Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: November 26, 2014

Dead astronaut by dig-orgasm



Infographic: Timeline of Star Wars toys

Interview: 90.5 interviews George Takei, host the PNC Pops “Sci-Fi Spectacular.”

Interview: Ars Technica interviews Andy Weir, author of The Martian.

Interview: The Boston Globe interviews Ursula Le Guin.

Interview: Bustle interviews Margaret Atwood, author of Stone Mattress.

Interview: The Huffpo interviews Margaret Atwood, author of Stone Mattress.

Interview: NPR interviews Neil Gaiman, author of Hansel and Gretel.

Interview: Suvudu interviews Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation.

7 Science Fiction Women Who Are So Much More Than Eye Candy

7 Worldbuilding Tropes Science Fiction and Fantasy needs to Stop using.

The 8 Ball: Top 8 Dystopian Films

10 Dystopias That Are More Relevant Than Ever Before

10 indie sci-fi films to look out for in 2015


The 10 Most Influential Science Fiction Stories of the 1920s

12 staples of modern sci-fi (with unbelievably old origins)

18 Things We Learned from the Snowpiercer Commentary

21st Century Technology and Government Power Put Orwell’s “Thought Police”

21 Doctor Who stories better than their reputation suggests

Alone as a queer, young, black sci-fi nerd: then I discovered Samuel Delany

Beyond Oryx and Crake: 5 Margaret Atwood Tales Ripe for Film

Black Gate on What Old Futures Can Teach Us About What SciFi is Really For.

Climate change inspires "cli-fi" flicks

Death should be optional; we should all be able to upload our consciousness into cyborg bodies. Though an Afterlife by Microsoft would probably be Hell.

Den of Geek mourns 41 Cancelled Star Wars Projects

Den of Geek remembers The Sci-fi Films of Robert Wise.

Doctor Who the Movie Two Decades Later.

The Guardian on The 20 best British science fiction films – in pictures.

How animation stabilizes A Scanner Darkly’s shifting reality

Iain Banks’s Culture lives on: SF magazine Strange Horizons has just published some unseen interviews with the late and much-missed author. It’s great to hear his maverick wit again.

The Kill Screen Videogame blog explains Why Netrunner matters

Kirkus Reviews offers a list of the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2014.

Mary Shelley’s other horror story; Lessons for Super-pandemics

Martha Wells Recommends Older Science Fiction Books.

The Motherboard Web site has just set up a free science fiction section. The stories (four thus far) are listed (and linked) at http://motherboard.vice.com/terraform. Initial contributors include Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow. Going forward, Motherboard will publish one new story each week.

Night Vale co-creator shares secrets of success: Love and integrity

OMNI Reboot on How Glen Larson Transformed Sci-Fi TV.

Ruthless Female Leaders Are the Real Heroes in Dystopian Flicks, argues Wired.

Somebody’s Watching Me: Cyberpunk 30 Years On: the Warnings We Didn’t Heed

Ursula K. Le Guin: Amazon has too much control over what books get published.

Vox explains Why science fiction matters

Watch a “Modern” Empire Strikes Back Trailer.

Watch as Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014. the lady can still give a speech like no one’s business: “We will need writers who can remember freedom.” The New Yorker has further coverage. The Huffington Post offers quotes from the speech. “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

We Are Moving Toward Our Science-Fictional Future

What keeps you from seeking or finding diverse books?

Why Books Are Still One Of Our Most Durable Technologies Ever

Why so strangely Yoda speaks


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