Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for September 8, 2023

 

 

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the 2023 Dragon Award winners, season 2 of Foundation, Star Trek Lower Decks and Star Trek in general, Ahsoka and Star Wars in general, the live action One Piece, season 2 of The Wheel of Time, season 5 of What We Do In the Shadows, The Changeling, El Conde, The Nun II, Poor Things, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the debate about AI writing and art and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Cheryl Eddy shares new science fiction, fantasy and horror books coming out this month. 
• Rachael Conrad shares twelve new science fiction and fantasy books to read this fall. 
• Tor.com shares all the new science fiction books coming out in September. 
  
• Tor.com shares all the new fantasy books coming out in September. 
• Tor.com shares all the new horror, romantasy and genre-benging books coming out in September
• Tor.com shares all the new young adult SFF books coming out in September.
• Mikkaka Overtsreet shares the twenty most influential fantasy novel of the last ten years.
  
• Rey Rowland shares eight fantasy novels without over-detailed magic systems.
• Howard Andrew Jones and Todd McAulty discuss sword and sorcery and epic fantasy short fiction.
  
• Trip Galey shares five books featuring dangerous deals with faeries.
  
• James Davis Nicoll lists five SFF authors who debuted at a very young age. 
• Alex Brown shares five underrated YA science fiction books.
  
• Abby Aguirre finds an unexpected hotbed of YA authors in Utah. 
• Rachel Harrison talks about terrible families in horror fiction and film. 
• Joyce Carol Oates talks about women and the roots of body horror.
  
• Lisa Springer talks about black horror. 
• Hanna Flint profiles Jewelle Gomez.
  
• Terry Olson explains how Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom novels influenced his own writing. 
• Marc Bruner shares his appreciation for the Dying Earth stories by Jack Vance. 
• Nick Groom wonders whether The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien should be considered a work of modernism.
  
• Brian Murphy talks about Watership Down by Richard Adams and the importance of stories. 
• David Barnett reports how Douglas Adam predicted the rise of the e-reader in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 
• Cora Buhlert talks about West German science fiction and horror dime novels of the late 1960s.
  
• Michael Curtis profiles Brian Aldiss. 
  
• Howard Andrew Jones profiles Harold Lamb.
  
• REH World shares the journey of Robert E. Howard's writing table. 
• Molly Templeton talks about using fiction as a travel guide.
  
• Christopher J. Garcia explains why fanzines are still important.
  
• Pete Chapman recounts how he helped to publish his husband Christopher Fowler's posthumous memoir Word Monkey. 
• Translator Edith Grossman has died aged 87. 
  

 

Comics and Art:

• Craig Neilson-Adams reviews Masters of the Universe: Forge of Destiny #1 by Tim Seeley and Eddie Nunez.
• Dave da Silva reviews Masters of the Universe: Forge of Destiny #1 by Tim Seeley and Eddie Nunez.
• Robin Marx reviews Conan the Barbarian #2 by Jim Zub and Roberto De La Torre 
• For Eternia interviews Tim Seeley, writer of Masters of the Universe: Forge of Destiny. 
  
• The Los Angeles Science Fiction Society interviews comic writer Nicholas Tana.
• Tom Gauld shares a cartoon about what really happened after the Titanic sank. 
  

 

Film and TV:

• Germain Lussier lists science fiction, fantasy and horror films coming out this fall. 
• Jeremy Urquhart ranks the twenty scariest science fiction movies of all time. 
• Bob Brinkman shares film adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's work. 
• Arturo Serrano calls Jules the spiritual successor to E.T. 
• Sarah Welch-Larson calls The Last Voyage of the Demeter Alien 3 with Dracula, but in a good way.
• Nicholas Barber wonders whether Blue Beetle is the last gasp of superhero movies.
• Alex Wallace shares their thoughts on Invincible: Atom Eve.
  
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on Fast X.  
• Xan Brooks calls Sky Peals an eerie tale of lost souls at the service station
• Phil Hoad calls Good Boy a bizarre comedy horror. 
• Phuong Le calls Blood Flower a gruesome but lackluster horror film. 
• Vanessa Armstrong shares all the stage magic related Easter eggs in season 2 of Good Omens.
  
• Brian Davids interviews Zoe Saldana, star of Special Ops Lioness and the Guardians and the Galaxy movies.  
• Sabina Graves interviews the showrunner and voice cast of Tiny Toons Looniversity
  
• Daisy Schofield interviews various actors and performers who appeared on British children's television. 
• Readers of the Guardian list their favourite TV shows that were cancelled before their time. 
  
