It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the various iterations of Star Trek, season 5 of Outlander, season 3 of Westworld, The Plot Against America, Denis Villeneuve's upcoming take on Dune, Trolls World Tour, tributes to Mort Drucker, the latest convention cancellations due to the corona virus and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Eric Brown offers a round-up of the best recent science fiction and fantasy books.
- Liz Bourke shares some more SFF comfort reads for difficult times.
- The Washington Post also recommends science fiction and fantasy comfort reads for difficult times.
- James Davis Nicoll talks about science fiction stories that cut the vastness of space down to size.
- Rabeea Saleem shares six technothrillers about digital surveillance and voyeurism.
- Kelsey D. Atherton finds some parallels to Cyberpunk in our current political situation.
- Emmet Asher-Perrin shares eight SFF stories you don't have to understand to enjoy.
- Steve Toase shares six SFF books that deal with homelessness.
- Emily B. Martin shares six stunning fantasies for nature lovers.
- G.W. Thomas offers a brief history of sword and sorcery.
- Amanda Mactas shares five horror novel driven by maternal instinct.
- Erika Harlitz-Kern talks about oral history in The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders.
- Naomi Kritzer muses about her ficitonal pandemic story "So Much Cooking" from 2015 suddenly becoming reality.
- Margaret Atwood declares that the corona virus pandemic is not a dystopia in the usual sense.
- James Davis Nicoll shares his appreciation for the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction, edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute.
- Adam Mackay shares his favourite quotes by Isaac Asimov.
- Alexandra Penth profiles Cora Buhlert
- Shaun Duke shares his appreciation for Uncle Hugo's SFF bookstore and its mystery-focussed sister store Uncle Edgar's in Minnesota.
- Richard Pulver discusses the direct market for comic books, how it came to be and why it is in trouble now.
- Dave Itzkoff wonders whether the corona virus will wipe out the comic book industry.
- Thomas Bacon declares that no, the corona virus is neither going to kill off superheroes nor the comics industry.
- Jessica Lévai shares a not entirely serious guide to preparing a living will in the case of supernatural events.
- Henry Keith Ferrell, writer and editor of Omni, has died aged 66.
- J. Hoberman remembers Mort Drucker.
- Mark Evanier remembers Mort Drucker.
- Michael Cavna remembers Mort Drucker.
Film and TV:
- Joel Keller calls Vagrant Queen a campy comic book adaptation.
- Liz Shannon Miller shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Dispatches from Elsewhere.
- Rebecca Nicholson calls Red Dwarf: The Promised Land great fun for fans and watchable for everybody else.
- Steve J. Wright shares his thoughts on the Good Omens TV series.
- Katie Rife shares her thoughts on the season 2 premiere of What We Do in the Shadows.
- Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce discuss the animated film Onward.
- Joseph Mallozzi discusses time loop episodes of various science fiction series.
- Craig Elvy lists the most iconic companion for every incarnation of Doctor Who.
- Emily Hughes recommends horror movies for every tolerance level.
- Leah Schnelbach analyses a scene in Birds of Prey.
- Camestros Felapton takes a look at the Best Dramatic Presentation finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards.
- Ethan Alter revisits Disney's Pinocchio for its 80th anniversary and shares some little known facts about the movie.
- Phil Hoad revisits the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes, his favourite film age 12.
- Emmet Asher-Perrin revisits the 1971 fantasy musical Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
- Ignatiy Vishnevestky revisits the 1968 horror movie Spirits of the Dead.
- Eric Berger watches the 1970 Soviet historical epic White Sun of the Desert, which every cosmonaut or astronaut launching from Baikonur must before take off for good luck.
- Leah Schnelbach lists six film and TV universes that might as well be SFF.
- Will Harris interviews Don Cheadle, best known for playing Colonel Jim Rhodes in the Marvel movies as well as for his parts in the Ocean's 11 movies, Picket Fences and Devil in a Blue Dress.
- Sam Jones interviews Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, director of The Platform.
- Alex McLevy interviews Jonah Ray, best known for his appearance in Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
- Michael Segalov interviews Domhnall Gleason, star of Run, Ex Machina and several Star Wars movies.
