Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for May 13, 2022

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with Star Trek Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek, Moon Knight, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general, a new Doctor Who, Men, The Fifth Element at twenty-five, Disney's battles with homophobic and transphobic US politicians, tributes to Patricia A. McKillip, George Pérez and Serhiy Dyachenko and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Tor.com shares all the new horror and genre-bending books coming out in May. 
• Tor.com shares all the new YA SFF books coming out in May. 
• Alex Brown shares the new science fiction, fantasy and horror YA books coming out in May and June 2022. 
• Neil McRobert shares his fifty favourite horror books of all time.
  
• Jo Walton shares her April 2022 reading list. 
• Adam Odebanji explains how science pushes science fiction forward.
  
• Jonny Thomson shares J.R.R. Tolkien's thoughts on the importance of science fiction and fantasy.
  
• Eve Taft attempts to categorise different types of horror. 
• Amber Cowie talks about elevated horror.
  
• Gillian McAllister discusses the popularity of time loop stories.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction works about fighting crime in space. 
• Cole Rush shares five short SFF books packed with big ideas.
  
• C.D. Covington talks about J.R.R. Tolkien, linguistics and the languages of Middle Earth. 
• Arkady Martine explains what Byzantine literary culture can tell us about fanfiction.
  
• Matthew Claxton talks about the record breaking Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter and explains why the long tail does not work as advertised.
  
• Emily Midkiff declares that science fiction for kids is a missed publishing opportunity. 
• Matthew Kirshenblatt discusses what H.P. Lovecraft means to him.
  
• Andreas Hapke profiles Cora Buhlert (in German).
  
• Mike Glyer reports that Jon Del Arroz has been kicked out of the Games Manufacturers Association GAMA and has also been banned from Twitter again.
• Bulgarian science fiction writer, artist and translator Atanas P. Slavov has died aged 75.
• Ukrainian SFF writer Serhiy Dyachenko has died aged 77.
• Locus remembers Serhiy Dyachenko.
• Fantasy author Patricia A. McKillip has died aged 74.
• Vanessa Armstrong remembers Patricia A. McKillip.
  

Comics and Art:

• Sabina Graves introduces Escapade, a new Marvel superheroine created by Charlie Jane Anders.
  
• K.C. Carlson shares an oral history in two parts of the early 1980s JLA/Avengers crossover that never happened. 
• Grab This Book reviews the crime graphic novel The Junction by Norm Konyu.  
• Linda Codega interviews comics writer Kieron Gillen.
  
• REH World interviews artists and illustrators Jim and Ruth Keegan.
  
• Deuce Richardson shares a gallery of sword and sorcery and sword and planet artwork by the late Neal Adams.
• Brian Murphy shares his five favourite Frank Frazetta paintings. 
• D.D. Degg remembers James Bama.
  
• SFF artist and sculptor Tomas Julian Baksik has died aged 51.
  
• Legendary comic artist and writer George Pérez has died aged 67.
• Abbey White remembers George Pérez.
• George Gene Gustines remembers George Pérez.
• Justin Carter shares George Pérez's cameos in the animated cartoon Teen Titans Go.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Christopher Reeves responds to those who complain that modern SFF movies and TV shows have become "woke", because there are actors of colour in them, that science fiction and fantasy have always been diverse and always tackled social issues.
  
• Leah Schnelbach talks about the religious subversion of Our Flag Means Death. 
• Rogues in the House discuss The Northman. 
• Davide Mana was duly impressed and highly entertained by The Spine of Night. 
• Peter Bradshaw finds Everything Everywhere All At Once a mediocre misfire.
  
• Seun Odukoya shares his thoughts on The Batman. 
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the live action Cowboy Bebop. 
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Outer Range. 
• Rob Bricken shares the ten greatest screwups of the Legends of Tomorrow team. 
• Cheryl Eddy calls The Twin a horror headscratcher. 
• Luke Y. Thompson calls The Innocents yet another horror film about children with supernatural powers.
  
• Leigh Monson calls Homebound a lacklustre horror film.
  
• Charles Bramesco calls Marmaduke a shoddily made animation adventure for undiscerning kids.
• Vincent Tirado talks about the playful nature of horror movies.
• Chris Holm shares eight biological horror movies sure to make your skin crawl.
  
• Michaele Jordan shares recent SFF animated series to enjoy. 
• Inverse ranks the eight best movie and TV time machines.
  
