Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: December 3, 2014

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

Interview: The Hollywood Reporter interviews Christopher Priest, author of Prestige.

Interview: Inquirer interviews Marie Lu, author of The Young Elites.

Interview: Lightspeed Magazine interviews Charles Stross.

Interview: Reality Bomb interviews Lou Anders.

Interview: Suvudu interviews Lexie Dunne, author of Superheroes Anonymous.

News: BitTorrent announces Children of the Machine is an upcoming web series led by Igby Goes Down producer Marco Weber that is set in a near-future dystopia where androids have taken over. Scheduled for a Fall 2015 release, the show will be BitTorrent‘s first-ever original series. Weber insists that the P2P service is the perfect home for the series.

2001: A Space Odyssey6 reasons Why It’s The Most Important Sci-Fi of all-Time

Arab Science Fiction : Thriving Yet Underappreciated

Ardi Alspach on Why Science Fiction and Fantasy Matter.

Artificial intelligence: how clever do we want our machines to be?

The Atlantic says Saga Is Like Star Wars, but Unfilmable and Brilliantly Bonkers.

BFI on 10 great British sci-fi films.

Back To The Future II‘s Misguided (And Some Accurate) Predictions

The Business Insider criticisizes How Science Fiction Obscures The Horrifying Realities Of War.

David Annandale on Interstellar and the Arrogance of Sentiment.

Den of Geek on New US sci-fi, fantasy and horror shows for 2015.

Doctor Who: 9 things that series 9 must deliver

The Guardian explains Why Clara Oswald should stay in Doctor Who

The Guardian suggests these Top ten books to read now you’ve finished The Hunger Games.

How Doctor Who Got Good Again (in Two Easy Steps)

How the Religious See Robots: “Catholic astronomers and even Pope Francis have talked about how the Catholic Church could theoretically welcome aliens from other planets into the religious fold. But believers of Catholicism and other world religions may sooner have to consider whether they would welcome human-like android robots working and living alongside humans.”

How Sci Fi teaches IT Ethics

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe

The Huffington Posts names The Best Dystopian Novels Everyone Should Read

io9 looks ahead to All The Science Fiction And Fantasy Books You Can’t Miss In December

Lawrence Kasdan’s Handwritten Screenplay Pages for The Empire Strikes Back

Lewis Beale explains How Star Wars ruined sci-fi.

The News Tribune argues that Mockingjay can echo, not solve, our problems

On Loving Lovecraft (And Why I Still Do), by Daniel Mills

The Real Mr. Difficult, or Why Cthulhu Threatens to Destroy the Canon, Self-Interested Literary Essayists, and the Universe Itself. Finally. by Nick Mamatas

Re-Viewed: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece

Science-Fiction TV Finds a New Muse: Feminism

Science fiction writers must battle video games with words

Terry Pratchett rethought as a philosopher in new study.

Vice on The Illogical Fighting Style of James T. Kirk.

Watch Stephen Colbert’s passionate defense of that new lightsaber

What do genre readers look like? (According to YouGov)

Why Interstellar Should Be Taken Seriously — Very Seriously.


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