Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for June 10, 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, Ms. Marvel and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general, Doctor Who past, present and future, season 4 of Stranger Things, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Boys, Morbius, The Righteous, Jurassic World: Dominion and Jurassic Park/World in general, the sweetweird debate, tributes to Ken Kelly and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Tor.com shares all the new science fiction books coming out in June. 
  
• Tor.com shares all the new fantasy books coming out in June. 
• Tor.com shares ten expansive SFF worlds to get lost in.
  
• Charlie Jane Anders shares the sweetweird manifesto. 
• Camestros Felapton responds to Charlie Jane Anders. 
• Ana Valens weighs in on the sweetweird debate. 
• Lincoln Michel asks if genre is defined by content or worldview. 
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction worls featuring truly alien versions of Earth.
• Ellen Datlow declares that monstrosity is in the eye of the beholder.
  
• The Hugo Book Club Blog discusses the depiction of monarchies in science fiction.
• Lorna Wallace shares seven scary science fiction diseases that thankfully aren't real. 
• Samit Basu wonders how to be a protagonist when you're not the chosen one and the world is unsaveable.
  
• Travis Miller notes that sword and sorcery heroes don't change or change very little.
• Rogues in the House discuss their sword and sorcery influences.
• Brian Murphy discusses the influences that got him into sword and sorcery.
• Fletcher Vredenburgh takes a look at caveman stories from the pulps.
  
• Brian Murphy shares his appreciation for the works of Manly Wade Wellman. 
• Serbian horror writer and scholar Dejan Ognjanović explains what the works of H.P, Lovecraft mean to him.
• Mary Hynes interviews astronomer Leo Alcorn about his life for cosmic horror. 
• Ken Lizzi discusses Fritz Leiber's influence on Dungeons and Dragons.
• Wen-yi Lee talks about Lady Macbeth and the compulsive power of the monstrous feminine.
  
• Joan Acocella talks about the transformations of Pinocchio.
  
• Rich Horton takes a look at the potential Hugo nominees for 1956.
• Reuters reports that Russia has added science fiction writer Dmitry Glukhovsky to its wanted list for criticising the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Comics and Art:

• Bobby Derie reviews the graphic novel Sangre Bárbara (Barbarian Blood) by El Torres, Joe Bocardo and Manoli Martínez.
• Bobby Derie reviews the graphic novel El Puritano by El Torres, Jaime Infante and Manoli Martínez.
• Matt Davis reviews volume 6 of The Rush by Simon Spurrier and Nathan Gooden. 
• Alan Stewart revisits the August 1972 issue of Conan the Barbarian by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith. 
• Jen Gheller interviews artist Theodora Capat.
• Jean-Paul Garnier interviews artist Austin Hart. 
  
• Benjamin Mara shares his appreciation for the work of Simon Bisley. 
• Bill Ward shares the many different covers that Roger Zelazny's novels have had over the years.
• Michael Barson and Hector DeJean remember Neal Adams. 
  
• Fantasy artist Ken Kelly died aged 76. 
• Brian Murphy remembers Ken Kelly.
  

 

Film and TV: 

• Vivian Lam notes that the campiness of Our Flag Means Death is what drives the show's success.
  
• Paul Hirons calls The Shining Girls a brain-frying serial killer thriller with a difference. 
  
• Lucy Mangan finds the latest TV adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos overly traditional and unsuitable for a time when women's reproductive rights are under attack.
• Sean Dowie calls Undone an underrated gem of a TV show. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 3 premiere of The Orville.
• Saloni Gajjar calls season 3 of Evil a singularly fun ride. 
  
• Matt Davis shares his thoughts on season three of Love, Death + Robots. 
• Cole Rush shares his thoughts on Severance and the importance of honest corporate science fiction. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Man Who Fell to Earth.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Earwig a twisty body horror noir. 
• Luke Y. Thompson calls Unhuman and unwatchable zombie horror comedy.
  
• Amelia Tait talks to several screenwriters about the art of delivering a killer twist for a TV show. 
• Eric Frederiksen shares his favourite science fiction movies of the 1980s. 
• Leah Schnelbach shares her favourite female scientists from science fiction films and TV shows of the 1990s.
  
• Scott Tobias revisits the 1982 horror film Poltergeist for its fortieth anniversary. 
• MeTV shares some little known facts about the 1966 incarnation of the Batmobile.
  
• Jack Smart interviews Maika Monroe, star of It Follows and Watcher.
• Rachel Aroesti interviews Jean Smart, who appeared in Mare of Easttown, 24, Hawaii Five-0, Fargo, Watchmen and many others. 
• Samanth Subramanian shares a brief history of green screens.
  
• The Guardian reports that the British cinema chain CineWorld has cancelled all showings of the movie Lady of Heaven following protests by fundamentalist Muslim groups.
• Nellie Andreeva reports that Masters of the Universe: Revelation is getting a follow-up series entitled Masters of the Universe: Revolution.
   

