Here is our weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with Spider-Man: Homecoming as well as the usual mix of awards news, writing advice, interviews, reviews, awards news, con reports, crowdfunding campaigns, science articles and free online fiction.
Speculative fiction in general:
- James Davis Nicoll shares twenty core speculative fiction mysteries every fan should have read.
- Gabino Iglesias shares ten things only hardcore bookworms do.
- Aidan Moher explains why The Lord of the Rings is still relevant.
- Dana Hanson Firestone looks at five writers who could be the next Stephen King.
- Omnivoracious makes the scientific case for zombies.
- Leigh Butler shares her appreciation for the 1996 horror movie The Craft.
- Don Kaye reports that Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind will return to theatres for its 40th anniversary.
- Kelly Kanayama reports that Star Trek. Discovery is planning to kill main characters in an attempt to be Game of Thrones.
- Christine Hauser reports how women dressed as handmaids from Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale have shown up at protests related to women's rights around the US and shares some photos.
Comments on Spider-Man: Homecoming:
- Nicholas Barber calls Spider-Man: Homecoming a genuinely funny coming-of-age movie.
- Anthony Lane finds a welcome touch of innocence in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- Christopher Orr calls Spider-Man: Homecoming one of the best superhero movies in years.
- Ben Child asks whether Spider-Man: Homecoming is the best Spider-man film since 2004.
- Benjamin Lee calls Spider-Man: Homecoming a crowdpleasing triumph.
- Charlie Jane Anders declares that Spider-Man Homecoming settles some of the hottest debates about superhero movies.
- Manohla Dargis is not pleased to see the second Spider-Man rebott in fifteen years.
- Rob Leane interview Jon Watts, director of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- Adam Rowe shares his appreciation for the J. Jonah Jameson character from the Spider-Man comics.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2016 Ursa Major Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2017 Minotauro Award has been announced.
- Mike Glyer shares the latest status regarding the proposed YA award to be awarded at WorldCon.
- Camestros Felapton shares his musings regarding an award for self-published SFF.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Cory Doctorow implores writers to be the first one to do something no one ever thought of before.
- Kameron Hurley reminds us that story is more than just "stuff happens".
- K. Tempest Bradford talks about cultural appropriation.
- Anthony Ryan shares his tips for naming fantasy characters.
- Shanna Swenson implores writers not to tweet about their rejections.
Interviews:
- Meredith Woerner interviews Neil Gaiman.
- Nivea Serrao interviews Philip Pullman.
- Juliana Spink Mills interviews Hillary Monahan.
- Chaim Gartenberg interviews Myke Cole.
- Cicada Magazine interviews Darcie Little Badger.
Reviews:
- Paul Weimer reviews Substrate Phantoms by Jessica Reisman.
- Niall Alexander reviews The Rift by Nina Allan.
- Ross Johnson reviews Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn.
- Liz Bourke reviews Food of the Gods by Cassandra Khaw.
- Clifton Hill reviews Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop.
- Jana Nyman reviews The Reluctant Queen by Sarah Beth Durst.
- Fantasy Book Café reviews The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett.
- Ross Johnson reviews An Oath of Dogs by Wendy N. Wagner.
- Russel Letson reviews Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald.
- Ardi Alspach reviews Lost Boy by Christina Henry.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Hell Divers II: Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith.
Crowdfunding:
- Spring Song Press is looking for funding to publish Still Waters, an anthology of noblebright fantasy edited by C.J. Brightley.
- JoAnn Kaiser, widow of bookstore owner and SFF fan Dwain Kaiser who was shot to death, needs help with funeral and other expenses.
Con reports:
- Megan McDonough reports about a geeky wedding at Awesomecon in Washington DC.
- Lori Weisberg reports that Comic-Con will remain in San Diego, California, at least until 2021.
- Meanwhile, dealer Mile-High Comics reports that they have withdrawn from San Diego Comic-Con after more than forty years.
- Rob Bricken shares tip about what to do, if you have only one day at San Diego Comic Con.
- Monica Mendoza reports about Denver Comic Con in Denver, Colorado.
- Kisha Bertrand reports that racist trolls have taken over the official Facebook page of Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia.
Science and technology:
- NASA is moving ahead with the plan to deflect an asteroid.
- A perfect landing spot for spacecraft has been discovered on the Saturn moon Titan.
- Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a new particle.
- How Hollywood and the army are shaping the future of fireworks.
Free online fiction:
- "When the Devil Drives" by Melinda Snodgrass at Tor.com
- "Children of Thorns, Children of Water" by Aliette de Bodard in Uncanny.
- "The Law of Conservation of Data" by John Grant in Lightspeed.
- "L'appel du vide" by Rich Larson in Apex Magazine.
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