- Rhys McGinley shares several quotes by George Lucas about Star Wars and his other movies.
- Tor.com shares some news about the upcoming movie Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Ben Child reports that Sam Raimi will direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
- Kristin M. Burke declares that reports of the impending death of the film industry due to the corona virus have been greatly exaggerated,
- German actor Dieter Laser, best known for his appearances in Lexx, The Human Centipede and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, has died aged 78.
- British actress Hilary Heath, who appeared in Witchfinder General, The Avengers, Space 1999 and several horror films of the era has died of the corona virus aged 74.
- Actor Malcolm Dixon who appeared in Time Bandits and Return of the Jedi has died aged 66.
- Actor Brian Dennehy, who appeared in Rambo: First Blood, Cocoon, Presumed Innocent and Gorky Park, has died aged 81.
- Ryan Gilbey shares an obituary for Brian Dennehy.
- Disney animator Ann Sullivan has died aged 91.
- Doctor Who screenwriter Pip Baker has died aged 91.
Comments on the various iterations of Star Trek:
- Inspired by Star Trek Picard, The Hugo Book Club talks about death and resurrection in various science fiction and fantasy TV series.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 1 of Star Trek Discovery.
- Ryan Britt lists five classic Star Trek characters who could easily pop up in season 3 of Star Trek Discovery.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Voyager episodes "Persistence of Vision" and "Tattoo".
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Outlander.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Outlander.
Comments on season 3 of Westworld:
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Genre", the latest episode of Westworld.
- Paul MacInnes shares his thoughts on "Genre".
- Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on "Genre".
- Dean E.S. Richard shares his thoughts on "Genre".
Comments on Denis Villeneuve's upcoming adaptation of Dune:
- Anthony Breznican offers a first look at Denis Villeneuve's version of Dune.
- Ben Child wonders if Denis Villeneuve will be able to break the curse of adapting Dune to film.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that Denis Villeneuve has improved some of the female characters in Dune.
- Emmet Asher-Perrin bemoans that Paul Atreides is not non-binary in Dune.
Comments on The Plot Against America:
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Plot Against America.
- Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Plot Against America.
Comments on Trolls World Tour:
- Simran Hans calls Trolls World Tour an uplifting animated sequel.
- Jesse Hassenger calls Trolls World Tour a dance party you can attend from your couch.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award have been announced.
- The winner of the 2020 Compton Crook Awards has been announced.
- The winner of the 2019 Otherwise Award, formerly known as the Tiptree Award, has been announced.
- The finalists for the 2020 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire have been announced.
- Camestros Felapton hands out the Not Being Human Awards.
- The 2020 inductees into the Eisner Hall of Fame have been announced.
- FontFolly shares his thoughts on the 2020 Hugo and 1945 Retro Hugo finalists.
- Adri Joy and Joe Sherry of nerds of a feather share their thoughts on the 2020 Hugo finalists.
- Gary Tognetti shares his thoughts on the 2020 Hugo finalists.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Victoria Strauss warns of an aggressive Twitter troll.
- Mike Glyer reports about the IASFA, a would-be rival to the SFWA.
- Camestros Felapton also reports about the IASFA.
- The SFWA shares a list of resources for writers affected by the corona virus.
- Erin Summers lists resources for writers and publishers affected by the corona virus epidemic.
- The Arts and Literature Council England has set up an emergency fund for writers affected by the corona virus pandemic.
- Ann Pratchett explains what it is like to run a bookshop during the corona virus lockdown.
- Andrew Liptak reports how independent and SFF specialist bookshops are weathering the corona virus outbreak.
- Kaila Hale-Stern reports about We Love Bookstores, an initiative by SFF authors to support indie bookstores.
- Andrew Albanese reports about the Internet Archive's response to concerns about its so-called "National Emergency Library".
- Brian Keene explains how authors can get their books removed from the Internet Archive's "National Emergency Library".
- Cat Rambo explains why small press books are not necessarily bad.
- Jim Milliot reports that LSC Communications, the largest book printer in the US, has filed for bankruptcy.