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

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Spock Amok", the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Spock Amok".
• James Whitbrook shares his tthoughts on "Spock Amok".
• Charlie Jane Anders revisits the 1966 Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
  
• Justin Carter revisits the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for its fortieth anniversary and calls it the film that saved Star Trek. 
• Ethan Alter interviews Nicholas Meyer, director and screenwriter of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "Shockwave, Part II".
  
• James Whitbrook shares the best shore leave episodes from fifty-six years of Star Trek.
• Claire McNear interviews LeVar Burton, who played Geordi LaForge in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  

 

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

• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on "Generation Why", the first episode of Ms. Marvel. 
• Michelle Jaworski shares her thoughts on "Generation Why". 
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on "Generation Why". 
• Sarah Shaffi shares her thoughts on "Generation Why". 
• Swara Salih shares her thoughts on "Generation Why".
  
• Coco Khan interviews Iman Vellani, who plays Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel. 
• Sabina Graves interviews Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, directors of Ms. Marvel.
• Saloni Gajjar and Peter Scobel interview Bisha K. Ali, showrunner of Ms. Marvel. 
• Jason Guerrasio explains how Ms. Marvel directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah persuaded Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige to let them include animated sequences in the show.  
• Ben Child wonders when Marvel will bring the X-Men and the Fantastic Four into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 
• The Inquiry asks why Spider-Man: No Way Home was banned in China.
  
• Ellen E. Jones interviews Wunmi Mosaku, star of Loki, Waking the Dead and We Own This City.
• Watch a trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder.

 

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

• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on part 3 of Obi-Wan Kenobi. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on part 4 of Obi-Wan Kenobi. 
• Andy Welch shares his thoughts on part 4 of Obi-Wan Kenobi. 
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on part 4 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on part 4 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.  
• Emmet Asher-Perrin shares their thoughs on part 4 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  
• James Whitbrook declares that Obi-Wan Kenobi proves that Anakin Skywalker is a drama queen. 
• Michael Hogan interviews Indira Varma who plays Tala in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  
• Germain Lussier wonders how Luke Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano met.
  
• Robert Farley finds some parallels between Luke Skywalker and the character of Pete Mitchell from Top Gun Maverick.
  

Comments on Doctor Who past, present and future: 

• Tom Chapman wonders whether Doctor Who will introduce its own multiverse, now that Yasmin Finney has been announced to be playing another character named Rose Tyler. 
• Jessica Holmes shares her thoughts on the 1967 Doctor Who serial "The Evil of the Daleks".
  
• Patrick Mulkern reports that the late Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert will be honoured with a blue plaque.
  

 

Comments on season 4 of Stranger Things: 

• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on season 3 of Stranger Things.
• Charlie Mason interviews Matt and Ross Duffer, showrunners and creators of Stranger Things.
• Watch a trailer for part 2 of season 4 of Stranger Things.
  

 

Comments on season 3 of The Boys:

• Lucy Mangan calls season 3 of The Boys hilarious, ultraviolent and brilliant.
• Alison Foreman calls season 3 of The Boys a dazzling, disgusting, damning middle finger.
• Chelsea Steiner calls season 3 of The Boys darker, dirtier and more cynical than ever.
• Linda Codega declares that season 3 of The Boys does not live up to its ambitions.
  

 

Comments on The Time Traveler's Wife:

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Time Traveler's Wife.
• Natalie Zutter shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Time Traveler's Wife.
  

 

Comments on Morbius:

• Germain Lussier reports that Morbius returns to theatres thanks to various memes about the movie.
• Justin Carter that Morbius bombed yet again upon its return to theatres.
  

 

Comments on The Righteous: 

• Leslie Felperin calls The Righteous a thoughtful horror film soaked in Catholic guilt. 
• Mark Keizer calls The Righteous a supernatural chamber piece in chilling black and white.
  

 

Comments on Jurassic World: Dominion and Jurassic Park in general: 

• Germain Lussier calls Jurassic World: Dominion colossally terrible. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Jurassic World Dominion a convoluted mess and says that it's time to drop the dead dino. 
• Todd Gilchrist declares that Jurassic World: Dominion proves that the once beloved Jurassic franchise is ready for extinction.
  
• Todd Gilchrist shares everything to know and remember before watching Jurassic World: Dominion. 
• Linda Codega shares some early reactions to Jurassic World: Dominion. 
• Nick Romano also shares early reactions to Jurassic World: Dominion.
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Sam Neill, star of the Jurassic Park/World series.
• Todd Gilchrist intervies Laura Dern, star of the Jurassic Park/World series.
• Germain Lussier interviews Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and DeWanda Wise, three of the stars of Jurassic World: Dominion.
• Germain Lussier revisits the 2018 dinosaur movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2022 Munsey Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Utopia Award have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 MTV Movie and TV Awards have been announced with lots of love for genre films and TV shows. 
• The winner of the 2022 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award has been announced.
  
