[SF/F/H Link Post] A New Vonnegut Adaptation; NASA Space Probe Crash; Why Marvel Movies Work and DC Movies Don’t; Captain America Pizza Shield

Interviews & Profiles

• My Bookish Ways interviews Brooke Johnson.
• Beauty in Ruins interviews Alison Sinclair.
• Juliette Wade hosts a video-interview with Ken Liu.
• Redditors interview Peter V. Brett.
• SFFWorld interviews Andrew David Barker.

News

• Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle Adapted to TV Series by IM Global.
• NASA Space probe to crash on Mercury on Thursday afternoon.
• NASA’s New Horizons Detects Surface Features on Pluto.
• Submission Guidelines: The Mammoth Book of Kaiju.

Crowd Funding

• CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 5: more stories of beauty and strangeness by Mike Allen.
• Simon Stålenhag’s Tales from the Loop – paintings from a childhood that never was and a future that could have been.

Articles

• Cecily from Manic Pixie Dream Worlds on Epic Female Protagonists Written by Women.
• Cinema Blend on 10 Classic Superheroes, Ranked By Their Origin Stories.
• CNet on Wondrous women: Comic book heroines girls will love.
• Jason Sanford on When science fiction authors are no longer grounded in reality.
• John Bardenelli on Dune at 50: Pop Culture Is Hooked on Spice.
• Lauren Naturale on Throwback Thursday: Saying No to Death in The Sandman.
• Mike Ryan on Why Marvel Movies Continue To Succeed And DC Just Can’t Get It Right.
• Nancy Jane Moore asks What Does the Near Future Hold?
• Patrick Hester on When Superpowers Meet Corruption.
• R.C. Smith on The Gifts of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Rich Horton on The 2015 Hugo Nominations.
• Tatiana Caldwell on Sciene Fiction Romance Recommendations.
• Whatever on The Big Idea: Hermione Eyre.
• Wired on Iron Man Hits the Hulk Pretty Damn Hard in Age of Ultron.

Art

• Posters: Luke, Yoda & Vader.
• Pixel Game of Thrones.
• Posters: Avengers: Age of Ultron.
• Star Wars Poster Series.
• Star Wars Trilogy Posters by Andy Fairhurst.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt and Giveaway: The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #258 – “Organ Taker” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Sword & Laser #214 – Discworld’s Inner Rage.
• Vaginal Fantasy Book Club Show discuss The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson.
• This Map Shows How All the Future Marvel Movies Are Connected.
• How to watch every Marvel property in the perfect order.
• Captain America’s Shield as Pepperoni Pizza.
• FREE PC Download: Ultima 8 Gold Edition.