[SF/F/H Link Post] TV Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s NEVERWHERE; A Peter Jackson-Directed DOCTOR WHO Episode; Han Solo Door Sticker

Interviews & Profiles

• Examiner.com interviews David Walton, author of Supersymmetry.
• Omnivoracious interviews R. A. Salvatore, author of Archmage.
• The PalmBeachPost interviews Lesley Conner, author of The Weight of Chains.
• StarTalk’s Neil deGrasse Tyson and Edward Snowden talk about SETI!
• Suvud interviews Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski, author of Nightfall.
• Twin Cities Geek interviews T. A. Wardrope, author of Arcadian Gates.
• The WallStreet Journal interviews Thomas Ligotti, author of Songs of a Dead Dreamer.

News

• THE ADDAMS FAMILY TV Series Vinyl Soundtrack Announced.
• Fall Fiction Contest \ $2000 + Publication.
• Francis Lawrence to Produce TV Adaptation of Neverwhere.
• The Museum of Science Fiction of Washington, DC has called for submissions to its new triannual Journal of Science Fiction. The first issue will appear in January 2016.
• Oyster, the Netflix of e-books, to shut down.

Events & Event News

• Cartoonist Judd Winick, creator of Pedro & Me, Barry Ween: Boy Genius, and more, appears at Comix Experience in San Francisco, CA on Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 11:00 AM to sign his new children’s book, Hilo: The Boy who Crashed To Earth. RSVP
• Cecil Castellucci (The Plain Janes, Tin Star) appears at Barnes & Noble in Montclair, CA on Saturday October 10, 2015 at 10:00 AM to sign Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure for Star Wars Reads Day!
• K. Tempest Bradford is teaching a short fiction class at The Brainery, an online learning shop dedicated to classes and workshops for speculative fiction writers. (There’s also one called Science Fiction fairy Tales.)
• Singapore Writers Festival 2015 info is up, Includes Ken Liu and others as speakers! Via
• Randall “XKCD” Munroe’s Thing Explainer book-tour dates have been announced.

Crowd Funding

• For The King – Embark on a perilous adventure with turn-based combat and strategic exploration in this single player and online cooperative roguelike.
• The Icarus Project – A New Sci Fi Skirmish Wargame – a sci-fi Skirmish wargame where two or more Strike Forces do battle to help save, or destroy, the galaxy.
• Long List Anthology – celebrate short fiction from the Hugo Award’s longer list of nominated works, chosen by Hugo voters.
• KEEPERS OF THE MOON&SUN – english edition – graphic novel – revealing the truth about the balance between the Moon and Sun.

Articles

• Book Review: The Long Run: Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald.
• Book Review: Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last: A satire of unbridled capitalism.
• Book Review: Of Jellyfish, Otjize, and Afrofuturism: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.
• Aaron French compares horror traditions in “Past and Future: Esoteric and Exoteric Philosophy in Weird Fiction” on Nameless Digest.
• Adam-Troy Castro has written some good advice in his new blog post, Writers: The Long-Term Benefits of Not Being An Ass.
• Dispatches From the Future’s Past: How a collection of sci-fi fanzines helps us understand the prehistory of the Internet.
• Doctor Who’s Jenna Coleman urges BBC to move on Sir Peter Jackson directed episode.
• Ecological, Creative & Spiritual Future or Hi-Tech Dystopia? The Choice is Ours.
• Five Books about Girls Disguised as Boys, as picked by Tor.com.
• GamesRadar picks The top 50 TV detectives of all time
• How Minority Report and The Man in the High Castle build sci-fi worlds
• The Inspiration Behind the Top Ten Novels in Our Inkshares Sci-Fi and Fantasy Contest
• io9 has a crazy theory about Darth Vader and The Force Awakens.
• Is Doctor Who no longer “event” television?
• Lincoln Michel asks Is It Time for Literary Magazines to Rethink the Slush?
• Ridley Scott Reveals Surprising Plan for the Future of the Prometheus Franchise, the biggest surprise being that there’s a future for the Prometheus franchise.
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Everything you need to know.
• Strong Heroines and Our Hunger to Hear Their Stories.
• Why Brave New World is no longer the terrifying dystopia it used to be.
• Why You Shouldn’t Bother With Minority Report Or Any Fox Sci-Fi Series: “Fox has an insanely bad history with science fiction series. […] Fox has shown time and time again they can take a perfectly good series and completely flush it with poor management and executive decisions.”

Art

• Explosive New Star Wars X-Wing Artwork by Jerry Vanderstelt.
• Gritty Punk Femme Fatales by Ignacio Fernández Ríos.
• “Sci-Fi City” by emanshiu.
• Stormtrooper Elite Concept Art by Mohammed Z. Mukhtar.

More Fun Stuff

• Add this huge vinyl sticker for your door to the list of “Han Solo in Carbonite” products.
• Automats: The Utopian Future or a Return to a Dystopian Past?
• Be a Solar System Ambassador for NASA.
• U.S. Marines drill with Google headless robot dog.
• Watch a trailer for Heroes Reborn that seemingly confirms a big character death.