Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for May 20, 2016

Here is our weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with lots of awards, including the Nebulas and plenty of other SFF awards, women in science fiction and fantasy, tributes to the late Darwyn Cooke, reactions to the cancellation of Agent Carter as well as the usual mix of writing advice, interviews, reviews, con reports and crowdfunding projects as well as free online fiction. 

Speculative fiction in general:

• Damien Walter defines the eight tribes of SFF.
• Kameron Hurley offers some historical perspective on today's genre controversies.
  
• Galactic Journey takes a look at women SFF writers of the 1950s and 1960s.
• Cora Buhlert talks about being a woman from a non-anglophone country writing SFF.
• Kay Taylor Rea talks about the continued erasure of women from SFF. 
• Foz Meadows declares that diversity means more than just white women. 
• Leo Elijah Cristea calls for more queer characters in mainstream fantasy.
• Natalie Zutter takes a look at books featuring witches.
• V.H. Leslie takes a look at water-related settings in horror fiction.
• Lisa Taylor shares her appreciation for the Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne by Brian Staveley.
• Jeff Somers takes a look at five technologically enhanced future sports. 
• David Barnett profiles the elusive Chuck Tingle.  
• Wesley Morris laments that superhero movies destroying traditional movie stardom.
• Lady Business takes a looks at Agent Carter on the eve of its cancellation. 
• Alasdair Stuart takes a look at the future or lack thereof of Supergirl and Agent Carter. 
• Alasdair Czyrnyj shares his thoughts on season 1 of the adaptation of The Man in the High Castle.  

Awards:

• The winners of the 2015 Nebula Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2015 Bram Stoker Awards have been announced.
• The longlist for the David Gemmell Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2015 Asimov's Readers Awards and Analog AnLab Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2015 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis have been announced.
• Fran Wilde's novel Updraft has won the 2016 Compton Crook Award. 
• The nominees for the 2016 eFestival of Words have been announced.
• The winners of the 2016 Fan Activity Achievement Awards have been announced.
• Kameron Hurley shares her thoughts on the winners of the 2015 Nebula Awards.
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on the 2015 Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards.
• Bruce Schneier offers a detailed analysis of the proposed E Pluribus Hugo nomination system for the Hugo Awards. 
• Kevin Standalee shares three possible Hugo voting alternatives.

Tributes to Darwyn Cooke:

• Comic artist Darwyn Cooke has died aged 53.
• Evan Narcisse shares his appreciation for the late Darwyn Cooke. 
• Corrina Lawson also shares her appreciation for the late Darwyn Cooke.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Victoria Schwab discusses what writers can and cannot control. 
• Dean Wesley Smith talks about the great pulp writers and their approach to writing. 
• James Hsu explains how he wrote a novel in seven months.
• Sunita shares her to-do list system.  
• Rob Nightingale explains how the Internet can make you more creative than ever.
• Nicola Alter talks about the reverse hero's journey, i.e. when a character starts out heroic and turns bad.
• Chuck Wendig talks about writing dialogue and how it relates to plot and character. 
• Cora Buhlert talks about dialogue as characterisation.
• Madeline Ashby talks about writing a highly athletic character.
• Dan Wells talks about writing mental illness.
• Alex Limberg explains how to make the magic in your story magical.
• Max Florschutz answers the question whether a fantasy novel requires fantastic creatures. 
• Jeffrey Aaron Miller talks about using chapter titles to entice, alarm or confound readers.  
• Chris Stevenson talks about editing techniques.
• Rachel Motte talks about J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings and why writing groups are beneficial.  
• Kameron Hurley talks about publishing, fame and breakout books.
• Michael J. Martinez explains why interior book design matters. 
• Adam Cesare explains why indie publishing is the new B-movies.
• Brian Keene explains how the midlist died.
  

Interviews:

• Fran Wilde interviews Daniel Abraham.
• Carl Slaughter interviews Linda Grimes. 
• Carl Slaughter also interviews Patrick Hemstreet. 
• Ellie Maloney interviews Jennifer Foehner Wells. 
• Sarah Chorn interviews Chuck Wendig.
• Rachel Swirsky interview Na'amen Tilahun.
• Dag Rambraut interviews David Estes.
• Ross Johnson interviews Farel Dalrymple.
• Brian M. Sammons interviews William Meikle. 
• Smash Dragons interviews Andrew J. McKiernan.
• My Life, My Books, My Escape interviews Jay Posey.
• Steve Davidson interviews Timothy the Talking Cat.
  

