SF/F/H Link Post for 2015-01-23

Interviews & Profiles

• A Fantastical Librarian interviews Naomi Foyle.
• Redditors interview Daniel José Older.
• Shelf Life interviews Pierce Brown.
• My Bookish Ways interviews W.C. Bauers.
• Wag The Fox interviews Timothy C. Ward.
• Relentless Reading interviews Sam Sykes.
• Gareth L. Powell interviews Jon Oliver.
• Famous Monsters interviews Frankenstein vs. The Mummy director Damien Leone.
• Noah Berlatsky ansswers Wonder Woman Questions.
• A Cheery Holiday Locus Roundtable with Cat Rambo, Paul Graham Raven, Jeffrey Ford, Cecelia Holland, Elizabeth Hand, Kathleen Goonan, Marie Brennan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Karen Burnham, Ken Liu, Peter Straub and more.

News

• James Maxey Named 2015 Piedmont Laureate.
• Neal Stephenson Inks New Deal at HarperCollins. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Scavenger: Evolution by Timothy C. Ward releases March 1st.
• Hunger Games: Mockingjay Becomes Highest-Grossing Film of 2014 in U.S.

Events & Event News

• TONIGHT! See 3 Moons of Jupiter Perform Rare Triple Transit.

Crowd Funding

• QUEERS DESTROY SCIENCE FICTION! by Lightspeed Magazine.
• Second Variety – A short science fiction film by Oliver Lewis.
• Spectral Transmission Season Two – Science Fiction Anthology by Courtney Scialdone.
• Suspension of Disbelief: A Fantasy-Comedy Webseries by Benjamin Boardman.
• Darkraven Soundscapes:Redux + Cthulhu-Fantasy & Horror Music by Ruby Nile Games.

Articles

• Delilah S. Dawson on How to Approach Authors in the Wild.
• The Hooded Utilitarian on An Ambiguous Utopia: Science-Fiction and Fantasy as the Solution to our Problems?
• Alastair Reynolds on Short fiction and Asimov’s Science Fiction‘s January 2015 issue.
• Andrew Liptak on The History of Serialized SF Gets a New Chapter.
• M. Harold Page on Where the Next Generation of Geeks is Coming From.
• Paul St John Mackintosh on Lovecraft, nihilism, and fascism.
• Whatever on The Big Idea: Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith.
• Gary Dalkin on 2014: A Reading Odyssey – Part 2.
• The AudioBookaneers on January Whispersync Deal roundup.
• The Cultural Gutter visits A Galaxy Far, Far Away.
• The Conversation asks If Earth falls, will interstellar space travel be our salvation?.
• Paizo Blog on The Giants are coming!
• Rachel S. Cordasco on The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami.
• My Bookish Ways on My Bookish Ways by Robert Levy.
• Bibliotropic on The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.
• Kirkus Reviews (Patrick Hester) on An Illustrated Hobbit.
• Tor UK on An Introduction to Neal Asher’s Polity Universe.
• Tor UK lists Five Reasons to Love Amanda Hocking.
• Screen Rant on 10 Superhero Movies You Don’t Need to Watch Twice.

Art

• Orc Warrior, Matt Chapman.
• Kiosko, Nitesh Nagda.
• Poster: The Gorn by Massimo Carnevale.
• Illustration: Spaceman Spiff by Laura Bifano.
• Mechatank_Concept_003, Mohammed Z. Mukhtar.
• Batgirl, Mario Manzanares.
• Star Wars art by Paul Youll.
• Cover Reveal: The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume 1: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Golden Son by Pierce Brown.
• Excerpt: The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan.
• Book Trailer: The Eterna Files by Leanna Renee Hieber.
• Galaxy Quest Comic Book Sends the Protector on New Adventure.
• Brewster Rockit.
• Lord of the Rings-Themed Dinner Party. [via Cynical-C]
• The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit | Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy recut into a single 4-hour film.
• Ridley Scott putting condensed milk on the face of Ian Holm on the set of Alien.
• Darth Vader toaster head.