[SF/F/H Link Post] Atwood/Jemisin on Lack of Diversity; DARKOVER Coming to TV; STAR WARS Characters on Vacation

Interviews & Profiles

• Beauty in Ruins interviews Julie E. Czerneda & Karina Sumner-Smith.
• Redditors interviews Emily St. John Mandel.
• Redditors interview George Takei. [Thanks, Kristin!]
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Naomi Kritzer.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Josh Pachter.
• Write Along Radio interviews Edward Willett.
• IGN interviews Alexander Freed.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Daniel Polansky.
• RPG Gamer Dad Podcast interviews Lou Anders.
• Dungeon Master’s Block interviews Lou Anders.
• The Qwillery interviews Patrick S. Tomlinson.
• Kindle Post interviews Batman writer and artist Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.
• John Carter Files interviews Gregory Manchess.

News

• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces new line of Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by John Joseph Adams.
• Ancillary Sword gets a Special Hardcover Edition.
• The Book Smugglers announces “The Beatriceid” by Kate Elliott.
• Patrick Rothfuss & Worldbuilders Is Back.
• George Romero’s Empire of the Dead Headed to AMC.
• Amazon Developing TV Series Based on Darkover Books.

Events & Event News

• World Fantasy Award To Abandon Lovecraft Bust.
• Watch the MileHiCon “That’s a Laugh: Why We Crave Humor in Fiction” with Betsy Dornbusch, Carol Hightshoe, David Lee Summers, and moderator Patrcik Hester.
• Ellen Datlow’s photos from the 2015 World Fantasy Convention.

Crowd Funding

• Women in Practical Armor by Evil Girlfriend Media. Super-cool: Evil Girlfriend Media wants to make an impact against Cystic Fibrosis by selling 5,000 books and raising $20,000 for resarch.
• ZILF! A Comedic Zombie Novel. by Tim Marquitz.

Articles

• Alastair Reynolds on Star Wars.
• Amazon’s 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.
• Black Gate on The Joyous Invasions by Theodore Sturgeon.
• Boing Boing on Hang the Jedi.
• Carl V. Anderson on Made to Kill by Adam Christopher.
• Diabolical Plots on Best of Strange Horizons Podcast.
• Howard Andrew Jones on Hard Writing Lessons 3.
• iHorror on Classic Horror Icons: Boris Karloff’s 8 Best Films.
• James A. Moore on The History of an Imaginary Land.
• John Everson on Losing Balance – a Dark Day for Horror. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Kim Newman on Drearcliff Grange School – Further Reading.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on Sometimes Writers Block is really Depression.
• My Bookish Ways on In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe edited by Leslie S. Klinger.
• OMNI Reboot on 10 Of The Best Star Wars Expanded Universe Books.
• Our own Pipedreamergrey picks apart the Force Awakens Trailer Re-arranged in Chronological Order for clues to the movie’s plotline.
• Paul Di Filippo reviews Mission: Tomorrow and Three Moments of an Explosion.
• Pipedreamergrey says Firefly, Babylon 5, and Farscape are years overdue for a streaming reboot.
• Publishers Weekly on Declining E-book Sales Hit Home. [via Robert J. Sawyer]
• The Guardian on Margaret Atwood and N.K. Jemisin discussing the lack of diversity in fiction.
• The Toast knows How To Tell If You Are In a Stephen King Novel. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Viola Carr on Steampunk, Anachronism and Victorian-era CSIs.
• Whatever on The Big Idea: Lisa Goldstein.

Art

• A Collection Of Star Wars Concept Art Reveals World That Almost Were.
• Kylo Ren by Nezart.
• Scp-093 by alexandreev.
• On the starry skies’ shore, Aleksei Vinogradov.
• Star Wars: Force and Destiny – Guardian, Tony Foti.
• Raised to do One Thing by Christian Olan-Geddes.

More Fun Stuff

• Cover Reveal for a New Edition of Nina Allan’s The Race.
• The website for The Shards of Excalibur, an exciting young adult fantasy series by Edward Willett.
• The Helmets From “Star Wars” Redesigned For Elephants, Hippos, And Rhinos.
• S3 Podcast (Superheroes, Storytelling, and Spirituality) – Episode 1: A New Hope.
• This Buff Spock Paper Doll is Here to Make All Your Dreams Come True.
• Star Wars Characters on Vacation.