[SF/F/H Link Post] The Slave Leia Costume is Gone; Star Trek’s Worst Fight Scene Ever; Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic

Interviews & Profiles

• B&N interviews Linda Nagata, author of The Red Trilogy.
• The Dark Phantom interviews Dr. John Benedict, author of Adrenaline.
• Happy Ever After interviews Zen Cho, author of Sorceror to the Crown.
• The Medium interviews Neal Stephenson, author of Seveneves.
• The Qwillery interviews Ilana C. Myer, author of Last Song Before Night.
• Salon interviews David Mitchell, author of Slade House.
• The Writer’s Life interviews J.J. DiBenedetto, author of Dream Student.

News

• The first space elevator patent has been granted. We’re officially living in the future.

Events & Event News

• Updates on the Chinese Nebula Awards and the Coordinates Awards.
• The Prix Utopiales winners were announced at the Nantes Utopiales Festival International de Science-Fiction.

Crowd Funding

• Adapt – Survival Card Game – Adapt puts you, the players, through a survival scenario directly after your cruise ship wrecks on a deserted island.
• Dropfleet Commander – Dropfleet Commander is an orbital space combat game based in the Dropzone Commander Universe.

Articles

• All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford To Miss in November!
• Bent, Shattered, and Mended: SmartPop Books on The Hunger Games trilogy.
• Can You Forgive Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ? More importantly, Should You?
• Candidates for Captain in the Star Trek tv reboot., chosen by TVLine.
• Five Books Where Girls Disguise Themselves as Boys, chosen by Gail Carriger.
• The Force Awakens and Why I Don’t Want a Second More of Footage Before Release.
• The Guardian suggests 5 Books to ignite a passion for science in any reader..
• Here’s How to Make Climate Change Extra Scary.
• It’s a Fine Line Between Historical Fact and Fiction on Manhattan.
• Jurassic World was designed as first part of trilogy. Squee!
• Neil deGrasse Tyson on Star Trek’s “Worst Fight Scene Ever.”
• Paul Magrs’s top 10 sci-fi sagas for teens.
• Rhys Ifans Comments On The State Of The Spider-Man Franchise Movies.
• The Slave Leia Costume is Out: Why We Won’t Miss It.
• SmartPop Books offers Ender’s Game: A Guide to Life.
• Tor.com on Rules, Trust, and NaNoWriMo.
• Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic: life off Earth has probably transitioned to machines.
• The Vulture picks The 25 best onscreen female superheroes.
• We May Have Figured Out Who will Truly Bring Balance to The Force.
• Why CBS’s New Star Trek Show Is a Glimpse Into TV’s Future.
• What Star Trek’s syndicated past says about its streaming future.
• Why Star Trek Returning to TV Is a Big Deal, according to IGN.

Art

• All the awesome spaceships and vehicles of Star Wars in one cool graphic.
• Show and Tell: Halo 5 Needler Full-Size Replica.
• This New Star Wars Poster Brings Together The Best Of Franchise History.
• What Cities Would Look Like if Lit Only by the Stars.

More Fun Stuff

• The First Avatar Cirque du Soleil Photos Will Haunt Your Dreams.
• Five times Cosmos’ Neil deGrasse Tyson stole my feminist heart.
• Honest Trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser.
• Read an excerpt from A Daughter of No Nation by A.M. Dellamonica at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt from Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed.
• Read the short story “Points of Origin” by Marissa K. Lingen at Tor.com.
• Supercut: Every Single Gadget in The James Bond Franchise.