Speculative fiction in general:
- Veronica Scott introduces some science fiction romances with prison settings.
- Molly Wetta offers a timeline about Mars as portrayed in fiction.
- Charles Stross offers a taxonomy of space opera clichés.
- Elizabeth Bonesteel talks about dated technology in older science fiction.
- D.K. Mok discusses the allure of futuristic cities.
- Camestros Felapton offers a three-dimensional model of genres.
- Mark Dery profiles Samuel R. Delany.
- Tom Carroll remembers the late Octavia Butler.
- Kat Hooper and Stuart Starosta share their appreciation for The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
- Future War Stories also shares their appreciation for The Forever War.
- Mike Ashley chronicles the history of Amazing Stories in the 1960s.
- Nisi Shawl offers a crash course in the history of black science fiction.
- Gina Barton and Victoria M. Massie talk about Afrofuturism.
- Alison Flood reports that J.K. Rowling has come under fire for A History of Magic in North America.
- N.K. Jemisin weighs in on the controversy about A History of Magic in North America.
- Yash Kesanakurthy talks about finding a home in fantasy.
- Jennifer K. Stuller explains that women can thrive in science fiction.
- Nicole Brinkley talks about sexism in young adult fiction.
- Renay Williams discusses the issues with the tragic gay or lesbian narrative.
- Steve Davidson discusses the 7 levels of recommending.
- Cory Doctorow talks about the dystopian aspects of reputation economies.
- Tom Hawking wonders "What if the apocalypse already happened and we just didn't notice?"
- Brandon Anthony discusses the best movie space battles.
- M.D. Jackson shares his favourite rousing speeches in SFF.
- Michael Heilemann traces the development of the Millennium Falcon and other Star Wars spaceships.
- Mark Harrison wonders whether movies based on young adult dystopias are on their way out.
- Damien Walter finds some parallels to current US politics in Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's 1990s science fiction comic Transmetropolitan.
- Corrina Lawson shares her thoughts about the Agent Carter finale.
- Jena Burne enjoyed Agent Carter, but feels that the series still needs work.
- Margaret Maurer shares 10 reasons why Agent Carter should be saved.
- Emily Asher-Perrin talks about the new equality of objectification in movies and TV shows, particularly of the superhero genre.
- Alasdair Stuart insists that more men should cry on television.
- Dany Roth explains why so many people were upset about a character death on The 100.
- Andrew Liptak discusses the real reason why the TV adaptation of The Shannara Chronicles failed.
- Craig Thomas discusses why the revival of The X-Files was so disappointing.
- Actor Ernie Hudson shares his memories of making the original Ghostbusters.
- Julia Llewellyn Smith talks about the inspiration behind the movie Anomalisa.
- Lilly Wachowski, one half of the director duo behind The Matrix and Jupiter Ascending, has come out as transgender.
- Tony Dyson, the man who built R2-D2, died aged 68.
Awards:
- The 2015 Kitchies have been awarded.
- The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards have been announced.
- The longlist for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced and includes one science fiction novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.
- The Academy of British Cover Design has announced the shortlist and winners of the best book cover design of 2015.
- The finalists for the 2015 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award have been announced.
- The full submission list for the Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced.
- Niall Alexander analyses the submissions for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
- Joe Sherry explains why he loves the Hugo Awards.
- Chaos Horizon has created a 2016 SFF Awards Meta-List.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Damien Walter shares an essay on writing practice.
- Juliet E. McKenna talks about craft versus talent.
- Michael Patrick Hicks talks about his writing process.
- Chelsea Henshey shares some language and style tips for writers.
- Sonia Orin Lyris talks about worldbuilding.
- Jeff Tanyard talks about the villain's journey.
- Marc J. Turner shares five fantasy tropes that should be consigned to history.
- The Oatmeal has a great comic about creativity and making things on the web.
- Walter Jon Williams reports about his problems with Amazon's quality control.
Interviews:
- David Larsen interviews Lois McMaster Bujold.
- Nick Gevers interviews Tim Powers.
- Kati Heng interviews Sofia Samatar.
- Mieneke van der Salm interviews Maria V. Snyder.
- Alex Townsend interviews Holly Black.
- Andrew Leon Hudson interviews Pippa DaCosta.
- Katherine Eliska Kimbriel interviews Diana Pharaoh Francis.
- Carl Slaughter interviews Jonathan Maberry.
- Carl Slaughter interviews Marshall Ryan Maresca.
- Carl Slaughter also interviews Alex Shvartsman.
- Carl Slaughter also interviews Rosemary Claire Smith.
- Carl Slaughter also interviews Andrew P. Weston.
- Mark Yon interviews Charles Stross.
- The Vancouver Sun interviews Robert J. Sawyer.
- Andrew Liptak interviews Allen M. Steele.
- Kristin Centorcelli interviews Mishell Baker.
- Kristin Centorcelli also interviews Mark Tompkins.
- Dario Ciriello interviews Mandy M. Roth.
- Kyra Halland interviews A.S. Johnson.
- Kyra Halland also interviews Alexandre A. Loch.
Reviews:
- Paul Weimer reviews Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold.
- Rob H. Bedford reviews The Cold Between by Elizabeth Bonesteel.
- James Wallace Harris reviews All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders.
- Kelly Anderson reviews The Others series by Anne Bishop.
- Aaron Pound reviews Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear.
- Bookworm Blues reviews Glitch Rain by Alex Livingston.
- Bookworm Blues reviews A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab.
- Juliet E. McKenna reviews Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho.
- Thea James reviews Updraft by Fran Wilde.
- Richard Bray reviews Calamity by Brandon Sanderson.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire.
- Michael Patrick Hicks also reviews The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey.
- Vajra Chandrasekera reviews Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.
- Narelle Ho Sang reviews United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas Liu.
- Brit Mandelo reviews The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu.
- Maureen Kincaid Speller reviews Afro SF 2, edited by Ivor W. Hartmann.
- David S.E. Zapanta reviews the first episode of Hap and Leonard.
- Max Florschutz reviews the movie Zootopia.
Crowdfunding:
- Wizards in Space Literary Magazine is looking for funding.
- The web series Graves is looking for funding.
- Mars Shall Thunder, an audio drama by Alan von Altendorf, is looking for funding.
- The Anywhere Man, a graphic novel by Jeff Lawler and Tim Mayer, is looking for funding.
Con reports:
- Costumer Marie Porter shares her experiences at MarsCon 2016 in Bloomington, Minnesota.
- Louella-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith reports that the VancouFur furry convention in Vancouver, Canada, ended up being held at a hotel which also houses Syrian refugees newly arrived in Canada, much to the joy of the Syrian children.
- Watch a video of a Star Trek convention in Denver, Colorado, in 1976.
Science and technology:
- The Hubble space telescope has observed the most remote galaxy in the universe.
- Why is Mercury so dark?
Free online fiction:
- "Fire in the Belly" by Rachael Acks in Mothership Zeta.
- "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear.
- "Crimson Cadet" by Susan Jane Bigelow at The Book Smugglers.
- "Silver Fish" by Rachael Acks in Lakeside Circus.
- "Listen" by Karin Tidbeck at Tor.com.
- "Loser" by Matthew Hughes.
- Chapter 1 of "Day of Recovery", part 93 of The Descendants by Landon Porter.
- Download Up and Coming, an anthology of stories by 2016 Campbell Award eligible writers, for free.
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