[SF/F/H Link Post] How to Write Sci-Fi for the Stage; Noam Chomsky & Lawrence; Sci-Fi’s Search for Salvation; Cinematic Science Done Right

Interviews & Profiles

• The Cut interviews Tatiana Maslany, star of Orphan Black.
• Decider interviews Alan Tudyk, star of the new webseries Con Man.
• Fantasy Faction interviews Zen Cho, author of Sorcerer To The Crown.
• The Hayride interviews Andy Weir, author of The Martian.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Tony Ballantyne, author of Dream Paris.
• Paste interviews Jim Butcher, author of The Aeronaut’s Windlass.
• The Qwillery interviews Minerva Zimmerman, author of Take On Me .
• Reddit recently held an AMA for Mathew Babaoye, author of Übermensch.
• The Writers Life interviews Sarah Remy, author of Across the Long Sea.

News

• The 2015 Geffen Awards winners have been announced. The awards are presented by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Alex Salmond barred from BA flight after booking as Star Trek captain.
• The winners of the 2015 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced.

Events & Event News

• Lunacon, New York’s longest-running sf&f convention, is making a comeback in 2016 but needs more seed money to make it happen. The committee has started an Indiegogo appeal to raise $8,000.
• Ursula K. Le Guin will appear at UCLA on November 15 at 4 p.m. Tickets $19-$49

Crowd Funding

• Blood Fuel: Book #1 of the Battle Born Sci Fi Novel Series – a relentless, brutal adrenaline rush of a post-apocalyptic novel.
• SrcCard (Card Game) – Write Code, Defeat the Robots.

Articles

• Book Review: Sex Robots and Prison in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last.
• 5 awesome The Martian book moments the movie missed (plus one it nailed.)
• The 20 Greatest Martians That Aren’t Matt Damon (Part Two.)
• The 100 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Must Read Before You Die by Amazon. (Via)
• Alien Concept: Cinematic Science Done Right and Why It Matters.
• The Atlantic explains Why the Mars Movie Is the Space-Age Western.
• The Creator’s Project takes us Inside The Martian’s Sci-Fi Future Spaceship.
• Greg Hullender of Rocket Stack Rank offers advice for Getting More From Short-Fiction Reviews in response to Neil Clarke’s editorial “The Sad Truth About Short Fiction Reviews” recently published at Clarkesworld.
• How to Write Sci-Fi for the Stage, in 7 Easy Steps.
• If You Liked The Martian, You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts.
• Loved The Martian? Read and Watch What Inspired One of the Year’s Best Sci-Fi Movies.
• The Martian and Sci-Fi’s Search for Salvation.
• The Martian, NASA and the rise of a science-entertainment complex.
• NASA Wants Astronauts to Use Mars’s Natural Resources to Survive, totally not planning on stranding any astronauts on Mars to see what happens.
• Relax, Whovians! Here’s Why The Doctor Needed To Ditch The Screwdriver.
• Some of the trickiest science in The Martian came from the book’s biggest fans.
• Tor recounts All the Ways SciFi Brings Dinosaurs Back.
• Watchmen: 10 things we’d want in a television adaptation.
• Why Peter Capaldi Said No To Extra Doctor Who.
• With a sci-fi drama as excellent as Humans, who needs high-tech gadgets?

Art

• Beautiful Astronaut Mural by street artist Five8Art. (Also)
• Ridiculously awesome Death Star Trench Chalk Art.

More Fun Stuff

• 10 Awesome Horror Movie Soundtracks as chosen by The Nerdist.
• 10 Obscure Sci-fi Games You Should Play.
• 30 greatest trivia facts about the Alien series.
• Cover Reveal: Andy Remic’s Song for No Man’s Land Trilogy.
• Hotel offers $2,000-a-night “space station” experience.
• Watch Noam Chomsky & Lawrence Krauss Talk About Education, Political Activism, Technology & More Before a Sold-Out Crowd.