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, Ms. Marvel and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general, Spiderhead, The Time Traveler's Wife, Lightyear, For All Mankind, Jurassic World: Dominion and Jurassic Park/World in general, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at forty and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Lisa Tuttle offers a round-up of the best recent science fiction and fantasy novels.
- AudioFile Magazine share their favourite science fiction and fantasy audiobooks of 2022 to date.
- Natalie Zutter shares nine science fiction and fantasy books to enjoy this June.
- Tor.com shares all the new horror and genre-bending books coming out in June.
- Tor.com shares all the new YA SFF books coming out in June.
- Erin Swan shares five SFF books about fragile worlds.
- Samit Basu shares immigration advice for fictional dystopias.
- Jason Hong wonders what modern surveillance technology means for superheroes and maintaining their secret identity.
- G.W. Thomas lists overlooked sword and sorcery stories.
- Veronica Henry shares five SFF novels rooted in West African folklore and magic.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction stories about strangers bearing gifts.
- Cole Rush shares five SFF stories that test the limits of bodily consciousness.
- Nathaniel White talks about disability in science fiction.
- Anne Marble shares six things you may not know about horror novels.
- Sam J. Miller shares five SFF books about actual movie monsters.
- Jo Walton shares her reading list for May 2022.
- Astr Vanya talks about cyberpunk and the aesthetic expendable.
- Chelsea Vowel attempts to define indigenous futurism.
- Lincoln Michel points out that it is not the job of the novel to fix society's ills.
- The Library Ladder discusses the history of the pioneering science fiction specialty publisher Gnome Press.
- Gregory Feeley shares his appreciation for the work of Harlan Ellison.
- Ngo Vinh-Hoi shares his appreciation for the work of Lin Carter.
- Sarah Shaffi reports that two unpublished short stories by Shirley Jackson will be published.
- Sarah Baxter reports that even though he is one of the richest writers in the world, James Patterson believes that there is racism in publishing against white men.
- James Patterson apologises for his idiotic remarks regarding racism against white men.
- RPG blogger Shamus Young has died aged 50.
- Science fiction fan and photographer Frank Olynyk has died aged 79.
Comics and Art:
- James Whitbrook calls the story contributed by Kevin Conroy, the voice actor who played Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman the Animated Series, and artist J. Bone to the DC 2022 Pride Anthology a powerfully necessary kick in the gut.
- Rob Bricken reports that Amazon is planning to improve Comixology, after updates had rendered the app nigh unusuable.
- D.M. Ritzlin shares some ridiculously misleading book covers.
- REH World remembers Roy G. Krenkel.
- Davide Mana remembers Ken Kelly.
- Legendary comic artist Tim Sale has died aged 66.
Film and TV:
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the South Korean science fiction film Space Sweepers.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Orville.
- Darrell Schweitzer implores everybody to see The Northman, if they can.
- Jenna Scherer shares her thoughts on season 3 of The Umbrella Academy.
- Leslie Felperin calls Mad God a gruesome stop-motion horror film courtesy of Phil Tippett.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth.
- Linda Codega notes that Crime of the Future is a trans analogy.
- David Agranoff explores the Philip K. Dick-ian themes in Severance.
- Luke Y. Thompson calls The Lost Girls a confusing Peter Pan update.
- Phil Hoad calls Ultrasound a science fiction tinged arthouse film.
- Leah Schnelbach talks about the surprising depth of season 2 of the religious horror TV series Evil.
- Eve Taft calls Escape the Field a mediocre horror film.
- Erin Swan shares her appreciation for Raised by Wolves.
- Ben Child wonders whether Black Adam can rebuilt the DC Extended Universe.
- Michael Hogan wonders why time loop stories are so popular on TV.
- Sabina Graves shares six TV shows and movies that do coming of age nostalgia right and four that don't.
- James Grebey lists ten friendly aliens from film and TV who really did come in peace.
- Rafael Motamajor discusses the challenges of translating and subtitling movies and TV shows in different languages.
