Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: August 20, 2014




Interview:  The Boston Globe interviews Lois Lowry, author of The Giver.

Interview:  My Bookish Ways interviews Patrick Swenson, author of The Ultra Thin Man.

Interview:   The Qwillery interviews Thomas Sweterlitsch, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow.


News: 2014 Hugo Award & 1939 Retro Hugo Award Winners Announced

News:  The comedy sci-fi novel Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, will be a movie.

10 Big Differences Between The Giver Book And Movie

10 great novels that will make you passionate about science

16 quirky sci-fi flicks Guardians of the Galaxy fans should watch next


30 Doctor Who Episodes That Will Make You A Whovian In No Time, beginning with the episode with the absolute least Doctor Who screen time of any episode in the series.

The Atlantic wonders Why Do Female Authors Dominate Young-Adult Fiction?

Badass Digest wonders What BattleStar Galactica Had To Say About Ferguson.

Business Insider explains Why The Giver Is One Of The Most Banned Books

Charlie Jane Anders on Science Fiction And Fantasy Books That Will Change Your Life This Fall.

Do We Have Any Technology Better Than in Star Trek?

Extant Piles On The Scifi Tropes. After all, this is a show centered around a mysterious alien pregnancy. But even as it has backed away from Molly’s uterus, it has doubled down on the trope of a little robot boy becoming human.
 
The Giver is the latest in a wave of dystopian stories that have washed over America in recent years. From this summer’s Purge sequel and Under the Dome to the latest Hunger Games movie (due out in November), people can’t get enough of these apocalyptic fantasies, in which seemingly perfect worlds turn horrific. Why have we become the United States of Dystopia?

Guardians of the Galaxy, women writers, and kicking down doors.

In praise of… science-fiction fandom. Sci-fi fans inhabit a world that, with the writers they most admire, they have built for themselves yet share with the rest of us.

Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi — It’s Making Us All Fear Technology

This Is The Glossary That Was Given To Audiences Of David Lynch’s Dune

We Need Dystopias Now More Than Ever argues Motherboard

Why archaeologists make better futurists than science-fiction writers.

Why The Giver Still Matters in a world of Hunger Games, Divergents and popular YA novels.

Why Science Fiction Is A Natural Home For Ambiguity (Or Is It?)


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