SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-09-09

Posted on September 9, 2014 by PipedreamerGrey in Tidbits // 0 Comments

Interviews & Profiles

BullSpec interviews Lev Grossman, author of The Magician’s Land.
Civilian Reader interviews Sebastien de Castell, author of Traitor’s Blade.
Electric Literature interviews Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation.
Fantasy Faction interviews Kameron Hurley, author of The Mirror Empire.
The Irish Examiner interviews David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks.
The List interviews David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks.
My Bookish Ways interviews Helen Giltrow, author of The Distance.
The Qwillery interviews Deborah Blake, author of Wickedly Dangerous.
The West Australian interviews David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks.

News

Neil Gaiman’s imminent Hansel And Gretel graphic novel may soon be heading to a big screen near you. Farscape producer Juliet Blake has acquired the film rights and is developing the story as a live-action movie. “For me, retelling Hansel And Gretel was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us, now,” says Gaiman. “It reminds us of how paper thin civilization really is. It’s about hunger, and about families.”
New Terminator Movie Is A Year Away But Already Has Two Sequels Scheduled
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens to be adapted for Radio 4
Robots do battle over Mars exploration

Events & Event News

The Book Loft in Columbus, OH will welcome R.A. Salvatore on Tuesday, September 30th at 7:00 PM
Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda will appear at Schuler Books & Musics in East Lansing on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 7:00 PM

Crowd Funding

Infinity Blade Chronicles – a live-action, fan-created short film (roughly 25 minutes long) based on the blockbuster video game series, Infinity Blade
Untold Universe – an innovative space voxel sandbox MMORPG. Explore, shape, colonize and conquer a huge and uncharted universe!

Articles

Book Review: The Bone Clocks: Getting to this future can be a slog
Movie Review: DorkShelf calls Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem “a sprawling, thoughtful mess of a movie that tosses a cavalcade of ideas (both visual and philosophical) at the audience with almost reckless abandon. There’s a plot, but at times that can seem almost inconsequential. It’s as if Gilliam was so hungry to make a movie after a few years out of the game that he found a script he liked and then piled on a few dozen ideas that he had for other unmade movies regardless of whether or not they fit into a singular grand design. And yet, it’s still far from a bad movie.”
TV Review: Halle Berry brings gravity to space-themed who’s-the-father plot in Extant
6 reasons Guardians of the Galaxy isn’t just a fun movie, but an important one
15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Army of Darkness
Adi Tantimedh bemoans Doctor Who And The Time Lord Midlife Crisis – Look! It Moves!
Anime Adaptations and Why I’m Worried About Ghost in the Shell
Between Reboots of Spider-Man and The Terminator is There Any Originally Left in Movies?
From Now On, Women Save the World: Hollywood Has Realized That Women Can Make Money
GeekSmash suggests 5 Fantasy and Sci-fi Books to Read This September
How Does Peter Capaldi Measure Up As The New Doctor?
How Is Outlander Different From The Book? It’s Actually Pretty Spot-On
In case you somehow haven’t been watching, The Leftovers Season Finale Was Sick, Brutal, And Highly Satisfying. If you are a fan of Lost, Hannibal, or mysterious angst, I highly recommend it.
Motherboard asks Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans?
One Order of Smart, to Go, Please: science fiction writer Terry L. Mirll discusses A.I.
Sci-fi author a natural fit for ‘Earth 2’ turmoil: Robopocalypse author Daniel H. Wilson pens Futures End issue and heads up weekly ‘Worlds End.’
Slate wonders Will the Internet become self-aware?
Utopia or Dystopia offers A Cure for Our Deflated Sense of The Future.
Why does Iowa like Doctor Who so much? A regional broadcaster in heart of the continental US has been repeating Doctor Who almost constantly since 1974. Why does the Midwest have such an attachment to a British sci-fi show?
William Shatner sees “mythological” appeal in science fiction