[SF/F/H Link Post] J.K. Rowling’s Twitter Fight; the Fantasy Saga Greater Than A GAME OF THRONES; Star Trek TNG Ties

Interviews & Profiles

• Paul Goat Allen interviews Laurell K. Hamilton.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Nnedi Okorafor.
• At Book Smugglers, Charles Tan moderates a roundtable on diversity with M. Sereno, Aliette de Bodard, Zen Cho, Bogi Takács and J.Y. Yang.
• Mahvesh Murad interviews Sarah Lotz.
• The Washington Post interviews John Scalzi.
• Spooky Sean interviews Livia Llewelyn.
• Emily Mah’s audio-interview with Paolo Bacigalupi.
• Sword and Laser video-interviews Peter Orullian.
• Paste interviews Brian K. Vaughan.
• SFFWorld interviews Ralph Kern.
• SFFWorld interviews Thomas Waite.

News

• Announcing Molly Tanzer’s Rumbullion.
• J.K. Rowling’s Twitter Fight with the Westboro Baptist Church.
• Rick Baker Retiring; The FX World Will Not Be the Same.
• Bradley P. Beaulieu announces the Summer Reading Sale.
• Fuzzy Hedgehog Press sale – first edition paperback at eBook prices.
• Amazon offers “Kindle for Kids Bundle”.

Crowd Funding

• Donate Your Way to MuchoMangoMayo 2016!

Articles

• Jeff Somers on Julian May’s The Pliocene Exile Is Greater Than A Game of Thrones.
• John Wiswell on The Pain of Special Needs in Mad Max: Fury Road.
• Kim Newman’s San Andreas notes.
• Kirkus Reviews (Patrick Hester) on Falling Through Realities.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on My Favorite Bit: Peter Orullian Talks About TRIAL OF INTENTIONS.
• Mike Allen on A new CLOCKWORK PHOENIX rises!.
• Nerdist on Why Rick and Morty is the Best Sci-Fi Show on TV.
• NYTimes.com reviews Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Peter Orullian on Gestures of Humanity.
• Pornokitsch on Mad Max is unexceptional, and that’s for the best.
• Rich Horton on A Modest Proposal to Improve the Hugos.
• Rob J. Hayes on Stories are Written on Paper, Not Stone.
• Robert J. Sawyer on Star Trek: The Motion Picture and sexism.
• S. Andrew Swann on Stephen King’s Writing Secret.
• Science Fiction Book Club (Andrew Liptak) on Escaping the Apocalypse.
• Science Fiction Book Club (Kristin Centorcelli) on 6 Ways to Enjoy the Apocalypse.
• SciFiNow on We need more Stephen King movies done right.
• Scott Edelman on Let me tell you about the only response to a Science Fiction Age rejection I ever liked.
• The Hooded Utilitarian asks Can There Be a Black Fantasy Hero?
• Timmi Duchamp on Tanith Lee.

Art

• Inside The Fantasy Art Of Superstar Artist Tony DiTerlizzi.
• Sara Forlenza Gallery.
• The Amazing Concept Art of Eddie Del Rio.
• Judgement by Karamissa.
• Quiz: Sci-Fi Artists.
• The SFF Book Covers You Remember Most Vividly.

More Fun Stuff

• Chapter 3 of The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson.
• Sneak Peek: The Hollow Queen by Elizabeth Haydon.
• Sword & Laser Podcast #217 – Apply John Scalzi Directly to Forehead.
• Website Launch: The L.A. Trilogy by Adam Christopher.
• DAW Books Discussion: The Dhulyn and Parno Novels, Volume 2 by Violette Malan.
• Look Inside an R2-D2 Astromech Droid.
• Mare Internum – a web comic. [via Geek Art Gallery]
• Star Trek TNG ties.