• Janice L. Newman revisits the 1966 superhero TV show The Green Hornet. 
• Robert Repino revisits the 1982 sword and sorcery movie Conan the Barbarian and discusses the brilliant ambiguity of the Riddle of Steel.
  
• Jeremy Smith explains how the summer of 1982 changed cinema forever. 
• Jack Smart interviews the team behind the animated movie Lightyear. 
• Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson novels, weighs in on the backlash against the casting of Leah Jeffries as Annabeth Chase in an upcoming TV adaptation of the novels. 
• Winston Cho reports that Republican lawmakers want to retroactively shorten copyright protection in order to punish Disney for speaking out against bigoted anti-LGBTQ legislation.
  
• Steve Rose recounts Disney's relationship with both the LGBTQ community and the US Right.
  

 

Comments on Star Trek Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek: 

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Farewell", the season 2 finale of Star Trek Picard.
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts "Farewell".
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Farewell". 
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on "Farewell".
  
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the final two episodes of season 2 of Star Trek Picard.
  
• Arturo Serrano calls season 2 of Star Trek Picard aimless and inconsistent. 
• Jaime Babb shares a transgender reading of season 2 of Star Trek Picard.
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Strange New Worlds", the series premiere of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.
• James Whitbrook reports that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has drawn criticism for using footage of the 2014 Maidan protests in Kyiv, Ukraine, to depict an alien riot. 
• Camestros Felapton discusses the problems with the streaming Star Trek shows in general.
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido rewatches the Star Trek Enterprise episode "Two Days and Two Nights".
  
• James Whitbrook ranks the various Starfleet uniforms from the various Star Trek series.
• Courtney Dickson reports that Starfleet personnel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are wearing boots designed by John Fluevog, a designer from Vancouver, Canada.
• Trekmovie.com reveals that more than one Star Trek show wanted to bring back Wesley Crusher.
• Vanessa Armstrong reports that several members of the Star Trek Picard cast will not be returning for season 3.
• James Whitbrook also reports about the cast changes for season 3 of Star Trek Picard.
  

 

Comments on Moon Knight:

• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "Gods and Monsters", the season finale of Moon Knight. 
• Adam Holmes interviews Meghan Kasperlik, costume designer of Moon Knight.
• Adam B. Vary reports that there are QR codes hidden in episodes of Moon Knight, which lead to a website where you can read selected Moon Knight comics. 

 

Comments on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general (spoilers): 

• Linda Codega declares that Sam Raimi returns to his horror sensibilities with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.
• Leah Schnelbach finds that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is not weird enough. 
• Arturo Serrano calls Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness visually delightful and narratively bland.
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw declares that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness represents everything that's wrong with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw also shares her thoughts on the way Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness handles Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. Scarlet Witch. 
• Ben Child and readers of the Guardian discuss Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
  
• Germain Lussier explains the post-credits scenes of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
• Germain Lussier shares thirteen burning questions he has after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw lists the Doctor Strange comics to read after watching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
  
• Linda Codega discusses the character Charlize Theron plays in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
  
• Peter Scobel and Todd Gilchrist interview Sam Raimi, director of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
• Germain Lussier interviews Michael Waldron, screenwriter of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
  
• David Betancourt interviews Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Doctor Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
• Jacob Stolworthy interviews Elizabeth Olsen who plays Wanda Maximoff in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
• Adam B. Very interviews Elizabeth Olsen.
  
• Peter Scobel interviews Rachel McAdams and Benedict Wong, who play Christine Palmer and Wong in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
  
• Andrew Pulver reports that Jamie Lee Curtis, one of the stars of the other multiverse film Everything Everywhere All At Once, has started up a feud with the team behind Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
• William Hughes also reports about Jamie Lee Curtis' swipes against Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 
• James Whitbrook wonders what Marvel's Phase 4 is actually about.
  
• Ben Child wonders who is the greatest supervillain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Hannah J. Davis interviews Tom Hiddleston, who plays Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Ben Travis interviews Taika Waititi, director of Thor: Love and Thunder.
• Devon Coggan interviews Sana Amanat, co-creator of Ms. Marvel. 
• Artem Golub interviews Chris Pratt who plays Peter Quill a.k.a. Starlord in Guardians of the Galaxy. 
  
• Nancy Tartaglione reports that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had an excellent opening weekend.
• Watch a trailer for Ms. Marvel.
  

 

Comments on Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general: 

• James Whitbrook explains what people should remember before Obi-Wan Kenobi starts.
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Bryce Dallas-Howard, director of several episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett and star of Jurassic World: Dominion.
  
