SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-12-17
Interviews & Profiles
- Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Chris Williams, co-director of Big Hero 6.
- Hero Complex interviews Brad Carter, star of Ascension.
- Larry King interviews Nathan Fillion, star of Firefly.
- Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Brenda Cooper, author of Mayan December.
- RadioTimes interviews Neil Gaiman, author of Sandman comic series.
- Suvudu interviews Pierce Brown, author of Golden Son.
- TiH interviews Helen Marshall, author of Gifts For The One Who Comes After.
News
- The 2014 Rhysling Awards Winners have been announced.
- Forget Your Preconceptions About Teenagers and Reading: not only do 67% of teens read for pleasure, 50% of them also still prefer print books over ebooks.
- Neal Stephenson joins mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap
- Preorders for the long anticipated The Lost Level by Brian Keene are now open, with the title’s release date set for January 19th.
Events & Event News
- Alpha Mecha – An easy to learn, paperworkless, tactical mecha combat game. Quick to play, but still rich in tactical options.
Crowd Funding
- Athena’s Daughters, Volume 2 – Athena’s Daughters, volume 2 is a collection of short speculative fiction by some of the industry’s up-and-coming women authors.
- Tales of the Weird Wild West – The Great Unknown and the Wild Frontier collide in The Weird Wild West with stories by @JonathanMaberry, @GailZMartin, and more.
Articles
- 10 Reasons Why Star Wars Fans Should Reclaim Life Day
- 11 Sci-Fi Films That Actually Deserve Reboots
- 12 Reasons Robots Will Always Have An Advantage Over Humans
- The 2014 Black List features Artificial Intelligence Thrillers, Space Angst, and more
- Celebrating Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey on what would have been the 97th birthday of the great Arthur C. Clarke.
- The cute rolling ball droid in the new Star Wars is a real robot not CGI
- Den of Geek attempts to explain Why Waterworld wasn’t a flop but leaves doubt.
- Gifts For Science And Science Fiction Lovers That Support Good Causes
- Great Villains Whose Schemes Aren’t Just Aimed At Destroying The Hero
- How administrating imaginary empires in Ancillary Sword and The Goblin Emperor is actually really similar.
- It’s Time for a New ‘Star Trek’ Television Show, Not Movie [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Philip K. Dick would have been 86 yesterday: Some thoughts on his legacy
- Professional Swordsmen demonstrate How to fight with Crossguard Lightsaber
- Syfy’s Ascension Jumps The Shark In Its Very First Episode
- What the Agents of SHIELD’s winter finale means for the MCU. Comic Book Resources speculates about how the Agents of SHIELD impacts story lines for the Marvel movies and how the company thinks about its characters in the comics. (Also, don’t miss this explanation of Why the Agents of SHIELD mid-season finale was an enormous deal.)
- The XKCD Guide to the Universe’s Most Bizarre Physics
Art
- Laser-cut record clocks feature Star Wars, pop culture silhouettes.
- Samurai Darth Vader And Samurai Stormtroopers
- Sith Christmas Awakens
More Fun Stuff
- Gifts For Science And Science Fiction Lovers That Support Good Causes
- io9 picks The Most Amazing Science Images Of 2014
- Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are asteroid-crossed lovers in this (regrettably fake) trailer for MoonQuake Lake, a pastiche of the paranormal romance genre.
- Read BioWars, a free digital comic book that focuses on the human body’s internal battle against viruses and disease. The story stars Alex Hawking, a young boy infected by a virus engineered by a corrupt organization.
- Read an excerpt from The Alliance by Shannon Stoker at The Qwillery.
- Read an excerpt from Half the World by Joe Abercrombie at Suvudu.
- Read an excerpt from The Maiden in the Ice by Angela Slatter at Tor.com.
- So, geekboy, you have patches from all the STS missions? How cute. Well, I have all the patches from the U.S. spy satellite launches. Bow down to your nerd master.
- This Short Video Explains Why You’ve Never Met An Alien
- Watch “Jeff 1000” starring Summer Glau
