SF/F/H Link Post for 2015-02-05

Interviews & Profiles

• The Qwillery interviews Lee Kelly.
• Nightmare Magazine interviews Karen Munro.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Sharon Lynn Fisher.
• Skiffy and Fanty interviews Emily Jiang, John Chu, and E. Lily Yu.
• Redditors interview Neal Asher.
• The Once & Future Podcast interviews Sam Sykes.
• StarShip Sofa interviews Evo Terra.
• The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog interviews Scott McCloud.
• The Mary Sue interviews Scott McCloud.
• Apex Magazine interviews Brian Keene.
• SFFWorld interviews Bishop O’Connell.
• Apex Magazine interviews artist Loika.
• OMNI Reboot profiles artist Vincent Di Fate.

News

• 2015 ALSC Youth Book Award Winners.
• Neil Gaiman Wins BBC Audio Drama Award.
• Angry Robot Books announced Windswept by Adam Rakunas.
• Stargate Reboot Finds Its Screenwriters.
• Jim C. Hines: 2015 Call for Guest Blog Posts About Representation in SF/F.
• Star Wars Humble Bundle (pay what you want and help charity).
• John Picacio offering gorgeous Loteria Card Sets.

Crowd Funding

• Nebula Online – an old school hardcore Sci-Fi MMORPG by Komar Games.

Articles

• Adrian Tchaikovsky on The Art of Epic War.
• Andrea Johnson on Cold Comforts and Other Tales by David McDonald.
• Cracked.com on 5 WTF Old-Timey Sci-Fi Genres That Were Hugely Popular.
• David Brin on Expanding into the Future.
• Ed Grabianowski on Supposedly True (but Probably Not, and That’s OK) Weird Tales.
• Fran Wilde, Michael R. Underwood, Tina Connolly, and Beth Cato on Our Favorite Short Fiction of 2014.
• Harry Connolly on Kill Your Rituals, Not Your Darlings.
• Helen Lowe on Fictional Favourites: The Pressure Of Choosing Only One Hero or Heroine.
• Joel Cunningham on Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for February.
• Kirkus Reviews (me!) on The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reads for February.
• MetaFilter on Some notable SF/F/H short fiction from 2014.
• Nick Baker on Crossing the Streams: Batman ’66 and the Green Hornet.
• R.K. Troughton on The Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time Part 1.
• Rachel S. Cordasco on The Children of Men by P. D. James.
• Robot 6 on Fan has nose cut off, face tattooed so he’ll look like Red Skull. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Ryan Britt lists 5 Reasons Joe Hill Is an Eerily Perfect Fit for a Tales from the Darkside Reboot.
• Sam Sykes on A Caring Hand on a Tense Buttock.
• Scott D. Parker on Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Donna Rifkind) on Amnesia by Peter Carey.
• The Daily Grail on The Wold Newton Meteorite: from Outer Space into Fiction.
• WSJ on Slipstream Fiction Goes Mainstream. [via Locus Online Blinks]

Art

• Online Portfolio of George Patsouras.
• Machine Dreams.
• New Harry Potter covers – in animated gifs.
• Brenwar the Dwarf, Joe Shawcross.
• Electrix, Bogdan Marica.

More Fun Stuff

• DRM-free audiobook of Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe.
• All Our Worlds: Diverse Fantastic Fiction.
• The New Daredevil Trailer From Netflix And Marvel.
• This RC Millennium Falcon Is Awesome (But Would Lose The Kessel Run).
• Sword & Laser Podcast #204 – Annihilation is Not the End.
• Doctor Who gets official Lego set.
• Avengers: Age of Ultron Mix Figures.