Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for May 27, 2022

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek, the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general, Doctor Who past and present, season 4 of Stranger Things, Three Thousand Years of Longing, The Time Traveler's Wife, Our Flag Means Death, Night Sky, Crimes of the Future, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Conan the Barbarian at forty, the 2022 Nebula Award winners, an uproar at the Nebula conference, tributes to Colin Cantwell and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Linda Codega recommends science fiction and fantasy magazines to check out. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction books featuring flights into exile.
  
• R.W.W. Green shares five SFF road trip stories to enjoy.
• Oliver Brackenbury and Nicole Emmelhainz discuss feminism in sword and sorcery. 
• Sandra Newman talks about the controversial new wave of feminist utopias.
  
• Cole Rush shares five fictional texts within texts with dark and mysterious implications (and managed to miss the Necronomicon, let along The King in Yellow or Das Buch der unaussprechlichen Kulte). 
• Nina Nesseth shares five horror books that will forever change how you look at everyday objects. 
• David Yoon shares his ten favourite apocalyptic novels. 
• Molly Templeton talks about travelling and reading.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares his appreciation for the work of Hal Clement for his 100th birthday.
  
• Brian Murphy shares his appreciation for the works of Manly Wade Wellman.
  
• Steve Bean shares his appreciation for the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny. 
• Michael J. Sullivan explains how Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories inspired him.
  
• Terence E. Hanley takes a look at theosophical writers publishing in Weird Tales. 
• Daniel Côté Davis explains why he believes that J.R.R. Tolkien should be named a saint of the Catholic church.
  
• Joe Reid shares his appreciation for the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis. 
• Paul Weimer remembers Patricia McKillip.
  
• Italian science fiction, fantasy and horror author Valerio Evangelisti has died aged 68.
• French science fiction and crime fiction writer Joel Houssin has died aged 69.
  

Comics and Art:

• Fabienne Schwizer reviews the graphic novel Clementine by Tillie Walden.
  
• Matt Davis reviews the crime graphic novel Gun Honey by Charles Ardai and Ang Hor Kheng.
• Nicholas Diak reviews the Viking themed comic series Seidr by Michael Nunnely and Tosin Awosika. 
• Mike Glyer shares several Marvel Comics variant covers to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Spider-Man.
• Deuce Richardson shares his appreciation for the artwork of Angus McBride.
• Bill Ward takes a look at the many different covers Roger Zelazny's novels have had over the years.
• Bill Ward takes a look at the many covers Fred Saberhagen's novels have had over the years.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Hugh Hart discusses the new wave of prestigious SFF shows on TV.
• Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg discuss Everything Everywhere All At Once. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Moonage Daydream a glorious shapeshifting eulogy to David Bowie.
  
• Lucy Mangan declares that the documentary Prehistoric Planet will make you think you are watching real dinosaurs. 
• Phil Hoad calls Boonie Bears: Back to Earth a messy animated film from China. 
• The AV Club rank their five favourite episodes of Black Mirror. 
• Stuart Heritage ranks his top twenty dinosaur movies.
  
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Elisabeth Moss, star of The Shining Girls, The Handmaid's Tale and Mad Men. 
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Seth McFarlane, star and creator of The Orville.
  
• Nick Romano interviews showrunner Eric Kripke as well as the cast of The Boys.
• Angelique Jackson interviews Laura Dern, Bryce Dallas Howard and DeWandaWise, three of the stars of Jurassic World: Dominion. 
  
• Mara Reinstein shares twenty-one little known facts about the 1982 science fiction film E.T. the Extraterrestrial for its fortieth anniversary. 
• Noah Gittel revisits the 1992 science fiction horror film Alien 3 for its thirtieth anniversary and finds it a fascinating failure. 
• Liz Harmer revisits the 1995 X-Files episode "Die Hand, die verletzt".
  
• Germain Lussier revisits the 1997 dinosaur movie Jurassic Park: Lost World for its twenty-fifth anniversary.   
• Dan Persons revisits the 2016 science fiction film Arrival. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2016 horror film 10 Cloverfield Lane. 
• Nick Kolakowski revisits the 2020 time travel thriller Tenet and declares that it deserves a second chance.
  
• Steve Rose reports why so many Hollywood filmmakers collaborate with the US military and how the US military influences the resulting films.
  
