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

• Must Feed and Water – A Love Monster’s Story by Michael Langman and Raphe Wolfgang.

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

• Alien Armada.
• Cool Posters by Tom Whalen.
• Supply Station by Puzzle Lee.

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.