SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-11-13

Interviews & Profiles

• Cool Tools interviews Sword and Laser Host Veronica Belmont.
• Emma Newman interviews Juliet Mushens.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Celine Kiernan.
• Nightmare Magazine interviews Karin Tidbeck.
• Nightmare Magazine interviews Jeff Simpson.
• Speculate interviews Lou Anders.
• Tor.com interviews Ethan Reid.
• Kristin Centorcelli interviews Erik Williams.
• Peter Mendelsund interviews Jeff Vandermeer.
• Suvudu interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Indy Week profiles Bull Spec editor Samuel Montgomery-Blinn.

News

• European Spacecraft Lands on Comet in Historic Space Feat.
• Solaris introduces Cannonbridge by Jonathan Barnes.
• New Project to Digitize 10,000 Sci-Fi Zines. [via Kam-Yung Soh]
• Turkish military forces to ban Game of Thrones.
• Pooh Illustrations to Be Auctioned. [via Andrew Porter]
• SFX #255 On Sale Now.

Events & Event News

• Guy Consolmagno (“Brother Guy”), an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, will give an acceptance speech for the Carl Sagan Medal at Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention.

Crowd Funding

• The Leatherbound Geek – Unique, Custom Accessories by Etana and Patrick — Kickstarter.

Articles

• Rachel Cordasco on The First Time I Met a Living Author.
• Alison Flood on Grimm brothers’ fairytales have blood and horror restored in new translation.
• Alison Flood on Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels: are they really filmable?
• Jeyn Roberts on Why Adults Need to Read Young Adult and Children’s Books.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on The Book of Strange New Things.
• Jamie Todd Rubin writes An Open Letter to His 20-Year-Old Self Regarding the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
• Rjurik Davidson on Exciting Times in Fantasy and History.
• Nicholas Kaufmann on The story behind Die and Stay Dead.
• David Moody talks about his new novel Strangers – a dark and dirty horror novel.
• John Gwynne on The story behind Valour.
• GW Thomas on The Door to Infinity: Mythos without Lovecraft.
• Rob J. Hayes on Flawed Characters – Nobody Likes a Goody Two Shoes.
• AudioBookaneers on Release
• Week: Kameron Hurley’s The Mirror Empire, Steven Erikson’s Willful Child, Daryl Gregory’s Pandemonium, and Tad Williams’ Otherland.
• Sarah Chorn on Silverblind by Tina Connolly.
• Andrea Johnson on Interstellar.
• Stellar Four’s Meghan B. on Why I’ll Probably Never Watch Supernatural.
• Stainless Steel Droppings on Interstellar: A non-spoiler film review.
• Omnivoracious on YA Wednesday: Best Books of 2014.
• Paul Roland on 10 Essential Steampunk Novels Tor Books.
• Kirkus Reviews (me!) on Read Them Now, Watch Them Later: Science Fiction Adaptation Watch.

Art

• Jim C. Hines reveals the cover art for Rise of the Spider Goddess.
• Cave dragon, Rude Roo.
• Huge Dragon , Yoshinobu Saito.
• Joker, Olga Belousova.
• Sci-Fi Art: Logan Grimnar.
• PEST Jiang’s Doctor Who illustrations.
• Rare Concept Art Courtesy of a New Harry Potter Book – The Creature Vault.

More Fun Stuff

• Sustenance (Excerpt) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
• Foxglove Summer (Excerpt) by Ben Aaronovitch.
• StarShipSofa #362 includes fiction by Angela Slatter Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Now available: The Drink Tank #391 and The Drink Tank Gamergate issue.
• Cool deal! Humble Audiobook Bundle: Scholastic (pay what you want and help charity).
• Fiction: “How to Win a Hugo Award” by Lavie Tidhar.
• Largehearted Boy is once collating Online “Best Books of 2014” Lists.
• Video: Forging the Phantom Blade from Assassin’s Creed Unity.
• This bird sounds exactly like R2-D2.
• DIY Hunger Games Pie.
• Ellen Datlow’s Photos from WFC 2014.