[SF/F/H Link Post] Dark Side Leia Cosplay; The Earth is Flat; X-Files Revival Analysis
Interviews & Profiles
- The Guardian interviews AL Kennedy, author of Doctor Who: The Death Pit.
- Lightspeed interviews J. Michael Straczynski, author of The Twelve.
- My Bookish Ways interviews Patricia Ward, author of Skinner Luce.
- Newsrama interviews Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians.
- The Quad interviews Rick Yancey, author of The 5th Wave.
- Tor.com interviews Megan O’Keefe, author of Steal the Sky.
News
- 2016 Hugo Award Longlist, Part 2: Visual Work Categories.
- Alpha Workshop Application Period Opens.
- Blade Runner 2 Begins Filming in July.
- Disney Chairman Says There Will Be More Star Wars And Marvel Past 2019.
- Submissions are being taken for the Dunhams Destroys Lovecraft anthology.
Events & Event News
- Anyone, Anywhere Can Sign Up For This Free Online Course on Comic Books.
- New Star Trek Convention to Launch at New York’s Javits Center September 2016.
Crowd Funding
- Dead Threads – A unique twist to the zombie genre. A compilation of short stories and artwork by 12 authors and artists.
- Quantum Warlock – This graphic novel centers around a German archaeologist who uncovers a giant Alien-zombie subspecies living within 1940s Nazi Germany.
Articles
- TV Review: The Guardian calls The X-Files “weird, but not in a good way.”
- TV Review: “My Struggle” Doesn’t Encourage Our Faith Or Trust in The X-Files.
- TV Review: The X-Files Revival Becomes Self-Aware In Its Second Episode.
- 10 Reasons Why Brandon Graham’s Prophet is the Best Sci-Fi Comic Today.
- 10 Things You Need To Know About Lightsabers & About BB-8.
- 10 Women Who Changed Sci-Fi according to LISNews.
- 13 Best Artificial Intelligence Movie Characters of All Time.
- Did a 16th-century magician inspire 007?
- Every Episode of The X-Files, Ranked From Worst to Best.
- “F is for Fanfiction” an overview for authors.
- Fictional Robots of the ’70s Will Be Reality In the 2020s says Alec Ross, tech policy expert and Hillary Clinton’s former Senior Advisor for Innovation.
- The Hollywood Reporter weighs in on The X-Files: I want to believe.
- How Drew Goddard Made Physics Fun in The Martian.
- How I Learned To Stop Worrying and (kind of) Love Transhumanism.
- If The X-Files Sticks Around, It Has To Abandon Its Bloated Mythology says Forbes.
- Jonathan Wood on the 5 Things I Should’ve Done To Prepare For This Book Launch.
- New Fox Pilot Asks Whether Tech Billionaires Should Own the Police.
- On Kindness and Conventions: Kameron Hurley reports back from Confusion.
- Star Wars: The Han Solo Episode III Cameo That Never Was.
- Two days ago, semi-famous rapper B.o.B. (no, not that BOB) began posting to his Twitter account a series of tweets and pictures in which he declared his belief that the earth is flat, not round. (And yes, believing that the earth is flat is a real thing.) B.o.B.’s twitter rant caught the attention of the internet’s chief of science police, Neil deGrasse Tyson, who tried to change B.o.B.’s mind with the presentation of some well-intentioned facts. Undeterred and unconvinced by deGrasse Tyson’s efforts, B.o.B. spent the day whipping up a diss track. Let the rap battle over a flat earth begin. The Silly But Serious History of the International Flat Earth Society.
- Stupid Kylo Ren Has the Wrong Darth Vader Helmet.
- These were the voyages: Every Star Trek finale, ranked.
- We Need a New Government Agency to Oversee the Search for Immortality.
- Who Are Kylo Ren’s Knights? New Hints From JJ Abrams & Star Wars Episode 7 Books!
- Why the most viable Mars colonist candidates sleep late and eat meat.
Art
- “I am the Tiniest Jedi” by Aly Flock would be the best kid’s book ever.
- “It’s totally different Dad” by Terrible Nerdery reveals Kylo Ren’s true origins.
- “reFX01 mech” by Lu Sim.
- “Skulltroopers” by Samuel Boulesteix.
More Fun Stuff
- FILLION & TUDYK Return To Space In SPECTRUM #0 Preview.
- The first 15 minutes from Marvel’s Lego Avengers game. The video includes the Lego reenactment of the Age of Ultron opening sequence and first few minutes of gameplay.
- The Grand Theft Auto 5 Star Wars mod immerses players in the Star Wars universe with costumes and face paint, lightsabers, starships and more.
- Read an excerpt from The Absconded Ambassador by Michael R. Underwood.
- Sabacc Headcanons in the aftermath of The Force Awakens.
- Star Wars And Dinosaurs Are The Best Bouquets For Valentine’s Day.
- This Dark Side Leia Cosplay Will Make You Wish Vader Had Won.