• Gregory Wakeman revisits the 1961 apocalyptic movie The Day the Earth Caught Fire. 
• Una McCormack revisits the 1978 science fiction series Blake's 7. 
• Cindy White revisits the 1993 paranormal mystery show The X-Files for its thirtieth anniversary and recounts how the show changed television.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Foundation:

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "The Last Empress", the latest episode of Foundation.
• Julia Roth shares her thoughts on "The Last Empress". 
• Stars End share their thoughts on "The Last Empress".
  

 

Comments on Ahsoka and Star Wars in general (spoilers): 

• Emmet Asher-Perrin shares their thoughts on "Fallen Jedi", the latest episode of Ahsoka. 
• Sam Barsanti shares his thoughts on "Fallen Jedi". 
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "Fallen Jedi".
  
• Haley Zapal shares her thoughts on "Time to Fly", the third episode of Ahsoka. 
• Stuart Heritage calls Ahsoka painfully glacial TV.
  
• James Whitbrook notes that Ahsoka offers a much needed democratisation of the Force. 
• James Whitbrook also talks about how Ahsoka handles some of the lesser known aspects of the Force.
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw notes that Ahsoka not only utilises the overused map MacGuffin, but also has no idea how MacGuffins work. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw discusses a controversial cameo in Ahsoka. 
• Germain Lussier discusses another notable cameo in Ahsoka.
  
• Rick Porter reports that the premiere of Ahsoka has drawn a big audience.
  
• Stew Shearer notes that the Star Wars TV shows fix some problems with the movies, which is a problem in itself. 
• Jenna Busch reports about the misdaventures of Mark Hamill while shooting Star Wars in London, UK. 
  
• Jenna Busch reports that Terri Nunn, the actress who was the second choice to play Princess Leia in Star Wars, went on to become the lead singer of the band Berlin.
  

 

Comments on the live action One Piece: 

• Ann Michelle Harris calls the live action One Piece a wild adventure that works for super-fans as well as newcomers seeking a break from the ordinary
  
• Kayleigh Dray declares that the live action One Piece delivers the high energy hijinks she craves.
  
• Ana Diaz declares that the live-action One Piece shows the story is best as a slow burn 
• Barry Levitt calls the live action One Piece delightful. 
  
• Sophia Scorziello and Jaden Thompson share a guide to the characters of the live action One Piece.    
• Charles Solomon interviews Eiichiro Oda, creator of the One Piece manga.
  
• Jennifer Maas interviews Steven Maeda, showrunner of the live action One Piece.
• Toussaint Egan explains how One Piece brought Luffy’s impossibly stretchy powers to live action
  
• Kayti Burt discusses how One Piece and Our Flag Means Death are changing the media depiction of pirates.
  

 

Comments on Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek in general:

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on the Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes “Twovix” and “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on the Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes “Twovix” and “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”
  
• Watch a trailer for Star Trek: Very Short Treks.

 

Comments on season 5 of What We Do In the Shadows:

• William Hughes shares his thoughts on "A Weekend at Morrigan Manor" and "Exit Interview", the season 5 finale of What We Do In the Shadows.
• Noetta Harjo shares her thoughts on "A Weekend at Morrigan Manor" and "Exit Interview".
  

 

Comments on The Changeling:

• Meredith Hobbs Coons calls The Changeling a stunning horror series. 
• Vanessa Armstrong calls The Changeling a lyrical and gut-wrenching tale about the horrors of parenthood.
  
• Cheryl Eddy calls The Changeling an eerie fable about parenthood and New York City.
• Joel Golby calls The Changeling a creepy mystery drama.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of The Wheel of Time:

• Sylas K. Barrett shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of The Wheel of Time.
• Noetta Harjo shares her thoughts on the first three episodes of season 2 of The Wheel of Time.
  
• Vanessa Armstrong interviews Thomas Napper and Sanaa Hamri, two of the directors of season 2 of The Wheel of Time. 
• Cheryl Eddy also interviews directors Thomas Napper and Sanaa Hamri as well as Holger Reibiger, producer of season 2 of The Wheel of Time. 
  
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Wheel of Time costume designer Sharon Gilham and make-up and hair designer Davina Lamont 
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Ondrej Nekvasil, production designer for The Wheel of Time.
  

 

Comments on El Conde:

• Peter Bradshaw calls El Conde a macabre alternate history about the ongoing agony of Chile and the Chilean people’s struggle to confront their past with graphic-novel energy and directness and Pinochet as a vampire.
• Xan Brooks interviews Pablo Larraín, director of El Conde.
  