• Silas Valentino shares the sad fate of the California forest that starred as Endor in Return of the Jedi in 1983.
  

 

Comments on Doctor Who past, present and future:  

• The BBC announces that Rwandan born Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa will play the Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, taking over from Jodie Whittaker. 
• Miranda Bryant profiles Ncuti Gatwa.  
• Tim Jonez interviews Ncuti Gatwa.
  
• Hannah J. Davis interviews Jodie Whittaker, who plays the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who.
  
• Ann Lee interviews Mandip Gill, who plays Yaz in Doctor Who.
  

 

Comments on Men:

• Jordan Hoffman calls Men a thrilling and deranged horror masterpiece.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Men a wacky folk horror film.

 

Comments on The Fifth Element at Twenty-Five: 

• Emmet Asher-Perrin revisits the 1997 space opera movie The Fifth Element for its twenty-fifth anniversary.   
• Inverse also revisits The Fifth Element and calls it one of the most divisive science fiction movies ever.
• Germain Lussier also revisits The Fifth Element and finds it still beautiful and bonkers twenty-five years later.
  

 

Awards: 

• The finalists for the 2022 Locus Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Pulp Factory Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2021 Self-Published Science Fiction Contest have been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2022 Feminist Futures Award has been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2022 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity has been announced.
• The winners of the 2022 BAFTA TV Awards have been announced with little love for genre TV.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Steve McHugh talks about writing action scenes. 
• Colin Barrett talks about ideas, characters and writing. 
• Logan D. Whitney explains how he wrote a novel he loves. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rush explains how writers fail.
  
• Lark O. Jensen discusses how the covid pandemic affected writers.
  
• Sian Bayley warns that a fraudster is impersonating a Harper Collins editor and offering book contracts. 
• Michael Hiltzik reports about Disney's continuing failure to pay writers.
  
• The Guardian reports that an essay by plagiarist Jumi Bello was pulled, when it turned out that she had plagiarised again.
• Lucy Knight reports that Dave Eggers will give copies of his novel The Circle as well as four other books that were deemed unsuitable for students, pulled from school libraries and destroyed to schools in South Dakota.
• Sarah Shaffi reports that Dolly Parton's charity Imagination Library will give books to refugee children in London, UK, for free.
  

Interviews:

• Asena Ideus interviews Lois McMaster Bujold.
  
• Nicole Rudnick interviews Samuel R. Delany.
  
• Locus interviews Adrian Tchaikovsky. 
• Stuart Miller interviews Janelle Monáe. 
• Nina Sharma interviews Janelle Monáe.
  
• Steven Barnes and Tanarive Dué interview Patton Oswalt.
• The HWA interviews Josh Malerman. 
• The HWA interviews Priya Sharma.
  
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Allen Stroud. 
• Elizabeth Tabler interviews David Towsey.
  
• Oliver Brackenbury interviews Nat Webb.
  
• The HWA interviews John Palisano. 
• The HWA interviews Becky Spratford.
  
• Cat Luria interviews Ivy Grimes.
• Christie Yant interviews Dominique Dickey.
• Andrea Johnson interviews Cora Buhlert.
  

Reviews:

• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings. 
• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews Light Years From Home by Mike Chen.
  
• J.C. Kang reviews Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. 
• Paul Di Filippo reviews Flint and Mirror by John Crowley. 
• Alex Brown reviews Siren Queen by Nghi Vo.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Sistersong by Lucy Holland. 
  
• Camestros Felapton reviews She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan.
  
• Fabienne Schwizer reviews Deepwater King by Claire McKenna. 
• C.T. Phipps reviews The Roach by Rhett C. Bruno.
  
• C.T. Phipps reviews This Thing of Darkness by Allan Batchelder. 
• Tobias Carroll reviews Out There by Kate Folk. 
• Aigner Loren Wilson reviews The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings. 
• Martin Cahill reviews Last Exit by Max Gladstone.
  
• Matthew Keeley reviews Aspects by John M. Ford.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Equinox by David Towsey. 
• Tobias Carroll reviews The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Great Witch of Brittany by Luisa Morgan.
  
• Adrian Collins reviews The Lawless Land by Boyd and Beth Morrison. 
• Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel.
  
• Adrienne Martini reviews The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake.
  
• Molly Templeton reviews Book of Night by Holly Black. 
• Rai Furniss-Greasley reviews Black Tide by K.C. Jones.
  
