[SF/F/H Link Post] AMC’s Humans; Nerds Google Bomb ISIS; Wayward Pines
Interviews & Profiles
- AV Club interviews Ales Kot, author of Zero.
- The Cap Times interviews Wesley Chu, author of Time Salvager.
- ComingSoon.net interviews Chris Columbus, director of Pixels.
- Flickering Myth interviews Mike Johnson, author of “Star Trek/Green Lantern #1.”
- Lytherus interviews Melissa Grey, author of The Girl at Midnight.
- M. Night Shyamalan on Endings and the Wayward Pines Series Finale.
- M. Night Shyamalan Talks Wayward Pines Season 2 & TV Debut.
- Peter Capaldi shows yet again what a massive Doctor Who fanboy he is.
- WUWM interviews Steven Kotler, author of Tomorrowland.
News
- Anime nerds trying to Google bomb ISIS. “Her name is ISIS-chan. And she’s how nerds around the world are trying to silence violent ISIS terrorist propaganda.”
- Carter Blanchard To Adapt Anti-Superhero Novel Steelheart For The Big Screen.
- University of Iowa Libraries Begin to Digitize Decades of Fanzines.
Events & Event News
- Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, will appear at Austin Books & Comics in Austin, TX on Saturday, August 1st from noon till 3:00 PM to sign copies of his new book, Armada. And we hear he’s bringing his famous DeLorean, Ecto-88! RSVP on Facebook.
Crowd Funding
- Sky Relics: Battle of Iron Ring Skies – Build your fleet and rise up to defeat your enemies in this 2-5 player miniature board game based in the world of Targus.
- Somnio the Movie – The creator of Pandorum seeks your support to complete post production for a low-budget, feature length sci-fi thriller.
- Zpocalypse 2: Defend the ‘Burbs – An epic post-apocalyptic zombie survival game, with RPG lite mechanics! Zpocalypse standalone expansion. Miss the original? Get it here.
Articles
- Book Review: All the Birds in the Sky Is a Gorgeous Tale of Love and the Apocalypse.
- Book Review: Cold Iron Asks: What If Tolkien Had Been American?
- The 8 Creepiest Small Towns in Speculative Fiction: The Creepy Small Town (CST), with its sharp picket fences and toothy smiles, is an enduring favorite for good reason.
- 10 Books About Revolution chosen by LitReactor.
- Best List The 10 creepiest X-Files episodes.
- AMC’s Humans is an android story that’s really about us.
- Are these the worst sci-fi finales?
- Check out this fun list of the most visually striking movies of all time featuring appearances by The Fall, 2001, and Douglas Trumbull!
- How to Personify the Seven Deadly Sins.
- It Is Happening Again: Can Wayward Pines Be M. Night Shyamalan’s Twin Peaks?
- Looking back at the late E.L. Doctorow’s 1960s sci-fi novel.
- M Night Shyamalan Has Ideas for Wayward Pines Season 2.
- On AMC’s Humans, Wrong Approach to Robots May Be Just What Real Humans Need.
- On the one hand, accurate onscreen hacking is great! But on the other hand, we’re pretty sure accurate onscreen hacking is a sign of the Apocalypse.
- Practically Speaking, Why Do We Hate CGI So Much?
- The Twisty Satisfaction of Wayward Pines.
- Wayward Pines: How The TV Ending Differed From The Book.
- Wayward Pines Season 2: 5 Burning Questions Fans Have After The Season 1 Finale.
- Why Fox should let Wayward Pines die after one season.
- Why Humans Is the Scariest Show on TV according to TVGuide.com
Art
- BATMAN: GOTHAM CRUSADERS – This Cartoon Should Be Real.
- Joe Johnston’s STAR WARS Concept Art is Still Awesome 35 Years Later.
More Fun Stuff
- 12 TV show pitches centered around a female engineering hero.
- For all those who find it most relaxing to pretend they’re aboard the Enterprise.
- An inside look at Guillermo del Toro’s gothic romance movie “Crimson Peak.”
- Lawyer decides to one-up Randall Monroe, who when analyzing “What if New Horizons hit my car?” failed to consider that the car might have been parked near Pluto.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents a Brief History of Everything in an 8.5 Minute Animation.
- Read an excerpt from The Devil’s Game by Sean Chercover at The Qwillery.
- Scientists say humans really could become IMMORTAL like the characters in new film Self/Less, but only if they’re wealthy.
- Six startling new shots of Hot Toys’ humongous 18-foot Millennium Falcon.
- Step inside Syfy’s spacey Expanse cafe created just for Comic-Con.
- Study whale snot with Sir Patrick Stewart!
- Video Guide to Every Terminator from the T-1 to T-3000.
- Watch a trailer for IFC’s ONE & TWO.
