[SF/F/H Link Post] Star Wars: The Links Strike Back (Still Spoiler Free!)

Interviews & Profiles

• Carrie Fisher: Comicbook.com | Express | Good Morning America | The Guardian | The Telegraph | Time | Vox | WSJ
• Daisy Ridley: CinemaBlend | Clevver | Collider | DailyMail | Gulf News | Interview Magazine | LA Times | PopSugar | Refinery29  | The Review | THE ROCK FATHER | Telegraph
• Gwendoline Christie: Collider | ComingSoon | Contactmusic | DailyMail | Entertainment Weekly | Hollywood Reporter | HuffPo | Interview Magazine | MarySue | Refinery29 | Variety
• Harrison Ford: BBC |  | Fox31 | Junkee | Mashable | RollingStone
• J.J. Abrams: 60 Minutes | AV Club | Entertainment Weekly | Howard Stern Show | IGN | LA Times | Mashable | NJ.com | SlashFilm | VanityFair
• John Boyega: CBR | CNN | CinemaBlend | Fox31 | Good Morning America | Google | GQ | MovieWeb | Yahoo!
• Lawrence Kasdan: Crave | IGN | The Los Angeles Times | VanityFair
• Lupita Nyong’o: ComingSoon | ContactMusic | Elle UK | Entertainment Weekly | Fox31  | The Guardian | The Guardian | Refinery29
• Mark Hamill: Collider | Empire | TheGuardian
• Oscar Isaac: ContactMusic | ET | Fox31 | GQ | MovieFone | TimeOut | Yahoo Movies

Box Office News

• How Star Wars Conquered the Galaxy: The economic power of the franchise.
• Star Wars and the companies who will make billions
• Star Wars Could Break Box Office Records After This News
• Star Wars expectations build, so can it beat Avatar at the box office?
• Star Wars Fans, Awakened by The Force, Turn Out in Droves
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens Must Earn $1.5 Billion to Be Considered a Success and the Burden Terrifies J.J. Abrams
• Star Wars: The meaning, magic and marketing mojo

Beyond the Movies

• The 10 best Star Wars board games, as chosen by GamesRadar.
• The Best Star Wars Board Games Ranked.
• Drinks On Monday Presents: The NPR Dramatization of Star Wars! 13 chapters, one released each weekday from Tuesday, 12/1 to Thursday, 12/17. Available on iTunes.
• Remembering the Dark, Gritty Star Wars TV Show That Never Happened (Yet)
• Star Wars and sports is a match made in a galaxy far, far away.
• Yahoo Tech counts down The Best and Worst Star Wars Video Games.

Articles

• 6 Reasons Star Wars Is So Much Better Than Star Trek.
• 10 of the worst changes to the Star Wars trilogy after their original theatrical release.
• The 13 Craziest Goddamn Rumors About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• 16 Underappreciated Heroes Who Saved the Galaxy.
• 16 ways Star Wars could have been VERY different
• 23 reasons Star Wars is better than Star Trek or Is it the other way around?
• 74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs.
• The Best Star Wars References in the History of Rap Music.
• Carrie Fisher Warns Daisy Ridley Not to Let Star Wars Put Her in Any Gold Bikinis.
• Damien Walter on the science fiction that inspired George Lucas’s Star Wars.
• The Daring Genesis of J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Disgruntled Star Wars fans threaten ‘spoiler jihad‘: Why they need to just chill out.
• Ewoks are scary, and other lessons I learned from a Star Wars spin-off film.
• In pictures: inside the Force Awakens Stormtrooper dressing room.
• It’s An Awkward Time To Be A Star Wars Fan.
• Kill Your Parents – Why It’s Good That George Lucas Was Kept Away From The New Star Wars Film Trilogy, accord to NME.
• Major Female Villain in The Force Awakens Was Originally a Man.
• My Three-Year-Old Just Wrecked Star Wars for Me.
• Puzzlewood ‘magical’ site for Star Wars filming.
• Rebel Pilots Who Helped Blow Up the First Death Star, Ranked.
• RollingStone picks the 30 Best Star Wars Moments.
• RollingStone picks the 50 Best Star Wars Characters.
• Star Wars & Game of Thrones: Who has the better armor?
• Star Wars Lightsabers, Ranked by Vulture.
• The Star Wars movies, ranked by Entertainment Weekly.
• Stop bashing the Star Wars prequels, they’re simply not that bad.
• Top 10 Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi moments.
• We’re Facing Star Wars Overload, And It Scares the Crap Out Of Me.
• Why didn’t Princess Leia become a Jedi?
• Why I wish I hadn’t sold my Star Wars toys.
• Why Star Wars: The Force Awakens won’t sweep the Oscars.
• You’ll Never Guess the Actor Behind Star Wars Droid BB-8’s Voice.