• The Guardian reports that the auction of one of the dresses worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz has been stopped over an ownership dispute. 
• The Guardian reports that actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with three counts of sexual assault against young men.
  
• Film scholar and critic Denis Meikle has died aged 74.
  
• Actor Kenneth Walsh who appeared in Twin Peaks, The Day After Tomorrow and Star Trek Discovery among many others has died aged 80.
  

 

Comments on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek: 

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Ghosts of Illyria", the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Ghosts of Illyria". 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Ghosts of Illyria". 
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on the debut episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
  
• Ryan Parker interviews Ethan Peck who plays Mr. Spock in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. 
• Ryan Parker interviews Anson Mount who plays Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.  
• Ryan Parker interviews Celia Rose Gooding who plays Cadet Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.   
• Ryan Parker interviews Adrian Holmes who plays Admiral Robert April in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.  
  
• Joe Milo shares Star Trek Deep Space Nine writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe's response to complaints that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is "too woke". 
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares an overview over season 1 of Star Trek Enterprise.
  
• H&I reports about some issues getting the Orions to look right on screen in the original Star Trek.
• Andrew Liszewski shares photos of the Playmobil USS Enterprise playset.
  

 

Comments on the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general (spoilers): 

• Emine Saner interviews Simu Liu, who plays Shang-Chi in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  
• Joe Otterson reports that a  new Daredevil TV show is in the works for Disney+.
  
• Ray Flook has some questions regarding the upcoming Marvel TV series Secret Invasion.
• Watch a trailer for Ms. Marvel.
• Watch a trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder.
  

 

Comments on Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general: 

• Germain Lussier interviews Deborah Chow, showrunner of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Adele Ankers also interviews Deborah Chow.
• Brandon Louis interviews Ewan McGregor who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in the eponymous series.
  
• Chris Godfrey interviews Hayden Christensen who plays Anakin Skywalker a.k.a. Darth Vader in several Star Wars movies and TV series. 
• Anthony Breznican interviews Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna, showrunner and star of Andor. 
• Writers of Gizmodo share their favourite Star Wars memories for the movie's forty-fifth anniversary.
  
• Colin Cantwell, concept artist for the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 90. 
• Ryan Parker remembers Colin Cantwell. 
• Sian Cain remembers Colin Cantwell. 
• Watch a clip from Obi-Wan Kenobi. 
• Watch a trailer for Andor.
  

Comments on Doctor Who past, present and future:  

• Martin Belam revisits the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
• Rachel Aroesti interviews Yasmin Finney who will appear in the upcoming series of Doctor Who.
  

 

Comments on season 4 of Stranger Things: 

• Saloni Gajjar calls season of Stranger Things exhilarating, but bogged down by its own runtime.
• Linda Codega declares that the format of Stranger Things season 4 is bad television.  
  
• Austin Considine reports that season 4 of Stranger Things has much longer episodes than most TV series. 
• The AV Club shares sixteen burning questions before season 4 of Stranger Things begins.
  
• Alison Foreman wonders how Stranger Things will deal with the coming out of the character Robin in season 3.
  
• Ben Child wonders whether Stranger Things can out Netflix, which has been bleeding subscribers, back on track.
  
• Vanessa Armstrong speculates about possible Stranger Things spin-offs.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 4 of Stranger Things.
  
• Watch the first eight minutes of season 4 of Stranger Things. 
  

 

Comments on Three Thousand Years of Longing:

• Xan Brooks calls Three Thousand Years of Longing an Arabian Nights-style fantasy about the relationship between an ancient genie and a London academic.
• Vanessa Thorpe interviews George Miller, director of Three Thousand Years of Longing. 
• Watch a trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing. 

 

Comments on The Time Traveler's Wife:

• Natalie Zutter shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Time Traveler's Wife.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Time Traveler's Wife.
• Emma Beddington interviews Rose Leslie, star of Game of Thrones and The Time Traveler's Wife.
  

 

Comments on Our Flag Means Death: 

• Samara Breger talks about Our Flag Means Death and the importance of queer fantasy.  
• Alison Foreman interviews Rory Kinnear, star of Our Flag Means Death and Men. 
• Linda Codega interviews Maggie Phillips, music supervisor for Our Flag Means Death and many other shows.

