It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with tributes to Nichelle Nichols, the many iterations of Star Trek, the many iterations of Star Wars, the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Paper Girls, season 3 of The Orville, season 4 of Westworld, Prey, Luck, DC League of Super-Pets, the cancellation of the almost finished Batgirl movie, more news from the 2022 San Diego Comic Con and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Cheryl Eddy shares 62 new science fiction, fantasy and horror books coming out this August.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five chilly science fiction stories to escape the summer heat.
- James Davis Nicoll shares science fiction works featuring characters lost in time.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction works featuring families in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
- Cole Rush shares five zombie stories that breathe new life into the undead.
- Nina Nesseth explains what elements every horror story needs.
- Brian Murphy shares some ruminations on sword and sorcery's slide into grimdark.
- Alana Joli Abbott takes a look at Shakespeare retellings in recent SFF.
- Brian Murphy talks about literary freedom.
- Hayley Scrivenor shares her favourite uses of first person plural narrators in literature.
- Becky Spratford profiles five horror anthologists.
- Kim Bannerman shares her appreciation for the works of Zenna Henderson.
- Steve Vertlieb shares some personal memories of Ray Bradbury.
- K.G. McAbee shares her appreciation for the Retief stories by Keith Laumer.
- Elisa Ringo notes that in The Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth is a world on the edge of destruction.
- Jonathan Thornton shares his appreciation for the works of Daphne Du Maurier and notes how it sits on the borders of the uncanny, the gothic and the weird.
- A.J. Willingham talks about the continuing popularity of regency romance.
- Michael Curtis shares his appreciation for the work of Lord Dunsany.
- Deuce Richardson shares H.P. Lovecraft's favourite Lord Dunsany stories.
- Michael Cavna reports about the remarkable popularity of the Little Mr. and Little Miss children's books.
- Noah Jennings reports that Sam Weller, professor at Columbia Univeristy and Ray Bradbury biographer, has been fired following sexual assault accusations.
Comics and Art:
- Arley Sorg interviews SFF artist Ashley Mackenzie.
- Alex Segura interviews Ed Brubaker about his crime comic Reckless.
- Brian Murphy reports about a meeting with SFF artist Tom Barber.
- Deuce Richardson remembers Hal Foster, creator of Prince Valiant.
- Jerry Stanford shares ten jokes from the golden age of comics that would not fly today.
Film and TV:
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the final season of The Expanse.
- William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of What We Do In the Shadows.
- Phil Hoad calls What Josiah Saw a sharp and sleazy piece of southern gothic.
- Lucy Mangan calls the time travel adventure La Brea gloriously, brazenly bad and a lot of fun.
- Marion Deeds shares her thoughts on season 1 of Moonhaven.
- Matthew Pungitore shares his thoughts on The Northman.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on Morbius.
- Peter Bradshaw calls King Knight an underdeveloped and inconsequential but charming comedy abour a wiccan coven in California.
- Mark Keizer calls Bodies, Bodies, Bodies a murderously fun horror comedy.
- Leigh Monson calls They/Them an LGBTQ horror movie with an identity crisis.
- James Whitbrook calls Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie one of the best incarnations of the turtles.
- David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of For All Mankind.
- C.T. Phipps explains why he will be watching House of the Dragon.
- Loren Wallace shares five fantastic SFF and horror drama from South Korea.
- Molly Templeton explains what would have happened in the never made Stargate Extinction movie.
- Fiona Moore revisits the 1967 James Bond film parody Casino Royale.
- James Maliszewski revisits the 1974 horror TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
- Leah Schnelbach revisits the 1982 horror film Poltergeist and explains how the so-called "meat" scene influenced popular culture.
- Ryan Britt revisits the 1983 fantasy film Krull and wonders why it bombed so badly.
- Germain Lussier revisits the 1987 teen horror movies The Lost Boys and Monster Squad for their 35th anniversary and compares them.
- Sam Stone interviews Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of the animated prehistoric fantasy series Primal.
- Chris Mandle interviews Maisie Richardson-Sellers, star of Legends of Tomorrow and The Undeclared War.
- Sabina Graves interviews Nicholas Monsour, editor of the horror film Nope.
- James Whitbrook interviews actor Zach Barack, who appeared in Spider-Man: Far From Home and Dead End: Paranormal Park.
- Leah Schnelbach shares everything you might want to know about the Sandman comics and the upcoming TV series.
- Steve Rose reflects about creating the term "post-horror".
- Nicholas Barber wonders why so many modern animated movies features corporate structures in fantasy lands.
- Justin Carter wishes we'd see more actual voice actors and fewer celebrity stunt casting in animated movies.
- Sabina Graves reports that there will be no romance between Harley Quinn and the Joker in the animated Harley Quinn series.
