It's
time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting
links
about speculative
fiction from
around the web, this week with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek in general, Masters of the Universe in general, Peacemaker and the DC Cinematic Universe in general, season 3 of Foundation,, Alien Earth, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, season 2 of Gen V, season 13 of Futurama, Him, The Long Walk, tributes to Robert Redford and much
more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Lisa Tuttle shares her favourite recent science fiction, fantasy and horror novels.
- Alex Brown shares must read short speculative fiction for August 2025
- Lorna Wallace shares six horror stories set in theme parks and carnivals
- James Davis Nicoll shares five artificially layered planets and world cities.
- Sam Reader shares seven books featuring haunted or sinister libraries.
- Nick Medina shares seven horror novels that use of folklore, legend and myth
- Julie Berry finds unexpected parallels between mythology and true crime.
- S.L. Woeppel talks about ghosts and trauma in horror and crime fiction.
- Gwen C. Katz talks about gender and trans identity in the Chanur series by C.J. Cherryh.
- Katie Engelhardt profiles children's book author Robert Munsch who is suffering from dementia.
- Jason Koebler interviews several people whose hobbies have become exorbitantly expensive due to Trump's tariffs.
- Peter Tyers remembers Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
- Fantasy author Ru Emerson has died aged 80.
Comics and Art:
- Bill Capossere reviews Spectators by Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
- Zach Rabiroff reports that DC Comics cancelled the Red Hood mini-series following insensitive remarks of writer Gretchen Felker-Martin about the assassination of far right podcaster Charlie Kirk.
- Philippe Goddin, one of the world's leading experts on Hergé's work, has died aged 81.
- Tom Gauld shares a cartoon about classic novels reworked for men.
Film and TV:
- Benjamin Lee calls Eternity a charming afterlife romantic comedy.
- Phuong Le calls Can I Get a Witness? a dystopian future fable of planned death
- Catherine Bray calls The Astronaut a slow-burn science fiction horror film.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Happyend an Orwellian Japanese high-school drama.
- Natalie Keogan calls Rabbit Trap an excruciatingly dull, 1970s-set folk horror film.
- Catherine Bray calls Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur a strange, not entirely convincing attempt to add conceptual depth to an animated children's film.
- Leslie Felperin calls The Boatyard a pointless and witless, atrociously acted cannibal horror film.
- Diana Keng shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Invasion.
- Isaiah Colbert shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Dan Da Dan.
- Cheryl Eddy shares her thoughts on Chain Reaction, a documentary about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
- Maya Salam takes a look behind the scenes of Guillermo Del Toro's take on Frankenstein.
- Zack Budryk discusses two recent science fiction films that embrace joy in the face of death
- Lorna Wallace shares five SFF movies and TV shows set during WWII.
- Leah Thomas shares a round-up of sports themed anime.
- William Hughes interviews Tony Gilroy, showrunner of Andor.
- Ryan Gilbey interviews Charlie Kaufman, director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, How to Shoot a Ghost and others.
- Luke Bouma revisits the 1963 science fiction TV series The Outer Limits.
- Tyler Dean revisits the 1985 fantasy movie Return to Oz
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1989 science fiction film The Abyss.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the 1996 Babylon 5 episode“Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?”
- Justin Carter revisits the 2005 animated TV show Loonatics Unleashed
- Kali Wallace revisits the 2007 science fiction film Sunshine.
- Lois Beckett shares Steven Spielberg's reminiscences about the making of Jaws.
- Sian Cain and Oliver Holmes report that the late night TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been suspended indefinitely because of allegedly disrespectful comments about the murder of far right podcaster Charlie Kirk after US government pressure
- Cheryl Eddy reports that creatives and Disney+ subscribers are calling for boycotts over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension
- Ryan Coleman reports that Fatima Cortez Todd, widow of Tony Todd, has called out the Emmys for omitting Tony Todd from their In Memoriam segment, just as the Oscars had done before.
- Lauren Huff reports about other omissions from the In Memoriam segment of the Emmys.
- Production designer Stuart Craig who worked on the Harry Potter films and many others has died aged 83.
Tributes to Robert Redford:
- Actor and director Robert Redford, star of The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and many others, has died aged 89.
- Peter Bradshaw remembers Robert Redford.
- Benjamin Lee shares tributes to Robert Redford by various co-stars and friends.
- Jacob Oller remembers Robert Redford.