Science & Technology

• 5 Reasons Star Wars Spaceships Make Absolutely No Sense.
• This astronomer made scientifically accurate Star Wars renderings.
• The Bioethics of Star Wars Spoilers.
• Government Scientists Neither Confirm Nor Deny Star Wars Starkiller Research.
• How the Star Wars Planets Stack Up Against Our Own.
• I Calculated the Mass of a Star Wars Blaster Bolt for You.
• Is It Possible to Build a Lightsaber?
• It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill by Zachary Feinstein: “In this paper we study the financial repercussions of the destruction of two fully armed and operational moon-sized battle stations (“Death Stars”) in a 4-year period and the dissolution of the galactic government in Star Wars.”
• NASA Thinks C-3PO Might Actually Work in Space. But BB-8? Not So Much.
• The Physics of Star Wars’ BB-8 Bouncing Around the Millennium Falcon.
• Raytheon Pitches New Weapons To Fix Star Wars Military Flaws.
• The Science of Star Wars: From light speed to hyper drives to lightsabers and autonomous robots, Star Wars was certainly way ahead of its time despite occurring a long time ago.
• See the Star Wars Worlds Exoplanet Scientists Can’t Help But Love.
• Three Ways a Starkiller in the New Star Wars Could Work.
• Want to Build a Death Star? NASA Says Use an Asteroid.
• Why Ewoks are the Most Realistic Aliens in Star Wars.

Social Impact

• Apple and Star Wars explain why much of the world around you looks the way it does.
• The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood.
• How Daisy Ridley & John Boyega are changing Star Wars – and our world.
• How do wookiees breed? the big Star Wars questions answered: We search for science fact in the world’s most popular science fiction.
• How Star Wars and the internet changed movie trailers.
• How Star Wars Helped Create President Reagan.
• How Star Wars‘ Insane Toy Frenzy Changed Movies Forever.
• I Never Wanted to Be Leia: What Han Solo Taught Two Women About Gender and Sexuality: “Yes, Han Solo is a sexy beast. But that doesn’t mean we all have to lust after him. We can be sexy beasts too, if we want.”
• The influence of Star Wars on Apple’s classic design, and vice versa.
• The Kernel remembers The world before Star Wars.
• Meet the First Person Who Realized Star Wars Would Change the World.

Art

• 3D-Printed Robotic Arm Leads The Force In Star Wars Fashion Collection.
• The Art Of 1313, A Star Wars Game We Never Got To Play.
• Fan Art Friday: Star Wars VII The Force Awakens on DeviantArt.

Videos

• A Custom Remote-Controlled R2-D2 Quadcopter That Makes Sounds While Flying.
• Elders React to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
• Fan Builds a Handheld Flamethrower That Looks Like a Real-Life Lightsaber.
• Every On-Screen Death in the Star Wars Prequels.
• How Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith Should Have Ended.
• Lando Calrissian is Mad About Not Being in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
• A Musical Recap of the Original Star Wars Trilogy in Less Than Five Minutes.
• A New Hope Retold Entirely Using Clips From Other Films and TV Shows.
• One Kid Asks All the Questions While Watching Star Wars for the First Time.
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Honest Trailer: The Best Prequel By Default.
• A White Christmas on Hoth, A Mashup of Star Wars and Sinatra’s White Christmas.