It's time for the weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the new series of Doctor Who, Daredevil, Titans, Venom, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a new version of Halloween, First Man, the firing of Chuck Wendig from a Star Wars comic, a whole lot of horror as well as the usual mix of awards news, writing advice, interviews, reviews, con reports, crowdfunding campaigns, science articles, free online fiction and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Ryan Plummer and Madeleine Monson-Rosen share seventeen science fiction novels that changed the genre forever.
- Ross Johnson shares five classic science fiction works which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction and one which was rejected.
- Maria Haskins shares award-winning science fiction and fantasy novellas from several decades.
- David Brin shares his favourite first lines from various science fiction novels.
- Kate Heartfield shares five books about women who love women.
- Ross Johnson shares seven works of trans-positive science fiction and fantasy.
- Alyssa Palombo shares five spooky books set in real places.
- Sam Reader shares five new horror books for dark October nights.
- Feliza Casano shares some perfect pairings of horror books and anime.
- James Davis Nicoll explains how to destroy civilization and not be boring.
- James Davis Nicoll shares semi-plausible strategies for moving a whole damn planet.
- Lev Grossman explains why we have always needed fantastic maps.
- Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Miraphora Mina talk about the magic and mystery of literary maps.
- Beth Cato talks about the fantastic foods of fantasy.
- Matt Bandstra explains why diversity and equality are foundational concepts of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.
- Andrew Liptak shares his appreciation for The Three Body Problem and sequels by Liu Cixin.
- Andrew Liptak explains how a fan fiction novel in the world of Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem got a publishing deal.
- Mark Alpert profiles James Gunn.
- Alexandra Alter profiles Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
- Karen Lowachee talks about the necessity of horror.
- Princess Weekes explains why Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles are still so beloved by fans almost forty years after Interview with a Vampire was first published.
- Paul St. John Mackintosh talks about recent revisions of the Lovecraft mythos.
- Ed Kilgore reports about the 1975 French racist dystopian novel The Camp of Saints by Jean Raspail and its connection to far right movements and politicians.
- Jeff Abbott talks about losing his personal library to a house fire.
- Ed Grabianowski shares tabletop games for every skill level.
- free to fanfic explains how web 2.0 and particularly tumblr are ruining fandom.
- Dave Barnett discusses how Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe is expanding.
- Michael Dooley offers a gallery of beautiful Spanish comic art from the 1970s and 1980s.
- Todd Bol, creator of the Little Free Library movement, has died aged 62.
Film and TV:
- Caryn James praises High Life and particularly Robert Pattinson's performance.
- Yohana Desta explains how Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the original Twilight movie, was ignored in favour of male directors for the sequels and other YA adaptations.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Manifest.
- Mary Fan writes about the many female friendships in the various iterations of Star Trek.
- Rob Bricken explains why E.T. is secretly the scariest movie of all time.
- Phil Hoad revisits several John Carpenter movies from the 1980s.
- Ethan Alter explains how Stanley Kubrick made the elevator bleed in his 1979 horror film The Shining.
- Steve Rose revisits the original Night of the Living Dead for its 50th anniversary and finds that it still holds up.
- Sandy Ferber revisits the 1957 horror movie From Hell It Came.
- Steve Rose revisits the 1988 horror comedy Beetlejuice.
- Tim Major shares his appreciation for the 1915 silent film horror serial Les Vampires.
- Guy Lodge explains how the remake of Suspiria paves the way for arthouse horror.
- Stuart Heritage shares a list of overused TV and movie characters that should be retired for a while.
- Guardian readers share their reactions to watching classic genre films for the first time.
- Justin Carter reports that Netflix has also cancelled the Marvel series Luke Cage.
- James Whitbrook bemourns that with the cancellation of Iron Fist and Luke Cage, we won't get to see more of the characters of Misty Knight and Colleen Wing a.k.a. the Daughters of the Dragon.