- Nellie Andreeva reports that the 1980s cult science fiction show Max Headroom is getting a reboot.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that Netflix has cancelled the lesbian vampire show First Kill after a single season in spite of good ratings, sparking a backlash.
- Molly Templeton reports that Outlander may get a prequel series.
- Natasha May reports that actor Dev Patel, star of The Green Knight and Slumdog Millionaire, has broken up a knife fight in Australia.
- Adam Whitehead remembers David Warner.
- Adam Whitehead remembers Bernard Cribbins.
- Musical and voice actress Pat Carroll, best known for voicing Ursula in The Little Mermaid, has died aged 95.
Tributes to Nichelle Nichols:
- Actress Nichelle Nichols, best known for playing Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek, has died aged 89.
- Mikki Kendall remembers Nichelle Nichols.
- Carmel Dagan remembers Nichelle Nichols.
- Mike Glyer remembers Nichelle Nichols.
- The Guardian shares a tribute to Nichelle Nichols.
- Locus remembers Nichelle Nichols.
- Linda Codega shares tributes by colleagues and people inspired by Nichelle Nichols.
- Vanessa Armstrong shares tributes by colleagues and people inspired by Nichelle Nichols.
- Greg Whitmore shares photos from Nichelle Nichols' career.
Comments on the many iterations of Star Trek:
- Bob Mayer declares that Star Trek Strange New Worlds started strong, but then lost him.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "The Communicator".
- Peter Scobel and Ian Spelling interviews Whoopi Goldberg who plays Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Picard.
- Watch a trailer for season 3 of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Comments on the many versions of Star Wars:
- Ben Travis interviews Tony Gilroy, showrunner of Andor.
- Lola Ogunnaike interviews John Boyega who plays Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that some Star Wars fans are upset, because a new Star Wars tie-in novel hints at the fact that Obi-Wan Kenobi might be gay or bisexual.
- Paul Shirey hopes to see a Luke Skywalker series on Disney+ that covers the time period between Return of the Jedi and The Last Jedi.
- Watch a trailer for Andor.
- Watch another trailer for Andor.
Comments on the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general (spoilers):
- Kevin Polowy interviews Xochitl Gomez who played America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
- Sabina Graves discusses motherhood as described in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Sabina Graves explains how Joe and Anthony Russo wrote Iron Man out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Ben Child wonders whether Marvel can use the newly announced Avengers films to get back on track.
- Justin Carter reports that according to Kevin Feige the Avengers movies will now close out the respective phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Vanessa Armstrong reports that both Moon Knight and Eternals will get sequels.
- Justin Carter shares some background on the upcoming animated Spider-Man series Freshman Year.
- Chris Lee shares the stressful experience visual effects artists have working on Marvel movies and TV shows.
Comments on Paper Girls:
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Paper Girls a 1980s set science fiction series to rival Stranger Things.
- Lucy Mangan calls Paper Girls a hugely fun science fiction series that's like an all-female Stranger Things.
- Arturo Serrano declares that Paper Girls offers a more honest look at the 1980s than Stranger Things.
- Jenna Scherer calls Paper Girls a fun blend of action, heart and quirky humor.
- Adam Whitehead shares his thoughts on season 1 of Paper Girls.
- Vanessa Armstrong interviews Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, creators of Paper Girls.
- Artem Golub and Sabina Graves interview Sofia Rosinsky, one of the stars of Paper Girls.
- Artem Golub and Sabina Graves interview Jason Mantzoukas, showrunner of Paper Girls.
Comments on season 3 of The Orville:
Comments on season 4 of Westworld:
Comments on Prey:
- Jordan Maison calls Prey the best and most intimate Predator movie in years.
- Benjamin Lee declares that Prey puts a nifty spin on a bloated franchise.
- Richard Newby declares that Prey moves the Predator franchise forward by taking it back in time.
- Christina Newland calls Prey a blood-soaked Predator prequel with teeth.
- Phil Hoad notes that Prey, the latest movie in the Predator series, is breaking new ground in its portrayal of Indigenous Americans on screen.
- Joshua Rivera interviews Dan Trachtenberg, director of Prey.
- The AV Club interviews Dakota Beavers, one of the stars of the Prey.
- The AV Club interviews Amber Midthunder, one of the stars of Prey.
- Luke Y. Thompson shares a timeline of the Predator movies.
Comments on the cancellation of the Batgirl movie:
- Sam Barsanti reports that Warner Bros has cancelled the already finished Batgirl movie for being supposedly ireddeemable and that Batgirl will be released neither in theatres nor on streaming.
- David Betancourt explains what was lost with the Batgirl cancellation.
- Adam B. Vary and Brent Lang share some background on the cancellation of the Batgirl movie and that the true reason may be a tax write-off.