 

Comments on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: 

• Jarrod Jones calls The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon a bizarre and disposable spin-off that does little with its French location.
• Daniel Dockery interviews Greg Nicotero, special makeup effects expert for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
  

 

Comments on The Nun II: 

• Ryan Gilbey calls The Nun II a demonic dead end. 
• Luke Y. Thompson calls The Nun II a subpar sequel. 
• Germain Lussier calls The Nun II a solid horror sequel.
  

 

Comments on The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: 

• Xan Brooks calls The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar a short and sweet Roald Dahl adaptation by Wes Anderson. 
• Siddhant Adlakha calls The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar a charming oddity even by the standards of Wes Anderson. 
  
• Zac Ntim interviews Wes Anderson, director of The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar.
  

 

Comments on Poor Things:

• Nicholas Barber calls Poor Things a truly bizarre female Frankenstein movie.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Poor Things a bizarre comic Steampunk adventure with lots of sex. 
• Nadia Khomani wonders whether the many sex scenes in Poor Things mean that sex scenes are making a comeback in film, whether anybody wants them to or not.
  

 

Comments on the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike:

• Leila Latif wonders whether the onging WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and the resulting postponements of movie launches mean that Hollywood is self-destructing. 
• Etan Vlessing reports that director David Fincher has said that he can understand both sides in the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. 
• Mary Kate Carr reports that director Booth Riley has criticised David Fincher's remarks. 
• Katie Campione interviews Supernatural creator and showrunner Eric Kripke about the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike. 
• Anthony d'Alessandro reports that late night show host and comedian Bill Maher has criticised the demands of the WGA.
  
• Linda Codega reports about a live Dungeons & Dragons event outside Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California, as part of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.  
  
• Alex Weprin reports that the US film and TV industry has lost 17000 jobs in August due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. 
  
• Caitlin Huston reports that according to a recent poll, more than seventy percent of Americans support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA in their labour dispute with the Hollywood studios. 
• Justin Carter reports that SAG-AFTRA is voting the authorise a potential strike of actors working in video games as well.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2023 Dragon Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award has been announced. 
• The winners of the 2023 Baen Adventure Fantasy Award have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2023 Edinburgh TV Festival Awards have been announced with some love for genre TV.
  
• Cora Buhlert weighs in on the winners of the 2023 Dragon Awards.
• Camestros Felapton weighs in on the winners of the 2023 Dragon Awards.
• Doris V. Sutherland weighs in on the winners of the 2023 Dragon Awards.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• James Ellroy explains why he writes.
  
• Lucy Burdette explains where crime fiction and mystery writers find inspiration. 
• Poet Maggie Smith discusses how her writing career ended her marriage. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch shares her experiences at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction after the uproar about the magazine accidentally purchasing a story by a white supremacist.
  
• The magazine Cossmass Infinities is closing down. 
• Locus reports that the French publisher ActuSF has been put into compulsory liquidation
  
• Ella Creamer reports that the UK Society of Authors has complained about the unethical practice of taking quotes from negative reviews out of context and using them as endorsements. 
• Lincoln Michel debunks the claim that most books only sell twelve copies once again.
  
• Garth Nix talks about his time as a bookseller.
• Ella Creamer reports that according to a recent survey, more than half of all children in the UK do not read in their spare time. 
• Barbara Krasnoff reports about the end of Amazon's magazine subscription program and its impact on SFF magazines. 
  
• Jim Milliot reports that profit margins at the Big Five publishers have shrunken due to rising costs. 
  
• Blake Brittain reports that Valancourt Books has won a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office about its mandatory deposit policy.
• Kelly Jensen reports that there have been several bomb threats against public libraries across the US as part of the ongoing culture war about LGBTQ books. 
• Chris Atkins reports how he organised Bang Up Books, an organisation that provides donated books to prisons in the UK.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy: 

• Emilia David reports that Gizmodo fired its Spanish staff in favour of bad AI translations.
  
• Chris Wallace reports about calls to regulate the use of AI in the UK.
  

 

Interviews:

• Fiona Denton interviews T. Kingfisher.
  
• Shelf Awareness interviews S.L. Huang.
• MetropolCon interviews Mary Robinette Kowal. 
• Brenna Ehrlich interviews Stephen King.
  
• The H.P. Lovecraft Podcast interviews Ness Brown.
  
• The HWA interviews Alessandro Manzetti. 
• The HWA interviews Tejaswi Priyadarshi.
• Sian Cain interviews Andy Griffiths. 
• Katy Guest interviews Sebastian Faulks.
  

