SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-10-10

Posted on October 10, 2014 by PipedreamerGrey in Tidbits // 0 Comments

Interviews & Profiles

A Backwards Story interviews Danielle Ellison, author of Storm.
A.C. Wise interviews Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, editors of Kaleidoscope.
Civilian Reader interviews Robert Jackson Bennett, author of City of Stairs.
Europa SF interviews Sonja Fritzsche of The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film.
My Bookish Ways interviews Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of Orbs 2: Stranded.
Nicky Peacock interviews Katlyn Duncan, author of Soul Taken.
Reddit recently hosted an AMA for Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice. (Highlights)
Shimmer interviews A.C. Wise, author of “Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.”
This is Horror interviews Norman Dixon, author of The Creepers.
Tor.com interviews Faith Hunter, author of Broken Soul.
Tor.com interviews Tina Connolly, author of Silverblind.
Urban Fantasy Investigations interviews L.M. Brown, author of Touch of a Ghost.

News

Adobe Confirms It’s Gathering eBook Reader’s Data.
Amazon to experiment with brick-and-mortar store in New York City
MFA creative writing graduates are (possibly) killing literature, even as they elevate the quality of sarcasm behind the counter of your local Starbucks.
There’s a A Special Storybundle “writing Tools” Bundle For NANOWRIMO for aspiring authors!

Events & Event News

British Fantasy Society wants to make your Hallowe’en
This weekend, CLARS AUCTION GALLERY in the SF Bay Area will be hosting an auction of items from the collection of Charles N. Brown, to benefit Locus. The entire mystery book collection of Charles N. Brown will be available for bid on October 11 along with selected Native American art and artifacts and other decorative items. On October 12, a variety of prints and a small selection of unframed original SF and pulp illustrations by Ed Emshwiller, David Stone, Don Sibley, John Schoenherr, and Vincent Di Fate will be available for bidding, as well as a selection of antiquities, Mission furniture, decorative items, and smalls.

Crowd Funding

LIFECELL – a short film set in a future, dystopian society where everyone runs on batteries.
Rocket Race: A Steampunk Rocket Building Card Game – Construct amazing moon rockets from an array of weird science devices in this fast paced card game for 2-6 players.

Articles

Book Review: Michael Dirda reviews The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino [via Paul Di Filippo]
8 Book Recommendations That Totally Miss The Point
12 Excellent Horror Reads for The Month of October
12 Technologies We Need To Stop Stalling On And Develop Now
Apocalypse Soon-ish: The Loneliness of the Last One Left
The Boston Globe on A celebration of Vonnegut on the Cape
Fiction Prediction: The Legacy of Science Fiction Writers
Halloween themed horror movies you need to check out
The Huffington Post suggests 8 Terrifying Ghost Stories for campfire reading.
Imperial Imprecision: It’s long been known that Star Wars: A New Hope contains examples of some of the worst marksmanship in the history of cinema, particularly with respect to the Emperor’s ‘elite’ forces. But how bad were they really? Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a statistical measure of exactly how astonishingly bad imperial stormtroopers were at hitting their mark?
The Little Prince With a Bronx Twang: 70 years after an enigmatic French author and aviator disappeared, one New Yorker is determined to keep Antoine de Saint-Exupéry alive.
RA Lafferty – the secret sci-fi genius more than ready for a comeback: A reissue of the US science fiction writer RA Lafferty’s stories sold out rapidly this year, and his fans, including Neil Gaiman, hope to see his novels reprinted.
Six Things We Learned About Interstellar and Science From the Mobile Game (and Trailers)
Star Wars on Trial: Do Myths Teach Us? If So, What Have We All Learned From Star Wars?
Terminator: Genisys Will Not Be Rated-R, Here’s Why
Women of the Weird: Works of weird fiction to enjoy in the build up to Halloween.