It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with tributes to Storm Constantine, The Mandalorian and Star Wars in general, season 5 of The Expanse, WandaVision, season 3 of American Gods, season 2 of Batwoman, Outside the Wire, The Watch and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Eric Brown shares the best recent science fiction and fantasy novels.
- Abigail Nussbaum shares the SFF books she's looking forward to in 2021.
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar talk about science fiction and fantasy books that have fallen off the radar.
- James Davis Nicoll shares classic science fiction stories in which humans come from beyond the stars.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five stories about generation ships with happyish endings.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five thrilling science fiction stories about space patrols.
- Udo Klotz and Christian Hoffmann offers an overview of science fiction in Germany.
- Renn Tan talkes a look at dystopian fiction from the Soviet Union.
- Tim Fielder talks about the power of Afrofuturism in the 21st century.
- Kathleen Jennings shares six tales of Australian gothic.
- Laura Purcell shares her ten favourite books about spirit mediums.
- Howard Andrew Jones shares his appreciation for the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny.
- G.W. Thomas shares his appreciation for C.L. Moore's Northwest Smith, the original space rogue.
- Colin Burrow profiles Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Mike Glyer reports that Ursula K. Le Guin will appear on a US postage stamp this year.
- Timothy Larsen remembers Victorian fantasy writer George MacDonald.
- Scott Begbie remembers Scottish science fiction pioneer Robert Duncan Milne.
- Deuce Richardson shares his appreciation for the works of horror author Graham Masterton.
- Gita Jackson reports that the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own has been getting so much traffic during the pandemic that it crashed.
- Comic artist Steve Lightle has died aged 61.
Tributes to Storm Constantine:
Film and TV:
- Danette Chavez calls season 2 of A Discovery of Witches dreary.
- Leslie Felperin calls LX 2048 a forgettable dystopian mishmash.
- Cath Clarke calls 12 Hour Shift a cheerful bad taste horror.
- Phil Hoad calls Heroes Don't Die a reincarnation drama on life support.
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Rental a predictable horror mystery.
- Germain Lussier is not sure what to make of Shadow in the Cloud.
- Leslie Felperin calls the animated movie The Wacky Hen a flightless flop.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Stand.
- Germain Lussier rewatches the 2002 space opera series Firefly and the 2005 feature film Serenity.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Voyager episodes "Night" and "Drone".
- Peter Bradshaw rewatches the 1964 horror movie The Masque of Red Death.
- Kris Vyas-Myall revisits the 1965 British science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown.
- Stuart Heritage thinks that the proposed Willy Wonka prequel would be a bad idea.
- Eve Taft talks about the current horror renaissance in film and on TV.
- Harald Gilbers shares his appreciation for the films of Fritz Lang.
- James Belman reports about the Japanese animation style Gekimation.
- Toby Moses interviews Noel Clarke who played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who.
- Rich Pelley interviews Anthony Stewart Head who played Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- James Hibberd interviews Tim Allen, star of Galaxy Quest.
- Michael Hogan interviews Asa Butterfield, star of Hugo, Ender's Game, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and others.
- Claire Armitstead interviews Phoebe Dynevor, who plays Daphne Bridgerton in Bridgerton.
- Huw Fullerton shares some speculations about the future of Doctor Who.
- Bruce Haring reports that actor John Barrowman who played Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood and Doctor Who has visited a shrine in Cardiff, Wales, dedicated to beloved Torchwood character Ianto Jones.
- Vanessa Thorpe reports that an original song composed for 2001 - A Space Odyssey that was thought lost will be released after 52 years.
- Actor Macaulay Culkin has joined calls to digitally remove Donald Trump's cameo from Home Alone 2.
- Actor and playwright Peter Mark Richman, who appeared in The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Star Trek; The Next Generation, Murder She Wrote and many others, has died aged 93.
Comments on The Mandalorian and Star Wars in general:
- Ben Child wonders whether Marvel's Kevin Feige can make Star Wars soar again.
- Luke Holland shares the unpopular opinion that The Phantom Menace is not a bad film.
- Molly Templeton shares some news about the Star Wars spin-off series Andor.
- James Hibberd reports that a man dressed up as the Mandalorian with Baby Grogu in tow has been spotted riding around Los Angeles on a skateboard.
- Hetty Chang also reports about the skateboard riding Mandalorian and also interviews the fan behind the mask.
