SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-10-31

Interviews & Profiles

• SFFWorld interviews ML Brennan.
• Buzzy Mag interviews Janny Wurts.
• Redditors interview Jocelynn Drake and Ilona Andrews.
• Tor.com interviews Katherine Howe.
• The Millions interviews David Mitchell. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Riffle interviews Marcus Wynne.
• Schlock Magazine interviews Laird Barron.

News

• SF&F Translation Awards Closing Down.
• NASA Spacecraft’s Grave on the Moon Found (Photo).
• R.L. Stine Writes An Entire Short Story On Twitter Called ‘What’s In My Sandwich?’. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Your brain has a biological response to a good book.

Events & Event News

• November 4th: NYRSF Reading with John Langan, Nicholas Kaufmann and guest curator Amy Goldschlager.
• Steampunk Events for November 2014.

Crowd Funding

• Attack on Space: Live Action by AoS:LA Student Film Team.
• Not Our Kind: Tales of (Not) Belonging – New Fiction Stories by Steven Saus.

Articles

• Sarah Chorn on A Discussion of Disability in John Scalzi’s Lock In.
• Jacqueline Baker on Facing the Monsters.
• Gail Z. Martin on Hiding Under the Covers.
• Jagi Lamplighter on All About That Spook, ‘Bout That Spook. No Terror!
• Naomi Shaw on Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse.
• Cixin Liu on The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three Body and Chinese Science Fiction.
• Jason Sanford on Screaming Toward a Sci-Fi Strange Future.
• Jeff VanderMeer on The Uncanny Power of Weird Fiction.
• Edward Gauvin on Weird France and Belgium: A Best Of.
• Paul McAuley on Science Fiction That Isn’t Science Fiction.
• Conrad Aquilina on Penny Dreadful: dismembering and assembling the Victorian Gothic.
• Bill Tipper on The Devil Rocks Out: The Legacies of Aleister Crowley.
• Che Gilson on My Superpower.
• Kirkus Reviews (Patrick Hester) on The Fantastic Adventures of Two Mercenaries.
• Forbidden Planet Blog on Sci-Fi Airshow.
• Speculating on SpecFic on SpecFic 101: Spine-tingling Stories.
• Gard Skinner asks Do gamers read books?
• Gail Z. Martin on Writing multiple series.
• The Galaxy Express on Sci-Fi Romances With The Same Titles.
• Bibliotropic on The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu.
• Rachel S. Cordasco on The Apex Book of World SF 3 edited by Lavie Tidhar.
• NPR on I’m Not Scary, I’m Just Drawn That Way: Great Comics For Halloween.
• TIME on A Comic Book Dummy’s Guide to the Marvel Universe Plan.
• Wag The Fox on Five Movies I Enjoy Most On Halloween.
• Mental Floss on 10 Things You Might Not Know About J.R.R. Tolkien.

Art

• Star Trek Concept Art For The Series We Never Saw.
• The Great Debate, Gary Laib.
• Last Man Remaining, Kristina Gehrmann.
• Even Mehl Amundsen Gallery.
• Shadow Women by Ehsan safavie.
• Transport Station, Brandon Jones.
• “Zombie Superman” by Arthur Gurin.
• Geek Art Gallery: Roger Cruz Gallery.

Exceprts

• Prince Lestat by Anne Rice.
• The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes.
• Revolution by Jenna Black.
• THE CUTTING ROOM coming attraction: “Onlookers” by Gary A. Braunbeck.

More Fun Stuff

• Beware the Hairy Mango #246: “Snack Attack” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Sword & Laser Podcast #195 – Why It’s OK to Hate My Favorite Book.
• Agony Column Podcast #181: Paolo Baccigalupi and The Doubt Factory.
• John Neptune and the Mysteries of the Sky Palace, Part 1.
• Big Trouble in Little China Is the Latest Step in Funko’s Pop Vinyl Dominance of Every Property.
• Throwback Thursday: George R. R. Martin at Lunacon in 1974 (photo).
• Geek Pumpkins!