[SF/F/H Link Post] Busy Daddies Do Sci-Fi ; Make Star Trek Awesome Again; World’s Best Science Fiction
Interviews & Profiles
- Grim Tidings interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt, author of Mission: Tomorrow.
- My Bookish Ways interviews Marcus Sakey, author of Written in Fire.
- Notes from Coode Street interviews Neil Clarke, editor and publisher of Clarkesworld.
- The Qwillery interviews Marshall Ryan Maresca, author of The Alchemy of Chaos.
- Tor.com interviews Brandon Sanderson, author of Steelheart.
News
- Announcing the 2015 BSFA Awards Shortlist.
- Doctors Are Now Prescribing Books to Treat Depression.
- Google Is Publishing Unprintable Fictional Books.
Events & Event News
- Broadway Books is thrilled to welcome back Portland’s grand dame of the literary world, Ursula K. Le Guin, who will read from her newest collection of poetry, Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014. The reading will take place at 7 pm on February 24th.
- New Star Trek Convention to Launch at New York’s Javits Center September 2016.
Crowd Funding
- THE DISSIDENT – An Interactive Adventure Comic in Amsterdam – An American exile in future Amsterdam resurrects an outlawed newspaper to expose a conspiracy.
- Good Intentions: A Supervillain Story – Shawn tried to be a hero and ended up a bad guy instead. Is he villainous enough to stay alive?
- The Pride of Parahumans: Anthro Sci-Fi Cover, Interior Art – A new cover, a few interior illustrations, and a small print run for my self-published anthropomorphic sci-fi novel.
- SPACE BROS. – a web comic that tells the tale of two bros on an epic quest.
- Space Revolver – Neo-Noir CyberPunk Space Cowboy action! 2-4 player online and local multiplayer! A large branching single player campaign! etc!
Articles
- Movie Review: An English Lit Teacher Reviews Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.
- 8 Superhero Origin Stories And Their Real World Implications.
- 10 Most Scathing Things Critics Said About Star Wars: A New Hope.
- 12 Classic Movies That Would Be Better with Zombies.
- 12 Star Wars Moments that Make Fans Cringe.
- Amazing Stories on Military SF or The Books With the BFG’s.
- Busy Daddies Do Sci-Fi Podcast: Man, we hated Ready Player One.
- The Castle Of Horror Podcast: Her (The Stepford Wives Retrospective.)
- Do books even exist in Star Wars? asks TeleRead.
- How To Make Star Trek Awesome Again.
- I Completely Lost My Will to Write After a Long Career—Until I Discovered Graphic Novels writes Anneli Rufus.
- Military robots and the (terrifying) future of war.
- Our Conflicted Feelings For R2-D2 By Jim Davies Davies-GRID-3.
- ScreenRant chooses the 20 Best Horror Movies Of All Time.
- Why Are Comics So Damn Complicated? Possibly because no one will stay dead.
- The World’s Best Science Fiction, Chosen By Scientists.
- Virtuosity Was Ridiculous in 1995, But Now It’s a Blast.
- Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot.
Art
- Artists Re-Imagine STAR WARS in Some Spectacular Ways.
- Mike Winkelmann Has Spent The Last Decade Drawing An Image A Day.
- Rey Needs A Different Kind of Force Ghost Mentor…..
More Fun Stuff
- 20 Amazing Movie Secrets That Will Blow Your Mind.
- Author Paul Di Filippo announces his first KickStarter, The Black Mill comic book.
- “Doctor Who” Meets “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in Incredible Fan-Made Trailer
- Last Friday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day was “Massive Stars in NGC 6357.”
- New 10 Cloverfield Lane Footage Really Makes It Look Like A Monster Movie.
- Physicist Brian Cox Corrects Neil Tyson, Explains How Lightsabers Could Work.
- Read an excerpt from Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer at Tor.com.
- Watch a trailer for Captain America: Civil War.
- You Can Now 3D Print a Copy of the Moon.