- Nellie Andreeva reports that Mike McMahan, best known for Rick and Morty, will create an animated Star Trek: Lower Decks series.
- Benjamin Lee reports that the number of LGBT characters on US television is at an all-time high, though there are still many issues.
- Jordan Hoffman bemoans the lost creativity of horror film posters of the 1930s.
Comments on series 11 of Doctor Who:
- Stephen Bush declares that with its latest episode, Doctor Who gets closer to its roots than it has been for a long time.
- James Whitbrook declares that "Rosa", the latest episode of Doctor Who, is a blunt episode that hearkens back to the show's origins as an educational program.
- Suman Kanchan compares the latest Doctor Who episode "Rosa" to historical reality.
- Caroline Siede calls "Rosa" a powerful Doctor Who episode.
- Emily Asher-Perrin shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Doctor Who.
- Dan Martin shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Doctor Who.
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Doctor Who.
- Beth Elderkin reports that the subservient role of the companion originally put her off Doctor Who and explains what made her come around.
- Beth Elderkin also reveals the inspiration behind the Thirteenth Doctor's outfit.
- Angie Dahl reports that Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor seems to have inherited the Third Doctor's martial arts skills.
Comments on season 3 of Daredevil:
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on season 3 of Daredevil.
- Caroline Siede offers and episode by episode review of season 3 of Daredevil.
- Leah Schnelbach calls season 3 of Daredevil miraculously better than ever.
- Leah Schnelbach also declares that for her, the scenes focussing on Matt Murdoch's Catholicism are among the best parts of Daredevil.
- Leah Schnelbach and Emily Asher-Perrin share their favourite moments from season 3 of Daredevil.
- James Whitbrook and Jill Pantozzi share four things they liked and four things they didn't like about season 3 of Daredevil.
- Julie Muncy explains why some characters did not appear in season 3 of Daredevil.
- Renaldo Matadeen explains why Daredevil didn't ask the other Defenders or the Punisher for help during season 3 of his solo series.
- Renaldo Matadeen also ranks Bullseye's kill shots in season 3 of Daredevil.
- Kevin Melrose explains how season 3 of Daredevil makes the fight scenes matter.
- Kevin Melrose explains the completely unhinged finale of season 3 of Daredevil.
- Julie Muncy explains that actor Wilson Bethel, who plays Bullseye in season 3 of Daredevil, was nearly cast as Captain America.
- Watch a clip from season 3 of Daredevil.
Comments on Venom:
- Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg call Venom the Eddie Brock show starring Eddie Brock.
- Nicholas Barber calls Venom a derivative, sketchily plotted B-movie.
- Stephen Thompson, Glen Weldon, Lars Gotrich and Daisy Rosario discuss Venom.
Comments on Titans:
- Meagan Damore discusses the portrayal of the characters Hawk and Dove in Titans.
- Kevin Melrose reports that Titans introduces a very unexpected team of villains in its latest episode.
- L.D. Nolan reports that according to showrunner Geoff Johns, there might be a LGBT hero in season 2 of Titans.
Comments on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina:
- Hannah Collins looks back at the 1995 show Sabrina the Teenage Witch and shares twenty things many fans have forgotten.
- Hannah Collins explains how the many versions of Sabrina the Teenage Witch are connected to magical girl anime shows.
- Watch a clip from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
- Watch an interview with the cast of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
- Emily Wesntrom shares eight books to read after watching The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Comments on the latest version of Halloween:
- Tom Robey calls the latest version of Halloween a suspenseful slasher sequel.
- Geoffrey Macnab declares that Halloween delivers all the expected thrills and chills.
- Ed Potton calls the latest Halloween painfully workmanlike horror.
- Jeanette Catsoulis calls the latest Halloween a straight-up sequel to the original, ignoring forty years of movies inbetween.
- Chris Evangelista praises Jamie Lee Curtis' performance in Halloween.
- Monica Castillo praises how the latest version of Halloween handles the trauma suffered by Jamie Lee Curtis' character over forty years of Halloween movies.
