SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-11-24

Interviews & Profiles

• The Boston Globe interviews Ursula Le Guin. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Bleeding Cool interviews Nancy A. Collins.
• DAW interviews Jenna Rhodes.
• Lovecraft eZine interviews Livia Llewellyn.
• Speculating Canada interviews Jason Loo.
• Buzzy Mag interviews A. J. Hartley.

News

• Hachette buys Black Dog & Leventhal.
• Danielle L. Jensen Joins Angry Robot Books.
• Upcoming movie based on Stephen King’s The Stand will be browkn into 4 films.
• Apple’s $450 million ebook settlement receives final court approval.
• Coming December 12th: First Lights (Offplanet Book 1) Regan Wolfrom.
• Waukegan group seeks sculptural ideas to honor Ray Bradbury. [via Paul Di Filippo]

Events & Event News

• Tuesday, December 2 at 7:00pm in Brooklyn, New York: NYRSF Reading with Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman.
• BFI’s Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder.

Crowd Funding

• Hashtag – A thought-provoking science fiction short film that examines a future where social media dominates every moment of our lives.
• Tokyo Yakuza Short Story Anthology – An alternate history, dystopian shared world project about a brutal gang war between yakuza clans around the 2020 Tokyo Olympics..

Articles

• Juliet E. McKenna on All Over The Map – The Classics, Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Sherwood Smith on Art, Imagination, and Freedom.
• PJ Lifestyle on Famous Writers Never Give Birth To Snakes. [via Charlie Martin]
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Retrieval Artist Update #9.
• Fran Wilde on Notes from a (Philcon) panel: What to Read.
• Charles Stross on Let’s put the future behind us.
• Paging Dr. NerdLove on Iris Allen, Laurel Lance and Lois Lane Syndrome. [via The Cultural Gutter]
• Mellville House on A call to action: on the 2014 National Book Awards.
• Black Gate on Game Books, Epic Fantasy, and Military Science Fiction: The Multiple Identities of R.A.V. Salsitz.
• OMNI Reboot (Adam Wells) on How Glen Larson Transformed Sci-Fi TV.
• Black Gate on What Old Futures Can Teach Us About What SF and SciFi is Really For.
• OMNI Reboot Sci-Fi Addicts Crave: H.R. Giger Bar.
• Paul Di Filippo reviews on The Chaplain’s War by Brad R. Torgersen.
• Bibliotropic on Flight of the Silvers by Daniel Price.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Blast From the Past: The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
• Carl V. Anderson on Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1.
• Den Of Geek on 10 indie sci-fi films to look out for in 2015. [via The Website at the End of the Universe]
• Mythcreants on Five Ways to Generate Suspense.
• I am Rogue on 10 Sci-Fi Action Heroines Who Unapologetically Kick Ass.
• Mental Floss’ Visual Guide to All 37 Villains in the Batman TV Series. [via Bill Crider]
• Tor.com on Never Wait for a Sequel Again: 17 Standalone Fantasy Novels.

Art

• ‘The World of Ice & Fire’ Illustrations by Paolo Puggion.
• Artist imagines Hogwarts in a galaxy far, far away.
• The Works of Zdzislaw Beksinski.
• concept ships: Concept spaceship art from EVE.
• Sci-Fi Art: Black Blade.
• Concept spaceship art from EVE.
• Star Wars Posters.

More Fun Stuff

• Jupiter’s moon Europa looks embryonic in ‘remastered’ NASA photo.
• Excerpt and Giveaway: The Tree of Water by Elizabeth Haydon.
• Notes from Coode Street #209: The Beginning of the End of 2014.
• What do genre readers look like? (According to YouGov).
• Star Lord Dance Off.
• Envoy #2: Blowing Up Robot Sentries. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Comic-Con 2014: Finding BEWBS with Mike Tyson, Jeremy Jahns, and the Honest Trailer Voice. [via Patrick Hester]
• ‘Star Wars Epic Yarns’ shows the fuzzy side of the Force.
• Rare Star Wars Photos.
• Star Wars TIE Fighter vs. Thai Fighter.
• Résumés for Paul Atreides, Miriam Black, and Locke Lamora.
• Zombie Christmas Ornaments.