- Anthony D'Alessandro and Justin Kroll share some background on the cancellation of Batgirl.
- Linda Codega shares some background on the cancellation of Batgirl.
- Peter Bradshaw explains that Batgirl was cancelled as a tax write-off by Warner Bros' new owners and worries that Hollywood may be becoming too cynical.
- Benjamin Lee shares the reaction of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, directors of Batgirl, to the cancellation of the finished film.
- Anthony D'Alessandro shares the reaction of Leslie Grace, star of Batgirl, to the cancellation of the film.
- Ben Child chronicles the many misfortunes that have befallen the character of Batgirl in and outside the comics.
- Stuart Heritage takes a look at other never released movies.
Comments on DC League of Super-Pets:
Comments on Luck:
Awards:
- The shortlist for the 2022 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Awards has been announced.
- The finalists for the 2022 Subjective Chaos Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Mythopoeic Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Trigon Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2022 Phatastikpreis der Stadt Wetzlar has been announced.
- The finalists for the 2022 ENnie Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2022 Diana Jones Award has been announced.
- The Australian Science Fiction Foundation has scrapped plans to name a youth fiction award after the late Bill Wright following protests, because there are paedophilia allegations against Wright.
- Adri Joy and Joe Sherry discuss the 2022 Hugo finalists for Best Novel.
- Rich Horton looks at the potential Hugo finalists of 1950.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Carmen Maria Machado talks about writing and the business of writing.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about intellectual property rights.
- Johanna Berkman reports about the Jumi Bello plagiarism scandal.
- Porter Anderson reports that the anti-trust lawsuit against Penguin Random House regarding their planned merger with Simon and Schuster is going to court.
- Hillel Italie and Marcy Gordon report that Stephen King has testified in the lawsuit against Penguin Random House.
Interviews:
- John Harris Dunning interviews Neil Gaiman.
- David Marchese interviews Neil Gaiman.
- Media Death Cult interviews Claire North a.k.a. Catherine Webb.
- Arley Sorg interviews Anya Ow.
- D.M. Ritzlin interviews Schuyler Hernstrom.
- Linda Codega interviews Tlotlo Tsamaase.
- Cat Luria interviews Elizabeth Guilt.
- Cora Buhlert interviews Alec Nevala-Lee.
Reviews:
- Paul Weimer reviews Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes.
- Paul Weimer reviews Stars and Bones by Gareth Powell.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older.
- Rob Bedford reviews Black Tide by K.C. Jones.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Ashael Rising by Shona Kinsella.
- Matt Broadway reviews Kill Zone by Damir Salkovic.
- Rai Furniss-Greasley reviews The Warrior by Stephen Aryan.
- John Mauro reviews Lute by Jennifer Thorne.
- Eric Ballein reviews All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay.
- Richard Fisher reviews Hag of the Hills by J.T.T. Ryder.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Ymir by Rich Larson.
- Kassie Rose reviews The Half Life of Valery K. by Natasha Pulley.
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Secret Identity by Alex Segura.
- Tobias Carroll reviews A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Way the Light Bends by Lorraine Wilson.
- Tobias Carroll reviews The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings.
- Fantasy Book Critic reviews A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows.
- Ian Mond reviews The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter.
- Alexis Ong reviews Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan.
- Mike Parker reviews The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias.
- Colleen Mondor reviews Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore.
- Mark Yon reviews The Last Storm by Tim Lebbon.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Last Storm by Tim Lebbon.
- Paperback Warrior reviews The Snow by Flint Maxwell.
- Ian Mond reviews The Doloriad by Missouri Williams.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Denial by Jon Raymond.
- Terry Weyna and Marion Deeds review The Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett.
- BOLO Books reviews The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman.
- Guy Gunaratne reviews The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid.
- Maya C. James reviews Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi.
- Alex Brown reviews This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron.
- Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews Face by Joma West.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons by Ben Riggs.
Classics reviews:
- Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth revisits the 1910 fantasy story "When I Was a Witch" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
- James Maliszewski revisits the 1927 horror story "Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft.
- John Coulthart revisits the 1960 fantasy story "The Rejected Sorcerer" by Jorge Luis Borges.
- Paul Weimer revisits the 1964 Demon Princes science fiction mystery The Killing Machine by Jack Vance.
- Gideon Marcus revisits the August 1967 issue of Analog.
- David Levinson revisits the September 1967 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1968 fantasy novel The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.
- Fletcher Vredenburgh revisits the 1970 fantasy collection At the Edge of the World by Lord Dunsany.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1974 post-apocalyptic novel The Last Canadian by William C. Heine.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1976 horror thriller The Deadly Deep by Jon Messman.
- M. Porcius revisits the 1979 fantasy novel Death's Master by Tanith Lee.
- James Maliszewski revisits the July 1983 issue of White Dwarf.
