Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for July 30, 2020

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, The Old Guard, Radioactive, the virtual San Diego Comic Con and the virtual Worldcon CoNZealand and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Liz Bourke recommends recent SFF books she enjoyed.
• James Davis Nicoll shares five massive multi-volume works of SFF to read. 
• Mark Yon shares his SFF recommendations for this summer. 
• Ashley Poston shares five genre-jumping masterpieces.
• John Self shares his thoughts on Penguin Classics' new science fiction line. 
• Camestros Felapton notes that Martians are more popular than Venusians.
• George O'Brien reports about Ray Bradbury, Moby Dick and their connection to Ireland. 
• C.D. Covington discusses the lingustic worldbuilding in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy.
• Dr. Sam Hirst discusses the early history of female vampires. 
• Mari Ness talks about Herakles/Hercules, the ancient superhero.
• Dalya Alberge profiles Tade Thompson.
• Andrew Whalen reports about a conflict between Patrick Rothfuss and his editor Betsy Wollheim over the delayed delivery of The Doors of Stone, book 3 in the Kingkiller Chronicles.
• Alison Flood also reports about the delay of The Doors of Stone.
  

Film and TV:

• Sam Barsanti declares that season 2 of The Umbrella Academy is stronger than season 1.
• Erik Adams is pleased that Muppets Now, the latest attempt to revive The Muppets Show, is actually good. 
• Peter Bradshaw shares his thoughts on the film adaptation of Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.
• Paul Levinson calls Code 8 a superhero story with an ethical conundrum.
• Caroline Siede shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Stargirl. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Into the Dark.  
• Marion Deeds shares her thoughts on the TV show Lucifer.
• Jessica Holmes revisits the 1965 Doctor Who serial "The Time Meddler". 
• NUTS4R2 revisits the 1940 horror movie The Invisible Man Returns.
• Tom Breihan revisits the 1991 time travel movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. 
• Ethan Alter revisits the 1995 post-apocalyptic movie Waterworld.
• Jesse Hassenger revisits the 1996 vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
• William Hughes revisits the 2009 vampire movie Thirst.  
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on Elvis From Outer Space.
• Cameron Scheetz interviews the cast and director of New Mutants.
• Radha Vatsal is pleased that period dramas are becoming less white. 
• Victoria Silverwolf shares her love for the Beach Party movies of the 1960s and finds some unexpected genre elements therein.
• Catherine Shoard reports that many highly anticipated movies have been pushed back yet again due to the corona virus. 
• Bob Mondello also reports about the many highly anticipated movies that have been postponed due to the corona virus. 
• Andrew Pulver reports that the 2020 Venice Film Festival will actually take place, albeit in much smaller form than usual.
• Andrew Liptak reports that Netflix is planning an animated Witcher prequel. 
• Samuel Gelman reports that Hailee Steinfeld has been cast as Kate Bishop in the upcoming Hawkeye series.
• Actor Maurice Roeves, who appeared in Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation among many others has died aged 83. 
• Actor John Saxon, best known for his parts in Nightmare on Elm Street, Enter the Dragon, The A-Team and many others, has died aged 83.
• Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland has died aged 104. 
• Peter Bradshaw remembers Olivia de Havilland.

Comments on the various iterations of Star Trek:

• Eleanor Tremeer reports about the sexism that the actresses who worked on the various Star Trek series experienced on set. 
• John Orquiola compiles all of the many roles and voiceovers played by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry in several Star Trek series. 
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Voyager episode "The Q and the Grey".
• Kate Cox reports that YouTube's Content ID copyright bot shut down the livestream of the Star Trek panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Andrew Liptak reports that season 3 of Star Trek Discovery will premiere on October 15, 2020.
  

Comments on The Old Guard:

• Terri Schwartz interviews Charlize Theron, star of The Old Guard.
• Aniefiok Ekpoudom interviews Chiwetel Ejiofor, one of the stars of The Old Guard.
• Alasdair Stuart reviews The Old Guard: Force Multiplied, one of the comics the movie is based upon.
  

