Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for February 4, 2022

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with The Book of Boba Fett and Star Wars in general, the many iterations of Star Trek,  Moonfall, Station Eleven, You Won't Be Alone, The Batman and the various DC Comics based movies and TV shows, tributes to Dave Farland, Ron Goulart and Holger M. Pohl and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Tor.com shares all the new science fiction books coming out in February.
  
• Tor.com shares all the new fantasy books coming out in February. 
• Tor.com shares all the new horror and genre-bending books arriving in February.
  
• Tor.com shares all the new YA SFF coming out in February.
  
• Cheryl Eddy share 42 science fiction and fantasy books coming out in February. 
  
• The 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List is out.
  
• J. Dianne Dotson shares sixty science fiction books all SFF fans should read. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five flawed SFF books that are still worth rereading.
  
• Adrian Tchaikovsky shares books about generation ships. 
• Charlie Jane Anders shares five science fiction books about humans colonising other planets. 
• Tika Viteri explains how they are decolonising their SFF reading.
  
• Kristi DeMeester talks about Southern Gothic and how growing up in the US South has influenced her writing.  
• Jacquelyn Mitchard wonders why we feel so much empathy for villains.
• Erin Bow lists five YA SFF books with great opening lines. 
• Kali Wallace shares SFF books about films and other media that mess people up.
  
• Meg Elison discusses Stephen King's fatphobia. 
• Jonathan Thornton shares his appreciation for the works of Roz Kaveney.
  
• Michael Moreci shares his appreciation for Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. 
• Deuce Richardson takes a look of Edmond Hamilton's stories for Weird Tales.
  
• Jeff Goad profiles Philip José Farmer. 
• Andrew Neiderman reports that Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews was banned from many school and even adult libraries
  
• Giselle Anatol is the new Director of the J Wayne and Elsie M Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. 
• The Por Por Books Blog remembers Ron Goulart.
  
• Watch a video tribute to Dave Wolverton a.k.a. Dave Farland.
• German SFF writer, editor and fan Holger M. Pohl died aged 63.
• Dirk van den Boom remembers Holger M. Pohl.
  

 

Comics and Art:

• James Whitbrook declares that the return of Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples after a three year hiatus feels as if the series never left. 
• James Whitbrook reviews the comic anthology Young Men in Love, edited by Joe Glass and Matt Miner.
  
• Rachel Cooke reviews the graphic novel Diego Rivera by Francisco de la Mora and José Luis Pescador
• Deuce Richardson shares his appreciation for the art of George M. Barr.
• Michael Cavna reports about Art Spiegelman's reaction to the banning of his Holocaust graphic novel Maus in a Tennessee school district. 
• Rob Bricken reports about an upcoming Archie/Riverdale crossover.
  
• James Whitbrook reports about Marvel's upcoming summer crossover event Judgment Day.
• James Whitbrook also shares a guide to the latest crop of X-Men comics.
  

 

Film and TV:

• The Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog calls the German android romantic comedy I'm Your Man the best robot movie since 1959 and well worthy of a Hugo nod. 
• Martin Edwards declares that the Bond film No Time to Die was worth the wait. 
  
• Stuart Heritage declares that the South Korean zombie series All of Us Are Dead will blow you away.  
• Cheryl Eddy calls Brian and Charles a delightful science fiction comedy about a human-robot friendship. 
• Graeme Virtue shares his appreciation for the science fiction movie Prospect. 
• Camestros Felapton shares his thhoughts on the South Korean science fiction horror film The Silent Sea.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Glasshouse a dreamy dystopian horror film.
  
• Phuong Le calls The Wanting Mare an atmospheric but confused post-apocalyptic fantasy. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Belle an intriguing animated spectacle. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the Norwegian time travel series Beforeigners.
  
• Alex McLevy calls The Requin a dumb horror movie with a very fake looking CGI shark.
  