- A.A. Dowd compares how the new Halloween and the new Suspiria handle their famous predecessors.
- Inspired by Halloween, Hannah Collins wonders why there are so few scream queens of colour.
- Also inspired by Halloween, Anne Billson wonders why you almost never see men begging for their lives in horror films.
- Germain Lussier discusses the ending of the new Halloween.
- Sam Stone reports that Halloween is about to break box office records and beat Venom.
- Anna Smith wonders what lies behind Halloween's box officer success.
Comments on First Man:
- Abigail Nussbaum feels underwhelmed by First Man, even though she loves space exploration movies.
- Steven Zeticheck wonders why the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is failing at the box office.
Comments on the firing of Chuck Wendig from a Star Wars comic:
- Chuck Wendig answers some frequently asked questions about his firing.
- Brandon Staley reveals that the tweets which got Chuck Wendig fired from a Star Wars comic seem to have been targeted and amplified by bot accounts.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2018 British Fantasy Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Deutscher Phantastik Pries have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Pegasus Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Distinctive Cat Award have been announced.
- The finalists of the Great American Read have been announced and three of them are speculative fiction.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Damien Walter explains why writing is hard.
- Lauren Sapala talks about the despair of being creatively blocked and how to pull yourself out.
- Rick Perry talks about lack of motivation and the frustrations of writing.
- Bob Mayer shares some NaNoWriMo tips.
- Scott Myers shares some tips for writing a great opening scene.
- Aliette de Bodard talks about the art of rewriting.
- Jane Friedman shares the best book marketing advice of 2018.
Interviews:
- My Life, My Books, My Escape interviews K.B. Wagers.
- My Life, My Books, My Escape interviews Beth Cato.
- My Life, My Books, My Escape interviews Steve Rasnic Tem.
- Mark Yon interviews Steven Erikson.
- The Qwillery interviews Rio Youers.
- Christian A. Coleman interviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
- Gordon B. White interviews Amber Fallon.
- Jim McLeod interviews Chris Chelser.
- The Daily Fandom interviews Katie O'Neill.
- Timothy the Talking Cat interviews Schrödinger's cat.
Reviews:
- Rich Horton reviews Artificial Condition by Martha Wells and Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush.
- Martin Cahill reviews Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang.
- Adrienne Martini reviews The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal.
- The Hugo Award Book Club reviews The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.
- Renay Williams reviews The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi.
- nerds of a feather reviews Static Ruin by Corey J. White.
- Becca Evans reviews Temper by Nicky Drayden.
- The Little Red Reviewer reviews The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis.
- D. Libris reviews The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie.
- Ceillie Simkiss reviews In the Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de Bodard.
- Runalong the Shelves also reviews In the Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de Bodard.
- Trish Matson reviews In the Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de Bodard.
- Ceridwen Christensen reviews The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin with illustrations by Charles Vess.
- Lila Garrott reviews Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett.
- Liz Bourke reviews War Cry by Brian McClellan.
- Deana Whitney and Darci Cole revies Skyward by Brandon Sanderson.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan.
- Stefan Raets reviews Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan.
- Aidan Moher reviews Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Brit Mandelo reviews Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
- Jen Zink reviews The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste.
- Marion Deeds reviews No Sleep Till Doomsday by Laurence MacNaughton.
- Sarah McCarry reviews Riddance by Shelley Jackson.
- Rachel Cordasco reviews Alphaland by Cristina Jurado, translated by James Womack.
- Kate Sherrod reviews The Apex Book of World SF Volume Five, edited by Cristina Jurado and Lavie Tidhar.
- Rich Horton reviews Speculative Japan 4, edited by Edward Lipsett.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Mirage by Somaiya Daud.
- Mark Yon reviews Phantoms, edited by Marie O'Regan.
- Joe Sherry reviews The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
- Clare Clark reviews The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell.
