[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.