 

Comments on Night Sky:

• Lauren Chval calls Night Sky a compelling science fiction family drama. 
  
• Lucy Mangan is not particularly interested in Night Sky's science fiction plot, but praises the performances of Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons.
• Paul Levinson calls Night Sky a memorable story about interstellar portals and also praises the performance of Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons.
  

 

Comments on Crimes of the Future:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Crimes of the Future a body horror sensation by David Cronenberg. 
• Jordan Hoffman notes that Crimes of the Future revisits ideas and iconography from David Cronenberg's past.
  

Conan the Barbarian at forty: 

• Brian Murphy revisits the 1982 sword and sorcery film Conan the Barbarian for its fortieth anniversary.
• Jim Cornelius revisits Conan the Barbarian for its fortieth anniversary.
  

 

Comments on Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers:

• Arturo Serrano declares that Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers dissects the dangers of nostalgia.
  
• Benjamin Lee calls Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers a surprisingly sharp update of the late 1980s cartoon series.
• Jack Smart interviews Akiva Schaffer, director of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers. 

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2021 Nebula Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2022 Space Cowboy Award has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Kurd Laßwitz Preis have been announced.
• The winners of the 2022 Roswell Award have been announced.
• The winners of the 2022 Prix Imaginales has been announced.
• The finalists for the 2022 Xingyun Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2022 2022 Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer Award has been announced.
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on the 2022 Nebula Award winners.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Tori Eldridge discusses how to write across genres while maintaining your "brand".
  
• Marissa Lingen explains what taking criticism truly means.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch shares yet more reasons why writers fail.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that personal information from the SFWA member directory has been scraped and made public.
• 1300 authors of children's and YA books have signed an open letter to protest the recent wave of book bannings in the US.
• Martin Pengelly reports that Margaret Atwood responds to the latest wave of book bannings in the US by creating an unburnable edition of The Handmaid's Tale.
• Kelly Jensen reports that a Republican politician is sueing a Barnes & Noble store in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for carrying the books Gender Queer: A Memoir by Marie Kobabe and A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.
  

Interviews:

• Emma Dries interviews Emily St. John Mandel. 
• Alex Dueben interviews Rachel Pollack.
  
• Johanna Thomas-Corr interviews Sandra Newman.
  
• Rosanna Greenstreet interviews Jacqueline Wilson.
  
• Cat Luria interviews Rine Karr.
• Lisa Morton interviews Taylor Grant.
  
• Hilary Louise Johnson interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
  
• Arley Sorg interviews Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins.
• Guy Hasson interviews Natalie DeVitt.
  

Reviews:

• Camestros Felapton reviews A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine.
  
• Kat Hooper reviews Part-Time Gods by Rachel Aaron. 
• Camestros Felapton reviews A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark.
• Richard Fisher reviews Swords of the Four Winds by Dariel Quiogue 
• Chris Kluwe reviews Tear Down the Throne by Jennifer Estep. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher.
  
• Paul Weimer reviews Neom by Lavie Tidhar. 
• David B. Coe reviews All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay.  
• Marion Deeds reviews The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk.  
• Tobias Carroll reviews End of the World House by Adrienne Celt.
  
• Colleen Mondor reviews Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews To Catch a Moon by Rym Kechacha.
  
• Mahved Murash reviews Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel.
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller. 
• Angela Gualtieri reviews The Hand That Casts The Bone by H.L. Tinsley.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah.
  
• Carrie Chi Lough reviews Thieves' War by Clayton Snyder.
• Paul Weimer reviews Rise of the Mages by Scott Drakeford.
• Adrian Collins reviews Those Above by Daniel Polansky.
  
• Mark Yon reviews Equinox by David Towsey. 
• Rob Bedford reviews The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas. 
• Matt Davis reviews The Doloriad by Missouri Williams. 
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald reviews The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade. 
• Jesse Hudson reviews The This by Adam Roberts.
  
• Patrick McGuinness reviews Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Roden.
• Trisha Low reviews Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda.
• Paperback Warrior reviews The Razorblades in My Head by Donnie Goodman.
  
• Linda Codega reviews Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Someone in Time, edited by Jonathan Strahan.
• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang.
• Charles Payseur reviews Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth, edited by Isa­bela Oliveira and Jed Sabin.
  
