SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-12-30
Interviews & Profiles
- BBC Radio 3 interviews Stephen Price, who looks at the musical scores for The Shape of Things to Come, Alien, Gravity, and other science fiction soundtracks.
- Coode Street interviews Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, editors of Little People!.
- Ethical Technology interviews David Alvarado, from the film The Immortalists.
- Lightspeed Magazine interviews Steven Gould, author of Exo.
- Lytherus interviews Simon Wilkie, who portrays C-3PO in the upcoming Star Wars.
- Nightmare Magazine interviews Robert Shearman, author of the recently released horror anthology They Do the Same Things Different There.
News
Events & Event News
- Seth Grahame-Smith will appear at Barnes & Noble at 86th & Lexington Ave in New York City to sign The Last American Vampire on Wednesday January 14, 2015 at 7:00 PM.
Crowd Funding
- How to Live on Other Planets – The first science fiction anthology to focus exclusively on the immigrant experience. Ken Liu, Lewis Shiner, Nisi Shawl & more.
- ZNA – The next generation of cooperative survival boardgame in a unique post-apocalyptic setting.
Articles
- 10 Flashbacks That Totally Changed Our Favorite Stories
- The 18 Biggest Sci-Fi TV Moments of 2014
- Bibliotropic on Top 10 Books I Should Have Read in 2014
- Doctor Who and the BBC are ‘promoting a gay agenda‘, viewers complain
- The future is dystopian (Is science to blame?)
- Green lawyer in UK writes “cli-fi” thriller Carbon Black
- Here Are the 10 Best Movies You Didn’t See This Year, according to Wired.
- How movies embraced Hinduism (without you even noticing): From Interstellar to Batman and Star Wars the venerable religion has been the driving philosophy behind many hit movies. Why?
- How Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Made Me a Better Feminist
- January 2015 Must Reads in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
- Jo Walton on How Having an E-reader Has Changed My Reading Habits.
- The Little Red Reviewer on Everyone else’s favorites of the year
- Nancy Fulda on Painting Characters into Corners
- The PlayList’s list of The Most Overrated And Underrated Films Of 2014 includes a lot science fiction, concluding with a love letter to Interstellar.
- A Post-Christmas Listmas: Ranking the Doctor Who Holiday Specials
- Why Doctor Who was the best TV show of 2014
Art
- Mechanical Drawings and the Human Form Merge in Oil Paintings
- Super Cool HALO Spacecraft Is Made out of $7,000 Worth of LEGO
More Fun Stuff
- 5200 Days in Space: An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile
- Apocalypse or golden age: What machine intelligence will do to us
- Infographic: Banned Books through History to the Present Day
- Read an excerpt from The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne at Space.com.
- Read an excerpt from Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton at Suvudu.
- Terminator: Genisys Should Just Admit How Screwed Up Its Timeline Is
- Thanks to Fortune Magazine we have a couple new images of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- Title Page From Upcoming Movie The Martian Soars into Space
- Watch 15 robotic musicians join forces with humans to perform the theme song to “Doctor Who.” Even Daleks would be impressed.
