SF/F/H Link Post for 2015-01-31

Interviews & Profiles

• BoingBoing interviews Will Self, author of Shark.
• HeyUGuys interviews Don Hall, director of Big Hero 6.
• The Kindle Daily Post interviews Marissa Meyer, author of FAIREST.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Daniel Josè Older, author of Half-Resurrection Blues.
• The Once and Future Podcast interviews Marjorie Liu, author of Labyrinth of Stars.
• The Once and Future Podcast interviews Myke Cole, author of Gemini Cell.
• Tor.com interviews Samantha Shannon, author of The Mime Order.

News

• Apex Publications announces Sing Me Your Scars by Damien Angelica Walters is now available for Preorder. Put in your order now.
• Black Mirror is in the early stages of being adapted for U.S. audiences.
• George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter: no plans for publication in 2015. Give me a moment while I try to compose a surprised expression.
• New Salman Rushdie Novel Coming in September [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Nominate Your Favorite Works And People For The 2015 Hugo Awards
• Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany Cast as Lead in Gareth Edwards’ Star Wars Spin-Off
• Star Wars Boba Fett figure reaches £18,000 at auction
• My Bookish Ways gets a facelift!

Crowd Funding

• Space Cadets: Away Missions – A standalone cooperative game, the 3rd in the Space Cadets line. Explore UFOs, acquire alien tech and fight hordes of hostile aliens!
• Terminus Gate – A new campaign driven sci-fi miniatures game full of fast-paced action and daring adventure!

Articles

• Movie Review: Despite Being Predictable Project Almanac Is A Fun, Engaging
• 5 Of Our Favorite Teen-Centric Time Travel Movies
• 7 Reasons We Don’t Need Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness
• 10 Diseases That Might Afflict Us In The Future by George Dvorsky
• 10 More Mark Millar Comics Which Should Be Brought To The Big Screen
• 10 Things to Note in the First Trailer for Fantastic Four
• 12 Movies to See After You Watch Project Almanac
• Bill Gates says AI is a threat. Judging by Haley Joel Osment’s career, he’s right
• Casting Is Only a Symptom: The Main Fanboy Issue With Fantastic Four
• Doctor Who’s top ten most tragic deaths
• Essential Guide to Living Lovecraft: The Real World Locations Behind the Horror
• Five Things to Do Instead of Watching the Super Bowl!
• From Aesop to doge: The animal who speaks in a human voice is a figure of the most enduring imaginative power. What do we hope to hear? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• From Science Fiction to Reality: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
• Gizmodo argues that Paper Books Will Never Die
• The Guardian says that Frank Herbert’s Dune at 50 has life in it yet
• “I really have no interest in science fiction at all,” said Star Wars creator George Lucas today at the Sundance Film Festival. He then took his ball and went home.
• Is Big Hero 6 the Superhero Stand by Me?
• Joss Whedon clarifies his comments about misogyny in superhero movies: BuzzFeed News did a follow-up interview with Joss regarding his comments made to Digital Spy last summer. It’s a good read and gives an indication as to what he’d like to do next.
• Neil Gaiman Admits His Doctor Who Episode “Nightmare In Silver” Was A Bit Of A Dud. Somehow, though, we can’t stay mad at him.
• Rolling Stone names 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
• The Secret Douglas Adams RPG That People Have Been Playing for 15 Years
• The Secret Project of Doom: REVEALED
• So You Wanna Be an Author? You Don’t Need an MFA to Get Published
• This is Horror asks What Makes a Monster?
• Vulture asks what we’re all thinking: What’s Wrong With Jupiter Ascending? “You’re going to hurt me, aren’t you, Jupiter Ascending? It seems increasingly certain that this movie will be terrible (and a financial catastrophe for Warner Bros.), yet I simply can’t get my hopes down for it. In fact, I’m not sure there’s ever been this wide a gap between the high quality of an ad campaign and the abysmal advance word about the movie itself. I’m still trying to figure out what’s missing here.”

Art

• Boba Fett Concept Art Traces The Evolution Of A Bounty Hunter
• Alternate Jupiter Ascending Fan Posters

More Fun Stuff

• Check out this Massive Jupiter Ascending Photo Gallery
• Fantastic Four Trailer Easter Eggs and Analysis from The Nerdist
• Gillian Anderson explains The Big Bang theory.
• The Muppets Visited The Empire Strikes Back Set, And It Was Wonderful
• Read an excerpt from The Great Speck by Terry Pratchett at Tor.com.
• Read the short story “How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps” by A. Merc Rustad.
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Mixtape: The Haves and the Have-Nots
• Trekspertise: A History of Pre-Warp Alien Contact in Star Trek.
• Watch a Ex_Machina featurette on how Ava was created.
• Watch a trailer for iZombie at CBR.
• Watch the Avengers: Age of Ultron TV Spot.
• Watch the Superbowl trailer for Insurgent