• Alex Brown reviews The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, edited by Janelle Monáe.

 

Classics reviews:

• M. Porcius revisits the September 1949 issue of Startling Stories.
• Alan Brown revisits the 1959 postapocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. 
  
• Gideon Marcus revisits the June 1967 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 post-apocalyptic novel Path to Savagery by Robert Edmond Alter.
  
• Bill Ward revisits the 1971 fantasy novel Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny. 
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1971 science fiction story "The Idea" by K.M. O'Donnell a.k.a. Barry Malzberg. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1971 essay collection Witchcraft Today, edited by Martin Ebon.
  
• Ken Lizzi revisits the 1979 sword and sorcery anthology Heroic Fantasy, edited by Gerald W. Page and Hank Reinhardt.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1981 science fiction novel The Many-Colored Land by Julian May.
• Nate Aubin revisits the 2000 speculative novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Everyday Heroes: The Roleplaying Game is looking for funding.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Walker Martin reports about the 2022 Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention in Lombard, Illinois.
  
• Liza Groen Trombi reports about the 2022 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida.
• Rodlyn Mae Banting reports about the 2022 WisCon in Madison, Wisconsin.
• SFWA reports that Mercedes Lackey has been removed from the virtual 2022 Nebula Conference for violating the Code of Conduct.
• Mercedes Lackey has apologised for using an offensive term on a panel, which led to her exclusion from the 2022 Nebula Conference.
  
• Mike Glyer shares the program for the 2022 Westercon in Tonopah, Nevada.
  
• Locus shares some photos of the 2022 Rainforest Writers Village retreat in Lake Quinault, Washington.
• Kevin E.G. Perry reports about the Santa Fe Literary Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Kevin E.G. Perry also reports about a panel with George R.R. Martin at the Santa Fe Literary Festival.
• Jane Ciabattari reports about the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, California.
  

Science and technology:

• Loren Grush reports that Boeing has successfully launched its troubled Starliner spacecraft into orbit for a test flight. 
• Anugraha Sundaravelu reports that NASA is baffled by mysterious signals from the Voyager 1 space probe.
  
• Helena Horton reports that an ancient forest has been found at the bottom of a sinkhole in Guangxi, China. 
• Cora Buhlert reports about the À l'Innovation department store in Brussels in 1967, one of the deadliest building fires in Europe in the twentieth century.
• The BBC reports that The Celestial World Discover'd: Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets by Christiaan Huygens, a rare book speculating about the solar system and alien life published in 1698, has been discovered in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire.

Free online fiction:

• "Moving Day" by L.D. Whitney in Wyngraf Magazine.
  
• "Return to the Tower" by Harry Piper in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.
• "One Day the Cave Will Be Empty" by K.J. Chien in Fantasy Magazine.
  
• "The Best Pierogi in Kocierba" by Agnieska Halas in Luna Station Quarterly. 
  
• "The Many Murders of the Self" by H. Pueyo in The Dark.
• "Field Notes from the Anthropocene" by Priya Chand in Nightmare Magazine.
  
• "How to Acquire a Tongue-eating Louse" by Stacy Hardy in Omenana. 
• "The Cheesemaker and the Undying King" by Lina Rather in Lightspeed.
• "Test 4 Echo" by Peter Watts in Lightspeed. 
  
• "Arbitrium" by Anjali Sachdeva in Tor.com.
• "Mooncake" by Jay Kang Romanus in Anathema.
• "Gamma" by Oskar Källner, translated by Gordon James Jones in Clarkesworld.
• "My Six Hundred Kiloton Life" by T.E. Kinker in Daily Science Fiction.
• "The Hero of Your Own Story" by Anthony W. Eichenlaub in Daily Science Fiction.
• "Tea and Bamboo" by Mary Soon Lee in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "Susurrus and Sapling" by Jamie Lackey in Daily Science Fiction.
• "To Meet the Death Carriage" by Beth Cato in Daily Science Fiction.
• "The Dark Man" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Willow.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Winchesters.
• Watch a trailer for Rubikon.
  
• Watch a trailer for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 3 of For All Mankind.
• Watch a trailer for MultiVersus.
• Watch a trailer for Baymax!