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
Crowd Funding
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.