SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-11-22

Interviews & Profiles

• BullSpec interviews Jaym Gates, co-editor of War Stories.
• The Dissolve interviews Bob Sabiston, head of animation of A Scanner Darkly.
• Fantasy-Faction interviews Jay Kristoff, author of Endsinger.
• The Huffpo interviews Margaret Atwood, author of Stone Mattress: Nine Tales.
• Jon Scieszka interviews Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Jason Hough, author of the novella The Dire Earth.
• Salon interviews James Patterson: “Amazon could actually dedicate itself to saving books”
• Tor.com interviews James Luceno, author of Tarkin.
• Tor.com interviews Mallory Ortberg, author of Texts from Jane Eyre.

News

• First Dragonriders of Pern movie gets a writer
• Gollancz acquire a must-read murder mystery
• Master of all mediums Mike Nichols dead at 83
• The Nova Award Winners have been announced
• Philip K. Dick’s Short Story “The Crawlers” Adaptation in the Works

Crowd Funding

• PERSIST – A Thesis Film by Justin Taylor & Brian Harmon – In this post-apocalyptic, sci-fi thriller, Will crosses the scorched earth and faces alien invaders, in search of his lost brother.
• Prisoner X – a high-concept sci-fi thriller based on the Hugo-Nominated “Truth” by Robert Reed.
• Xenowealth: A Collection – The short story collection fans have been demanding: tales from the Xenowealth. All related to the loved universe in the novels.

Interstellar

• Interview: 45-Minute Talk With Christopher Nolan, Plus The Big Twist From Spielberg’s Script
• Couldn’t Hear Interstellar’s Dialogue? Christopher Nolan Says That’s Intentional
• Five big questions raised by Interstellar
• The Impact of Borges, Brazil, and MC Escher on Interstellar
• Interstellar and The Death Of The Penis
• Interstellar, Boyhood & the Cruel Parade of Time
• Interstellar and five other understated sci-fi futures
• Interstellar Is A Dangerous Fantasy Of US Colonialism
• Interstellar reviewed by former editor in chief of Sky & Telescope (no spoilers)
• Interstellar travels between science and science fiction
• Interstellar Was So Big It Almost Broke IMAX
• J.J. Abrams vs. Christopher Nolan: Which filmmaker does secrets better?
• The Monoliths Have Faces: Interstellar Answers 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Movie Theater: Blame Christopher Nolan For Interstellar’s Sound, Not Us
• Nerds talk Interstellar and science in the movies
• The New York Times calls Interstellar “The Cinema of Physicists“
• On Interstellar, ‘plot holes,’ and letting stories be themselves
• Oscars: Interstellar Hopes to Avoid 2001 Awards Fate
• The rational wonders of Christopher Nolan
• Some things that happen in Interstellar, ranked by scientific accuracy. (Super-scientific spoilers.)
• We Asked Bill Nye About Interstellar — And He Had One Big Issue With It
• Why Christopher Nolan Is Cinema’s Reigning Rationalist
• Why Do We Reject Love as a Powerful Force in Interstellar?
• What If TARS from Interstellar Had a Real Career on the Big Screen?

Articles

• 10 indie sci-fi films to look out for in 2015
• 18 Things We Learned from the Snowpiercer Commentary
• 21 Doctor Who stories better than their reputation suggests
• Carrie Vaughn Explains The Downside Of Becoming Famous For One Thing
• Could Guardians of the Galaxy Win Marvel Its First Oscar?
• Den of Geek mourns 41 Cancelled Star Wars Projects
• Den of Geek remembers The Sci-fi Films of Robert Wise.
• Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi discusses future on the show
• The Galaxy Express asks How Accessible Is Sci-Fi Romance?
• How animation stabilizes A Scanner Darkly’s shifting reality
• How Freddy Krueger Helped Luke Skywalker for Star Wars!
• On the Books: Bidding for ‘Psycho’ typewriter starts at $25K
• Mary Shelley’s other horror story; Lessons for Super-pandemics
• My Complicated Relationship With H.P. Lovecraft
• Neil Gaiman Joked About Burning Down the NYPL & Everyone Was Charmed
• Neil Gaiman talks for UK Arts Council
• Pop-culture holiday dinners suck for everybody, especially Buffy.
• Ruthless Female Leaders Are the Real Heroes in Dystopian Flicks, argues Wired.
• TV’s geek girls need to rise above being tech support.
• Watch as Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014. the lady can still give a speech like no one’s business: “We will need writers who can remember freedom.” The New Yorker has further coverage. The Huffington Post offers quotes from the speech. “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
• Why Books Are Still One Of Our Most Durable Technologies Ever
• Will Rosetta Be the First Robot to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism?

Art

• A master of otherworldly space art
• This Year’s Series OF DIY Star Wars Cut Paper Snowflakes

More Fun Stuff

• Crowdfunded Moon mission aims to drill lunar south pole in 2024, bury time capsule
• The Fascinating Story of Astronaut Food
• Hear the sound of the first comet landing: It’s one of the most historic thuds heard in recent years. At only two seconds long, it offers a lot more data for scientists to unpack than you might think.
• New Documentary Figures Out Why We All Want to Be Batman
• Robots spent six years acting like humans in three Tennessee homes. It’s Bradbury ome to life.
• Star Trek slippers from Thinkgeek
• The XKCD Guide to the Universe’s Most Bizarre Physics