- Justin Carter remembers Robert Redford.
- Steve Vertlieb remembers Robert Redford.
- Chloe Walker remembers Robert Redford.
- Greg Whitmore shares photos from Robert Redford's lengthy career.
- Adrian Horton praises Robert Redford for founding the Sundance film festival.
Comments on Masters of the Universe in general:
Comments on season 3 of Foundation:
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on “The Darkness”, the season 3 finale of Foundation.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on “The Darkness”, the season 3 finale of Foundation.
- Cheryl Eddy shares her thoughts on “The Darkness”, the season 3 finale of Foundation.
- Vanessa Armstrong shares her thoughts on “The Darkness”, the season 3 finale of Foundation.
- The Stars End podcast share their thoughts on “The Darkness”, the season 3 finale of Foundation.
- Adam Chitwood interviews David S. Goyer, showrunner of Foundation.
- Cheryl Eddy interviews Synnøve Karlsen, who plays Bayta mallow in Foundation.
- Raymond Ang interviews Lee Pace who plays Brother Day in Foundation.
Comments on Peacemaker and the DC Cinematic Universe in general:
Comments on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek in general:
- Avery Kaplan and Diana Keng share their thoughts on the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- Emmet Asher Perrin declares that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ bumpy third season highlights a core problem in modern TV
- James Whitbrook declares that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds needs to imagine more for its female characters
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw points out that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has an evil alien problem.
- Mick Joest interviews Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, showrunners of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- Trent Moore revisits the 2001 Star Trek show Star Trek Enterprise.
- Avery Kaplan shares nine great Klingon episodes of various incarnations of Star Trek.
- David Smith interviews actor James Cromwell, who played Zephron Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact and also appeared in Babe, LA Confidential and many others.
Comments on seaosn 2 of Gen V:
- Isaiah Colbert shares everything to remember about Gen V before it returns for season 2
- Manuel Betancourt declares that Gen V returns with bloody black humor and depressingly timely plotlines
- Amelia Emberwing declares that season 2 of Gen V stays true to itself while successfully honoring Chance Perdomo
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on season 2 of Gen V.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on episode 1 of season 2 of Gen V.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on episode 2 of season 2 of Gen V.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on episode 3 of season 2 of Gen V.
- Sarah Dempster finds that the male full-frontal is really gratuitous in season 2 of Gen V.
- Isaiah Colbert reports that Gen V had big plans for Chance Perdomo before his untimely death
Comments on Alien: Earth:
- Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Alien Earth.
- Matt Schimkowitz shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Alien Earth.
- Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Alien Earth.
- James Poniewozik declares that Alien Earth speaks to the fear of children being sacrificed to technology.
- Camestros Felapton shares his appreciation for the eyeball tentacle momster from Alien Earth.
Comments on Outlander: Blood of My Blood:
Comments on The Long Walk:
- Haley Zapal calls The Long Walk a brutal, harrowing and incredible film that plumbs the depths of violence, despair, and friendship.
- Leah Schnelbach declares that The Long Walk posits that the cure for the male loneliness epidemic is death
- Jacob Oller notes that the ending of the film adaptation of The Long Walk manages to be even bleaker than that of the novel.
- Nick Romano interviews Francis Lawrence, director of The Long Walk, about the movie's ending.
- Dessi Gomez interviews Garrett Wareing who plays Stebbins in The Long Walk.
Comments on season 13 of Futurama:
Comments on Him:
Awards:
- The winners of the 2025 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis have been announced.
- The winners of the 2025 SFRA Awards have been announced.
- The longlist for the 2025 Giller Prize has been announced.
- The 2025 finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame have been announced.
- The winners of the 2025 Emmy Awards have been announced.
- Aaron Jones takes a look at the SFF shows among the 2025 Emmy winners.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Jack Anderson shares five tips for writing a genius (even if you aren’t one)
- Brian McAuley explains how to write a slasher.
- Karen Fisher profiles lawyers who push back against book bannings.
Interviews:
Reviews:
- Gary Whitehouse reviews The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear.
- Marlene Harris reviews The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
- Rob Bedford reviews The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
- Marlene Harris reviews Sunward by William Alexander
- Janet Webb reviews Framed in Death by J.D. Robb
- Marion Deeds reviews Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
- Ainy Cormac reviews Molten Flux by Jonathan Weiss
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan
- Julia Kitvaria Sarene reviews The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzie Lee
- Mark Yon reviews The Second Death of Locke by V.K. Bovalino.
