SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-10-08
Interviews & Profiles
- Nicky Peacock interviews L.M. Justus, author of Welcome to the Darkness.
- NY Daily News interviews Gillian Anderson, author of A Vision of Fire.
- The Qwillery interviews Karina Sumner-Smith, author of Radiant.
- Reddit recently host an AMA for Robert Downey Jr., star of Iron Man 3.
- The Reading and Writing Podcast interviews Weston Ochse, author of GRUNT LIFE.
News
- Hardcovers And Paperbacks Are Outselling Ebooks
- A Myst TV show is in the works at Legendary. Presumably it’ll be Lost without all that pesky plot.
- Sixteen men named Darth Vader have registered to run in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections. After all, why vote for the lesser evil?
Events & Event News
- Book Riot is giving away 5 Dothraki Language Courses [via Paul Di Filippo]
- The Museum of Science Fiction, the world’s first comprehensive science fiction museum, is hosting a film festival in partnership with the DC Public Library to raise child literacy and inspire a new generation of dreamers. The event will be held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G St. NW in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 6:00pm. Reserve seating now.
- The Schenectady County, NY Historical Society is putting on a science fiction exhibit showing the area’s contributions to the genre, featuring Barry B. Longyear, author of Enemy Mine and It Came From Schenectady, Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 2:00pm at the Mabee Farm Historic Site at 1100 Main St. Rotterdam Junction, NY.
Crowd Funding
- MADHOUSE – an illustrated shared world psychological horror anthology from the publisher of World War Cthulhu. A pledge of as little as a dollar gets you a digital copy.
- Pulp Literature Year 2 – The best new source for short fiction in glorious print and gorgeous ebook.
Articles
- Book Review: The Exploding Spaceship reviews The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
- Book Review: The Houses October Built Blends Truth and Fiction for Class-Struggle Fears
- Are We Overthinking the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence?, asks io9.
- The AudioBookaneers offers their weekly round-up of Audiobook releases.
- Charles Stross explains why he’s veering more and more in the direction of urban fantasy.
- A Commitment to Reviewing Short Fiction: more people are talking about reviewing short fiction.
- How To Turn Star Trek Into The Next Marvel Movie Universe
- Movie Characters Whose Legends Live On: movie characters so legendary that even audiences who haven’t seen their films know them, and know them well.
- The Nerdist wonders Is Hibernating the Best Way to Get Humans to Mars?
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice For High Schoolers Is Advice For Us All
- The Most Underrated YA Franchise of All Time Deserves a TV Reboot, argues MIC.
- October Whispersync Deal Roundup: Butler’s Kindred, Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising, and more.
- Our science-fiction apocalypse: Meet the scientists trying to predict the end of the world.
- Post-Binary Gender in SF: The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
- To Learn How Aliens Think, We Must First Learn About Their Biology
- The top 10 banned YA books it would be more of a crime not to read
- Why Sigourney Weaver returned as Ripley in Alien: Isolation
- Why Are Scientists Always the Bad Guys in Movies?
Art
- Edgar Allan Poe’s Feud With Boston? Nevermore
- Fantasy Maps of Real United States Cities Drawn in the Style of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Post-apocalyptical space shuttle and other great art by Yuri Shwedoff
More Fun Stuff
- Among the Wood Elves and Stormtroopers at Europe’s Biggest Fantasy Festival
- Check out these Behind-the-Scenes Photos from Return of the Jedi
- The Flash Is Only Red When He Stands Still
- Hear Gillian Anderson Read From Her New Novel A Vision Of Fire!
- Pharrell Previews Scifi Themed “Gust Of Wind” Music Video
- Read an excerpt from EPIC by Regan Wolfrom from the author.
- Read an excerpt from An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman at Tor.com .
- Science Fiction Right Again: NASA Considering Deep Sleep Stasis For Mars Mission
- A Tiny Town with the Spirit of Oz: In a sleepy village that birthed America’s most celebrated children’s story, a crew of volunteers has built a shrine to all things Oz. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Your Complete Fall 2014 Anime Guide
Re: Hardcovers And Paperbacks Are Outselling Ebooks(in ‘News’ above)
This chimes with the book trade news given seasonally (spring, summer, autumn)
on SF2 Concatenation.
For example, paperbooks are not due to be overtaken by e-books for another couple
of years at current trends
http://www.concatenation.org/news/news9~14.html#paper
But the current trends themselves are changing and e-book growth is slowing
http://www.concatenation.org/news/news9~13.html#e-books