• Cath Clarke explains how Disney's animated film Encanto strikes a chord in a diverse world. 
• Jesse Hassenger calls The Ice Age Adventures Of Buck Wild a generic chunk of content. 
• Cole Rush explains why Denis Villeneuve's planned adaptation of A Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke could be truly great.  
  
• Kaya Kanda shares her favourite horror movies starring middle-aged and older women. 
• Cheryl Eddy shares eight horror movies to watch after Archive 81. 
• Circe Moskowitz muses which filmic monsters might make good romantic partners. 
  
• Remco van Straten reports about the 1919 Dutch vampire movie Vampire: The Scourge of Amsterdam.
• Robert M. Price revisits the 1981 fantasy film Excalibur.
  
• Camestros Felapton revisits the 2002 Firefly episode "Ariel". 
• Pete Hammond interviews the three Spider-Men Tom Holland, Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield. 
• Nick Spacek interviews Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt, creators of the animated film The Spine of Night.
  
• Stuart Heritage reports about a flurry of movies based on Mattel Toys that are in production. 
• Bev Lyons reports about some Easter eggs hidden in the latest series of Doctor Who. 
• Borys Kit reports that an adaptation of Karl Edward Wagner's Kane novels and stories is in the works. 
  
• Michael Carlson remembers Yvette Mimieux, star of The Time Machine, The Black Hole, The Desperate Hours, The Most Deadly Game and Jackson County Jail.
• Italian actress Monica Vitti, star of L'Avventura, Modesty Blaise and The Girl with the Pistol has died aged 90.
  

 

Comments on The Book of Boba Fett and Star Wars in general: 

• Emmet Asher-Perrin shares their thoughts on "From the Desert Comes a Stranger", the latest episode of The Book of Boba Fett. 
• Nick Wanserski shares his thoughts on "From the Desert Comes a Stranger". 
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "From the Desert Comes a Stranger". 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "From the Desert Comes a Stranger".
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on "From the Desert Comes a Stranger". 
  
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on The Book of Boba Fett episode "The Return of the Mandalorian". 
• Germain Lussier declares that the cliffhanger at the end of "From the Desert Comes a Stranger" can only go one way.
  
• Andrew Liptak geeks out about spotting a Ringworld in The Book of Boba Fett. 
• Darren Mooney wonders why there is nostalgia for The Phantom Menace, the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies and similar films which were not well received at the time.
  
• Germain Lussier reminds us why George Lucas made and loved the Star Wars Special Editions.
• Steven Morris reports that the original Millennium Falcon prop was built in Pembroke Dock, Wales, and this will soon be commemorated by a special exhibition.
  

 

Comments on the many iterations of Star Trek: 

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on the two-parter "A Moral Star", the midseason finale of Star Trek Prodigy.
  
• Galactic Journey revisits the 1967 Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday".
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode"Cold Front".
  
• Jenna Busch explains how Whoopie Goldberg came by her role in Star Trek: The Next Generation. 
• Alvaro Zinos-Amaro shares his thoughts on the Star Trek Coda trilogy of tie-in novels.
• James Whitbrook explains that Paramount wants to make even more Star Trek shows.
• Molly Templeton speculates that the next Star Trek show may well be a Starfleet Academy show.
  

 

Comments on The Batman and the various DC Comics based movies and TV-shows:

• Jarrod Jones shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Legends of Tomorrow. 
• Jarrod Jones shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Peacemaker.
  
• Ben Child expects The Batman to be seriously messed up, which he enjoys.
• William Mullally interviews Matt Reeves, director of The Batman.
• Matt Maytum interviews Robert Pattinson, star of The Batman.
• Justin Carter reports that The Flash has been renewed for season 9.
  

 

Comments on Moonfall:

• Mike D'Angelo calls Moonfall a moonfail.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Moonfall a big budget folly and really, really bad.
  
• Rob Bricken interviews John Bradley, star of Game of Thrones and Moonfall.  
• Stuart Heritage reports about the scaled down premiere party for Roland Emmerich's film Moonfall in Hollywood, California.  