- Jim Milliot reports that Quad, another book printing company, has suspended operations due to the corona virus.
- Camestros Felapton offers a publishing themed version of the classic boardgame Risk.
Interviews:
- Scott Simon interviews John Scalzi.
- Locus interviews Tamsyn Muir.
- David Bushman interviews Alan Moore.
- Richard Luscombe interviews Stephen King.
- Sian Cein interviews Simon Stålenhag.
- Kate J. Foster interviews A.J. Fitzwater.
- Rick Riordan interviews Rebecca Roanhorse.
- Paul Weimer interviews Chris Kluwe.
- Mark Yon interviews Matthew Ward.
- Runalong the Shelves interviews Stak Holborn.
- The Odyssey Writing Workshop interviews Sheila Williams.
- Dacre Stoker interviews Ellen Datlow.
Reviews:
- Camestros Felapton reviews Velocity Weapon by Megan O'Keefe.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Last Emperox by John Scalzi.
- Vanessa Armstrong reviews The Last Emperox by John Scalzi.
- Gary Tognetti reviews The Last Emperox by John Scalzi.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater.
- Em Nordling reviews The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune.
- Sean Dowie reviews The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune.
- Zoraida Córdova reviews Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn.
- Russell Letson reviews Sea Change by Nancy Kress.
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin.
- Kat Hooper reviews Come the Revolution by Frank Chadwick.
- Katharine Coldiron reviews Mazes of Power by Juliette Wade.
- Paul Weimer reviews Brother's Ruin by Emma Newman.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim.
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus by Michael Swanwick.
- Marion Deeds reviews The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards.
- Mark Yon reviews The Devil's Blade by Mark Alder.
- Fantasy Faction reviews Blade's Edge by Virginia McClain.
- Emily O'Donnell reviews The Poet King by Ilana C. Myer.
- Bill Capossere reviews A Broken Queen by Sarah Kozloff.
- Sandie Herron reviews The Prophet by Amanda Stevens.
- Angela Maria King reviews The Unsuitable by Molly Pohlig.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward.
- Colleen Mondor reviews Summerwood and Winterwood by E.L. Chen.
- Kat Hooper reviews Riverland by Fran Wilde.
- Bill Capossere reviews Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu.
- Ian Mond reviews The Resisters by Gish Jen.
- Tadiana Jones reviews Crave by Tracy Wolff
- Tony Bradman reviews The Infinite by Patience Agbabi.
- Liz Bourke reviews Docile by K.M. Szpara.
- Katharine Coldiron reviews The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older.
- Matt Brandenburg reviews The Price of Safety by Michael C. Bland.
- Rebecca Fisher reviews Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz.
- Kat Hooper reviews Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Forever House by Tim Waggoner.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Where Shadows Gather by Michael Chislett.
- Gary Tognetti reviews Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Honeybones by Georgina Bruce.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Forgotten Sidekicks, edited by Steven Poore and Peter Sutton.
- Betsy Dornbush reviews the finalists for the Best Short Story Hugo Award.
- Lauren Oyler reviews Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell.
Classics reviews:
- Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1897 horror mystery The Beetle by Richard March, which outsold Dracula upon first publication.
- Tony V. Sweeney also revisits the 1897 horror mystery The Beetle by Richard March.
- Sandy Ferber revisits the 1933 Lost World novel The Tomb of Time a.k.a. Inland Deep by Richard Tooker.
- Paperback Warrior revisits The Yellow Hoarde, a 1939 adventure of The Avenger by Kenneth Robeson a.k.a. Paul Ernst.
- Adam Roberts revisits the 1942 Tintin comic The Shooting Star by Hergé a.k.a. Georges Remy.
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1944 adventure novel The Sword Is Drawn by Andre Norton.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the 1944 science fiction novel Land of Terror by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the 1944 children's fantasy novel The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the 1944 science fantasy novella "A God Named Kroo" by Henry Kuttner.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the 1944 science fiction novella "Intruders from the Stars" by Ross Rocklynne.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the 1944 science fiction novelette "No Woman Born" by C.L. Moore.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the 1944 science fiction story "The Wedge" by Isaac Asimov.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the 1944 military science fiction story "I, Rocket" by Ray Bradbury.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1955 time travel novel The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov.
