Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: December 10, 2014

Picnic by Puzzle Lee



Interview: Adventures in SciFi interviews Jennifer Marie Brissett, author of Elysium.

Interview: Inquirer interviews Marie Lu, author of The Young Elites.

Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Jonathan Oliver of Dangerous Games.

Interview: Reddit recently held an AMA for Jeff VanderMeer, author of Area X.

Interview: The Register interviews Randall Munroe, author of What If?


Interview: Suvudu interviews Mira Grant, author of Symbiont.

Interview: Tor.com interviews Sergei Lukyanenko, author of The Genome.

Interview: Vice interviews William Gibson, author of The Peripheral.

Interview: Zocalo Public Square interviews Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon. “Wanna Be a Writer? Write 10,000 Pages, Then Throw Them Away”

News: Black Mirror: The Best Show You’ve Never Heard Of Is Now On Netflix

5 Surprising Things You Learn Designing Movie Monsters

8 Reasons You’re Completely Wrong About the Star Wars Prequels

12 sci-fi and horror shorts turned into feature films

32 awesome sci-fi and fantasy Minecraft mods

Arab Science Fiction : Thriving Yet Underappreciated

B.I. criticizes How Science Fiction Obscures The Horrifying Realities of War.

The Dissolve asks “Who owns Star Wars ?,” which is just silly, because everyone knows that the answer is Mickey Mouse.

How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future

How are Samurai Films Responsible for Star Wars?!?

How the Religious See Robots: “Catholic astronomers and even Pope Francis have talked about how the Catholic Church could theoretically welcome aliens from other planets into the religious fold. But believers of Catholicism and other world religions may sooner have to consider whether they would welcome human-like android robots working and living alongside humans.”

io9 looks back at the Top 10 Most Useless Star Wars Droids Of All Time

Lovesick Cyborg considers Hollywood’s Science Fiction Guns.

OMNI Reboot lists Top 10 Sci-Fi Anime Films.

Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to be Believable? Or does it?

When Science Fiction Stopped Caring About the Future: Star Wars looks like another example of how the genre has given up on imagining new worlds.

When Superiority Goes Wrong: Science Fiction and Offset Strategies

Why it’s time we stopped making such a big deal about twists and “spoilers”

With Christmas just around the corner, this year’s recommended books lists are popping up across the internet. If you’re shopping for a book lover, you may find them useful: 27 Books You Shouldn’t Have Overlooked in 2014 | Buzzfeed’s 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2014 | Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2014 | The Financial Time picks the Best Books of 2014: Science Fiction | The Globe and Mail’s The best books of 2014 | The Huffington Post’s The Best Books Of 2014 | LA Times’ Holiday SF/Fantasy Book Guide 2014 | Library Journal’s Best Books 2014: Genre Fiction | A Non-Comprehensive-But-Awesome Accounting of Your Favorite Books of 2014 from Tor.com | NPR’s Book Concierge: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Riot Round-Up: The Best Books of 2014 | School Library Journal picks the Best Adult Books 4 Teens 2014 | Waterstones’ Booksellers’ Authors of the Year


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