Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Sci-Fi Round-Up: March 4, 2015


Featured in the third Nuthin' But Mech book.


Interview:  BoingBoing interviews M.T. Anderson, author of Feed.

Interview:  Henry Herz interviews Gini Koch, author of Universal Alien.

Interview:  My Bookish Ways interviews James Goss, author of Haterz.

Interview:  Reddit recently held an AMA for Firefly RPG developer Monica Valentinelli.

Interview:  Suvudu interviews Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One.

Interview:  Sword and Laser interviews Gary Whitta, screenwriter of The Book of Eli.

Interview:  Uproxx interviews Neill Blomkamp, director of Elysium and Chappie.


6 SF/F Novels with Non-White Protagonists That Aren’t By Octavia Butler


10 classic, must-read issues of Starlog magazine from their free online archive

The 15 Directors We’d Most Like to Put Their Own Spin on a Superhero Movie

B&N names 5 Books That Resist the Handwave with Believable Futuristic Tec

Den of Geek is Examining the Christopher Nolan backlash

Dune at 50: Great Prequels and Sequels That Expand the Dune Universe.

The Greatest Advice For Science Fiction Writers: “Ask The Next Question

Han Solo Shot First: The Atlantic weighs in on the surprising significance of past tense, present tense, and everything in between on Wikipedia with a super nerdy example.

The Huffington Post asks What’s The Matter With Dystopia?

Invasion of the Friendly Movie Robots: Chappie and Ex Machina will explore artificial intelligence in the coming weeks, with more movies to follow

io9 offers this Very Short List of Most Overrated Genre Shows

James Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy, addresses superhero slams at Oscar awards

Jim C. Hines talks about politics, science fiction, and the combination of the two.

Jupiter Ascending: How a Space Opera Uses-and-Abuses the Ultimate YA Tropes

OMNI Reboot on How To Analyze A Science Fiction Film.

Oscar Genre Bias: Why Sci-Fi, Foreign Films And Horror Movies Never Get Best Picture

Shelf Talk on Time Travel In Science Fiction

Should Sci-Fi Fans Support Bad Movies Like Jupiter Ascending? Why stop now?

Starships, swords, and the faded grandeur of science fantasy.

Steampunk: Gears, Gadgetry, and Genre of Victorian Science Fiction!

Vice on The 80s Mexican Sci-Fi Show That Spawned Hollywood’s Best Filmmakers.

When the Killer Robots Arrive, They’ll Get Hacked …not sure if more or less afraid.

Why are so many adults reading YA and teen fiction?

Why Doesn’t CS Lewis’ Silent Planet Get Compared To Dune Or Foundation ?

Why The Oscars Hates Sci-Fi, according to Emertainment Monthly.

You probably know her as that green Orion slave girl from the Star Trek episode The Menagerie, but Susan Oliver was much more than that, as the documentary The Green Girl attempts to show: “She was a highly- prolific actress of the ’50’s/’60’s/’70’s/’80’s, a record-setting female aviator, an original member of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, and one of the only women directing major TV shows in the 1980’s. Tragically taken by cancer in 1990, she’s been inexplicably forgotten by the industry to which she gave so much of herself.”


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