Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Sci-Fi Round-Up: March 18, 2015



Interview: Barnes and Noble interviews Neal Asher, author of Dark Intelligence

Interview: Buzzy Mag interviews Will McIntosh, author of City Living.

Interview: Galactic Chat interviews Pat Cadigan, author of Synners.

Interview: The Geeks Guide Show interviews Marc Goodman, author of Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It.

Interview: io9 interviews David Robert Mitchell, author of It Follows. He explains how It Follows uses dread and beauty yo create the perfect monster movie.

Interview: The Qwillery interviews Bec McMaster, author of Of Silk and Steam.

Interview: Reddit held an AMA for Elizabeth Bear of Karen Memory. Highlights.

Interview: Tor.com interviews Genevieve Valentine, author of Mechanique.

Review: Persona is a Frighteningly Plausible Near-Future Thriller

Review: You have not read a truly digital book until you’ve read The New World.

8 Sci-Fi Movie Remakes Worse Than the Originals.

10 of the Best Artificial Intelligence Movies, as chosen by HeyUGuys.

Alien of Extraordinary Ability? Migration in SFF and in my Life.

Attack of the Canon: Will the New Post- Return of the Jedi Books Be Welcomed by Fans? Nope, but we’ll buy them anyway, cuz we’re kinda OCD like that.

Chappie ponders future of humans in a world run on artificial intelligence

Chappie suggests it’s time to think about the rights of robots

Check out the exact Mars location from Andy Weir’s The Martian.

Comparing the virtual realms of Inception and eXistenZ

David Brin on Memory and the Forgiving Internet?

Damien Walter says Apocalypse Weird brings fans a shared world of pain.

GeekMom on Lessons Learned From SciFi and Comic Book Conventions.

George R.R. Martin says Emily St. John Mandel should get the Hugo

How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction: The book war is over. The aliens, dragons, and detectives won.

Is Science Fiction Coming to Africa? Lauren Beukes, South African author and winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction in 2011, investigates.

It Follows reminds us how scary sex is, inspiring a “so-upset-I-feel-sick kind of amorphous dread.” Critics are calling this the scariest movie to come along in years.

New sounds from South Africa and Nigeria’s urban science fiction could change the future of technology and the city.

Philip K. Dick was right: we are becoming androids.

Read them first: Dystopian teen fiction to feed your fandom

Re-Membering the Time-Travel Film: From La Jetée to Primer.

Sci-Fi Legend Ray Bradbury Creates a Visionary Plan to Redesign Los Angeles

A Space Program Is Like Interstellar, But Made Of Cardboard And Fun

There are Going To Be 20 Star Wars Book Prequels To The Force Awakens, which shall henceforth herein be referred to a “Lucas’ Revenge.”

Tor.com remembers Five Books Featuring Heroic Hackers

What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books

Why Agent Carter Is So Much Better Than Agents of SHIELD

Why are we trying to create Ready Player One's dystopia? 

Why Can’t Strong Female Characters Just Be Complex? asks BlackGirlNerds.

Why we’re so obsessed with zombies


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