[SF/F/H Link Post] George R.R. Martin is Handicapping the Hugos; Non-Binary Authors to Read; The Best Thanos Cosplay Ever

Interviews & Profiles

• Little Red Reviewer interviews Mahvesh Murad.
• Luna Station Quarterly interviews Catherine Lundoff.
• Notes from Coode Street interviews Ian McDonald.
• San Jose Mercury News interviews John Scalzi.
• The Barnes & Noble Review interviews Michael Dirda.
• SFFWorld interviews Mark Chitty.
• Gareth L. Powell interviews Peter F. Hamilton.
• Portuguese American Journal interviews Larry Correia.
• The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog interviews The Creators of the Ultraman Manga.

News

• Baen Fantasy Award Winner.
• Updated! 2015 Parsec Awards Finalists.
• On Spec Suspends Print Magazine.
• Disney announces creation of Star Wars theme parks.

Book Announcements

• Subterranean Press has put up the pre-order page for Hell’s Bounty by Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale, a new weird western novel to be published in February 2016.
• BVC Announces Walking on Sunshine by Jennifer Stevenson.
• Fall 2015/Winter 2016: A Sneak Peak at our Upcoming Books from Night Shade.
• Now available: Writers On Writing: An Author’s Guide edited by Joe Mynhardt.
• Still avaoilable: The Women in Science Fiction Bundle.

Events & Event News

• Now – September 6: Racine, Wisconsin exhibit of sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk art a galactic pleasure.

Crowd Funding

• Minas Tirith – Help build the fictional city of Minas Tirith, from J. R. R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• The Immortal by Darryl Knickrehm.

Articles

• A.C. Wise on Non-Binary Authors to Read: Where to Start – Part 1.
• A.G. Wyatt on Predicting the Future: Inventing Future Technology in Sci-Fi.
• Amal El-Mohtar on Writing the Margins from the Centre and Other Moral Geometries.
• Book Riot on Fran Wilde’s Updraft & Five More Novels of Flight & Fantasy.
• Chuck Wendig on This Hackable Life.
• Europa SF on Danish Science Fiction Fandom and Fanzines – Knud Larn (Danemark).
• Gail Carriger’s 10 Favorite Space Operas.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews China Miéville, Michael Swanwick, Aliette de Bodard. [via Locus Online Blinks]
• George R.R. Martin is Handicapping the Hugos.
• Heather Massey on Scarlet Overkill Deserves Her Own Movie — So Here’s The Script.
• Jess Nevins on The Victorian Hugos: 1894 Brings The First Great Female Mad Scientist In Literature.
• Jim C. Hines on Racial and Gender Diversity in 2015 SFF Convention Guests of Honor.
• Ken MacLeod on Science fiction: taking science personally.
• Leah Schnelbach on Diana Wynne Jones Subverted Fantasy Even as She Celebrated It.
• My Bookish Ways on Read This: Agents of the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone.
• New Stateman on I read the 100 “best” fantasy and sci-fi novels – and they were shockingly offensive.
• Paul Di Filippo reviews on Puss in D.C. and Other Stories by Pamela Sargent.
• Peter Watts on “Humans”? They Weren’t Kidding..
• Sabine Quetant on 8 Afrofuturist Artists You Need To Follow Right Now.
• Salon says The ecological lessons of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece were ahead of its time. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Scientific American on War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever. [via LR Noakes]
• Stephen Baxter, James Benford and Joseph Miller offer up A Science Critique of Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Suvudu offers A Letter from Jason M. Hough.
• The Wertzone on Gratuitous Lists: Games for Readers.
• Vonda N. McIntyre on How Starfarers came to be.

Art

• The Art of Anna Dittmann.
• The Art of Anna Steinbauer.
• Sorry I’m late., Yan Hao.
• Kothophed for Magic the Gathering, Tianhua Xu.
• Rancor, Matt James.
• Get out of me swamp by HelmiP.
• Frankensteining 25 Looney Tunes Covers For DC Comics’ November Titles Together.
• Spider Woman, Sara Wilde.
• Thomas Perkins: Lunchtime Scribbling – The Marvel Comics Edition Part 1.
• Cover art for the Chinese edition of The Quantum Thief.

More Fun Stuff

• Aliette de Bodard Pre-order special offer.
• CoverGirl Star Wars Makeup Is A Thing.
• NASA fires up engine that will take the SLS to Mars.
• Which Mirrir Empire Character Are You?
• Learn How To Make A ‘Star Wars’ Speeder Bike Rocker.
• George Miller’s original 1999 storyboard for Mad Max: Fury Road.
• GALACTIC GALAXY: the series.
• Millennium Falcon Quadcopter seen in the wild. (Thanks, Eddie!)
• Beware the Hairy Mango episode 294 – “Angels With Slightly Less Dirty Faces” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• The Golden Age: Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers Big Little Books ~ 1934-1945. [via Bill Crider]
• Best. Thanos. Cosplay. Ever.