It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the various iterations of Star Trek, Warrior Nun, sexual harrassment in the speculative fiction and comics community, Ray Harryhausen at 100, the latest convention cancellations and virtual conventions due to the corona virus and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- AudioFile Magazine shares the best new science fiction and fantasy audiobooks for summer.
- V.S. Holmes talks about the resurgence and power of subtle and quiet science fiction.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction novels about doomed armies.
- Rory Power shares five books that feel like a fever dream.
- Leah Schnelbach and Emmet Asher-Perrin share science fiction works where Jack the Ripper continues to murder into the far future.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF books by Canadian authors for Canada Day.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five intriguing SFF works from Asia which have not yet been translated into English.
- Caitlyn Paxson shares six new YA novels to read this summer, including several SFF novels.
- A.M. Gelberg shares her appreciation for the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan.
- Lydia Kang shares novels about the messy history of medicine.
- Natalie Zutter shares five Marvel fiction podcasts that will fill the hole the lack of new Marvel movies has left in your life.
- Mike Glyer remembers Sam Moskowitz for what would have been his 100th birthday.
- Rob Wolfe reports that several racially or culturally insensitive images have been pulled from Magic: The Gathering.
- Aja Romano talks about the troubled and toxic culture behind the popular game Cards Against Humanity.
- Graphic designer Milton Glaser who designed the I Love NY poster, the DC Comics logo and many other things has died aged 91.
Comments on various cases of sexual misconduct and general bad behaviour in the SFF and comics community:
- Christopher Chiu-Tabet offers a timeline of recent sexual misconduct allegations in the comics industry.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw offers an overview of the latest wave of sexual misconduct allegations in the comics industry.
- Chuck Wendig releases a statement regarding the recent sexual harrassment cases in the SFF community and severs all contact with the male authors named.
- Brian Keene shares a statement regarding the various sexual harrassment cases in the SFF and comics community.
- Brian Keene and Mary San Giovanni weigh in on the allegations of sexual misconduct against horror author Matt Hayward.
- Kaila Hale-Stern reports that actor Cas Anwar, who plays Alex in The Expanse, has been accused of sexual misconduct by several women.
- Britt Hayes reports that actor Ray Fisher, who played Cyborg in Justice League, has accused director Joss Whedon of gross and unprofessional behaviour on set.
- Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, has resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct.
- Paul Levitz, Katherine Keller and Jeff Abraham have also resigned from the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund following the allegations against Charles Brownstein.
- Foz Meadows talks about the recent sexual misconduct allegations in the SFF community and points out what is and isn't appropriate behaviour.
- Mike Glyer reports about the reemergence of Benjanun Sriduangkaew in the wake of the recent wave of allegations of sexual misconduct and other bad behaviour and some of the responses and debates generated thereby.
- Runalong the Shelves talks abot the twin problems of lack of diversity in the publishing industry and the recent wave of sexual misconduct allegations.
- Camestros Felapton shares a general post about the various instances of harassment and bad behaviour currently becoming public in the SFF community.
- Camestros Felapton talks some more about bad behaviour in the SFF community and how to deal with it.
Film and TV:
- Guy Lodge calls the latest version of The Invisible Man a film about gaslighting.
- Benjamin Lee calls Yu-On: Origins a gory but unscary spin-off of the Grudge horror franchise.
- Jack Seale praises season 3 of Dark.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Snowpiercer.
- Danette Chavez shares her thoughts on the season 1 finale of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
- Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Caroline Siede shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Stargirl.
- Noel Murray shares his thoughts on season 2 of The Twilight Zone.
- Daveed Diggs, star of Snowpiercer and Hamilton, and Anthony Mackie, star of Altered Carbon and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, interview each other.
- Chris Godfrey interviews Pierce Brosnan, best known for playing Remington Steel and James Bond.
- Beatrice Loayaza revisits the 1964 nuclear war movie Fail Safe.
- Jessica Holmes rewatches the 1965 Doctor Who serial "The Chase".
- Martin Edwards rewatched the 1973 horror thriller Nothing But the Night.
- Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1975 disaster movie Jaws.
- Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1980 movie The Great Muppet Caper for its fortieth anniversary and calls it the loveliest crime movie of all time.
- Scott Tobias revisits the 1980 disaster film parody Airplane!
- Tom Breihan revisits Tim Burton's 1989 take on Batman.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the 2000 comic book movie Faust: Love of the Damned.
- Ben Child asks if Margot Robbie can rescue Pirates of the Caribbean from irrelevance.
- Stuart Heritage makes fun of director Christopher Nolan's aversion to chairs on set.
- Andrew Liptak reports that the space opera TV series Vagrant Queen has been cancelled after a single season.
- Actor and director Carl Reiner has died aged 98.
Comments on the various iterations of Star Trek:
- Tor.com reports that the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere on August 6 on CBS All Access.
- Laurie Ulster reports that Gates McFadden may reprise her role as Dr. Beverly Crusher for season 2 of Star Trek Picard.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Voyager episodes "The Chute" and "The Swarm".
Comments on Warrior Nun:
- Roxana Hadidi calls Warrior Nun a medieval spin on Buffy the Vampire Slayer with bonus Catholicism.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Warrior Nun a disappointing Buffy wannabe.
Ray Harryhausen at 100:
- Steve Vertlieb remembers Ray Harryhausen for his 100th birthday.
- Patrick Galvan lists five film series which owe Ray Harryhausen a debt.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2020 Locus Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Rhysling Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis have been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Science Fiction Research Association awards have been announced.
- The finalists for the 2020 Baen Fantasy Adventure Awards have been announced.
- The 2020 inductees in the Museum of Pop Culture Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame Class have been announced.
