.
• Noel Murray on Why great comics don’t always make great movies. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Rich McCormick on George Lucas blew up the galaxy, but I still remember it.
• LA Times on Sci-fi and fantasy authors reveal truths in the strangest fiction.
• Nerdist on Why Sci-Fi and Genre Shows Always Get the Emmy Cold-Shoulder.
• Flickering Myth on Melia Kreiling and Mark Bonnar talk about Guardians of the Galaxy & Assassin’s Creed.
• Flickering Myth on The Making of Xmoor.
• Paul Di Filippo reviews Dark Lightening by John Varley.
• Little Red Reviewer on Kaleidoscope edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios.
• Dorkly on The 5 Most Embarrassing Batman/Superman Fights in Comic Book History.
• Kathryn Allan on 5 Positive Representations of Disability in SF.
• xoJane on 29 Classic Young Adult Books That Changed The World (And Are Also Great Reads). [via Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine]
• BFI on 10 great films about aliens visiting Earth.

Art

• Concept Art Illustrations by Raphael Lacoste.
• Rooftop, Vincentius Matthew.
• Flower, Zezhou Chen.
• What did the witch doctor say?, Zezhou Chen.
• Star Princess, Zezhou Chen.
• Sci-Fi Art: Pistol.
• Fantasy Art: Orc.
• The Airport, Didier Konings.
• City Attack, Didier Konings.
• Skyship Cove, Didier Konings.
• These Fantastic Illustrations Show a Giant Troll Enjoying Norway’s Attractions.
• Artist Draws Terrifying Monsters On Sticky Notes.
• Frankenstein’s Monster as a Baby by Marcelo Garcia.
• Drawing H.P. Lovecraft One Monster at a Time.

More Fun Stuff

• NASA Unveils Best Map Ever of Neptune’s Moon Triton.
• The 8-Bit Version of Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City.
• Beep, A Documentary About the History of Sound in Video Games.
• Tardis toilet appears on Bristol to Bath cycle path.
• Robby the Robot: The Camera Whore Who Took Hollywood. [via Bill Crider]
• Infographic: The Word Counts Of Harry Potter Novels & Other Famous Books.
• Dr Who Knitting and Crochet.