 

Comments on Station Eleven:

• Elle Hunt declares that Station Eleven pulled off the impossible and delivered an uplifitng post-apocalyptic series. 
• Lucy Mangan calls Station Eleven a beautiful vision of a plague-ravaged planet.
  

 

Comments on You Won't Be Alone:

• Benjamin Lee calls You Won't Be Alone a spellbinding tale of a body-switching witch from Macedonia. 
  
• Cheryl Eddy calls You Won't Be Alone a beautiful and brutal fairy tale.
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2021 Stabby Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2022 Romantic Novel Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2021 Nyabola Prize for SFF in Kiswahili have been announced
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Tähtivaeltaja Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2022 Darrell Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2022 Audie Awards have been announced.
  
• The nominations for the 2022 Bafta Awards have been announced with some love for genre films.
  
• The nominees for the 2022 Bafta Rising Star Award have been announced with some love for genre actors. 
• The 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is open for nominations.
  
• The 2022 Baen Fantasy Adventure Contest is open for submissions.
• The 2021 Locus Award survey is open for voting.
• Nerds of a feather share their Hugo recommendations for the fiction categories.
• Nerds of a feather share their Hugo recommendations for the graphic story and dramatic presentation categories.
• Nerds of a feather share their Hugo recommendations for the individual categories. 
• Nerds of a feather also share their Hugo recommendations for the semiprozine, fanzine, fancast and best related work categories. 
  
• Adri Joy and Joe Sherry discuss the 2021 Hugo winners.
• Ira Alexandre shares an FAQ regarding a potential games Hugo.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Walter Jon Williams complains about lazy idiot plots.
  
• Ella Syverson talks about fanfiction as reconstructive worldbuilding. 
• Delilah S. Dawson talks about character transformation. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about time management for writers.
  
• Tim Waggoner talks about writers' cliques and cabals and why those are a myth, even if writing friendships are valuable.
  
• SF Canada, the national science fiction professionals' organisation of Canada, has voted to remove former president Peter Halasz from its organisation.
  
• Alison Flood reports that the entire first print runs of two cookbooks have been lost at sea, when more than sixty containers went overboard during a storm in the Atlantic. 
• Maya Yang reports about the eight-year-old author Dillon Helbig who snuck a handwritten and hand-illustrated book into a library in Idaho only to have it welcomed by librarians.
  
• Alison Flood reports that the Gaza Bookshop, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, is able to reopen after a global donation campaign.
• Mike Glyer reports that Don Blyly has found new premises for the Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's science fiction and mystery specialty bookstores, after the old building was burned down during the riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, following the death of George Floyd by police violence.
  

Interviews:

• Constance Grady interviews Tamsyn Muir. 
• Erica Friedman interviews Ada Palmer. 
• Sanina Clark interviews Nnedi Okorafor.
  
• Arley Sorg interviews Max Gladstone.
• Arley Sorg interviews Zoraida Córdova. 
  
• Paul Burke interviews Dean Koontz. 
  
• Locus interviews Nilah Magruder.
  
• Juana Summers interviews Tochi Onyebuchi. 
• Oliver Brackenbury interviews Jordan Smith. 
• Oliver Brackenbury interviews Matt John.  
• Cora Buhlert interviews David Agranoff. 
• Cora Buhlert interviews Liz Batty, John Coxon and Alison Scott.
• Rebecca E. Treasure interviews Binaca Sayan.
  
• Nigel Warburton interviews Eric Schwitzgebel.
• Anthony Cummins interviews Gary Shteyngart
  

Reviews:

• Marion Deeds reviews You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo.
• Marion Deeds reviews Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes. 
  
• Alasdair Stuart reviews Gearbreakers by Zoe Hanna Mikuta.  
• Jennie Ivins reviews Captain Wu by Patrice Fitzgerald and Jack Lyster.
  
• Jennie Ivins reviews Monster of the Dark by K.T. Belt.
  
