[SF/F/H Link Post] ERB’s TARZAN OF THE APES Library; Princess Leia’s $120,000 Slave Costume; 12-Inch Cthulhu Action Figure

Interviews & Profiles

• Mur Lafferty and Samuel Montgomery-Blinn interview Alyssa Wong and Ursula Vernon and Michael Swanwick.
• Redditors interview Tamara Jones.
• Angela Slatter interviews Kim Newman.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Alan Gold.
• The Qwillery interviews Seth Dickinson.
• Midnight in Karachi interviews William Alexander.
• Word Horde interviews Orrin Grey.

News

• Blood: Stories by Matthew Cheney Now Available for Pre-Order.
• Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to Publish a 10th Anniversary Edition of Twilight.
• Princess Leia’s slave costume could fetch $120,000 at auction.

Events & Event News

• Geeky Giving.
• September 19th in Los Angeles, CA: Shades & Shadows Show, with readings by Aimee bender, Tananarive Due and more.
• 22 Sep 2015 – 08 Dec 2015: Creating Science Fiction Course with Nina Munteanu at George Brown College Continuing Education.
• Announcing The Wheel of Time Companion and Mystic Tour.
• Tor Books Announces Programming for New York Comic-Con 2015.

Crowd Funding

• Help Larry Smith Accident Recovery.

Articles

• Blastr on 10 Star Trek original series villains who need to be in the movies.
• Cecilia Tan on Worldbuilding Magic University.
• Diana Biller on The 5 Greatest Books Featuring Cryptids.
• Dotar Sojat on The Books That Helped Edgar Rice Burroughs write Tarzan of the Apes.
• Eric Brown on The best recent fantasy novels.
• Fran Wilde on Earworms and You: Memory, Laws, and Singing.
• Gareth L. Powell on How to write a novel outline.
• George R.R. on his afterlife as a Zombie.
• Houston Press on Anime Matsuri: Harassment, Money and a Growing Anime Convention. [via Andrew Porter]
• Howard Andrew Jones on Justice League: Gods and Monsters.
• Jeff Somers on Guardians of the Flame Takes You Inside the Fantasy.
• Jennifer Brozek on How Do You Ask for a Blurb?
• John Scalzi on How Many Books You Should Write In a Year.
• Kameron Hurley on The Cold Publishing Equations: Books Sold + Marketability + Love.
• Kirkus Reviews (Patrick Hester) on The Horror in the Corner.
• Kristi Charish on The Aspiring Author and the Temple of Bad Reviews.
• Lou Anders on Reflections from the Road: A Whirlwind Tour of Southernmost Texas.
• Lovecraft eZine on Two new horror books by women writers that you won’t want to miss.
• Margaret Atwood on Chocky, the kindly alien invader in John Wyndham’s last book.
• Natalie Zutter on How Evil SFF Empires Create Ideal Citizens.
• Neatorama on A Few Things You May Not Know About Adam West.
• Nick Cannata-Bowman on How the Batman ‘Dark Knight’ Trilogy Changed Comic Book Movies. [via Geek Art Gallery]
• Rebecca Alexander on Why I Write Fantasy.
• Rob H. Beford on Star Wars: Aftermath Afterthoughts.
• Sarah Pinborough on 5 Books that Cast New Light on Death.
• Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten Book: Fat Face by Michael Shea (1997).
• Slate on Science Fiction That Can Change Our Future.
• Sonia Gensler on Inspirations & Influences.
• Steve Davidson on The 1941 Retro Hugo Awards (Part 4 Long Form Media).
• The Big Idea with Pamela Sargent.
• The Cultural Gutter on Some kind of help – with robots.

Art

• Lee Kent’s DeviantArt Gallery.
• The Magnificent Art of Ivan Laliashvili.
• Fantastic Art by Fenghua Zhong.
• Katie Cook’s Star Wars.
• Thor vs Iron Man by In-Hyuk Lee. [via Geek Art Gallery]
• The Future Past by Charbak Dipta.
• Monkry King by In-Hyuk Lee.
• Void Winnower by Chase Stone.
• CA of Archdemon Mask, Magdalena Minko.
• Legend of Zelda Redesign by Loïc Bramoullé.
• Heroes by Ashkan Honarvar.
• Street Anatomy: Yoshitoshi Kanemaki – Memento Mori.
• Cover Launch: Fireborn by David Dalglish.

More Fun Stuff

• Episode 142 of Speculate!–Helene Wecker Author Discussion.
• William S. Burroughs Reads Edgar Allan Poe Tales in the Vintage 1995 Video Game, “The Dark Eye”.
• Disney’s ‘Indiana Jones’-themed bar opens next week.
• Ellen Datlow’s photos from the September 16 KGB reading with Lawrence C. Connolly and Thomas F. Monteleone.
• ‘Star Wars’ characters, even Chewbacca, get shaves.
• Graphic Designers Give Superheroes And Villains A Day Job Endorsing Products. [via Geek Art Gallery]
• Infographic: The Villains of Doctor Who.
• The Gibson Continuum. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• 12-Inch Cthulhu Action Figure.