[SF/F/H Link Post] Marvel’s Mixed-Race Spider-Man; Our Reading Savior Octavia Butler; Little Batman

Interviews & Profiles

• Rising Shadow interviews Gail Z. Martin.
• SFFWorld interviews Nancy Springer.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Michael R. Fletcher.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Mike Allen.
• Beauty in Ruins interviews Zachary Jernigan.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interview Bioware’s Karin and Patrick Weekes.
• Fantasy-Faction interviews Peter Newman.
• Civilian Reader interviews Dan Wells .
• Wag The Fox interviews Stephen Graham Jones.

News

• Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 Longlist Announced. Includes We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
• 2015 New York Radio Award Winners.
• Marvel launches mixed race Spider-Man.
• Dark Horse joins comiXology’s digital domain … finally.
• Penguin Random House Now Selling Books On Twitter.
• The CW Prepares For Hawkgirl To Fly Solo After Legends of Tomorrow.
• Now available for preorder: King of the Bastards by Brian Keene and Steven Shrewbury.

Events & Event News

• Thursday, July 2, 2015: Phoenix Loves Sci-Fi in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Tor Books Announces Programming for San Diego Comic-Con 2015.

Articles

• Abigail Nussbaum on Jurassic World.
• Adam Rowe on 6 Beloved SF/F Authors Who Hated Their Legacies.
• Alex Bledsoe on Thoughts on Black Widow and Joss Whedon, two months late.
• Bookworm Blues on Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett.
• Bryan Young on The Cinema Behind Star Wars: Citizen Kane.
• Cinema Blend on How An X-Files Script Started A Successful Horror Franchise. [via This Is Horror]
• Greg Ruth on Constructive Storytelling: Why Horror is Good For You, Part Two.
• GW Thomas on The Sword of Charlton, Part 2: Anthologia.
• James Nicoll says Everything you know about H. Beam Piper is wrong!
• Jenn Northington on Octavia Butler, Our Personal Reading Savior.
• Jo Lindsay Walton on Marxist Science Fiction Studies.
• Judith K. Dial on Well Written Books.
• LA Times on Terminator Genisys: A sci-fi franchise faces its reckoning.
• Nerdist on Nerdist Book Club: Dune, Part 1.
• PopMatters on Abandoned Star Wars Plot Points Episode IV.
• Sam Reader on The Unnoticeables is a Genre-Smashing Urban Secret History.
• SFBC (Jeff Patterson) on weapons walk among us.
• Sunil Patel on The Merger: Inspirations & Influences.
• T. Frohock says It’s Not About Sex, It’s About Love.
• Thea James on A Jurassic World-Inspired Reading List.

Art

• The Golden Age: Misc Science Fiction Covers & Art. [via Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine]
• Space Waltz by TomasKral. [via Geek Art Gallery]
• The Museum of Science Fiction Releases Mobile App for iOS.
• Posters: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Posters: Mad Max: Fury Road Machines.
• Return Of The Jedi Art by Ralph McQuarrie.
• The Golden Age: Virgil Finlay ~ The Weird Tales Portfolio. [via Paul Di Filippo]

More Fun Stuff

• Al Robertson shares an extract from Crashing Heaven.
• Lovecraftian movies currently on Netflix.
• “The White Wolf” – Adventures of the League of STEAM.
• Boba Fett Costume Test Images from 1979.
• Alan Rickman Says “Harry Potter” on Helium.
• Facehugger Fritter.
• Infographic: The Batsuit Evolution.
• Little Batman 3D Sculpture.