It's time for a soewhat truncated weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with WorldCon 77, an incident at ArmadilloCon, the 1944 Retro Hugos and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Eric Brown offers a round-up of the best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror novels.
- Amal El-Mohtar asks why there are so many new books about time-travelling lesbians.
- Una McCormack shares five SFF books with heroines over forty.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts and Rivqua Rafael shares five books that give vice to artificial intelligences.
- Esther Inglis-Arkell shares the best Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark from the eponymous YA horror anthologies of the 1980s.
- Tor.com shares ten stories which feature dragon societies.
- Camestros Felapton continues his survey of the history of science fiction and the Hugo Awards through the medium of dinosaurs.
- Peter J. Bowler talks about H.G. Wells and the uncertainties of progress.
- Cora Buhlert points out that Leigh Brackett's character Eric John Stark is a literal social justice warrior.
- Jordy Rosenberg profiles Samuel R. Delany.
- Michael Livingston remembers Robert Jordan.
- James P. Blaylock talks about his personal library.
- Myke Cole declares that the modern fetish for a misrepresented Sparta is a cultural cancer.
- Matthew Aguilar reports that Superman has joined Twitter and promptly waded into a debate on immigration.
- Erica Frank takes a look at several comic fanzines of the 1960s.
- Comic artist Eernie Colón has died aged 88.
- Interviewer, reviewers and fan writer Carl Slaughter has died aged 61.
Film and TV:
- Abigail Nussbaum shares her thoughts on the British dystopian TV series Years and Years.
- Camestros Felapton declares that season 3 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is very good.
- A.K. Larkwood shares their appreciation for season 1 of Farscape.
- Scott Tobias revisits the 1989 science fiction film The Abyss for its thirtieth anniversary.
- Matthew Keeley revisits the 1963 Czech science fiction film Ikarie XB 1.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the 1980 and 2007 versions of Flash Gordon.
- Tom Philip explains that horror movies can be great, even if they are not scary.
- Sian Cain reports that Amazon Prime's upcoming Lord of the Rings series cannot use much of Tolkien's plot for rights reasons.
Awards:
- The winners of the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards have been announced.
- Nicholas Whyte shares some stats about the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards.
- Cora Buhlert shares some comments on the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards.
- The finalists for the 2019 Imadjinn Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2019 Teen Choice awards have been announced.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Mollie M. Madden shares some military logistics for fantasy writers.
- Matthew W. Quinn explains how podcasting can help writers learn and network.
- Daniel Scott White shares his views about submitting to short fiction markets.
- The Thinkerbeat shares a list of short fiction markets.
Interviews:
- Patrick Freyne interviews George R.R. Martin.
- Mysteristas interviews Ann Aguirre.
- Forrest Hollingworth interviews Seanan McGuire.
- The Odyssey Writing Workshop interviews Kate Marshall.
Reviews:
- For Winter Nights reviews To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers.
- Colleen Mondor reviews Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Jade War by Fonda Lee.
- Russell Letson reviews The Warship by Neal Asher.
- For Winter Nights reviews Wanderers by Chuck Wendig.
- Paul Weimer reviews Ash Kickers by Sean Grigsby.
- Paul Weimer reviews Blood of an Exile by Brian Naslund.
- Paul Weimer reviews The Queen of Crows by Myke Cole.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard.
- Mahvesh Murad reviews The Blue Salt Road by Joanne Harris.
- Adrienne Martini reviews Ragged Alice by Gareth L. Powell.
- Jason Heller reviews Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Sanctuary by V.V. James.
- Marion Deeds reviews State Tectonics by Malka Older.
- Kat Hooper reviews Three Laws Lethal by David Walton.
- Bill Capossere reviews Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact and Speculation by Terri Favro.
- Tadiana Jones revisits the 1943 science fiction novel The Weapon Makers by A.E. van Vogt.
- Tadiana Jones revisits the 1951 science fiction novel The Weapon Shops of Isher by A.E. van Vogt.
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1955 military science fiction novel Star Guard by Andre Norton.
- Cora Buhlert reviews the 1964 planetary romances The Secret of Sinharat and People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews the 1982 fantasy collection The Traveler in Black by John Brunner.
- Alan Brown revisits the 1982 space opera novel Sten by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch and its sequels.
- Camestros Felapton revisits the 1999 short story "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" and the 2002 novel Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick.
Crowdfunding:
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia is looking for funding to translate the Mexican vampire novel The Road of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate into English.
- You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife is looking for funding.
Con and event reports:
- WorldCon 77 in Dublin shares a restaurant guide as well as the website Dublin 2019 Eats, which reviews several restaurants around town.
- Daniel Dern and Chris M. Barkley report about their arrival in Dublin for WorldCon 77 and share some photos.
- Daniel Dern also shares some photos from WorldCon 77 in Dublin.
- Marshall Ryan Maresca shares his toastmaster speech for ArmadilloCon in Austin, Texas.
- ArmadilloCon also reports about an incident at a panel.
- Mike Glyer shares K. Tempest Bradford's report about the incident at ArmadilloCon.
- Nicholas Shectman reports that Arisia in Boston, Massachusetts, has lost its case against the Mariott/Aloft chain and that the penalties put the con in danger.
- Europa SF evaluates the two competing bids for the 2021 EuroCon in Fiugi, Italy and Timisiora, Romania.
- Arley Sorg reports about the Locus Awards weekend in Seattle, Washington, and shares several photos.
- Locus shares some photos of Laffcon 4 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Science and technology:
- Jonathan Amos reports about the Finnish Iceye satellite, which can make extremely sharp radar images.
- Elizabeth Rayne reports about undead zombie planets.
- The Indian Express reports that NASA has discovered a cloaked black hole from the earliest days of the universe.
Free online fiction:
- "Pomegranate, Pomegranate" by Jack Westlake in The Dark.
- "Spore" by Amanda Downun in Nightmare Magazine.
- "We Need a Wizard Who Can Appeal to the Moderate Orc Voter" by David Howard in McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
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