- Cheryl Eddy ranks the eleven best SFF roles played by Ethan Hawke.
- Charlotte Edwards interviews Simon Pegg, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, World's End, the Star Trek movie and the Mission Impossible movies and one of only two people to appear in Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who.
- Gabrielle Sanchez interviews V.E. Schwab and Felicia Henderson, creator and showrunner of First Kill.
- Chris Godfrey interviews Pablo Schreiber who plays the Master Chief in the Halo TV series.
- Cheryl Eddy interviews Jim Archer, David Earl and Chris Hayward, director and writers of Brian and Charles.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the 1979 superhero movie Mandrake the Magician.
- Jack Beresford recounts Oliver Stone's plans for a Conan the Barbarian movie which were shelved in favour of the 1982 John Milius movie.
- Katie Gill revisits the 1992 fantasy anime series Sailor Moon for its thirtieth anniversary.
- Actress Sarah Polley recalls how filming Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen under extremely unsafe conditions at the age of eight gave her PTSD.
- Tor.com reports that the South Korean dystopian TV show Squid Game will be getting a second season.
- Vanessa Armstrong reports that The Boys has been renewed for season 4.
- Vanessa Armstrong reports that season 2 of Our Flag Means Death will start shooting in New Zealand this fall.
- The BBC reports that Neil Patrick Harris will appear in the Doctor Who Sixtieth Anniversary Special.
- Voice actor Billy Kametz died aged only 35.
- Singer and actress Julee Cruise, best known for her appearance in Twin Peaks, where she also provided the title song, has died aged 65.
Comments on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek:
- Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach", the latest episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.
- James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach".
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach".
- Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "Carbon Creek"
- Vanessa Armstrong interviews Bernadette Croft, costume designer for Star Trek Strange New Worlds.
- Michele Cobb interviews Wil Wheaton who plays Wesley Crusher in the various Star Trek series.
- Brian Silliman shares the twelve most disturbing moments in the Star Wars movies.
- Sabina Graves reports that Chris Hemsworth would reprise his role as George Kirk, father of James T. and Samuel Kirk, in the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies if asked.
- Alice Rose Dodds explains the story behind the Klingon language from Star Trek.
Comments on Ms. Marvel and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general (spoilers):
- Alasdair Stuart shares his thoughts on Ms. Marvel.
- Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on "Crushed", the latest episode of Ms. Marvel.
- Sarah Shaffi shares her thoughts on "Crushed".
- Swara Salih shares her thoughts on "Crushed".
- Brian Davids interviews Bisha K. Ali, showrunner of Ms. Marvel.
- Artem Golub and Sabina Graves interviews Meera Menon, director of Ms. Marvel.
- Peter Scobel interviews Meera Menon.
- Watch a trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder.
Comments on Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general:
- Emmet Asher-Perrin shares their thoughts on part 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on part 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
- Andy Welch shares his thoughts on part 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
- Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on part 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
- Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on par 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
- James Whitbrook takes a look at the Easter eggs in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
- James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on the not particularly convincing disguise Obi-Wan wears in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
- Linda Codega and Sabina Graves report about racism in Star Wars fandom, including the recent racist attacks on actress Moses Ingram.
- Justin Carter reports that Gary Oldman nearly voiced villain General Grievous in the Star Wars prequels.
Comments on Spiderhead:
- Peter Bradshaw calls Spiderhead a prison experiment film that goes nowhere.
- Courtney Howard declares that Spiderhead explores heady concepts in an easy to swallow form.
- Leah Schnelbach revisits "Escape from Spiderhead" by George Saunders, the 2010 story that Spiderhead is based upon.
- Read "Escape from Spiderhead" by George Saunders in The New Yorker.
Comments on The Time Traveler's Wife:
Comments on Lightyear:
- Sam Stone declares that Lightyear plays it safe, but delivers plenty of cosmic science fiction action.
- Tomris Laffly calls Lightyear an inconsequential Toy Story spin-off.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Lightyear an origin story that reminds him why he loved Pixar in the first place.
