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!