- Paul Fraser revisits the 1955 science fiction novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.
- Mark R. Kelly revisits the 1959 science fiction novel Collision Course by Robert Silverberg.
- John Boston revisits the April 1965 issue of Amazing Stories.
- Jason Sacks revisits the 1965 time travel novel The Fury Out of Time by Lloyd Biggle Jr., Gideon Marcus revisits the 1965 science fiction novel A Man of Double Deed by Leonard Daventry and Chuck Litka revisits the 1965 science fiction spy novel Ossian's Ride by Fred Hoyle.
- Samantha Shannon revisits the 1995 YA fantasy novel Sabriel by Garth Nix.
- Rich Horton revisits the 1998 collection Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly.
- Noah Berlatsky revisits the 2002 YA fantasy novel Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam a.k.a. Gwyneth Jones.
Crowdfunding:
- Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch are looking for funding to create five bundles of seventeen writing books altogether.
- The City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco, California, needs some help to survive the corona virus crisis.
- Todd MacFarlane is looking for funding to offer a remastered version of the original 1995 Spawn action figure and comic.
Con and event reports:
- CoNZealand, the 2020 Worldcon, will collaborate with The Fantasy Network to organise a virtual Worldcon in response to the corona virus.
- LibertyCon in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been cancelled due to the corona virus.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that San Diego Comic Con may go online.
- Jim Milliott reports that the 2020 Book Expo and BookCon in New York City have been cancelled due to the corona virus.
- World Book Night is going virtual as well in response to the corona virus.
- Huw Fullerton reports that the Doctor Who themed Quiz of Rassilon is going virtual in response to the corona virus.
- Drew Hayden Taylor reports about attempts to create a virtual indigenous science fiction festival.
- Andrew Pulver reports that the Cannes Film Festival cannot go ahead in its original form.
- Michael Schulman reports how cosplayers are making face masks to help out during the corona pandemic.
- Take a virtual tour of the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, Georgia.
Science and technology:
- The BBC reports that the new crew of the International Space Station has launched from Kazakhstan.
- Jonathan Amos reports that the BepiColombo mission to Mercury has passed a crucial milestone.
- Amanda Kooser shares some photos the BepiColombo spaceprobe took of Earth.
- Nicola Twilley reports about the foods astronauts will eat during the journey to Mars.
- Marcia Dunn remembers the fateful Apollo 13 mission fifty years on.
- Paul Rincon shares some newly remastered photos taken aboard Apollo 13.
- Damian Carrington reports that scientists have created an enzyme which can break down plastic bottles in hours.
- Cora Buhlert takes a look at the futuristic interior design of the 1960s.
- Mathematician John Horton Conway has died aged 83 of the corona virus.
Free online fiction:
- "Always the Harvest" by Yoon Ha Lee in Lightspeed.
- "Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker in Lightspeed.
- "AirBody" by Sameem Siddiqui in Clarkesworld.
- "A Wild Patience" by Gwynne Garfinkle in GigaNotoSaurus.
- "Black Crocodile" by Rachel Delany Craft in Luna Station Quarterly.
- "Go Fish" by Ian Rogers at Tor.com.
- "Thin Cold Hands" by Gemma Files in The Dark.
- "Surrogate" by Dan Stintzi in Nightmare Magazine.
- "If Salt Lose Its Savor" by Christopher Caldwell in Uncanny Magazine.
- "The Shadow Passes" by Paul Cornell at the BBC.
- "The Origin of a Species" by Steve J. Wright.
Odds and ends:
- Watch a trailer for Brave New World.
- Watch a clip from The Late Show, featuring Cate Blanchett, Stephen Colbert, Mjölnir and Tauriel's fighting blades from The Hobbit.
- Watch a video about a Steampunk model railway.
- Watch a video of the Postmodern Jukebox rendition of the theme song of Pinky and the Brain, guest starring the original voice actors.
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