SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-12-04

Posted on December 4, 2014 by PipedreamerGrey in Tidbits // 0 Comments

Interviews & Profiles

Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Jennifer Marie Brissett, author of Elysium.
Diabolical Plots interviews Nancy Kress, author of Yesterday’s Kin.
Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Simon Kearns, author of Virtual Assassin.
Reddit recently held an AMA for Jeff VanderMeer, author of Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy.
Seattle Pi interviews Jeff Gunhus, author of Killer Within.
Vice interviews William Gibson, author of The Peripheral.
Tor.com interviews Warren Hammond, author of Tides of Maritinia.

News

2015 Manly Wade Wellman Award preliminary eligibility list announced
Gollancz acquires three heroic fantasy adventures from celebrated multi-media writer, Dan Abnett
The Handmaid’s Tale coming to the stage
J.J. Abrams bringing Stephen King adaptation to Hulu
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) Library seeks applications and nominations for an innovative, dynamic, and engaged professional to fill the new position of Jay Kay and Doris Klein Science Fiction Librarian in Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA). [via Andrew Porter]

Events & Event News

Join panelists Padma Venkatraman, Briony Everroad, Roxanne Hsu Feldman, and Arthur A. Levine for a discussion on Diversity in Young Adult writing moderated by author and professor Marc Aronson at the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue on Wednesday December 10th at 6pm. RSVP online.
Steampunk Events for December 2014

Crowd Funding

THE BUREAU OF INFERNAL AFFAIRS – A print collection of the first chapter and concept art from next year’s supernatural adventure webcomic, Infernal Affairs.
CYBORG X – An explosion of mayhem, big guns, deadly machines, and Danny Trejo.

Articles

Book Review: Liesl Schillinger reviews How to Be Both by Ali Smith at Barnes and Noble.
5 Surprising Things You Learn Designing Movie Monsters
10 Nearly Perfect Movies, And What They Teach Us About Storytelling
12 sci-fi and horror shorts turned into feature films
An Astronaut’s View On His First Spacewalk
Black to the future: science fiction writer Tananarive Due talks about afrofuturism and why it’s important. As Troy L. Wiggins puts it: “Afrofuturism serves as a ideological wrecking ball to the staled and played out construction of whites-only nerd identity, and allows practitioners and followers to douse themselves in blackness, Black Cool, and black nerd stuff while building a healthy dose of pride about their own blackness and nerd identity.”
The Dissolve asks “Who owns Star Wars ?,” which is just silly, because everyone knows that the answer is Mickey Mouse.
Doctor Who update: Christmas airtime, Moffat on two-parters
The Hardest Part: Jim C. Hines on The Prosekiller Chronicles: Rise of the Spider Goddess (An Annotated Novel)
Here for your perusal, Edgar Wright’s favorite films of 2014.
How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future [via Andrew Porter]
Looking for books to buy for the reader on your holiday shopping list this year? Check out NPR’s Books Concierge. The service, which launched last year but has been updated and expanded for 2014, allows you to search the NPR staff’s favorite books of the year based on what you feel like reading.
Professor Stephen Hawking: make me a Bond villain
Should ‘Leave No Trace’ Apply to Our Future in Space?
Stop overthinking the Star Wars trailer, admonishes Mashable.
Why it’s time we stopped making such a big deal about twists and “spoilers”
When Superiority Goes Wrong: Science Fiction and Offset Strategies
You Cannot Tell if Star Wars: Episode VII is Good or Bad From 90 Seconds of Footage, admonishes Emily Asher-Perrin.