Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Sci-Fi Round-Up: January 21, 2015


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Interview:  The Guardian interviews Shalini Boland, author of Outside.

Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Alex Gordon, author of Gideon.

Interview: Sci-Fi Bulletin interviews Karen Lord, author of The Galaxy Game.

Interview: Suvudu has a video of Pierce Brown of The Golden Son.

Interview: Sword and Laser interviews Daniel H. Wilson of Mayday: Deep Space.

Interview: USA Today reveals George Lucas wanted to direct Episode 7.

7 of Margaret Atwood’s Apocalpyses, Ranked From Pretty Survivable to Terrifying

15 Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies to Look Forward To in 2015

20 years later: Our top 10 episodes of Star Trek: Voyager

23 Best Robot Sci-Fi Books as chosen by The Best Sci Fi Books blog, along with the 23 Best Sci-Fi Book Series, and the 25 Best Far Future Sci-Fi Books.

29 Sci-Fi Movies Coming To Theaters In 2015

The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog on 8 Social Justice Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels.

Battlestar Galactica: A close look at the near-perfect pilot episode, 10 years later

Cecilia Tan takes A Look At Bisexuality In Science Fiction.

Cinema Blend on 7 Great Sci-Fi Movies That Deserved Best Picture Nominations.

Creation writing: is sci-fi a 21st-century religion? According to the IRS, no.

The Guardian on Ex Machina and sci-fi’s obsession with sexy female robots.

The Hit Book That Came From Mars: The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture.

Is Hollywood On A Dystopian Movie Binge?

James Wallace Harris asks When Does Science Fiction Go Stale?

LA Times on The halting genius of science-fiction writer Ted Chiang

Margaret Atwood, Michael Morpurgo ‘alarmed’ Oxford Junior Dictionary has dropped nature words. I probably could have appreciated the article more if I could remember what the word “nature” meant.

NY Times: op-ed columnist David Brooks on The Child in the Basement, re: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

OMNI Reboot on The Most Iconic Women In Sci-Fi Cinema: The 1990s.

Orwell’s World — 65 years since George Orwell died, he has never been bigger. His phrases are on our lips, his ideas are in our heads, his warnings have come true.

Patton Oswalt: Watchmen Should Have Been Less Faithful to Graphic Novel

Ryan Britt on 5 Reasons the World is Ready for the Return of The X-Files.

Ted Chiang’s sci-fi wins piles of awards. When he publishes, which is hardly ever.

Whatever Will Be Will Be: Predestination and The Time Travel Movie

William Bradley on Star Trek‘s Troubling 50th Anniversary.

“You’re Not a Real Fan of Star Trek!”


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