Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Sci-Fi Round-Up: February 4, 2015




Interview: Andrew Liptak interviews Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora.

Interview: Bleeding Cool interviews Jeff Lemire And Dustin Nguyen, of Descender.

Interview: Hull Daily Mail interviews Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina.

Interview: Indian Country interviews Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse.

Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Judd Trichter, author of Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction coming from Thomas Dunne Books February 3rd.

Interview: The Once and Future Podcast interviews Myke Cole, author of Gemini Cell.

Interview: Reddit recently held an AMA for Andy Weir, author of The Martian.

Interview: Redditors interviews the editorial team behind Queers Destroy Science Fiction.

Interview: Sword and Laser interviews Myke Cole, author of Gemini Cell: A Shadow Ops Novel.

Interview: Tor.com interviews Samantha Shannon, author of The Mime Order.

Review: Secret Sundance screening of Jupiter Ascending gets lukewarm reactions

5 Of Our Favorite Teen-Centric Time Travel Movies

5 Sci-fi and Fantasy Books to Read This Month suggested by Geek Smash

6 Neil Gaiman Short Stories to Haunt Your Dreams.

12 Movies to See After You Watch Project Almanac

27 Unexplainable Blunders From Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movies

B&N lists 5 Time-Looping Tales You’ll Want to Experience More Than Once.

Blastr on 10 sci-fi and horror standouts from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

"But I Do Not Want to Watch Black Mirror" a short one-act play.

Cockroaches: why post-apocalyptic Britain isn’t the end of the world after all

The Difference Between A Great Twist And A Mediocre Twist

Edgar Wright Wrote A Steampunk Sequel To Oliver Twist

Essential Guide to Living Lovecraft: The Real World Locations Behind the Horror

Every Time Travel Movie Ever, Ranked by io9

This Fan Head Cannon Will Totally Change How You Look At Star Wars

Fifty-Three Years On: Would A Wrinkle in Time Make the Grade Today?

From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer’s Surreal Journey. The author agreed to publish three novels in one year—and then things got weird.

From Back to the Future to Project Almanac, a short history of suburban sci-fi.

From Science Fiction to Reality: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

German government is funding a Battlestar Galactica larp on a retired destroyer

The Guardian asks Should computer scientists study science fiction?

The Guardian says that Frank Herbert’s Dune at 50 has life in it yet

How Saw was ahead of the Marvel cinematic universe, and no, this isn’t a joke about Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool being torture.

How To Tell If You Are In A Soft Science Fiction Novel

Neil Gaiman Admits His Doctor Who Episode “Nightmare In Silver” Was A Bit Of A Dud. Somehow, though, we can’t stay mad at him.

Read an excerpt from Adam Sternbergh’s Near Enemy at Vulture.

RetroPhaseShift on 4 Anime Sci-Fi Films You Should Check Out.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Mixtape: The Haves and the Have-Nots

The Science Fiction books that Every Computer Scientist Should Check Out

This Is Why The X-Files Never Became A Franchise

Tom Merritt on A love letter to Borderlands Books, but not a goodbye.

Trekspertise: A History of Pre-Warp Alien Contact in Star Trek.

Vulture asks what we’re all thinking: What’s Wrong With Jupiter Ascending? "You’re going to hurt me, aren’t you, Jupiter Ascending? It seems increasingly certain that this movie will be terrible (and a financial catastrophe for Warner Bros.), yet I simply can’t get my hopes down for it. In fact, I’m not sure there’s ever been this wide a gap between the high quality of an ad campaign and the abysmal advance word about the movie itself. I’m still trying to figure out what’s missing here."


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