SF/F/H Link Post for 2015-02-02

Interviews & Profiles

• NYTimes interviews Kelly Link.
• The Qwillery interviews Kristi Charish, author of Owl and the Japanese Circus.
• Redditors interview Game of Thrones cast member Maisie Williams.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Daniel Josè Older.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Mike Resnick.
• A.C. Wise interviews Alex Shvarstman.
• S. C. Flynn interviews Aidan Moher.
• The Qwillery interviews Ryan Maresca.

News

• Borderlands Books is closing. 🙁 (See our 2006 interview with proprietor Alan Beatts.)
• Winners in the 17th Annual Preditors & Editors / Critters Readers’ Poll.
• Submissions now open for Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing.
• Call for submissions: Lovecraftian issue of Lazy Fascist Review.
• Now available: Peripheral Visions ghost story collection by Robert Hood.
• Now available: Liberating Earth edited by Kate Orman.
• At Subterranean Press, you can preorder the Gift Edition of Stephen King’s ‘SALEM’S LOT.
• Painswick lingerie shop built for Rowling’s Vacancy drama causes complaints.
• The Last Asteroid That Passed the Earth Has a Moon.

Events & Event News

• The Functional Nerds will be at Capricon 35, February 2015.
• As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Ben Loory (Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day) & Mike Allen (Unseaming) Wednesday February 18th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.

Crowd Funding

• Jill Trent, Science Sleuth #1 by D.M. Higgins.
• Queers Destroy Science Fiction! by Lightspeed Magazine.
• Spirit of the Ronin – Novel Project by Travis Heermann.
• Death Saves: Fallen Heroes of the Kitchen Table by Josh Trujillo.
• Satellites Vol. 1 – a comic anthology by Joe Bluhm.
• Ava’s Demon: Book Two by Michelle Czajkowski.

Articles

• Tom Merritt on A love letter to Borderlands Books, but not a goodbye.
• Sherwood Smith on Writing where history, fantasy, and science fiction intersect.
• Cheryl Morgan reviews The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord.
• Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly on The Selection process for Year’s Best Weird Fiction.
• Myke Cole on Learning to Love Serial Fantasy.
• Gary Gibson on The first issue of Interzone.
• Harry Connolly on Let’s Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign.
• Andrew P. Mayer on Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh.
• The Guardian asks Should computer scientists study science fiction?
• Alternate History Weekly Update on Black Alternate History Month.
• Will Self asks Does technology make people touch each other less?
• Kate Welsh on Muggle Studies. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Paul Di Filippo reviews on Dark Intelligence by Neal Asher.
• Little Red Reviewer on Live anywhere near Michigan? You should come to Confusion.
• Blastr wants tou to Have a look at 8 awesome Women of Marvel variant comic book covers.
• Collectors Weekly on Cheap Thrills: The Freakish Fantasy Art of Mexican Pulp Paperbacks. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Mythcreants on Five Great Magic Systems in Roleplaying Games.
• RetroPhaseShift on 4 Anime Sci-Fi Films You Should Check Out.
• Story Excerpt Sunday: From The Boy From the Burren by Sheila Gilluly | Book View Cafe Blog.
• Fantasy-Faction’s Best Fantasy Books of 2014.
• Locus Online hasp posted the 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List.

Art

• The art of Lorena Alverez.
• Construction of Wrath, Steve Palmerton.
• Babiru 42, Nivanh Chanthara.
• Hlñ, Juan Serrano.
• RTV, Juan Serrano.
• Vaspar, Maarten H.
• The spider by Zhong Fenghua.
• Gingerbread House, Yuri Wolkovich.

More Fun Stuff

• Story Excerpt: The Boy From the Burren by Sheila Gilluly.
• The Seventh Draft with Juliet Ulman and Jon Armstrong.
• Amy Danzig Episode 1, a new Australian sci-fi drama web series.
• NASA Launches rockets into the Northern Lights, grabs these spectacular photos.
• Day of Doctor Who collection. [via From the Heart of Europe]
• Medieval Fantasy Lord Vader Armor.