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Interviews & Profiles

• Little Red Reviewer interviews Jane Yolen.
• Roundtable Podcast interviews Marguerite Reed.
• Redditors interview Clay and Susan Griffith.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews John Brosio.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Helena Bell.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Brian Stableford.
• Hank Garner interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Fantasy Literature interviews Ann Leckie.
• My Bookish Ways interviews J. Kent Messum.
• SFFWorld interviews Paul Meloy.
• 18 year-old Peter Emshwiller interviews 56-year-old Peter Emshwiller. [via Andrew Porter]

News

• RIP Daniel Fleetwood, the terminally ill Star Wars: The Force Awakens fan who got his wish to see the film.
• S.T. Joshi returns his World Fantasy Awards in protest H.P. Lovecraft bust being replaced.
• Haffner Press announces new Leigh Brackett story Leigh Brackett Centennnial.
• BVC Announces Wild Card Run by Sara Stamey.
• Now available: Do Stand-Up Bots Dream of Electric Hecklers? (And Other Stories) by James Aquilone.
• The Lovecraft eZine is now open to story submissions – and has new editors.
• British Writer Tracks Down Teen Who Gave His Book a Bad Review, Smashes Her With Wine Bottle. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Recovered from a garage, Robert Heinlein’s original typed manuscript for Friday listed for sale.

Events & Event News

• Harry Potter Night 2016 to focus on spells.

Crowd Funding

• Bring Back MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 for a New Season! by Joel Hodgson.

Articles

• Book Riot on Horror Cinema: A Literary History.
• Danie Ware on Completing the Ecko trilogy.
• Daniel Polansky on How travel influences writing.
• Jeff Somers on Learn About Bad Writing from Spectre.
• Jeff Somers on The Most Nefarious Corporations in SF/F.
• Jennifer Brozek on Characters With a Mind of Their Own.
• Loren Rhoads on Book Bites: By the Numbers.
• Mark R. Kelly is Rereading Early Heinlein. Here’s Part 1, Part 2, and Mark R. Kelly on Part 3. [via Black Gate]
• OMNI Reboot on 10 Star Wars Jedi Books That Will Bring You To The Light Side.
• Randall Frederick on Why Wonder Woman Matters.
• Robert Weinberg on Collecting Fantasy Art #5. [via Andrew Porter]
• Scott A. Cupp on Sanford Allen » Forgotten Films: Scared to Death (1947).
• Sylvia Spruck Wrigley on Five Modern Books with Bad-Ass Fairies.
• The Guardian on Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• The Lineup on 10 Real Life Horror Movie Locations You Can Actually Visit. [Thanks, Kristin!]
• The Lineup on The Brutal Truth Behind 5 “Fictional” Horror Movies.
• The New Republic on The New Utopians.
• The Wertzone on A History of Epic Fantasy – Part 26.
• Tor.com rounds up Every SFF Adaptation Coming to Television and Movie Theaters.
• Ursula Vernon on Short Fiction Appreciation.
• Whatever on The Big Idea: James Renner.

Art

• This art for The Force Awakens by Adam Relf is better than the real film poster. [via Levi Jedi]
• Awesome Millennium Falcon Poster and Deathstar Poster by Ross Green.
• Alien Poster by Carlos Valenzuela.
• Warchief Giant, Slawomir Maniak.
• Repairs by Drak.
• Goblin Rider by operion.
• Art by Artem “Rhads” Chebokha.

More Fun Stuff

• Extract from The Promise Of The Child by Tom Toner.
• Excerpt: Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon.
• Animated: Kurt Vonnegut at NYU in 1970.
• Terminator: Genisys Promo videos.
• NASA Animation Demonstrates the Unusual Ways the Moons of Pluto Spin in Their Orbits.
• Star Wars Characters as Classical Greek Statues.