- Sasha Bonkowsky reviews The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar.
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher
- Marlene Harris reviews Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher
- Marion Deeds reviews When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
- James Tivendale reviews Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski
- Blue Book Balloon reviews For the Road by Stark Holborn
- Paul Weimer reviews A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde
- Julia Kitvaria Sarene reviews Tournament of Shadows by Tilly Wallace
- Jenny Hamilton reviews The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
- Lesa Holstine reviews A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke
- Archita Mitra reviews Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang
- Martin Cahill reviews The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
- Taylor Pitman reviews Pearl by Tim Waggoner
- Rob Bedford reviews Fiend by Alma Katsu.
- BOLO Books reviews Fiend by Alma Katsu.
- Robin Marx reviews The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Other Frankenstein by Melissa F. Olson
- Alex Brown reviews You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Phengaris by Anna Orridge
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Spread Me by Sarah Gailey
- Kevin Power reviews What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
- Ian Mond reviews Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel by Andrew Kaufman
- Arley Sorg reviews Where Are You Really From by Elaine Hsieh Chou
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Uncertain Sons And Other Stories By Thomas Ha
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Roots of My Fears, edited by Gemma Amor
- Alex Brown reviews Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo
Classics reviews:
- Bobby Derie revisits the 1936 Northwest Smith planetary romance “Lost Paradise” by C. L. Moore
- Sandy Ferber revisits the 1943 fantasy novel The Landslide.
- Alan Brown revisits the 1964 time travel novel Invasion From 2500 by Norman Edwards a.k.a. Terry Carr and Ted White.
- Victoria Silverwolf revisits the October 1970 issue of Fantastic
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1977 science fiction novel The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1992 science fiction collection Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois by Gardner Dozois
- Alissa Burger revisits the 1995 YA horror trilogy The Cataluna Chronicles by R.L. Stine.
- Z.B. Steele revisits the 2007 Malazan epic fantasy novel Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson
Con and event reports:
- Arley Sorg reports about the Gen Con Writers Symposium at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Cora Buhlert reports about the Heicon '70, the 1970 Worldcon in Heidelberg, Germany, as well as the 1970 Hugo winners.
- Sue Burke reports about the 2024 Windycon in Oak Brook, Illinois.
- Dave Hook reports about the panel "Why Anthologies" at the 2025 Worldcon in Seattle, Washington.
- Sabina Graves reports about the Universal Horror Unleashed event at the Area 51 immersive experience center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- James Whitbrook reports that a scuba-diving thief stole thousands of dollars from the floating Paddlefish restaurant in Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Science and technology:
- Oliver Millman reports that scientists claim they’ve made ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back the dodo for first time in three hundred years
- Winona Menezes reports about the Tektite II undersea habitat experiment in 1970.
- J. Todd Scott reports about the town of Green Bank in West Virginia, where equipment emitting electromagnetic waves is banned to protect the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Radio Telescope
Toys and collectibles:
Free online fiction:
- "The Nature of Spells, the Nature of Children" by Aimee Ogden in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- "Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth" by Kate Francia in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "Laurie on the Radio" by Sam Davis in Reactor.
- "Queen of the Communist Cannibals" by Cora Buhlert in Cliffhanger Magazine.
- "The Fury of the Glowmen" by David McGillveray in Clarkesworld.
- "Aperture" by Alexander Jablokov in Clarkesworld.
- "Energy and Rhythm" by I. A. Sykes in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
- "A Final Song for the Ages" by Pedro Iniguez in Apex Magazine.
- "The Girlfriend Experience" by C.Z. Tacks in Lightspeed.
- "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" by Bogi Takács in Lightspeed.
- "The Toddler" by Sanni Omodolapo in The Dark.
- "Safe Face" by Ash Huang in Nightmare Magazine.
Trailers and videos:
- Watch a clip from season 4 of The Witcher.
- Watch a trailer for The Sisters Grimm.
- Watch a trailer for Good Boy.
- Watch a trailer for Anaconda.
- Watch a trauler for Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
- Watch a trailer for The Great Flood.
- Watch a trailer for Splinter Cell: Death Watch.
- Watch a trailer for Queens of the Dead.
- Watch a deleted scene from Fantastic Four: First Steps.
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