Reviews: 

• Bill Gates reviews Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
• Shannon Fay reviews The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin. 
• Foz Meadows reviews The Sea Is Ours, edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng. 
• Paul Weimer reviews Cities and Thrones by Carrie Patel. 
• Paul Weimer also reviews the Chronicle of Exile series by Marc Turner.
• Fantasy Book Café reviews Roses and Rot by Kat Howard.
• James Nicoll reviews Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones. 
• James Nicoll also reviews Stray by Andrea K. Höst. 
• Renay Williams reviews The Vagrant by Peter Newman and My Love Story by Kazune Kawahara and Aruko. 
• Liz Bourke reviews Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer.
• Kat Howard reviews Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand. 
• Niall Harrison reviews The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North.
• Bookworm Blues reviews The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente. 
• Jana Nyman reviews Railhead by Philip Reeve. 
• Ross Johnson reviews Company Town by Madeline Ashby.
• File 770 reviews Transcendental and Transgalactic by James Gunn.
• Jeff Somers reviews The Rook by Daniel O'Malley. 
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Cupid Reconciliation by Michael R. Underwood.
• Michael Patrick Hicks also reviews Motorman by Robert E. Dunn.
• Ross Johnson reviews The Fireman by Joe Hill.
• Niall Alexander also reviews The Fireman by Joe Hill. 
• Andrew Liptak reviews A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.
• Paul di Filippo reviews Blood Stories by Matthew Cheney.
• Josh Black reviews Suicide Stitch by Sarah L. Johnson.
• Paula Cappa reviews Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Nigel M. Smith reviews the movie The Transfiguration. 

Crowdfunding:

• Michael R. Underwood is looking for funding to offer a Complete Season 1 edition of his Genrenauts novellas.
• Awaken, a webcomic by Koti Saavedra, is looking for funding to publish a print edition of the first volume.
• Donate to help establish a Dr. Phil Memorial Scholarship to the Clarion Workshop. 

Con reports:

• Anna Kreider points out that 52% of featured presenters at GenCon are women and that is a big deal. 
• Cat Rambo shares her experiences at the Nebula Conference in Chicago.
• Cecilia Tan shares ten things she learned at the Nebula Conference in Chicago. 
• Zak Zyz shares his experiences at the Nebula Conference.
• Mike Glyer shares some photos of the Nebula Conference in Chicago.
• John Scalzi also shares some photos from the Nebula Awards ceremony.
• Watch a video of C.J. Cherryh's grandmaster panel at the Nebula Conference.
• Watch a video of the Radio SFWA skit performed at the Nebula Awards ceremony in Chicago.
• Rich Johnston reports about a social media faux-pas committed by the team behind the Santa Fe Comic Con.
• Steven Saus reports about a harrassment problem at MarCon 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. There is also a response from a member of the security team.
• Seattlish reports that Emerald City Comicon in Seattle is being sued for not paying its volunteers.
  

Science:

• Hyundai engineer have developed an Aliens inspired exoskeleton.
• The solar system could remain habitable long after the Earth has been destroyed, when conditions e.g. on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter become viable. 
• New photos reveal strange changes on the surface of Mars.
• How will virtual reality change our lives?
• Off the Israeli coast, divers have discovered a Roman shipwreck full of antique statues, coins and other treasures. 
• Mega wildfires will become a lot more common in the future. 

Free online fiction:

• "The Blood that Pulses in the Veins of One" by J.Y. Yang in Uncanny.
• "Breathe" by Cassandra Khaw in Clarkesworld.
• "Deathlight" by Mari Ness in Lightspeed.
• "Hungerford Bridge" by Elizabeth Hand in Lightspeed.
• "Searching for Slave Leia" by Sandra McDonald in Lightspeed. 
• "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" by P. Djeli Clark at Tor.com.
• "Amicae Aeternum" by Ellen Klages at Tor.com. 
• "The Supplicant" by M.L. Krishan in Gone Lawn. 
• "Chronicles of Neron" by Floyd Looney. 
• Chapter 2 of "Escape from the Free Republic" by Floyd Looney.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for Ghostbusters.
• Watch a teaser for the new Star Trek show.
• Watch a trailer for the TV show Timeless.
• Watch a trailer for the TV show The Good Place.
• Watch a trailer for The BFG.
• Watch the first four minutes of Preacher (US only)
• Watch a trailer for the remake of MacGuyver.
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Mr. Robot.