SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-10-11

Posted on October 11, 2014 by PipedreamerGrey in Tidbits // 0 Comments

Interviews & Profiles

3DTotal interviews Erik-Jan de Boer, the Animation Director behind The Maze Runner.
Den of Geek interviews Wes Ball, author of The Maze Runner.
Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Seth Patrick, author of The Returned.
The L.A. Times interviews Scott Westerfeld, author of Afterworlds.
My Bookish Ways interviews Trey Dowell, author of The Protectors.
The Qwillery interviews Christina Henry, author of Black Spring.
The Qwillery interviews Ethan Reid, author of The Undying: An Apocalyptic Thriller.
Samuel Montgomery-Blinn interviews Tony Daniel, author of Islands.
Tor.com interviews David Hair, author of Unholy War.
Tor.com interviews Ginn Hale, author of Champion of the Scarlet Wolf.
Tor.com interviews Tina Connolly, author of “Old Dead Futures.”

News

Elbakin.net has announced the winners of the 2014 edition of their literary award.
James Earl Jones To Reprise Darth Vader Role
Under the Dome and Extant Have Been Renewed By CBS
There’s a Firefly game coming. And it actually looks shiny.

Events & Event News

Anne Rice will be hold a Midnight Book Launch for Prince Lestat at The British Library October 29th.
The British Library is holding the UK’s biggest ever Gothic exhibition, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, October 3rd – January 20th 2015. Book now

Crowd Funding

The Last Scout – a co production about the last scout ship looking for a new earth for humanity.
Zombie ApocalyOOPS!: a mutating card game in which players shift between human and zombie while battling each other to survive!

Articles

Book Review: io9 calls Rooms “The Perfect Novel For Long Scary Fall Nights.”
Book Review: Peter Straub reviews The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue. He says that Donohue’s book is “in the territory of the wholehearted, up-for-anything Gothic” and says that Donohue wrote “a very good book by a writer who is even better than that.” [via Paul Di Filippo]
Book Review: Paul Di Filippo reviews Raising Hell by Norman Spinrad
Movie Review: Antonio Banderas & Viewers Sleep Through Sci-Fi Snoozer Autómata
Movie Review: Automata Is Brilliantly Original Science Fiction, Ruined By Cliches
Movie Review: The Verge calls Automata “The most atmospheric sci-fi film since Blade Runner.”
The 10 strangest twists on classic horror tales
The AudioBookaneers has posted its weekly list of audiobook releases, including Ancillary Sword.
Doctor Who just came out – as a pro-life Christian conservative, argues The Telegraph.
Female Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors Went Ignored for Far Too Long, and It’s Time You Paid Attention.
A glimpse into the future: Will our robots have legal rights?
Has Tomorrowland marked the end of the dystopian film trend? Probably not.
Is Interstellar Just Another Product of the Hype Machine?
The Magician’s Land author Lev Grossman on breaking the rules of fantasy.
The Problem With Sci-Fi Is the People, claims Bloomberg View
Sci-Fi authors explain the relation of scientific advancements to genre
Science fiction’s utopias are built out of wilful ignorance: Project Hieroglyph challenges SF writers to move away from dystopian stories, but real-world questions go unanswered
We Came This Close to a Doctor Who Musical