SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-09-09
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
Art
- Behold the splendor of Star Trek: Papercraft
- A Fan Collects Dave Dorman’s Star Wars Art Into One Place On The Web
More Fun Stuff
- Astronomer Reveals The Truth Behind Civilization: Beyond Earth’s Exoplanets
- Body upgrades may be nearing reality, but only for the rich: Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari says expensive human enhancements will lead to a society more unequal than ever
- Hunt for alien life is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘what’.
- Lawrence Person’s LonCon Photo Gallery
- SlashFilm wonders Is ‘Star Wars’ Secretly Racist?
- Stephen Hawking Warns “God” Particle Could Kill Us All If Science Gets Enough Funding
- Watch the First 5 Minutes of Bryan Fuller’s High Moon.
- Watch a trailer for the Japanese release of Guardians Of The Galaxy.