Comments on WandaVision:
- Lucy Mangan calls WandaVision a retro joy.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore calls WandaVision a nostalgic escape from this chaotic reality into another.
- Andrew Ellard declares that WandaVision is more than just a simple sitcom spoof.
- Stephen Robinson shares his thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore shares his thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.
- Emmet Asher-Perrin shares his thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.
- Lebo Malatse shares her thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.
- Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.
- Derek Künsken shares his thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.
- Joanna Robinson offers a complete beginner's guide to WandaVision.
- Meredith Woerner and Adam B. Vary interview Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda Maximoff in WandaVision.
- Marc Malkin interviews Paul Bettany who plays Vision in WandaVision.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore interviews Teyonah Parris who plays Monica Rambeau in WandaVision.
Comments on season 5 of The Expanse:
Comments on season 2 of Batwoman:
Comments on season 3 of American Gods:
Comments on Outside the Wire:
Comments on The Watch:
Awards:
- The finalists for the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award have been announced.
- The winner of the 2020 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award has been announced.
- The longlist for the 2020 BSFA Award has been announced.
- Nominations for the 2021 Ursa Major Awards are open.
- The longlist for the 2021 Rathbone Folio Prize has been announced.
- The 2021 Cosmic Bradbury Writing Contest is open for submissions.
- The nominations for the 2021 Critics Choice Series Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2021 Psychedelic Film and Music Festival Awards have been announced.
- Nerds of a Feather share their Hugo recommendations for the fiction, visual, individual and institutional categories.
- The Hugo Book Club revisits the 1960 Hugo finalists for Best Dramatic Presentation.
- P.J. Tracy declares that a novel is more than the sum of its parts.
- Kate Mosse talks about her writing process.
- Remco van Straten and Angeline B. Adams share their approach to worldbuilding.
- Ellery Lloyd explains how to incorporate modern technology into thrillers without looking dated.
- Mike Glyer reports that more than 300 publishing professionals, including several SFF writers, have signed an open letter to the publishing industry asking them not to give book deals to Donald Trump and members of his administration.
- Alison Flood also reports about the open letter from publishing professionals asking the publishing industry not to give book deals to Trump and members of his administration.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch shares her thoughts on the woes facing bookshops and BookExpo.
- David Silverberg profiles the SFF bookstore Bakka Phoenix in Toronto, Canada, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.
- Julia Webster Ayuso reports that the iconic French bookstore Gilbert Jeune is closing its doors, another victim of the corona pandemic.
- Helga Weyhe, owner of Buchhandlung H. Weyhe in Salzwedel, Germany, and Germany's oldest bookseller, has died aged 98.
- Rob Salkowitz reports that digital comics are booming.
- Rebecca Klar reports that the state of Connecticut is probing whether Amazon's e-book business is guilty of anticompetitive behaviour.
- Sian Cain also reports that class action lawsuit has been filed against Amazon and the so-called Big Five publishers because of alleged price fixing.
Interviews:
- Locus interviews Alix E. Harrow.
- Elizabeth Tabler interviews Essa Hansen.
- Elizabeth Tabler interviews Seanan McGuire.
- The Horn Book interviews Megan Whalen Turner.
- Scott Edelman interviews Nick Mamatas.
- The Qwillery interviews H.M. Long.
- The Qwillery interviews Joshua Phillip Johnson.
- Andrea Johnson interviews Sam Marzioli.
- Rob Wolf interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
- D.M. Ritzlin interviews J. Christopher Tarpey.
- Cat Luria interviews Amanda Baldeneaux.
- Veronica Henry interviews Tonya Liburd.
- Cora Buhlert interviews Cheryl Morgan.
- Cora Buhlert interviews the editors of nerds of a feather.
Reviews:
- Adrienne Martini reviews The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.
- Kat Hooper regviews The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold.
- Alexis Ong reviews Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Fermi's Progress - Dyson Fear by Chris Farnell.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne.
- Michael Dodd reviews Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
- Kate Elliott and Zoraida Cordova review Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine.
- Liz Bourke reviews The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick.
- Colleen Mondor reviews The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix.
- Tadiana Jones and Marion Deeds review The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix.
- Elizabeth Tabler reviews The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune.
- Paul Weimer reviews Queen of None by Natania Barron.
