Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for February 12, 2016

Here is our weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the BSFA awards, the continuation of theperpetual genre versus literary fiction debate, news of the Star Trek revival, comments on Deadpool and lots of movie trailers. 

Speculative fiction in general:

• Kevin Lessmiller reports about a copyright suit brought by Sherrilyn Kenyon against Cassandra Clare.
• Alison Flood also reports on the Sherrilyn Kenyon versus Cassandra Clare case. 
• Natalie Luhrs offers a brief analysis of the Locus recommended reading list between 2011 and 2015.
• Evangeline Denmark explains that science fiction isn't just for guys.
• Sadie L. Trombetta shares eight feminist science fiction books. 
• Michelle Zacarias profiles Junot Díaz.
• Terence Blacker takes both on the genre versus literary fiction debate and Kazuo Ishiguro.
• Charlie Jane Anders shares her thoughts on Kazuo Ishiguro's defence of speculative fiction.
• Katherine Trendacosta talks about bad romances in science fiction and fantasy. 
• Anne M. Pillworth and Ruthanna Emrys discuss H.P. Lovecrafts most bigotted work, Medusa's Coil, written in collaboration with Zealia Bishop. 
• Matthew Wuertz reports about a rigged science fiction writing contest in the 1950s.
• Heather Smith wonders whether the conspiracy theories peddled in the original X-Files aren't anachronistic today 
• Angelica Jade Bastién takes a look at all of the characters Dana Scully has inspired.
• Margaret Maurer shares the ten most scathing reviews for Star Wars: A New Hope.
• Margaret Maurer also shares ten ways Star Wars redefined movies.
• Jim Davies discusses the conflicted feelings of the audience towards the various droids of Star Wars. 
• Kyle Anderson shares his appreciation for John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China. 
• Emily Gaudette asks why Marvel's and DC's comics are just so damned complicated. 
• Foz Meadows shares her thoughts on the Dragon Age games.
• Australian science fiction author David J. Lake died aged 85. 

Comments on Deadpool:

• Rebecca Pahle says that Deadpool isn't perfect, but that it is a lot of fun.  
• Lesley Coffin realises that she apparently does not like Deadpool.
• Germain Lussier traces the origins of Deadpool.

Comments on the Star Trek revival: 

• James Hibberd talks to Bryan Fuller who will be the showrunner for the new Star Trek show.
• Matt DiGuilio has some advice for making Star Trek awesome again.

Awards:

• The nominees for the 2015 BSFA Awards have been announced.
• Alison Flood shares her thoughts on the 2015 BSFA Awards shortlist. 
• The shortlist for the 2016 Audie Awards has been announced.
• The judges for the 2016 Philip K. Dick Award have been announced. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• The participants of the latest SF Signal Mind Meld discuss books writers want to dissect.
• Yoon Ha Lee talks about the parallels between writing and music composition.
• David Neth talks about mixing up storyline and elements to keep the reader interested.
• Chris A. Jackson explains how to create a criminal protagonist that readers can root for.
• Ilana C. Myer talks about writing war in fantasy.
• Bart Bishop discusses the advantages of present tense when writing action scenes. 
• Jeff Tanyard shares some tips for writing songs and poems to include in your story or novel. 
• Julie E. Czerneda talks about cover design. 
• M.D. Jackson analyses the military SF cover art.
• Autumn Kalquist reports about irregularities on the New York Times bestseller list.

Interviews:

• Tricia Sullivan interviews Emma Newman.
• Matt Staggs interviews Alison Goodman.
• Kristin Centorcelli also interviews Alison Goodman. 
• Kristin Centorcelli also interviews Gemma Files.
• The Qwillery interviews Sabrina Benulis.
• Grey Dog Tales interviews Steve Vernon.

Reviews:

• Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer reviews Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold.
• Nicole Hill reviews A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly. 
• Ceridwen Christensen reviews Feverborn by Karen Marie Moning.
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Sung in Shadow by Tanith Lee.
• Speculating on SpecFic reviews Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. 
• Jenny Kawecki reviews An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.
• Haralambi Markov reviews Lament for the Afterlife by Lisa L. Hannett.
• Lis Carey reviews Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon.
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Going Dark by Linda Nagata. 
• Michael Patrick Hicks also reviews CTRL ALT REVOLT by Nick Cole.
• John DeNardo reviews Legion by Brandon Sanderson.
• Jesse Hudson reviews The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod.
• Max Zsol reviews Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Crawford Kilian. 
• Derek Austin Johnson reviews the movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. 

Crowdfunding:

• Issue Zero of The Black Mill, a new weird comic by Paul di Filippo and Orion Zangara, is looking for funding.
• Semiautomatic, a horror comic by Alex de Campi and Jerry Ordway, is looking for funding.
• Antithesis, a graphic novel by Erica J. Heflin and Fabian Cobos, is looking for funding.
• Pangaea II: The Rise of Dominjaron, an anthology edited by Mike Friedman, is looking for funding. 
• The Offworld Collection, an anthology of diverse writing about video games, is looking for funding.
• Space Bros., a web comic by Geremy Lague and Lee, is looking for funding.
  

Con reports:

• The Daily Herald reports about the Life, the Universe and Everything Symposium in Provo, Utah.
• Lauren Faits reports about cosplayers being harassed by a photographer.
• Rachel Cordasco talks to Ian Watson about organising the 2016 Eurocon in Barcelona, Spain.
  

Science and technology:

• Did a head-on collision with another planet form the Earth and the Moon? 
• Luxembourg is planning to become the world leader in asteroid mining. 
• Pluto's mysterious floating hills are icebergs. 
• The existence of gravitational waves has finally been confirmed.
• New developments in the search for alien life.
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Opening of the Bayou Saint John" by Shawn Scarber in Strange Horizons. 
• "Breaking Water" by Indrapramit Das at Tor.com
• "Inspirations" by Seanan McGuire in Nightmare Magazine. 
• "The Faerie Maker" by Nin Harris in GigaNotoSaurus.
• "The Dryad's Shoe" by T. Kingfisher in Fantasy Magazine.  
• "Between Dragons and Their Wrath" by An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky in Clarkesworld.
• "Vulcanization" by Nisi Shawl in Nightmare Magazine.
• "The Dark Age" by Jason Gurley in Lightspeed.
• "Hereafter" by Samuel Peralta in Lightspeed. 
• "Last Stand" by Floyd Looney. 
• Chapter 3 of "Homage", part 92 of The Descendants by Landon Porter. 

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for Captain America: Civil War. 
• Watch a trailer for Deadpool.
• Watch a trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse.
• Watch a trailer for Batman versus Superman: Dawn of Justice.
• Watch a trailer for Independence Day 2.
• Watch a trailer for The Jungle Book.
• Watch a trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - Out of the Shadows.
• Watch Hulk chase Ant-Man in this Coca Cola commercial.