It's time for the weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with tributes to Ursula K. Le Guin and Jack Ketchum, Star Trek Discovery (spoilers again mostly marked, but reader beware), Altered Carbon, Black Lightning as well as the usual mix of awards news, writing advice, interviews, reviews, con reports, crowdfunding campaigns, science articles, free online fiction and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Jeff Somers shares 25 fantasy and science fiction debuts to look out for in 2018.
- Brian Gaensler shares his favourite science fiction novels of 2017.
- James Davis Nicoll offers an overview of women science fiction writers of the 1970s.
- Dara Horn explains how much easier it is today to find science fiction and fantasy for female readers than it used to be when she was young.
- Stina Leicht suggests that those who fail to find the same sense of wonder in science fiction and fantasy as they used to may have only themselves to blame.
- Tom Cassauwers talks about the new subgenre solarpunk.
- Damien Walter talks about the shattered realities of William Gibson.
- Lisa Allardice profiles Margaret Atwood.
- Mary Quattlebaum profiles Ursula Vernon.
- Judith Tarr revisits Andre Norton's 1952 post-apocalyptic novel Daybreak 2250 AD.
- John Hertz shares his appreciation for the works of Gerard Manley-Hopkins.
- Ray Rickman takes a look at H.P. Lovecraft's racist legacy.
- Robert Guffey talks about Lovecraftian horror and the alchemy of the new.
- The SFWA has announced that it has denied membership to an unnamed author because of said authors stated intent to harrass other SFWA members.
- Mike Glyer has more on the SFWA uproar, including a self-reveal of the author in question.
- John Scalzi shares a brief statement on the latest SFWA uproar.
- Foz Meadows offers a clarification regarding some untrue claims made about her and her family.
- Camestros Felapton offers his side of the issue affecting Foz Meadows and her family.
- Tor.com shares fifteen SFF books featuring anthropomorphic animals.
- Ed Grabianowski shares the perfect fantasy novels for each Dungeons and Dragons character class.
- Catherine Nichols asks why pop culture is obsessed with battles between good and evil.
- Carli Velocci attempts to explain why many people are so obsessed with sexy monsters.
- Nicholas Barber explains why The Shape of Water is the most relevant film of the year.
- Meanwhile, the estate of playwright Paul Zindel claims to have detected similarities between The Shape of Water and Zindel's 1969 play Let Me Hear You Whisper.
- Liam Bobyak shares his problems with the Warhammer 40000 franchise.
- Germain Lussier tries to persuade people to give The Maze Runner movies a chance.
- Ross Johnson matches every episode of Black Mirror with a book.
- Cassam Looch takes a look at science fiction films and TV shows that managed to predict the future.
- Lilly Loofbourow wonders what the hell is going on with The Good Place.
- Michael Livingston compares Thor: Ragnarok with the mythological Ragnarok.
- Xavier Harding praises the afrofuturist vision of Black Panther.
- Julie Muncy reports that the superhero TV show Inhumans has apparently been cancelled.
- Julie Muncy also reports that a Black Widow movie is being planned for 2020.
- Julie Hines shares her appreciation for the new comic series Abbott by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivela.
- Sam Barsanti reports that actress Jodie Whittaker who plays the Thirteenth Doctor had to fight to be pais as much as her male predecessors on Doctor Who.
- Theatre writer and director Bob Carlton, who created the musical Return to the Forbidden Planet, has died.
Tributes to Ursula K. Le Guin:
- Ursula K. Le Guin died aged 88.
- Tor.com remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Locus remebers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Margaret Atwood remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Jo Walton remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Karen Joy Fowler remembers Ursula K. Le Guin
- Karen Joy Fowler also shares ten things she learned from Ursula K. Le Guin.
- John Scalzi shares a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Mary Robinette Kowal remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Ceridwen Christensen shares a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Dimitra Fimi shares a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin.
- John Clute shares an obituary for Ursula K. Le Guin.
- John Wray remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Christian Holub remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Amy Wang remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Colin Dwyer remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Gerald Jonas remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- William Hughes remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Cheryl Eddy remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Doctor Science remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Camestros Felapton remembers Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Hampus Eckerman shares his appreciation for Ursula K. Le Guin's famous short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas".
- Chuck Wendig remembers Ursula K. Le Guin by sharing her writing advice.
- Emily Temple remembers Ursula K. Le Guin by sharing her life advice.
- Naomi Novik shares a poem she wrote in memory of Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Mike Glyer shares some reactions to Ursula K. Le Guin's death from around the web.
- Maureen Lee Lenker also shares some reactions to Ursula K. Le Guin's death from around the web.
Tributes to Jack Ketchum:
Comments on Star Trek Discovery:
- Katharine Trendacosta is so annoyed with the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery that she is considering quitting the show.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
- Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
- Keith DeCandido shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
- Kayti Burt shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
- Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
- James Whitbrook shares everything we know about the timeline of Star Trek's mirror universe.
