[SF/F/H Link Post] Credibility in Fantasy; David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” Sweded; The History of Harlan Ellison’s “City on the Edge of Forever”
Interviews & Profiles
- My Bookish Ways interviews Eva Darrows.
- MythBehaving interviews Marie Bilodeau.
- Vulture interviews Neil Gaiman. [via Tor.com]
- Nightmare Magazine interviews William F. Nolan.
- Nightmare Magazine interviews Stephen Graham Jones.
- Gwen Whiting interviews Jake Kerr.
Events & Event News
- The Liaden Universe World Tour Continues.
- Judges announced for Gernsback Science Fiction Short Story Writing Contest.
Crowd Funding
Articles
- Andrea Johnson on The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
- Andrew Liptak on Evolution of a Space Epic: James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse.
- Andrew Liptak on The Not-So-Typical Adventures of Lois McMaster Bujold.
- Animation World Network on Animal Logic Gets Graphic for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
- Charles Yu on Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
- Charlie Jane Anders says Tanith Lee Was An Indispensible Fantasy Author.
- Den of Geek asks Superhero TV: is the age of the secret identity over? [via Geek Art Gallery]
- Diana Biller on 6 Absolutely Magical Alternate Histories.
- Duncan McGeary on Horror…Happily.
- G.W. Thomas asks Fantasy, Oh, Fantasy, Where Art Thou Gone?
- HuffPo on 10 Innovative Writers Who Are Shaking Up The Book World.
- io9 on Why The Most Powerful Time Travel Stories Aren’t About Changing The Past.
- Jeff Patterson on The History of Harlan Ellison’s “City on the Edge of Forever”.
- Jeff VanderMeer on The Weird, Uncanny Work Of Michael Cisco.
- Jeff vanderMeer on My Novel Borne Sells to Farrar, Straus and Giroux: More Details – The Southern Reach.
- John O’Neill on The Novels of Tanith Lee: The Wars of Vis.
- Kirkus Reviews (me!) on My Not-So-Secret Love Affair with Speculative Fiction Omnibuses.
- Laura Lippman on Stephen King’s Finders Keepers.
- Lisa Granshaw on Not Guilty: In defense of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
- Lou Anders on Credibility in Fantasy and Frostborn.
- Marie Brennan on My Hugo Reading Rules (and a good proposal).
- Mary Robinette Kowal on The Cost of Breaking the Rules.
- Nerdist on Schlock & Awe: H.G. Wells’ Highly Inaccurate Things to Come.
- NYTimes.com on Sorry, Batman: Dick Grayson Outgrows the Robin Costume.
- NYTimes.com reviews Horror Books.
- Peter Orullian on Metal Music for Five Fantasy Writers and Their Worlds.
- Pornokitsch on Dune at 50: Recommendations for the Dune-loving Non-SF Reader.
- Ryan Britt Harlan Ellison Taught Me How to Be Interesting.
- The Millions on Floridapocalypse: The End of the Sunshine State.
- Whatever The Big Idea: Alma Alexander.
Art
- a fairy in the forest, seunghee lee.
- Pharika, God of Affliction, Peter Mohrbacher.
- skywrath, MICHAEL CHANG.
- Exava the BloodWitch, Aleksi Briclot.
- Age of Destruction, Nicolas Zuriaga.
- Witcher 3 Fanart, Crowther Lindeque.
- Hunter (Advanced), James Zapata.
- Ruined modern City Dark world mmo mech robot warfare, LEWIS FISCHER.
- Mech_Hangar, Seungjin Woo.
- “Shomuth, the dragon”, Jaime Martinez.
- Star Citizen Terra Prime , Josh Kao.
- The Lost Zeppelin – Discovery, Jeff Zugale.
- Game of Thrones as Feudal Japan.
- The 27 Best Batman Artists.
More Fun Stuff
- Excerpt from The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Chapter 2.
- Beware the Hairy Mango #278 – “TTW” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
- StarShipSofa #388 with fiction by Derek Kunsken.
- This TOMORROWLAND Animated Featurette is Both Illuminating and Great.
- Star Wars die cast race cars.
- Bill Guernsey and his Atomic Camper.
- Space Weird Thing – a sweded parody of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” video.
