[SF/F/H Link Post] The Rise of Buffy Studies; Serenity Anniversary; Viral Batman v. Superman

Interviews & Profiles

• BullSpec interviews Kameron Hurley, author of Empire Ascendant.
• The Coode Street Podcast interviews Cecelia Holland, author of Dragon Heart.
• Kirkus TV interviews John Sandford, author of Saturn Run.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Mark A. Latham, author of The Lazarus Gate.
• The Qwillery interviews Erin Lindsey, author of The Bloodforged.
• SFFWorld interviews Marianne de Pierres, author of Mythmaker.
• This is Horror interviews Ellen Datlow, author of The Doll Collection.

News

• Admiral Ackbar Is Confirmed for The Force Awakens.
• Kirkus Review announces The 18 Finalists for the 2015 Kirkus Prize.
• Stephenson Named Distinguished Scholar.
• The Sunburst Award Committee has announced the winners of the 2015 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in the Adult and Young Adult categories.

Events & Event News

• Author Cole Horton joins Bank Street Bookstore in NYC on Saturday October 10, 2015 for a fun trivia game based on his book “Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know.” to celebrate STAR WARS Reads Day. RSVP on Facebook!
• R.A. Salvatore appears at the Fitchburg Public Library in Fitchburg, MA on Thursday October 22, 2015 from 6-8 PM to discuss and sign his new book, Archmage.

Crowd Funding

• Redshift Season 2 – The second season of the sci-fi audio anthology series.
• Spaceteam – A fast-paced, cooperative shouting card game where you race to repair your malfunctioning spaceship.

Articles

• Book Review: LJ Goldstein offers a brief review of Europe in Autumn.
• Book Review: A draught envelops California in Claire Vaye Watkins’ Gold Fame Citrus
• 7 Reasons To Have Faith In Alien: Paradise Lost.
• Gene Editing Is Now Cheap and Easy—and No One Is Prepared for the Consequences. Sci-fi’s been saying for decades. Here comes the reality.
• Humanoids Expands Film Adaptation Business. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• In honor of The Martian, Paul Di Filippo picks books about Tomorrow’s Dirty Jobs.
• Martian Astronaut Would Get Cancer If Mission Were Real, Author Says.
• Now Is Not The Time For Realistic Fiction, Says Margaret Atwood. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• The Nerdist looks at The Biggest Differences Between The Martian Movie and Novel.
• October 2015 New Releases in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
• The rise of Buffy studies: why academics love the show. An Atlantic article about how Buffy led to TV shows being studied as serious literature.
• Science of The Martian: the Good, the Bad, and the Fascinating.
• Serenity was released 10 years ago; it’s time for a new Joss Whedon original. A solid case for Serenity and for Joss to do something different and new.
• Seven ways Serenity inspired us to be more thoughtful human beings.
• Stripping the Bones: “There are those who believe that being a Battlestar Galactica fan means always having to say “I’m sorry.” That was how it once seemed.”
• Suvudu on Harry Houdini and His Ghost-Busting War Against the Occult.
• Viral Batman v. Superman “Article” Reveals Lex Luthor’s Endgame.
• Will The Martian affect public support of a real Mars mission?
• Winning and Losing in Ender’s Game.
• Worlds of Possibility: Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015–2016. [via Paul Di Filippo]

Art

• I don’t know which is cooler, this Nine Foot-Tall Hulkbuster or this Hell Boy and Darth Maul cosplay mash-up. Both win Halloween.
• Original drawings by the Brazilian artist, Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from the Belgium first edition of H. G. Wells’ classic science-fiction novel, War of the Worlds from 1906.

More Fun Stuff

• Edition 22 of SQMag is now online, including a review of Zer0es by Chuck Wendig and the short story “Eve of the White Moon” by Deborah Walker.
• FilmPolice has compiled a playlist of the music from The Martian.
• The Jihad of Muad’Dib: a non-profit video tribute to Frank Herbert’s Dune.
• The Project Apollo Archive has uploaded to Flickr all photographs taken by the Apollo missions to the moon.  Mother Jones has already found some favourite images.
• Questions Your Local Librarian Will Not Be Answering for You.
• Read an excerpt from The Pilots of Borealis by David Nabhan at My Bookish Ways.
• Read an excerpt from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin.
• Stephen Hawking says that advanced aliens could easily conquer and colonize Earth.
• Watch a trailer for Mockingjay.
• Zurich hotel offers $2,000-a-night space station experience. Or for $300 you could just take a 4 hour taxi ride with a Russian in need of a shower.