 

Reviews:

• Lis Carey reviews Translation State by Ann Leckie.
• Marion Deeds reviews Devil's Gun by Cat Rambo. 
• Marlene Harris reviews Devil's Gun by Cat Rambo. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Payback in Death by J.D. Robb  
  
• C.T. Phipps reviews Behind Blue Eyes: Last Stand by Anna Mocikat 
• Bill Capossere reviews Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar
• Camestros Felapton reviews Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle by T.L. Huchu 
• Mark Yon reviews Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz by Garth Nix.
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Big Little Spells by Hazel Beck 
• Marion Deeds reviews The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  
• Gayle Surrette reviews Bad Luck Vampire by Lynsay Sands
• Runalong the Shelves reviews A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith Spark
  
• Julia Kitvaria Sarene reviews Oath Sworn by Meg MacDonald
• Adrienne Martini reviews The Warden by Daniel M. Ford 
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Phoenix King by Aparna Verma 
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Firebird’s Tale by Anya Ow 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham 
• Grimdark Magazine reviews Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun
• John Mauro reviews The Forbidden Realms by H.C. Newel
  
• Camestros Felapton reviews Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews House of Odysseus by Claire North 
• Adrian Collins reviews The King of the Spoil by Jonathan D. Beer
  
• Aimee Walsh reviews Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. 
• Marcel Theroux reviews The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
• Nina Allan reviews Rouge by Mona Awad
  
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews Airside by Christopher Priest 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Flight & Anchor by Nicole Kornher-Stace
  
• Niall Harrison reviews In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
  
• Robin Marx reviews Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
  
• Catriona Ward reviews Holly by Stephen King  
• Randy Money reviews The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
  
• Alex Brown reviews The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
  
• Archita Mittra reviews Languages of Water, edited by Eugen Bacon
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Dark Matter Presents Monstrous Futures: A Sci-Fi Horror Anthology, edited by Alex Woodroe,
• Rachel Cooke reviews Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Francesca Peacock.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Spec Fic for Newbies by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan
  
  

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1914 Tarzan adventure novel The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
• The Cromcast revisits the 1934 Conan sword and sorcery novella "People of the Black Circle" by Robert E. Howard.
  
• James Reasoner revisits the October 1941 issue of Amazing Stories.
  
• James Wallace Harris revisits the 1943 Gallegher science fiction story "The Proud Robot" by Lewis Padgett a.k.a. Henry Kuttner. 
  
• James Wallace Harris revisits the 1946 time travel story "Vintage Season" by Lawrence O'Donnell a.k.a. C.L. Moore. 
• Brian Collins revisits the 1951 science fiction novella "Beyond Bedlam" by Wyman Guin.
  
• James Wallace Harris revisits the 1955 run of Amazing Stories.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1962 anthology The 7th Annual of the Year’s Best S‑F, edited by Judith Merril.
• Alan Brown revisits the 1963 Retief science fiction novel Envoy to New Worlds and its 1968 sequel Retief and the Warlords by Keith Laumer.
  
• Brown Robin revisits the 1964 satirical science fiction novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit by Russell Brandon
  
• David Levinson revisits the October 1968 issue of If - World of Science Fiction. 
• Brian Collins revisits the 1972 time travel story “Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket” by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1972 science fiction collection The Gold at the Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1979 post-apocalyptic novel A Secret History of Time to Come by Robie Macauley. 
• Alissa Burger revisits the 1994 Nightmare Hall YA horror novels The Experiment and Book of Horrors by Diane Hoh. 
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Ivory Trees, a brand-new Diving Universe novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is looking for funding.
  
• The anthology Embroidered Worlds: Ukrainian Fantastic Fiction, edited by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Olha Brylova and Iryna Pasko, is looking for funding.
• Beyond the Bounds of Infinity, an anthology of diverse cosmic horror edited by Vaughn A. Jackson and Stephanie W. Pearre is looking for funding.
  
• The GAN-GON Saga, a Galactic Rodents of Mayhem spinoff comic by Gilly Deltrez and David Bautista, is looking for funding.
• Atrium No. 1, an action suspense comic by Steve Bynoe, Peter Van Horne and Lucas Filappi, is looking for funding. 

 

Con and event reports:

• Teresa Peschel reports about the 2023 Harrisburg Comic Con in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
  
• The 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland, issues its second progress report.
• Gideon Marcus reports about Baycon, the 1968 Worldcon in San Francisco, California. 
• The Pulp Net shares recording of several panels at the 2023 Pulp Fest in Mars, Pennsylvania.
  
• S.E. Lindberg shares a video of the Leading Edge of Sword and Sorcery panel at the 2023 Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana.
  
• Linda Codega reports that the Magic the Gathering cards stolen at the 2023 Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana, have been recovered. 
• Linda Codega also reports that two men have been charged for the theft of the Magic the Gathering cards at Gen Con.
  
