[SF/F/H Link Post] The End of Worldcon As We Know It; New Dracula Prequel; Captain America Fan Art
Interviews & Profiles
- Speculate! interviews Ken Liu.
- Andrew Liptak interviews Lev Grossman.
- Galaxy’s Edge Magazine interviews David Gerrold.
- Shawn Speakman interviews Mark Lawrence.
- Trevor Hogg interviews ILM VFX supervisor Ben Snow.
- StarTrek.com interviews Peter David.
- SFFWorld interviews Stephen Palmer.
News
- James Patterson to Give Away $1.75 Million to School Libraries.
- J.D. Barker Penning a prequel to Dracula. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Star Trek Coming in 2016: The Starfleet Academy Experience.
- Call For Papers – Fan Culture And Theory Popular Culture Association.
- 150 Years After Maxwell, Scientists Discover Fundamental Property of Light.
Events & Event News
Crowd Funding
Articles
- Anthony Ryan on How I Wrote Queen of Fire.
- Barry N. Malzberg on Yet More People, Places And Things Which Will Not Appear In A Future Column.
- Blastr on Peter Jackson keeps Bilbo Baggins’ house in his basement.
- Bruce Charlton on What is High Fantasy in a novel – disagreeing with Neil Gaiman about Strange and Norrrell.
- Charles Stross on Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart.
- CNET on Build your own lightsaber with modular parts from Kickstarter.
- Cory Doctorow on Skynet Ascendant.
- Craig Cormick on Bringing historical scientific figures into a work of fantasy.
- Craig Cormick on Creating and Recreating Renaissance Italy.
- Daily Dead says Sarah Connor is the Soul of the Terminator Franchise.
- Den of Geek on 15 underappreciated books: sci-fi, fantasy, horror fiction.
- Film School Rejects on The Magnificent History of Lex Luthor’s Terrible Hair.
- Geek and Sundry on 5 Fantasy Flight Games We Love.
- Geekdom House on Our favourite geeky webcomics.
- Gregory Benford on Last Things: Cold Comfort In The Far Future.
- Information Week on The Threat Of Artificial Intelligence.
- Lucas Siegel on Why Darth Vader Is The Best Villain Ever.
- MD Jackson asks Wonder Woman: Relevant or Ridiculous?
- Mike Resnick on The End of Worldcon As We Know It.
- Neatorama lists Ten Out Of This World TV Shows From The 1980s.
- Paul Kincaid on David Mitchell, Al Robertson’s Crashing Heaven, Chris Beckett, Neal Stephenson, Terry Pratchett, Laura Barnett.
- Paul Levinson says Falling Skies is Still Worthy of Viewing.
- Peter Damien on Where To Start With Star Trek Novels.
- Prehistoric Pulp on Suddenly, a cornucopia of dinosaur board games.
- Rachel Cordasco on Cool Maps of Bookish Places.
- Sherwood Smith on Influential Fantasy for Heroines.
- Snorri Kristjansson on Changing TimesLibrarian.
Art
- Baba Yaga, Denis Zilber.
- A delicious soup for the forest’s deities, Tung Monster.
- Phoenix, Sephiroth Art.
- Captain America Fan Art Round-Up: (Part 1) and Part 2.
More Fun Stuff
- Read an Extract from Twelve Kings by Bradley Beaulieu.
- Locus Magazine Table of Contents, July 2015.
- Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart spins science into sound.
- Notes from Coode Street Episode 239: Archipelacon, World Fantasy and more.
- Here’s What Batman Would Look Like as a Viking, Iron Man, and More.
- VIDEO: Why CGI Is Ruining Movies.
- Crazy, Frazetta-esque vintage cologne ad.
- Haunted Mansion Graveyard Scene made from My Little Ponies.
- Star Trek paperclips.
- Star Trek Collectible In July Loot Crate.
- House Stark Cake.
- Harry Potter Pancakes.
- Tuvok and Tupac – Logic vs Emotion.