SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-12-13
Interviews & Profiles
- Galactic Chat interviews Kameron Hurley.
- Alternate History interviews Karen Hellekson.
- From The International Literature Bucharest Fair, a video interview with Paul McAuley and Richard Morgan.
- Wag The Fox interviews Adam Cesare.
- Stephen Colbert interviews Smaug.
News
- The Coode Street Podcast is Coming to Tor.com.
- eBook Deal: First Lights (Offplanet Book 1) by Regan Wolfrom (@wolfromwrites) is only $2.99!
- Weird fiction Storybundle to benefit Helsinki Worldcon bid. [via Boing^2]
- A New Avery Cates Short by Jeff Somers.
Crowd Funding
Articles
- Fave Reads of 2014 from Kate Elliott, Kate Hall, Daryl Gregory and Jamie Todd Rubin.
- Aliette de Bodard on MIRcon GoH speech: Xuya, science fiction at the crossroad of cultures.
- Brenda W. Clough on Interstellar: A Very Short Review.
- Kristi Charish on Edutainment: Science Literacy Hail Mary or Slippery Slope of No Return?
- Damien Walter on Tolkien’s myths are a political fantasy.
- Brian Staveley on When My Wife Put Her Face in a Fireball for Epic Fantasy.
- The Kheper Website on Grading Science Fiction for Realism. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Amazing Stories on The Illustrated Dune (or, Why I Hate Sam Weber).
- Locus Roundtable on 2015 Releases.
- BOOK RIOT on Read This, Then That: LOCK IN by John Scalzi and Other Sci-Fi Crime Reads. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Europa SF says Happy 85th anniversary, SF fandom!
- Space.com Must-See Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend: An Observer’s Guide.
- Black Gate on Nine (mostly) Distinct (almost) Positive Traits of Chainmail Bikinis.
- NPR’s Best Books of 2014.
Art
More Fun Stuff
- Welcoming Omenana – Africa’s Own Spec-Fic Zine. [via Juliet E. McKenna]
- 50 Page Fridays: Pierce Brown.
- Spotlight & Excerpt: Impact Velocity by Leah Petersen.
- Brave Men Die: free extract.
- “Attack of the Giant Ants” by Rudy Rucker.
- New Animated Sci-Fi Comedy: Ship of Eagles.
- Blade Runner Spoofed in Three Japanese Commercials.
- Watch Adam Savage Recreate Barbarella’s Space Rifle From Start To Finish.
- Watch A Man In A Jetpack Dance With A Plane.
- Behold these 12 stunningly remastered images of Saturn and its moons.
- Replica Star Trek original series tricorder.
- Game of Thrones Dragonclaw Goblet Replica.
- Brewster Rockit.
Too bad McAuley doesn’t get published in America.