- Mark Yon reviews Final Girls by Riley Sagar.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Mister Jack by Chris Kosarich.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Hell Divers IV: Wolves by Nicholas Sansbury Smith.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews The Best of the Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow.
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton.
Classics reviews:
- Doris V. Sutherland revisits the 1923 science fiction novel Around the Universe by Ray Cummings.
- Anthony Perconti revisits "The Weaver in the Vault", a 1934 story by Clark Ashton Smith.
- Sandy Ferber revisits the 1945 horror novel Witch House by Evangeline Walton.
- Doris V. Sutherland revisits E.E. Smith's 1948 space opera Triplanetary.
- Alan Brown revisits the 1961 science fiction novel A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke.
- Rosemary Benton revisits the 1963 science fantasy novel Witch World by Andre Norton.
- Kat Hooper revisits the 1963 science fiction novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits Thomas N. Scortia's 1974 science fiction novel Earthwreck!
Con and event reports:
- Sara from Not Another Book Blogger reports about Octocon 2018 in Dublin, Ireland, and shares several photos in a three part post.
- Tim Major shares his experiences at FantasyCon in Chester, UK.
- Crystal Huff explains why she no longer attends Arisia in Boston, Massachusetts (trigger warning: rape).
- Marie Brennan weighs in on the Arisia safety concerns.
- Rachel Swirsky shares her experiences at the Surrey International Writers' Conference in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
- Ellen Datlow shares some photos of the latest edition of the Fantastic Fiction Readings series in New York City, featuring Lawrence M. Schoen and Tim Pratt.
- John King Tarpinian reports about the exhibition "Frankenstein Meets Little Women: A Monster Mash" at the South Passadena Public Library in South Passadena, California.
- The BBC reports about an exhibition of drawings by science illustrator Sir Quentin Blake at the Science Museum in London, UK.
Crowdfunding:
- John Betancourt is looking for funding to publish Frozen Hell, the original novel-length version of John W. Campbell's famous novells Who Goes There?
- The collection Anna O'Brien: Ghost Days by Asher Elbein and Tiffany Turrill is looking for funding.
- A Punk Rock Future, a speculative fiction anthology edited by Steve Zisson, is looking for funding.
- Welcome to Pacific City, a superhero anthology edited by Andrew Leon Hudson and N.E. White, is looking for funding.
- Fantasy author Brandon Barr, who has terminal cancer, and his family could use some financial help.
Science and technology:
- Jonathan Amos reports about the launch of ESA's BepiColumbo mission to Mercury.
- Lilly Dancyger reports about the new AI assistant Mica.
- Martha Henriques reports about the mystery of a 200 year old human skull found in Antarctica.
- The BBC reports that the skull of Luzia, a 12000 early human, has been recovered from the ruins of the Brazil National Museum.
Free online fiction:
- "The Bodice, the Hem, the Woman, Death" by Karen Osborne in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "The Oracle and the Sea" by Megan Arkenberg in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake" by Mel Kassel in Lightspeed.
- "Tribute" by Jack Skillingstead in Lightspeed.
- "Psychopomps of Central London" by Julia August in The Dark.
- "The Fold in the Heart" by Chaz Brenchley in The Dark.
- "A Mother's Love Never Ends" by Halli Villegas in Nightmare Magazine.
- "The Underground Economy" by John Langan in Nightmare Magazine.
- "For Sale: Fantasy Coffins (Ababuo Need Not Apply)" by Chesya Burke in Apex Magazine.
- "Fitting In" by Max Gladstone at Tor.com.
- "Zimmer Land" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah in Literary Hub.
Odds and ends:
- Watch a trailer for The Kid Who Would Be King.
- Watch a trailer for Outlaw King.
- Watch a trailer for How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
- See a gallery of Kay Nielssen's beautiful Art Deco illustrations for 1001 Nights, which were recently rediscovered.
- Learn how to write the language of the first ones from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
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