- Chris Napier reviews King of the Hollow Dark by Cat Hellisen.
- Liz Bourke reviews The Frozen Crown by Greta Kelly.
- Fantasy-Faction reviews Black Stone Heart by Michael R. Fletcher.
- Molly Templeton reviews Wench by Maxine Kaplan.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell.
- Camestros Felapton reviews Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar.
- Bill Capossere reviews A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes.
- M. John Harrison reviews Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline.
- Ian Mond reviews The Clerk by Guillermo Saccomanno, translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
- Tadiana Jones reviews Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews African Monsters, edited by Margret Helgadottir and Jo Thomas.
- S.E. Lindberg reviews Death Dealers and Diabolists, edited by D.M. Ritzlin.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Recognize Facism, edited by Crystal M. Huff.
- Chris Kluwe reviews Heroes' Feast: The Official D&D Cookbook by Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson and Michael Witwer.
Classics reviews:
- Steve J. Wright shares his thoughts on the February 1941 issue of Unknown.
- Steve J. Wright revisits the April 1941 issue of Unknown.
- Alan Brown revisits the 1944 non-fiction book Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel by Willy Ley.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1945 horror thriller novella "Bones Will Tell" by Bruno Fisher.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1949 science fiction novel Beyond Earth's Gate a.k.a The Portal in the Picture by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore.
- James Malizewski revisits the 1951 sword and sorcery story "The Eye of Tandyla" by L. Sprague de Camp.
- Joachim Boaz revisits the 1955 science fiction novel Of All Possible Worlds by William Tenn.
- Gideon Marcus revisits the February 1966 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
- Victoria Silverwolf revisits the March 1966 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow.
- Paul Fraser revisits the 1966 science fiction short story "The Loolies Are Here" by Ruth Allison and Jane Rice.
- Paul Fraser revisits the 1966 science fiction story "Staras Flonderans" by Kate Wilhelm.
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1972 science fiction novel Breed To Come by Andre Norton.
- Adventures Fantastic revisits the 1982 historical fantasy novel The Harp and the Blade by John Myers Myers.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1985 fantasy novel Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, translated by Emily Balistrieri.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1985 postapocalyptic YA novel Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence.
Con and event reports:
- Colette H. Fozard, co-chair of DisCon III, the 2021 WorldCon in Washington, DC, has resigned.
- Colette H. Fozard also shares an angry open letter about her reasons for her resignation.
- Nicholas Whyte is the new WSFS devision head for DisCon III after the previous division head resigned.
- Mike Glyer reports that the Baltimore Science Fiction Society has opened a new investigation about harassment claims at Balticon.
- Mike Glyer reports that eFanzines. has decided to no longer carry the fanzines published by the National Fantasy Fan Federation.
Crowdfunding:
Science and technology:
- Ashley Strickland reports about three upcoming Mars missions.
- Amy Woodyatt reports that the fossil of what might be the biggest dinosaur to ever walk the Earth has been excavated in Argentina.
- Riley Black reports that another newly found fossil finally reveals what the buttholes of dinosaurs looked like.
- The Academy Museum explains how digital dinosaurs are made.
Free online fiction:
- "The Memory Plague" by D. Thomas Minton in Lightspeed.
- "The Mushroom Queen" by Liz Ziemska in Lightspeed.
- "Leonardo's Children" by Katerini Koraki in Luna Station Quarterly.
- "There in the Woods" by Clara Madrigano in The Dark.
- "The Last Civilian" by R.P Sand in Clarkesworld.
- "Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma" by R.S.A. Garcia in Clarkesworld.
- "Three Things Cameron Couldn't Tell You" by Michael Haynes in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Sisyphus and Jane Austen" by Ivy Grimes in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Black Snow" by Cristina Jurado in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Darkness Metastatic" by Sam J. Miller in Nightmare Magazine.
- "#Selfcare" by Annaleee Newitz in Tor.com.
- "10 Steps to a Whole New You" by Tonya Liburd in Fantasy Magazine.
- "Never Yawn Under a Banyan Tree" by Nibedita Sen in Anathema Magazine.
- "Your Own Undoing" by P.H. Lee in Apex Magazine.
- "The Game" by Alvin L. Kathembe in Omenana.
- "Letters from Yours" by Em Liu in Fireside Magazine.
- "Politicians, Lost Causers and Abigail Lockwood" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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