[SF/F/H Link Post] The Best SF/F Books of 2015; Spooky Reads; Blade Runner Re-Purposed; Realistic Disney Villains
Interviews & Profiles
- My Bookish Ways interviews Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman.
- Bull Spec interviews Taylor Anderson.
- The New York Times interviews Stephen King.
- Bull Spec interviews Marko Kloos.
- Civilian Reader interviews Nathan Garrison.
- The Boskone Blog interviews Richard Anderson.
- The Book Editor Show interviews M. Todd Gallowglas.
- Buzzy Mag interviews John Ringo.
News
- Book View Cafe Blog announces The Reckoners by Doranna Durgin.
- Now available as an eBook: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, in a fine deluxe edition.
Crowd Funding
- Visions from Punktown: A comic book anthology.
- Support The Functional Nerds Podcast creating Podcasts.
- Dark Lore.
- Funtastical Bedtime Stories Anthology by Joshua Palmatier.
Articles
- A.C. Wise on Monster Mash – 4 Horror Anthologies.
- Alasdair Stuart on Fantasycon Follow Up: Your Audio Fiction Cheat Sheet.
- Andrew Liptak lists 6 Horror Collections from the Original Masters of the Unsettling.
- Angry Robot Books on Our Favourite Halloween Scares.
- Bibliotropic on Without Light or Guide by T. Frohock.
- Gail Z. Martin on Selling Your Soul.
- GamesRadar on Worst To Best: Frankenstein Movies. [via Divers and Sundry]
- Howard Andrew Jones on The Coming of Conan Re-Read: “The Vale of Lost Women”.
- Ian Sales on Writing and how to.
- James Nicoll’s reading project is A Year of Tanith Lee.
- Julie Czerneda on I Think I’ll Call It Bob.
- Juliet E. McKenna on Fantasycon 2015 – the good, the great and the startling.
- Kim Newman on Lesser-Known Spooky Picks from The British Film collection.
- LitReactor on 10 Spooky Horror Stories for Halloween Night.
- M.J. Kelly on 3 Ways The Martian Transcends A Boring Style.
- Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2015.
- Smart Girls love SciFi offers an SFR Reading List for the Afterlife.
- Sue Granquist on Pride, Prejudice, Zombies and Seth Grahame-Smith.
- Tip the Wink on Top 10 by Alan Moore.
- The Washington Post on Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers. [via Paul Di Filippo]
Art
- The art of horror – in pictures.
- Dragonborn Shapeshift by MariusBota.
- Halloween2015 by B03DI.
- Maintenance Bay, Paul Pepera.
- Aex, Yang Bilong.
- October Zombies set #1, steve lord.
- Kunkka and Tidehunter, Konstantin Turovec.
- Cinder, Lucas St. Martin.
- forgotten dragon, Johannes Schwitzky.
- Lost in Space, Lim Chin Yang.
- Landspeeder, Tysen Johnson.
- Task Force: Storm Breaker, Isaac Hannaford.
- Rise of the Pumpkins, Jason Nguyen.
- Hauntingly Realistic Renditions of Popular Disney Villains.
More Fun Stuff
- 50 Page Fridays: H.P. Lovecraft.
- Repurposed images from Blade Runner. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Infographic: Jason’s Body Count.
- Senegal’s Trash Transformed into Afrofuturist Haute Couture. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Harrison Ford Dressed As A Hot Dog To Talk to Jimmy Kimmel’s Princess Leia.
- Turner Classic Movies WEekend Horror lineup. [via Andrew Porter]
- Ansible 340, November 2015.
- Beware the Hairy Mango #299: “Bar Juice” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
- Darth Vader vs. A “Hoverboard”.
Publisher’s Weekly’s list excludes all straight white males from it’s Best of the Year SF/F/H list. Sad Puppies must be rabid.