[SF/F/H Link Post] Marvel’s Success Story; Star Wars Skateboards; Steampunk Multiculturalism

Interviews & Profiles

• Comic Book Resources interviews Cheo Hodari Coker, author of Luke Cage.
• The Grim Tidings Podcast interviews Marc Turner, author of Dragon Hunters.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Thomas Sniegoski, author of The Demonists.
• The Qwillery interviews Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants.
• Reddit recently held an AMA for Charles E. Gannon, author of the thrice-Nebula nominated and Compton Crook Award winning Caine Riordan series.
• Tor.com interviews Eugene Lambert, author of The Sign of One.
• The Tribeca Film Festival hosted a discussion between Joss Whedon and Mark Ruffalo.
• Vulture interviews George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo.

News

• Blade Runner 2 Gets A New Release Date
• The Book Smugglers have announced the Editors of Speculative Fiction 2016.
• Emilia Clarke is done with the Terminator franchise … along with the rest of America.
• Orwell prize shortlist dominated by books on Middle East
• Rockne O’Bannon Officially Confirms FASRSCAPE Movie.

Events & Event News

• Peter S. Beagle will be a Special Guest of Honor at Balticon 50, taking place over Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore, MD.
• Bookworks, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico Creative Writing program, presents actress, author and internet phenom Felicia Day at the Woodward Lecture Hall on Friday, April 29 at 7:00 PM! RSVP on Facebook

Crowd Funding

• MOON – the most accurate lunar globe – The first topographically accurate lunar globe, displaying the current lunar phases at any given time.
• Mythos – Mythos is a tabletop horror skirmish game inspired by H.P.Lovecraft. Put your characters sanity to the test while trying to stay alive.
• Starchitecture: 3D printed 15mm scale Sci-Fi Cityscape – We’ve designed a series of 3D printed buildings for your 15mm scale science fiction gaming and dioramas.

Articles

• Book Review: Coming of Age: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
• Book Review: The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories by Ken Liu
• Book Review: Paul Di Filippo reviews Alex Stewart’s Shooting the Rift.
• 10 Ways That Rogue One Could Change Star Wars Forever
• 11 X-Men Storylines That Could Follow Apocalypse
• 12 Anime Series That Should Be Made Into Live-Action Movies
• 13 Things We Expect From Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie
• 15 Best Action Scenes In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Is Real? In some universes.
• Doctor Strange And Hellboy: How To Make a Horror Film About Superheroes
• Does Appeasing Nerds Actually Make a Movie More Successful?
• Formerly Future: The Lost World of the Scientific Romance [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Inverse picks apart The 7 Most Absurd Star Wars Fan Theories.
• Loving Something That Everyone Else Hates: A Handy How-To Guide
• Gaslight-Era Gaslighting: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
• Literary Hub on On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata
• MidAmeriCon2’s Toastmaster Pat Cadigan [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Original Ghost In The Shell Publisher Defends Scarlett Johansson’s Casting
• Rudy Rucker on Pokes from the Muse [via Paul Di Filippo]
• ScreenRant picks the 15 Best Movie Entrances Of All Time
• Speculating Canada weighs in on the issue of Steampunk Multiculturalism
• Wait: Is Felix Still in the ORPHAN BLACK Clone Club? The Nerdist condisers.
• What Happens To The Doctor When He Regenerates?
• Why Marvel’s Success Story is More Than Just a “Formula”
• Your Complete Guide To Every Upcoming Movie In The DC Extended Universe

Art

• Dante Nuno of Fire and Icing made this extraordinarily awesome cake based on one of Ray Caesar’s incredible digital paintings entitled “Descent“
• Explore Guillermo Del Toro’s Creepy Art Collection in New Exhibit
• Joshua M. Smith created an amazing set of Star Wars Skateboards

More Fun Stuff

• Apex Magazine is partnering with Redshift Audio Productions to bring you audio dramatizations of select Apex Magazine stories. iTunes
• Check Out These Famous Movie Scenes and Their Visual Doppelgangers
• Nerf Team Fortress: The folks from Corridor Digital have created a funny short film featuring the characters from Team Fortress, but swapping their guns out for NERF.
• HELP: A 360 Degrees Short Film About An Alien Left Stranded on Earth
• “Player Two” is a sad, beautiful and touching short film that was inspired by a comment left on a Youtube video several years ago by a user named 00WARTHERAPY00.
• Read the short story “Kong, King of the Apes” by A. Lee Martinez at the author’s website.
• Robert Downey Jr. Gives The Eiffel Tower An Iron Man Makeover.
• This Firefly Teddy Bear Is Kaylee’s Coveralls In Reverse
• To Endor!: Star Wars Speeder Bike Mod For Segway
• Watch a trailer for JASON BOURNE
• Watch a trailer for the Sci-Fi RPG The Technomancer
• Watch the STAR FOX ZERO Animated Short