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews Cyber Mage by Saad Z. Hossain. 
• Mark Yon reviews Sam Gunn Jr. by Ben Bova.
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews The Beholden by Cassandra Rose Clarke 
• Lee Mandelo reviews Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly.
  
• FanFiAddict reviews Jade War by Fonda Lee.
  
• Carrie Chi Lough reviews Empire of Shadows by Alicia Wanstall-Burke. 
• Rob Bedford reviews Engines of Empire by R.S. Ford.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Temple of No God by H.M. Long. 
• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye.
  
• Colleen Mondor reviews The Sisters of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis. 
• Chris Haught reviews Spirit of Vengeance by Rob J. Hayes.
  
• FanFiAddict reviews The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley.
  
• Paul Weimer reviews A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed. 
• Tobias Carroll reviews How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
  
• Alex Brown reviews Journey to the Heart of the Abyss by London Shah. 
• Seanan McGuire reviews Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Shady Hollow by Juneau Black.
  
• Jennie Ivins reviews What Branches Grow by T.S. Beier.
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Freedom’s Rampart: The Russian Invasion of New Zealand by Katherine Foy. 
• John Gradoville reviews The Widow's Son by Ryan Williamson.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Devil House by John Darnielle.
• Leah Schnelbach reviews Devil House by John Darnielle. 
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Elevation by Stephen King. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Hovering by Dorothy-Jane Daniels.
  
• Marion Deeds reviews The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Lost Objects by Marian Womack. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Cat Pictures, Please and Other Stories by Naomi Kritzer. 
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Mestiza Blood by V. Castro.
• Paul Levinson reviews "The Next Frontier" by Rosemary Claire Smith in Analog.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, edited by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
• John Parker reviews Shadow Voices. 300 Years of Irish Genre Fiction: A History in Stories, edited by John Connolly.
  

 
Classics reviews:

• Christopher M. Chupik revisits the 1900 lost world novel The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis by C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne. 
• The Cryptofictional Records Wing revisits the 1929 space opera Outside the Universe by Edmond Hamilton. 
• Fletcher Vredenburgh revisits the 1932 Solomon Kane horror story "Wings in the Night" by Robert E. Howard.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the 1934 Poseidonis fantasy story "The Death of Malygris" by Clark Ashton Smith. 
• Alan Brown revisits the 1935 Doc Savage novel Murder Melody by Kenneth Robeson a.k.a. Lester Grant and the 1991 Doc Savage novel Escape From Loki by Phlip José Farmer.  
• Brian Murphy revisits the 1940 historical fantasy novel The Harp and the Blade by John Myers Myers. 
  
• Benjamin Espen revisits the 1951 Eric John Stark sword and planet novella "Black Amazon of Mars" by Leigh Brackett. 
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1951 science fiction short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1952 children's science fiction novel Space Cat and its sequels by Ruthven Todd. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1959 James Bond novel Goldfinger by Ian Fleming.
  
• Gideon Marcus revisits the February 1967 issue of Analog.
  
• The Por Por Books Blog revisits the 1969 sword and sorcery novel The Sword of the Morning Star by Richard Meade a.k.a. Ben Haas. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1972 time travel novel Time's Last Gift by Philip José Farmer. 
  
• Talking Pulp revisits the 1972 sword and sorcery novel Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock.
• The Por Por Books Blog revisits the 1973 sword and sorcery trilogy The Swords of Corum by Michael Moorcock. 
• Jordan D. Smith and Oliver Brackenbury revisit the 1973 Kane sword and sorcery story "Cold Light" by Karl Edward Wagner. 
• Young People Read Old SFF revisit the 1973 science fiction story "Wings" by Vonda N. McIntyre.
  
• Carmen Maria Machado revisits the 1977 dystopian novel They by Kay Dick. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1978 science fiction novel Colony by Ben Bova. 
• Daniel J. Davis revisits the 1981 short fiction collection Fantasy by Poul Anderson.
  