- Andrew Pulver reports that the animated children's film Lightyear has been banned in Saudi Arabia because of a same sex kiss.
- Rollo Ross innterviews Chris Evans, who voices the titular character in Lightyear.
- Hadley Freeman interviews James Brolin, one of the voice actors of Lightyear.
- Peter Scobel and Jack Smart interviews Uzo Aduba and Keke Palmer, two of the voice actors of Lightyear.
- Inspired by Lightyear, Nicholas Barber asks why film franchises can no longer look to the future but get mired in flashbacks and prequels.
Comments on season 3 of For All Mankind:
Comments on Jurassic World: Dominion and Jurassic Park in general:
- Arturo Serrano delcares that the Jurassic franchise has gone the way of the dinosaur with Jurassic World: Dominion.
- Foz Meadows watched Jurassic World Dominion, so we don't have to.
- Germain Lussier shares fifteen questions he has after Jurassic World: Dominion.
- Todd Gilchrist interviews Colin Treverrow and Emily Carmichael, director and writer of Jurassic World Dominion.
- Kyle Buchanan interviews Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill, three of the stars of Jurassic World Dominion.
- Catherine Shoard interviews Laura Dern.
- Jack Smart interviews DeWanda Wise, one of the stars of Jurassic World Dominion.
- Germain Lussier and Artem Golub interviews Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, two more stars of Jurassic World Dominion.
- Germain Lussier ranks the Jurassic Park/World films from best to worst.
- Paleontologist Mark Loewen reviews several dinosaur movies with regard to accuracy.
- Catherine Shoard reports that dinosaur theme parks, toy manufacturers and archaeological sites in the UK are hoping for a bump in profits due to Jurassic World: Dominion.
Comments on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at forty:
Awards:
- The longlist for the 2022 Goldboro Books Glass Bell Awards has been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Robert E. Howard Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Ursa Major Awards have been announced.
- The finalists for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2022 Prix Jacques-Brossard has been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced.
- David Barnett reports that the Costa Book Awards, formerly known as the Whitbread Prize, will be discontinued after fifty years.
- Adri Joy and Joe Sherry discuss the 2022 Hugo finalists for Best Dramatic Presentation.
- Tantroo McNally discusses some issues with the Ursa Major Awards.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Steven Pressfield talks about writing the big moment.
- Matt Bondurant shares his approach to writing historical fiction.
- Carter Bays talks about the transition from writing screenplays to writing novels and how he learned to trust his process.
- Andrew Albanese reports that a judge in Maryland has declared the state's e-book library price law unconstitutional.
- Elizabeth Blair reports that a fireproof copy of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood has been auctioned off for 130000 US-dollars to help fight book bans.
Interviews:
Reviews:
- Aigner Loren Wilson reviews Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine.
- Hannah Renee reviews The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt.
- John Mauro reviews Death's End by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu.
- Mike Glyer reviews In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Mercury Rising by R.W.W. Greene.
- Marion Deeds and Bill Capossere review Last Exit by Max Gladstone.
- Brian Murphy reviews Thune's Vision by Schuyler Hernstrom.
- Alex Preston reviews Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott.
- C.T. Phipps reviews Cold As Hell by Rhett C. Bruno.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews For the Throne by Hannah Whitten.
- John Valeri reviews Secret Identity by Alex Segura.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi.
- Colleen Mondor reviews Only a Monster by Vanessa Len.
- Vanessa Armstrong reviews Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro.
- Roseanna Pendlebury reviews All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay.
- Ian Mond reviews My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake.
- Maya C. James reviews Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo.
- Tadiana Jones reviews Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City by Christian McKay Heidicker.
- Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin.
- Lee Mandelo reviews Boys, Beasts and Men by Sam J. Miller.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Heroic Hearts, edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes.
Classics reviews:
- Kat Hooper and Sandy Ferber revisit the 1918 lost world novel Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs,
- Bobby Derie revisits the 1927 horror story "The Canal" by Everil Worrell.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1967 sword and sorcery collection King Kull by Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter.