Comments on Radioactive: 

• Marah Eakin interviews Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley who play Marie and Pierre Curie in Radioactive.
• Leila Fadel interviews Rosamund Pike.
  

Awards: 

• The winners of the 1945 Retro Hugo Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2020 World Fantasy Award have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award has been announced.
• The winners of the 2019 Aurealis Awards have been announced. 
• The preliminary ballot for the 2020 Ditmar Awards has been announced.
• Rick Raphael has been awarded the 2020 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.
• The winners of the 2020 Eisner Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2020 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Award has been announced.
• The winners of the 2020 Big Heart Award have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2020 First Fandom Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2020 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards have been announced.
• The nominees for the 2020 Emmy Awards have been announced with lots of love for genre TV. 
• Stuart Heritage shares his thoughts on the 2020 Emmy Award nominees.
• Doris V. Sutherland takes a look at the 2020 Hugo finalists for Best Novel. 
• Joe Sherry takes a look at the 2020 Lodestar finalists.
• CoNZealand has revealed the 2020 Hugo and 1945 Retro Hugo Award bases.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Stan Parrish talks about learning to write when inspiration strikes. 
• Allison Montclair talks about how to start a long-running series from scratch.
• Charlie Jane Anders explains how you know that you have found a good ending for your story.
• Judith Tarr talks about writing horses, humans and coevolution.
• Andrew Albanese reports about the latest state of the legal dispute between the Internet Archive and several publishers over the Archive's unauthorised lending of e-books.
  

Interviews:

• Priscilla Spencer interviews Jim Butcher. 
• Andrea Johnson interviews Devin Madson.
• Clark Collis interviews Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.
• The Qwillery interviews Cherie Dimaline.
  

Reviews: 

• Liz Bourke and Adrienne Martini review Network Effect by Martha Wells.
• Joel Cunningham reviews The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley.
• Joel Cunningham reviews A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. 
• Kat Hooper reviews Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds.
• Russell Letson reviews The Eleventh Gate by Nancy Kress. 
• Linda H. Cordega reviews This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and max Gladstone. 
• Zoraida Córdova reviews To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers.
• Adri Joy reviews Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. 
• Paul Weimer reviews Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders by Aliette de Bodard. 
• Carolyn Cushman reviews The Queen's Bargain by Anne Bishop and Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore. 
• Rob Bedford reviews The Sin in the Steel by Ryan Van Loan.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar.
• Alasdair Stuart reviews Savage Legion by Matt Wallace. 
• Alex Brown reviews Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings.
• Stephen King reviews Afterland by Lauren Beukes.
• Matthew Keeley reviews The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• Joel Cunningham reviews The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. 
• Bill Capossere, Tadiana Jones and Jana Nyman review The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison. 
• Jason Sheehan reviews Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline.
• Joel Cunningham reviews Middlegame by Seanan McGuire.
• Kelly Lasiter reviews Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez
• Vanessa Armstrong reviews In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire.
• Tobias Carroll reviews Sensation Machine by Adam Wilson. 
• Tadiana Jones reviews TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Exhalation by Ted Chiang. 
• Paula Guran reviews Honeybones by Georgina Bruce and Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin.
  

Classics reviews:

• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1935 science fiction novel Odd John by Olaf Stapledon. 
• Mark Yon revisits the August 1965 issues of New Worlds and Science Fantasy. 
• Paul Fraser revisits the 1972 anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year No. 1, edited by Terry Carr.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1973 science fiction novel The Galactic Rejects by Andrew J. Offutt
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1976 science fiction novel Islands by Marta Randall.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 2003 military science fiction novel Contact Imminent by Kristine Smith.
  

