Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: November 19, 2014


Personally, I would have titled this one "The Last Bad Day"


Interview: Allvoices interviews Brendan Reichs, author of Exposure.

Interview: Andrew Liptak interviews Joe Haldeman, author of The Forever War.

Interview: Digital Spy interviews Steven Moffat, showrunner of Doctor Who.

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

Interview: Salon interviews Cory Doctorow, author of Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age. “We’re all sharecroppers in Google’s fields for the rest of eternity”

Interview: Suvudu interviews Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation.

5 Christopher Nolan Movie Criticisms that are Totally Valid

7 weird and wonderful Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Theories

Amazon picks The Best Books of 2014: Graphic Novels, Science, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Blerds on 10 Black Sci-Fi Characters Who Weren’t Turned into "Cannon Fodder."

The Best Sci Fi Books picks The 23 Best Science Fiction Books by Female Authors, The 21 Best Space Opera Books, and 96 Dystopian Science Fiction Books.

Cecilia Tan on Gender Equality in The Siren and the Sword.

Charlie Jane Anders on Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction Novels.

Christians in space: Michel Faber’s science-fiction “last book”

Finally, Science Explains Why No One Can Lift Thor’s Hammer.

Flavorwire on Literary Genre Wars’ Secret Truce

Geek Smash suggests the 5 Delightful Fantasy and Sci-fi Reads for Your November

Hyperallergic discusses a New Project to Digitize 10,000 Sci-Fi Zines

In a Topsy-Turvy World, China Warms to Sci-Fi, The Three-Body Problem.

MoviePilot picks the Top Doctor Who Regenerations.

Paul Roland suggests 10 Essential Steampunk Novels

Read “Black Box” By Jennifer Egan at The New Yorker. Published over the course of nine days in May 2012, the 8,500-word story was originally serialized in installments of ≤ 140 characters each.

Science friction: Hollywood’s love/hate affair with smart sci-fi

Star Wars Is Only Science Fiction, but I Like It

Three-Body Problem Asks A Classic Sci-Fi Question, In Chinese

We need more radical sci-fi to inspire future tech: Sci-fi has taken a turn for the worse over the last two decades and it is damaging innovation.

What young adult novels have taught me about how America will be destroyed.

Why Do Contemporary SF Films Always Invoke a Near Half-Century Old Movie?

Why so strangely Yoda speaks

Your Challenge: Ethically Colonizing an Alien Planet: “It’s something of a happy coincidence that Civilization: Beyond Earth rolled out around when Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar hit theaters. In the computer game, humanity builds a new society on a distant planet after some apocalyptic Earth disaster called “The Great Mistake.” Sounds a lot like the wormhole-journeying pioneers of Interstellar, fleeing our neo-Dust Bowl planet, no?”


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