[SF/F/H Link Post] George R.R. Martin’s Plea to “Every True Fan”; Doctor Who Death Threats; Little Golden Star Wars Books
Interviews & Profiles
- Angela Slatter interviews Kelly Robson.
- SFFWorld interviews Gaie Sebold.
- Smart Girls love SciFi interviews KS Augustin.
- Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Mary Rickert.
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Lou Anders.
- My Bookish Ways interviews Alex Bledsoe.
- Wag The Fox interviews David Bernstein.
- Fast Forward interviews Alan Smale.
- GeekyLibrary interviews Wesley Chu.
- Readers interview Terry Brooks.
- Redditors interview Scott Sigler.
News
- Adam Deacon guilty of sending ‘death threats’ to Doctor Who star Noel Clarke.
- Game of Thrones Writer to Pen Live-Action The Sword in the Stone Remake.
Events & Event News
- Hugo Award Voting ends Friday July 31, 2015!
- Upcoming Events at Borderlands Books. [via Locus Online]
- Join Nalo Hopkinson on Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00 p.m. at the University Book Store in Seattle as she signs and reads from her new book Falling In Love With Hominids.
- Wesley Chu Book events.
Crowd Funding
- Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit by Smithsonian Institution.
- The Side of Good / The Side of Evil: A FlipBook Anthology.
Articles
- A.C. Wise on Coming Attractions 2: Still Attracted.
- Aliette de Bodard on Chosen Ones, Specialness and the Narrative of the One.
- Amazing Stories on Making ‘Trek’ from Scratch.
- Andrew Liptak on Visiting Tau Ceti with 4 Science Fiction Authors.
- Andrew Liptak on Orson Scott Card’s Career-Defining Story, Ender’s Game.
- Atlas Obscura on Battles, Batman, and Liberace: A Cultural History of Capes.
- Avery Hastings on Five Books Featuring Unreliable Narrators.
- Beth Kelly on Clones in Film and Pop Culture.
- Bibliotropic on READALONG: Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone: Week 1.
- David B. Coe says Enough (Part I).
- Den of Geek on ‘Tracking Softly’ and Writing Films Off Before Release.
- Diabolical Plots’ Hugo Novelette Review: “Championship B’tok” by Edward M. Lerner.
- Forces of Geek on The 25 Must-Read Books of Summer 2015.
- GW Thomas on Atlas’ Barbarians of Vengeance.
- Helen Lowe on The Kind Of Books I Write.
- Ian Sales on Space movies.
- Jeff VanderMeer on Are we alone? SF is as sure a guide as any.
- John A. DeLaughter on H.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Giger: How Their Dreams Became Our Nightmares. [via This Is Horror]
- Joseph Mallozzi on Dark Matter thoughts and questions answered.
- Joshua Palmatier on King Kelson’s Bride by Katherine Kurtz and Dragon Thief by S. Andrew Swann.
- Kim Newman reviews Arnold Schwarzenegger’s zombie flick, Maggie.
- Little Red Reviewer on Illusion by Paula Volsky.
- Loser City on What We Talk About When We Talk About Money In Comics.
- Lucy O’Brien on The State of Horror Video Games in 2015. [via This Is Horror]
- Marie Brennan’s Hugo Reading Report.
- Max Gladstone on Happiness for a Fish.
- Max Gladstone on So Grim It’s Cute Again (or: the Fallacy of the Turtle).
- Mental Floss on The 12 Men Who Walked on the Moon.
- Mike Resnick on The Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues #21: Work For Hire.
- Nikki DeMarco on What I Learned From a Harry Potter Movie Marathon.
- OMNI Reboot on 10 Of The Best Genetic Modification Movies.
- Omnivoracious on A Very Happy Unbirthday to Alice, From AbeBooks.
- Paul Kane on Heroes & Villains.
- Ross Johnson on Graphic Novels for 6 Types of Sci-Fi Fans.
- Sam Maggs on 6 Lady-Led SF/F Books to Fire Up Your Inner Fangirl.
- Steve Davidson, editor of Amazing Stories, on If My Vote Determined the Outcome of the 2015 Hugo Awards.
- The AudioBookaneers on The Darkest Part of the Forest.
- The Guardian says George R.R. Martin urges ‘every true fan’ to rally for Hugo awards vote.
- The Los Angeles Review of Books on Uses of Displeasure: Literary Value and Affective Disgust. [via printSF]
- The Verge on Sci-fi Sundays: Body-Swapping with Seconds, Self/less, and Advantageous.
- Tricia Sullivan asks what mid-career slump? [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Zachary A. Matzo on A New Hope for the Star Wars Extended Universe.
Art
- Mosnter Brains by Jean Veber.
- Aphelion, Nikola Damjanov.
- The Journey to the West, Wei Feng.
- Grom the Conqueror, John Barry Ballaran.
- Tea party at the graveyard, April Lee.
- Tarot Cards, Alex De Bernardis.
- 19 Beautiful Works of Video Game Fan Art.
- The Most Beautiful and Striking Illustrations from 200 Years of Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales.
- Clever Illustrations That Reimagine Famous Marvel Superheroes As Different Types Of Dogs.
More Fun Stuff
- As we marveled at Pluto, this spectacular comet image came out.
- Sneak Peek: The Left-Hand Way by Tom Doyle.
- Proof of George R. R. Martin’s Never-Published John W. Campbell Awards Volume 6.
- Quiz: Go Set a Watchman or Watchmen?
- LEGO Optimus Prime Actually Transforms.
- Vin Diesel celebrated his birthday with a D&D cake, because he’s awesome.
- Now You Can Play ‘Doom’ Inside Of ‘Doom’.
- Revisit Stan Lee’s Marvel Movie Cameos in New Infographic.
- What Superheroes Think of Wolverine.
- New Funko figures include The Strain and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- This fan-made ‘He-Man’ film promises to unlock the power of Grayskull.
- R2D2 Rollaboard.
- R2D2 Metal Model Kit.
- Hot Toys Millennium Falcon Is 18 Feet Long.
- Star Wars Movies Get “Little Golden Book” Adaptations.