- Victoria Silverwolf revisits the July 1967 issue of Fantastic.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1970 science fiction novel To Venus, To Venus by David Grinnell a.k.a. Donald A. Wollheim.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 gothic novel The Terrified Heart by Alicia Grace a.k.a. Irving Greenfield.
- Joachim Boaz revisits the 1976 science fiction collection The Grain Kings by Keith Roberts.
- Young People Read Old SFF revisit the 1977 first contact story "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson.
- Joachim Boaz revisits the 1984 planetary romance Moon-Flash by Patricia A. McKillip.
- Alissa Burger revisits the 1992 YA horror novel The Perfume and the 1994 YA horror novel The Twins by Caroline B. Cooney.
- Emmet Asher-Perrin revisits the 1996 Discworld fantasy novel Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
- Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys revisit the 1998 Lovecraftian horror story "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link.
Con and event reports:
- Chicon 8, the 2022 Worldcon in Chicago, Illinois, has added Steven Barnes and Tanarive Due as additional guests of honour.
- Richard Fife reports that urban fantasy author Faith Hunter groped him while drunk at the 2022 JordanCon in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Mike Glyer reports that Faith Hunter has apologised for her behaviour towards Richard Fife and others and that she has withdrawn from all conventions in 2022.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch reports about the 2022 Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Sheila Williams reports about the 2022 Dell Magazine Awards ceremony in Orlando, Florida.
- Walter Jon Williams reports about the 2022 Taos Toolbox writing workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Martin Morse Wooster reports about the puppet play Under the Sea with Dredgie McGee, performed in Tysons, Virginia.
- Chris Wiegand calls the stage adaptation of Judith Kerr's Mog the Forgetful Cat, which is currently being performed in Northhampton, UK, a miaow-vellous treat.
- Reid McCarter reports that a robotic Spider-Man crashed during a performance at the Avengers Campus attraction in Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
Science and technology:
- Harry Baker reports that a Martian rock has hitchhiked a ride on the Perseverance Mars rover for 120 days.
- Matt Novak shares some predictions for the future from 1955.
- Gideon Marcus reports about the Mariner 5 and Venera 4 space probes launched in 1967.
- Richard Luscombe reports that Google engineer Blake Lemoine was put on leave after he claimed that a chat bot had become sentient.
- Oddity Central reports that an inventor in Japan has developed a spider-legged nightlight robot.
- Joanne Burn talks about medicine in the seventeenth century.
Free online fiction:
- "We Built This City" by Marie Vibbert in Clarkesworld.
- "There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista" by Isabel Cañas on Nightmare Magazine.
- "Notes on the Shadow World" by Mandisi Nkomo in Omenana.
- "The Land Beneath Her" by Tegan Moore in The Dark.
- "The Crowning of the Lord Tazenket, Vulture God of the Eye, Part II" by S.G. Demciri in Lightspeed.
- "One Basket" by C.C. Finlay in Lightspeed.
- "The Little Soldier" by Michael Aaron Harrington in Wyngraf Magazine.
- "Baba Nowruz Gives His Wife a Flower Only Once a Year" by Fatima Taqvin in Fantasy Magazine.
- "Different Kinds of Thorn" by Devin Miller in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "Forte" by Samuel Chapman in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "Osteomancy" by Jenny Grieve in Luna Station Quarterly.
- "Better With Age" by Alex Beecher in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
- "The Last King of Mercia" by David Barber in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.
- "A Flower for My Love" by Deacon Kane in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Music for the End of Days" by Brenda Joyce Anderson in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Four Pieces of Advice on the Selection of a Familiar" by Kelly M. Sandoval in Daily Science Fiction.
- "The Ice Cream I Eat Is Called Depression" by Sarina Dorie in Daily Science Fiction.
- "In the City of Glaring Chocolates" by Tara Campbell in Daily Science Fiction.
- "Playing with Reality" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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