[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.