- Joe Sherry takes a look at the Hugo finalists for Best Novel.
- Joe Sherry also takes a look at the Hugo finalists for Best Short Story.
- CoNZealand has extended the Hugo and Retro Hugo voting deadline until July 22.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Shanna Swendson shares some tips for writing through difficult times.
- Charlie Jane Anders declares that the most powerful thing a story can do is show how people change.
- Leonard Goldberg talks about originality in writing and why it's overrated.
- Brenda Clough shares yet more ways to tank your writing career.
- F.J. Bergman explains how to piss off a poetry editor.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains what to do about late payments from publishers and agents.
- Laurie Hertzel shares memories of Uncle Edgar's and Uncle Hugo's bookstores, which burned down during the recent riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Interviews:
- The Qwillery interviews C.T. Rwizi.
- Andrea Johnson interviews Chimedum Ohaegbu and Michi Trota of Uncanny Magazine.
Reviews:
- Paul Weimer reviews Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott.
- Kristi Chadwick reviews Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.
- Tadiana Jones reviews The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley.
- Kat Hooper reviews Light of Impossible Stars by Gareth L. Powell.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Hunted by the Sky by Tanaz Bhathena.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Divided Earth by Dale E. McClenning
- Bill Capossere reviews Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
- Publishers Weekly reviews A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong.
- Kelly Lasiter reviews Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Drowned Country by Emily Tesh.
- Paul Weimer reviews Driftwood by Marie Brennan.
- Kat Hooper reviews City of Lies by Sam Hawke.
- Kelly Lasiter reviews Scarlet Odyssey by C.T. Rwizi.
- Alex Brown reviews Scarlet Odyssey by C.T. Rwizi.
- Adri Joy reviews We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson.
- Vanessa Armstrong reviews A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell.
- Kelly Lasiter reviews Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron.
- Rachael McKenzie and Rebecca Fisher review Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde.
- Tobias Carroll reviews Devolution by Max Brooks.
- Tobias Carroll reviews Quotients by Tracy O'Neill.
- Ian Mond reviews Pew by Catherine Lacey.
- Paula Guran reviews Londonia by Kate A. Hardy.
- Michael Schaub reviews Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri.
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews Out of Body by Jeffrey Ford.
- Paula Guran reviews The Heart Is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories by Angela Slatter.
- Mark Yon reviews A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill.
- Paula Guran reviews Songs For Dark Seasons by Lisa L. Hannett.
- Steve Stred reviews Murder Ballads by John Horner Jacobs.
- Matt Brandenburg reviews Hunger on the Chisholm Trail by M. Ennenbach.
- Jason Heller reviews Dark Blood Comes From The Feet by Emma J. Gibbon.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2, edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards.
Classics reviews:
- John Miller revisits the October 1934 issue of Weird Tales.
- Paul Fraser revisits the Winter 1944 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
- Cora Buhlert revisits the 1944 space opera novella "Intruders from the Stars" by Ross Rocklynne.
- Jason MacGregor revisits the 1953 space opera Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids by Paul French a.k.a. Isaac Asimov
- Gideon Marcus revisits the July 1965 issue of Analog.
- David Levinson revisits the August 1965 issue of If - Worlds of Science Fiction.
- Rosemary Benton revisits the 1965 science fiction novel The Mallot Diaries by Robert Nathan and Jason Sacks revisits the 1965 science fiction novel The Martian Sphinx by Keith Woodcott.
- Sean Guynes revisits the 1967 science fiction novel City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Sandy Ferber revisits the 1967 sword and sorcery collection King Kull by Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter.
- Jason MacGregor revisits the 1967 Professor Jameson science fiction novel The Sunless World by Neil R. Jones.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews the 1978 science fiction novel The World is Round by Tony Rothman.
- Joachim Boaz revisits the 1980 Cyberpunk novel City Come-A-Walkin' by John Shirley.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1985 anthology The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- Nicole Brinkley revisits the 1993 science fiction novel Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.
- Alan Brown revisits the 1995 space opera Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro.
Con and event reports:
- Martin Pyne reports about the Fannish Inquisition of the 2022 Worldcon bids for Chicago, Illinois, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
- Arley Sorg and Liza Groen Trombi report about the virtual 2020 Nebula Conference.
Science and technology:
- The BBC reports that the NASA headquarters in Washington DC will be named after Mary Jackson, NASA's first black female engineer.
- Andrew Griffin reports that NAA astronaut James Corden has lost a mirror during a spacewalk.
- Paul Rincon offers an explanation for the dimming of Betelgeuse last year.
- Paul Rincon also reports that a massive star that astronomers have been observing for almost ten years has suddenly vanished.
- Paul Rincon reports that atsronomers have observed the core of a gas planet for the first time.
- Rafi Letzter reports that axions may finally have been discovered.
Free online fiction:
- "Own Goal" by Dennard Dayle in Clarkesworld.
- "The Ones Who Look" by Katharine Duckett at Tor.com.
- "Buttercream and Broken Wings" by Aimee Ogden in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "Seven Dreams of a Valley" by Prashanth Srivatsa in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "The Wish" by Caite Sajwaj in Luna Station Quarterly.
- "Sweet Little Lies" by Lindsey Duncan in Luna Station Quarterly.
- "The Pandora" by Stephanie Charette in GigaNotoSaurus.
- "First Morning on Mars" by Aimee Ogden in Daily Science Fiction.
- "The Last of the Goggled Barskys" by Joey Siara in Slate Future Tense.
- "A Cyber-Cuscuta Manifesto" by Regina Kanyu Wang at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination.
- "Monuments to the Dead" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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