[SF/F/H Link Post] Hulk v. Hulkbuster, R2-D2 is a Dude, Right?, Ghost In The Shell Stage Play

Interviews & Profiles

• Amazon Books interviews John Scalzi, author of The End of All Things.
• Bull Spec interviews Darin Kennedy, author of The Mussorgsky Riddle.
• Digital Spy interviews Daryl Hannah and Tuppence Middleton, stars of Sense8.
• Electric Literature interviews Edward Mullany, author of The Three Sunrises.
• A Fantastical Librarian interviews Bryony Pearce, author of Phoenix Rising.
• J. Michael Straczynski hopes Sense8 “Is Sci-Fi TV’s ‘Hill Street Blues’ Moment”
• Literary Hub interviews Alejandro Jodorowsky, would-be director of Dune.
• LiveLifeinStyleBlog interviews Martha Wells, author of .
• My Bookish Ways interviews Peter Clines, author of The Fold.
• Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation
• The Qwillery interviews PJ Manney, author of (R)EVOLUTION.
• SFFWorld interviews Deby Fredericks, author of Masters of Air and Fire.
• SFFWorld interviews Martha Wells, author of Stories of the Raksura.
• The Sword and Laser Podcast interviews Peter Orullian, author of The Vault of Heaven.
• Tor Books interviews Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time.

News

• Ghost In The Shell To Receive Stage Play Adaptation From Franchise Vets
• Jurassic World director backs Joss Whedon’s criticism of ‘sexist’ clip

Crowd Funding

• Geeks Doing Good 2015 – Buy geeky stuff. Make the world a better place.
• Martian Comics 52-Page Special – Seven stories. 52 pages. A whole new sci-fi mythology.

Articles

• Book Review: The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• TV Review: Sense8 gets under your skin, in a good way
• TV Review: Sense8: The Wachowskis Bring Their Hallucinatory Visions to Television
• TV Review: The Wachowskis’ Sense8, unfortunately, does not make much sense.
• 5 Horror Sequels That Completely Lost Sight of the Original
• 6 Crazy SF Books Featuring Dinos that are Somehow NOT Jurassic Park
• 6 Things We Want To See In Jurassic World
• 10 Reasons The Velociraptors Are The True Stars of The Jurassic Trilogy
• After blogging about the Nebulas for months, Barnes & Noble SFF predicts who will win.
• Amazing Stories offers us The Truth About Zombies
• Blake’s 7: the low-budget late 70s British sci-fi is now a genuine classic
• The Colorful World of Mad Max: Fury Road: Does George Miller’s latest ‘Mad Max’ film have the same “cyan/orange” look dogging so many recent big action movies?
• Den of Geek explains Why you should watch Netflix’s Sense8
• Game of Thrones could basically be all about climate change. Wouldn’t that technically make it cli-fi, rather than fantasy? (Clearly putting it in sci-fi’s purview.)
• ILM Revs Up the Avengers Action with Hulk v. Hulkbuster
• Kickstarting a books revolution: the literary crowdfunding boom
• Kirkus Book Reviews on The High-Stakes Thrills of Michael Crichton
• Lovecraftian Horror and Bloodborne: at its core, is about the fragility of human life.
• Maybe The Matrix Ruined Science Fiction Movies, suggests Josh Friedman. No, The Matrix Didn’t Ruin Sci-Fi… at least, not the first one.
• Paleontologist Jack Horner says Jurassic World’s imaginary made-up dinosaur is “scientifically more plausible” than anything that happened in the first three flicks.
• R2-D2 is a Dude, Right? And Other Musings On Gender And Technology
• Sense8: on the set of the Wachowskis’ first ever TV show
• Star Wars fanboys two years ago to Disney: thank you for taking it away from Lucas; he’s raped our childhoods. Fanboys when they see this comic: WTF, Disney?
• Three Reasons Women’s Writing and Expression is Less Visible Than Men’s
• What Are The Most Useful Concepts You’ve Learned From Science Fiction?
• What Can Mad Max, Tomorrowland, and Ex Machina Tell Us About Society?
• Why YA fiction is a dark mirror reflecting our own real lives
• Your Sense8 Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need to Know About the New Netflix Show

Art

• Genderswapped Slave Leia with balloon-twisted Jabba
• Scott C’s amazing Great Showdown tribute to Mad Max: Fury Road
• Two great examples of Gizmo Cakes inspired by the movie Gremlins.

More Fun Stuff

• Cooking chicken and rice in space is always fun to see
• The Enduring Appeal of a Meal in a Pill
• And our first official look into the Star Wars post-episode VI universe is…a phone game?
• Read an excerpt from THING EXPLAINER: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe at Gizmodo.
• Robot Showdown: Droids to Face Off in DARPA Robotics Challenge. Here’s a Handy Guide to Every Robot Competing In This Weekend’s DARPA Challenge.
• Want to know what you’d see if you fell into a black hole… the answer is “woah”
• We Might Create Alien Life in a Lab Before We Find It in Space