Con and event reports:

• Radio New Zealand reports about CoNZealand, the 2020 Worldcon. 
• CoNZealand Fringe, an unofficial addendum to the 2020 Worldcon, has announced its programming. 
• George R.R. Martin discusses his role at the virtual CoNZealand.
• Emmet Asher-Perrin shares the highlights of the epic fantasy panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con. 
• Christina Orlando shares the highlights of the Own Your Magic panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Andrew Liptak shares the highlights of the Lucasfilm Publishing panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Leah Schnelbach reports about the "Horror Is Queer" panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Leah Schnelbach shares the highlights of the George A. Romero memorial panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Leah Schnelbach shares the highlights of the The 100 panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Leah Schnelbach shares the highlights of the Bill and Ted panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Leah Schnelbach shares the highlights of the Constantine panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Christina Orlando shares the highlights of the Avatar: The Last Airbender panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con. 
• Tor.com shares the highlights of the Adventure Time: The Distant Lands panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con. 
• Tor.com reports about the neXt panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Andrew Liptak reports about the The Right Stuff panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con. 
• Watch the Tor Books panel at the virtual san Diego Comic Con.
• Watch a video of the New Mutants panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Watch The Walking Dead panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Watch the Fear the Walking Dead panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Watch The Walking Dead: World Beyond panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con. 
• Watch a panel on zombies and pandemics at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Watch The Dragon Prince panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con. 
• Watch the Red Dwarf: The Promised Land panel at the virtual San Diego Comic Con.
• Daniel Dern collects all of File 770's coverage of the 2019 Worldcon in Dublin, Ireland, in one place.
• Raven Leilani shares her experiences attending New York Comic Con in New York City for the first time.
• Ginny Smith explains how Salt Lake City, Utah, won the bid to host the 2020 World Fantasy Convention and lost it due to the corona virus.
• Mike Glyer reports that the 2023 Worldcon bid for Nice, France, has been withdrawn. 
• Mike Glyer reports that several mostly British writers have signed an open letter expressing concern about the Worldcon bid for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 
• Alison Flood also reports about the open letter condemning the Saudi Worldcon bid. 
• Mike Glyer shares a press release about the 2023 Worldcon bid for Chengdu, China.
• John Scalzi reports that the JoCo Cruise, a kind of floating convention, has been postponed until 2022 due to the corona virus.
• Lucas Adams reports about the exhibition “As If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now” in New York City.
  

Crowdfunding:

• Don't Touch That, an anthology of parenthood in SFF, edited by Jaymee Goh, is looking for funding.
• The Geek Partnership Society, a community center for geeky activities, is looking for funding.
• The South Passadena Public Library in South Passadena, California, is looking for funding to install three staied glass windows to commemorate Ray Bradbury.
• Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, needs some help to ensure its continued existence.
  

Science and technology:

• The Guardian reports that what are likely active volcanoes have been discovered on Venus.
• Joshua Berlinger and Jessie Yeung report about the largest 3D map of the universe ever created. 
• Jonathan Amos reports that Virgin Galactic is planning more test flights. 
• Paul Rincon reports about the Iter nuclear fusion project in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France.
• Gina Harkins reports that the US Marine Corps will be testing a Starship Troopers like exoskeleton suit.
• David Housewright talks about ghost sightings. 
• Mathematician Ronald A. Graham has died aged 84.
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Mysterious Study of Dr. Sex" by Tamsyn Muir at Tor.com.
• "Minor Mortalities" by E.J. Sidle in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "Strange Comfort" by Tegan Moore in Clarkesworld.
• "Power to Yield" by Bogi Takács in Clarkesworld. 
• "Legal Salvage" by Holli Mintzer in Slate Future Tense. 
• "Hussy Strutt" by Ama Patterson in Nightmare Magazine.
• "When Charlie Sleeps" by Laura Mauro in The Dark.
• "In Little America" by Ken Kalfus in n+1
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for Lovecraft Country.
• Watch a trailer for Helstrom.
• Watch a clip from The Right Stuff.