- Kayti Burt shares twelve questions that Star Trek Discovery should answer before the end of season 1.
Comments on Altered Carbon:
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Altered Carbon part derivative noir detective story and part interested tale of doomed freedom fighters.
- Jahkotta Lewis calls Altered Carbon a mix of Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner with many similar issues.
- Carina Nilma calls Altered Carbon a nuanced and detailed Blade Runner for the small screen.
- S.C. O'Donnell calls Altered Carbon the perfect series for Westworld fans.
- Andrew Liptak calls Altered Carbon Netflix's first big prestige SFF show.
Comments on Black Lightning:
- Rebecca Nicholson calls Black Lightning a refreshing addition to superhero shows on TV.
- Kyle Fowle shares his thoughts on the second episode of Black Lightning.
Awards:
- Peter S. Beagle has been named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master.
- The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards have been announced with lots of love for genre movies.
- Christian Holub reports that Logan has one the first "best adapted screenplay" nomination for a superhero movie.
- The nominees for the 2018 Edgar Awards have been announced.
- The nominations for the 29th GLAAD Media Awards have been announced and include several genre programs.
- The nominations for the 2018 Razzie Awards have been announced and once more include several genre works.
- The winners of the 2018 Producers Guild Awards have been announced.
- James Oller points out that the Screen Actors Guild Awards managed to ignore most of the nominated genre movies and television programs.
- Maureen Kincaid Speller offers a manifesto for the 2018 Shadow Clarke Awards.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Chuck Wendig shares his thoughts on imposter syndrome.
- Oky Akhigbe shares thirteen ways to beat writer's block.
- Writer Emma Straub talks about her troubled relationship with her father, writer Peter Straub.
- Arielle Contreras shares some tips for writing a memoir.
- Jeff Tanyard shares some tips for writing stronger blurbs.
- Foz Meadows shares an overly specific SFF subgenre generator.
Interviews:
- Alasdair Stuart interviews Brooke Bolander.
- Christian A. Coleman interviews Fonda Lee.
- Gautam Bhatia interviews Aliya Whitely.
- The Qwillery interviews Rati Mehrotra.
- The Qwillery also interviews Tyrell Johnson.
- Locus interviews Nicholas Eames and Alex Marshall a.k.a. Jesse Bullington.
- SpecPo interviews Holly Lyn Walrath.
Reviews:
- Adrienne Martini reviews Provenance by Ann Leckie.
- Russell Letson reviews The Corporation Wars: Emergence by Ken MacLeod.
- Jo Zebedee reviews Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald.
- Tadiana Jones reviews Darkness Falling by Ian Douglas.
- Ardi Alspach reviews The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander.
- Bill Capossere also reviews The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander.
- Camestros Felapton reviews The Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher.
- Corrina Lawson reviews The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman.
- Rich Rosell reviews The Raptor and the Wren by Chuck Wendig.
- Alex Brown also reviews The Raptor and the Wren by Chuck Wendig.
- Leah Schnelbach reviews The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith.
- Marion Deeds also reviews The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews The Father of Lies by K.J. Parker.
- Paul Di Filippo also reviews Dark State by Charles Stross.
- Rob Bedford reviews The Infernal Battalion by Django Wexler.
- Colleen Mondor reviews The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy.
- Rebecca Fisher revies The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente.
- Bill Capossere reviews Superwomen: Gender, Power and Representation by Carolyn Cocca.
Crowdfunding:
- 2001: An Odyssey in Words, an original science fiction anthology to honour Arthur C. Clarke for his centenary, is looking for funding.
- Empty Space, a graphic novel by Michael Jan Friedman and Cacio Cacau, is looking for funding.
Con reports:
- Graeme McMillan reports about Universal Fan Con in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Laura Resnick shares her experiences at an unnamed convention.
- Jen Sauve shares her not so great experiences at Ace Comic Con in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Mike Glyer reports about the latest news of the trademark infringement lawsuit between San Diego Comic Con and Salt Lake City Comic Con.
- John Scalzi shares some photos of ConFusion in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Jim C. Hines shares some photos of ConFusion in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Ron Hansen shares a report as well as some photos of Ronvention, the 1962 Eastercon in Harrogate, UK.
Science and technology:
- Paul Gilster talks about pulsar navigation.
- Marina Koren answers the question what will happen to US astronauts during a government shutdown in the US.
- George Dvorsky reports that the Trappist 1 star system may contain two potentially habitable planets.
- Sarah Knapton reports that a trial using a sales robot at a Scottish supermarket chain was discontinued, because the robot scraed some shoppers.
Free online fiction:
- "The Court Magician" by Sarah Pinsker in Lightspeed.
- "Someday" by James Patrick Kelly in Lightspeed.
- "The Library is Open" by Beth Cato in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Airship Hope" by Laurel Amberdine in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Hehua" by Millie Ho in Fireside Fiction.
- "Rounding Corrections" by Sandra Haynes and "The Floor" by Melissa Fall at io9.
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