• M. Porcius revisits the 1981 horror anthology Whispers III, edited by Stuart David Schiff.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the April/May 1981 issue of White Dwarf. 
• The Appendix N Book Club revisits the 1984 fantasy novel The Black Company by Glen Cook.
  
• Judith Tarr revisits the 1990 horror novel The Jekyll Legacy by Robert Bloch and Andre Norton.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1991 anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.  
  
• Emmet Asher-Perrin revisits the 1993 Discworld novel Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett.
• Lovia Gyarkye revisits the 2005 vampire novel Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• The Vampire Hunter D: Message From Mars graphic novel is looking for funding.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• r/Fantasy shares the program for the virtual 2022 StabbyCon. 
• Sara Light-Waller explains why people should attend PulpFest 50 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  
• Michael Dirda reports about the exhibition Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects at the Grolier Club in New York City.
• Kate Wyver reports about the SFF stage play The Glow which is currently playing in London, UK.
  
• Dan Solomon reports that Michelle Evans, a Republican candidate from Texas, has some very strange ideas about furries.  

 

Science and technology:

• Molly Templeton reports that the Perseverance rover had to do a "dance" on Mars to shake loose some pebbles which have gotten stuck in its treads. 
• Joey Roulette reports about the proposed Japanese Hakuto-R lunar lander.  
• Connor Friedersdorf wonders whether artificial wombs would mean liberation for women or whether they are a dangeorus folly.
  
• Justin Malonson talks about the dangers of quantum computing.
  
• Nina Lakhani reports that Phoenix, Arizona, is almost unlivable in summer and about the measures to cool it down a little.
• Kaye Dee reports about the tragic loss of the crew of Apollo 204 due to a fire during a ground test.
• Jim Cornelius chronicles the career of 18th century pirate Sam Bellamy.
• Alan Judd delves into the mystery of who killed Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Free online fiction:

• "Seven Beacons Burning" by Leanne Howard in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "Once on a Midsummer's Night" by Vanessa Fogg in GigaNotoSaurus. 
• "Not Creator, Not Destroyer" by Anjali Sachdeva in Lightspeed. 
• "Plausible Realities, Implausible Dreams" by Isabel J. Kim in Lightspeed.
  
• "The Massage Lady at the Munjeong Road Bathhouse" by Isabel J. Kim in Clarkesworld
• "The Plasticity of Youth" by Marissa Lingen in Clarkesworld. 
• "Godmaker" by J.A. Prentice in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 
• "Clay" by Isabel J. Kim in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  
• "Suffer, the Children" by Kristi DeMeester in The Dark. 
  
• "Make Sure to Breed Two, Then the Tree Needs You" by Jason L. Corner in Sword and Sorcery Magazine. 
• "If We Make It Through This Alive" by A.T. Greenblatt in Slate Future Tense.
  
• "The Reprieve" by Darrell Schweitzer in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.
• "Sensema of the Zabbaleen" by Ramez Yoacheim in Anathema.
• "The Summer Castle" by Ray Nayler in Nightmare Magazine.
  
• "The Unseen" by Allahrakhi Memon in Fantasy Magazine. 
• "Sheer in the Sun, They Pass" by Hester J. Rook in Fireside Magazine. 
• "Lamia" by Cristina Jurado, translated by Monica Louzon in Apex Magazine.
  
• "The Future History of Your Body" by Davian Aw in Daily Science Fiction.
• "Faith" by Mario Milosevic in Daily Science Fiction.
• "Shadow Helper" by Eric M. Witchey in Daily Science Fiction.
• "She Died As She Lived" by Riley Tao in Daily Science Fiction.
• "Space Unicorns and Magic Ovens" by Liam Hogan in Daily Science Fiction.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Halo. 
• Watch a trailer for Glasshouse.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Space Force. 
• Watch a trailer for The Boys: Diabolical.
  
• Watch a trailer for Disenchantment, Part 4. 
• Watch a trailer for They Live in the Gray.
  
• Watch a trailer for yet another version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.