- Kat Hooper revisits the 1989 military science fiction novel The Ecolitan Operation by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
- Alissa Burger revisits the 1989 YA horror novel Party Line by A. Bates, the 1990 YA horror novel The Wrong Number by R.L. Stine and the 1994 horror novel Call Waiting by R.L. Stine.
- Kat Hooper revisits the 1990 military science fiction novel The Ecologic Secession by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
- Mark Yon revisits the 2008 Doctor Who novelisation The Fires of Pompeii.
- Lis Carey revisits the 2013 children's fantasy novel The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles De Lint and Charles Vess.
Crowdfunding:
- Apex Magazine is looking for funding to finance its run in 2023.
- O Kingdom Come, an African epic fantasy graphic novel by D. Ajayi, is looking for funding.
- The 2022 Costume-Con in Bethesda, Maryland, needs help, because they have to pay a hefty penalty to the con hotel for being unable to fulfill their room commitments due to fewer people attending due to covid.
Con and event reports:
- Michael Schneider and Katcy Stephan report about the 2022 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
- Nerds of a Feather report about the 2022 San Diego Comic Con.
- Peter Larsen interviews Scott Shaw, one of the founders of San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
- Pixel Dan shares his experiences as a panelist at the Masters of the Universe 40th Anniversary panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con.
- Josh Dickey reports that George R.R. Martin is among those who tested positive for covid at San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California, and is now quarantining in a hotel.
- Deuce Richardson reports about the 2022 Rober E. Howard Days in Cross Plains, Texas.
- John Hertz reports about the 2022 Westercon in Tonopah, Nevada.
- The 2022 World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, has released its third progress report.
- S.E. Lindberg shares his schedule for the 2022 GenCon in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- RetroCultCast shares a recording of the opening ceremony of SpiralCon in Newport News, Virginia.
- Sabina Graves reports that there will be a Game of Thrones convention in Los Angeles, California, this winter.
- Arifa Akbar calls a new stage version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis in London, UK, a riveting revamp.
- Lyndsey Winship calls Dark in the House an intoxicating dance dystopia currently being performed in London, UK.
- Cole Rush explains how the musical Hadestown makes a case for reviving and retelling stories.
Science and technology:
- Tereza Pultarova shares a picture the James Webb Space Telescope has taken of Earendel, the most distant known star in the universe.
- Manassee Wagh reports that a mysterious orb from space has fallen from the sky and landed in a tree in Mexico.
- Sudiksha Kochi reports that the scientists at CERN are not in fact using the Large Hadron Collider to open a portal to hell, in case anybody was harbouring that misconception.
- The New York Times reports about China's ever expanding surveillance state and the staggering amounts of data collected about every citizen.
- James Vincent reports that scientists have reanimated dead spiders to use them as robotic gripping claws.
- Matthew Capucci talks about supercells, nature's deadliest thunderstorms.
Free online fiction:
- "The Pirate's Consigliere" by Bo Balder in Clarkesworld.
- "Tender, Tether, Shell" by M.J. Pettit in Clarkesworld.
- "My Future Self, Refused" by Adam-Troy Castro in Lightspeed.
- "Red" by Malinda Lo in Lightspeed.
- "After the Adventure" by Stephen C. Curro in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
- "Path to the People" by Liam Hall in Wyngraf Magazine of Cozy Fantasy.
- "The Third Eye Manifester" by Ishola Abdulwasiu Ayodele in Omenana.
- "Demonic Invasion or Placebo Effect" by John Wiswell in The Saturday Morning Transport.
- "All That Burns Unseen" by Premee Mohamed in Slate Future Tense.
- "Swim the Darkness" by Michael Kelly in The Dark.
- "Have Mercy, My Love, While We Wait For the Thaw" by Iori Kusano in Apex Magazine.
- "Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You" by Endria Isa Richardson in Nightmare Magazine.
- "Introduction to Couture 101" by Mary Soon Lee in Fantasy Magazine.
- "Chokeleaf" by M.J. Garland in Luna Station Quarterly.
- "In the Enchanted Forest" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Prognostiqueso" by Beth Cato in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Business Is Suppurating" by Rich Larson in Daily Science Fiction.
- "How to Find Your Happily Ever After" by Holley Cornetto in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Bullet Holes" by Cora Buhlert.
Trailers and videos:
- Watch a trailer for the final season of Locke & Key.
- Watch a trailer for season 13 of Archer.
- Watch a trailer for Medieval.
- Watch a trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
- Watch a trailer for Reginald the Vampire.
- Watch a trailer for King Knight.
- Watch a trailer for Little Demon.
- Watch a trailer for Glorious.
- Watch a trailer for Spirit Halloween: The Movie.
- Watch a trailer for Moment of Contact.
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