[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.