• Mega Jay Retro shares a video of the 2023 Fan Expo Canada in Toronto, Ontario.
  
• Planet Eternia shares a video of the 2023 Grayskull Con in Lennestadt, Germany.  
• Ed's Retro Geek Out shares a video of the 2023 Toyplosion in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany. 
• Mary Kate Carr reports about the chaos at the 2023 Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
  
• Sabina Graves shares a look at some of the Halloween themed attractions coming to the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Los Angeles, California. 
• Cass Morris shares her experiences at the Halcyon Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Hotel in Disney World in Orlando, Florida. 
• Germain Lussier shares photos of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their creator Kevin Eastman leaving their handprints in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
  
• Xan Brooks reports about some immersive VR experiences offered at the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. 
  

 

Science and technology:

• Geeta Panday offers an update on the Indian Moon lander Chandrayaan-3. 
• Watch a video of the Chandrayaan-3 lander hopping on the Moon. 
• Robin George Andrews reports that Neptune's clouds seem ton have vanished and that scientists are wondering why. 
• Robert Lea reports that black holes keep burping up remains of stars they gobbled earlier and that astronomers don't know why.
  
• Brett Tingley reports that cyberattacks have shut down several telescopes in Chile.
• Brian Handwerk reports that according to a new study, humanity's ancestors nearly went extinct nine hundred thousand years ago.
  

 

Gaming: 

• Diego Nicolás Argüello shares the eighteen most exciting new video games of fall 2023.
  
• Keri Blakinger reports about a group of Dungeons & Dragons players on death row in Texas.
• Timothy the Talking Cat shares some not entirely serious tip for how to play Dungeons & Dragons. 
• Polygon shares twenty-one things you should know before starting Starfield
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports about glitches afflicting the Starfield video game. 
• Vincent Acovino, Juana Summers and Sarah Handel report about the making of Starfield.
• Justin Carter calls the video game Immortals of Aveum one of the most pleasant surprises of 2023.
  
• Christopher Michael Harkin ranks his favourite sword and sorcery games. 

 

Toys and collectibles:

• Michael Crawford reviews the Creature from the Black Lagoon action figure by NECA. 
• Jay Glatfelter reviews the Masters of the Universe Origins Lady Slither by Mattel.
  
• Pixel Dan reviews the Masters of the Universe Origins Lady Slither figure by Mattel
  
• Pixel Dan reviews the Masters of the Universe Origins Skeletor and Screech Two-Pack by Mattel.
• Alex Rogan reviews the Masters of the Universe Origins Deluxe Leech by Mattel. 
  
• James Whitbrook shares Star Wars themed Lego sets coming out in September.
• Vote for the next Masters of the Universe Origins large scale crowdfunded project. 
• Watch part 3 of "Sstolen", a Masters of the Universe Origins stop motion animated film.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Canyon Masks" by Reed Mingault in GigaNotoSaurus.
• "Little Red Hands" by Jonathan Louis Duckworth in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• "Holding Back the Darkness" by Stephanie Burgis in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  
• "Fleas in the Wind" ​​by P.J. Atwater in Swords and Sorcery Magazine. 
• "The Secret Diaries of Councilman Tiku Agbado" by Uchechukwu Nwaka in Omenana.
• "The Cursed Universe Inside Your Eye" by Angela Liu in Fantasy Magazine. 
• "Nightmare of a Million Faces" by Pedro Iniguez in Nightmare Magazine.
  
• "Good News, Bad News" by Rhonda Parrish in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "Whisper Songs" by Lyndsie Manusos in Apex Magazine.
• "Can You Hear Me Now?" by Catherynne M. Valente in Uncanny Magazine.
  
• "Resurrection Highway" by A.R. Capetta in The Sunday Morning Transport.
• "The Price of Rye" by Alex Grecian in Tor.com. 
• "Money in the Bank" by John Kessel and Bruce Sterling in Lightspeed. 
• "Instructions for the Broken Hearted" by Jordan Kurella in Lightspeed.
  
• "Stones" by Nnedi Okorafor in Clarkesworld.
  
• "House" by T.J. Cimfel in The Dark.
• "Nubbins" by Seán Padraic Birnie in Interzone Digital.
• "Fighting Bob" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Loki. 
• Watch a trailer for Godzilla Minus One. 
• Watch a trailer for No One Will Save You. 
• Watch a trailer fro Castlevania Nocturne.
  
• Watch a trailer for Gen V.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Boy and the Heron. 
• Watch a trailer for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. 
• Watch a trailer for American Horror Story: Delicate.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Exorcist: Believer. 
  
• Watch a trailer for Bodies.
• Watch a trailer for Thanksgiving.