• Liz Bourke reviews The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller. 
• Ian Mond reviews Jawbone by Mónika Ojeda.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones. 
• Richard Marpole reviews Dead Boys by Gabriel Squailia. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Helltown by Jeremy Bates.
  
• Camestros Felapton reviews Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
  
• Anthony Cummins reviews Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Cabinet by Un-su Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert.
  
• Arturo Serrano reviews The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of the Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe.
  
• Liza Wemakor reviews The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of the Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, edited by Jonathan Strahan. 
• Rob Bedford reviews Dark Stars: New Takes of Darkest Horror, edited by John F.D. Taff.
• Nicholas Whyte reviews Hergé, Son of Tintin by Benoit Peeters.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• G.W. Thomas revisits the 1911 horror story "The Orchid Horror" by John Blunt. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1938 lost world novel The Cave of a Thousand Columns by T.E. Grattan Smith. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1941 space opera story "They Never Come Back" by Fritz Leiber.
  
• John Boston revisits the June 1967 issue of Amazing. 
• Gideon Marcus revisits the June 1967 issue of Galaxy.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the 1968 science fiction novel Spartan Planet by A. Bertram Chandler. 
• Steve Carroll revisits the 1969 sword and sorcery novel Brak the Barbarian versus the Mark of the Demons by John Jakes. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 horror novel Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco.
  
• Liam's Lyceum revisits the 1976 Elric sword and sorcery novel The Sailor on the Sea of Fate by Michael Moorcock.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1978 science fiction collection Infinite Dreams by Joe Haldeman.
• Alan Brown revisits the 1979 science fiction novel Stardance by Spider and Jeanne Robinson.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1984 science fiction novel Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard.
• Kat Hooper revisits the 1989 science fiction novel The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• The 2022 SFWA silent charity auction is live now and open for bidding.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• John O'Neill reports about the 2022 Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention in Chicago, Illinois. 
• Locus reports about the 2022 Norwescon in Seattle, Washington. 
• Mia Estrada reports about HBCU Con in Bowie, Maryland.
  
• The first annual Sturgeon Symposium will take place at the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction in Lawrence, Kansas, in September. 
• Arifa Akbar reports about a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando currently being performed in London, UK.
• Sabina Graves shares some looks at the Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind ride in Disney World in Orlando, Florida. 
• Benjamin Myers wonders whether crop circles are art.
  

Science and technology:

• NASA has released new images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
• Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellell discuss the complications of modern shipping and modern piracy. 
• Meilan Solly reports that several possible early medieval royal graves have been discovered in England and Wales.

Free online fiction:

• "The Goddess of Fear" by Ivy Grimes in Luna Station Quarterly.
  
• "Glamour" by Matthew Ilseman in Swords and Sorcery Magazine. 
• "Carpe Caput" by Evan Dicken in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. 
• "A Stubborn Friend" by George Jacobs in Wyngraf Magazine. 
• "The Knowing" by J.B. Toner in Wyngraf Magazine.
  
• "Mal de Caribou" by Becca de la Rosa in The Dark. 
• "The Plastic People" by Tobias S. Buckell in Lightspeed. 
• "Magical Girl Burnout Bingo" by Lauren Ring in Lightspeed.
  
• "An Ogama Tale in Seven Voices" by Betsy Aoki in Fireside Magazine. 
  
• "Hoodie" by Tonya Liburd in Apex Magazine.
  
• "Hatching" by Bo Balder in Clarkesworld.
• "Kora Is Life" by David D. Levine in Clarkesworld.
• "In the Water" by Rowan Wren in Nightmare Magazine. 
  
• "Riding Hood" by Tariro Ndoro in Omenana.
• "Plastic Bag Girl" by Choo Yi Feng in Anathema.
  
• "Drowned Best Friend" by Dominique Dickey in Fantasy Magazine.
  
• "Fishers of Men" by Briar Gray in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Ion Trails" by Avery Line in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "Pay Here to Exit" by Karliana Sakas in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Mind Blown" by Rich Larson in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "The Decision" by Sean Cudeck in Daily Science Fiction.
• "Voyeuristic Tendencies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 3 of Westworld. 
• Watch as clip from the new version of Firestarter.
  
• Watch a trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water.
  
• Watch a trailer for Crimes of the Future
• Watch a trailer for Mad God. 
• Watch a trailer for Unhuman.
• Watch a trailer for yet another version of Resident Evil.