• Adri Joy and Joe Sherry discuss the 2022 Hugo finalists for Best Novella.
• The 2022 SFPA Poetry Contest is open for submissions. 
  
• The Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand reports that the voting deadline for the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards has been extended.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Leah Schnelbach shares her eighteen favourite books about the craft of writing. 
• Chris Offutt talks about discovery writing. 
• Sulari Gentill talks about endings. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains how getting stuck on one book can be a pitfall particularly for older writers.
  
• Adi Alsaid talks about art, creation and his notebook.
  
• Jason Sanford reports about the theft of member data from the SFWA and how it ended up in the hand of trolls who used the information to harrass SFWA members.
• Andrew Albanese reports about a court case in Vrginia attempting to ban the novels Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas from sale, because some busybodies believe they're offensive. 
• Caroline Woods talks about the dark underbelly of the midcentury literary magazine scene of New York City and its CIA ties.
  
• Tom Gauld shares a not entirely serious generator for children's book series.
  

Interviews:

• If This Goes One (Don't Panic) interviews Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
• Paula Willie-Okafor interviews Nana Nkweti.
• Locus interviews the Science Fiction Outreach Project.
  

Reviews:

• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers.
  
• Marion Deeds reviews Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys. 
• Bill Capossere reviews The Origin of Storms by Elizabeth Bear.
  
• Mark Yon reviews Eversion by Alastair Reynolds.
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews Glitterati by Oliver K. Langmead. 
• Adrian Collins reviews Pennyblade by J.L. Worrad.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Knave of Secrets of Alex Livngston. 
• Shellie Horst reviews King of a Dead World by Jamie Mollart. 
• Marion Deeds reviews The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro. 
• Marion Deeds reviews Razzmatazz by Christopher Moore. 
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe.
  
• Michael J. McCann reviews Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke.
• Mike Parker reviews Hide by Kiersten White.
• Fabienne Schwizer reviews The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne. 
• Phoebe Wagner reviews Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman.
  
• Tobias Carroll reviews City of Orange by David Yoon.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski, translated by Jen Calleja.
• Maya C. James reviews Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews All the Wrong Ideas by Jeremy Robert Johnson.
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap.
• Russel Letson reviews Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection by James S.A. Corey. 
• John Mauro reviews Screams from the Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow. 
• J. Thomas Howard reviews issue 5 of Whetstone Magazine of Sword and Sorcery.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Kat Hooper and Sandy Ferber revisit the 1918 lost world novel The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 
• James Maliszewski revisits the 1949 sword and planet novella "Enchantress of Venus" by Leigh Brackett.
  
• MarzAat revisits the 1963 science fiction novel Space Viking by H. Beam Piper.
  
• Paul Weimer revisits the 1963 science fiction novel The Star King by Jack Vance.
• The Appendix N Book Club revisits the 1968 fantasy novel The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.
  
• Jeff VanderMeer revisits the 1969 science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 YA horror novel House of Stairs by William Sleator. 
• Alan Brown revisits the 1975 science fiction novel Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith. 
• James Maliszewski revisits the January 1983 issue of White Dwarf.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1985 science fiction collection Dealing in Futures by Joe Haldeman.
• Rob Bricken revisits the 1989 Dungeons and Dragons fantasy novel Pool of Radiance by James Ward and Jane Cooper Hong.
• The Appendix N Book Club revisits the 2005 science fiction vampire novel Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Hugo finalist Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is looking for funding to allow him to attend Chicon 8, the 2022 Worldcon in Chicago, Illinois. 
• 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon, a book about the first half century of interactive fiction by Aaron A. Reed, is looking for funding.
  
   

Con and event reports:

• Sumiko Saulson reports about the 2022 StokerCon in Denver, Colorado.
• The program for the 2022 Westercon in Tonopah, Nevada, is now online.
• Mike Glyer reports that Lisa Adler-Golden, head of programming for the 2022 Balticon in Baltimore, Maryland, has apologised to Stephanie Burke for having her erronusly removed from panels after a mistaken Code of Conduct complaint.
• Mike Glyer also reports that Balticon chair Yakira Heistad will be leading the investigation into the mishandling of the mistaken complaint against Stephanie Burke. 
• Chris M. Barkley weighs in on the removel of Stephanie Burke and Mercedes Lackey from convention programming in recent weeks and the risks of Code of Conducts being weaponised.
  
• Walter Jon Williams reports that the Taos Toolbox writing workshop in Taos, New Mexico, is moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico, this year due to ongoing wildfires in the Taos region, 
• Libby Brooks reports that the 2022 Edinburgh International Book Festival will have a hybrid format.
  
• Mike Glyer reports about the exhibition AKIRA: The Architecture of Neo Tokyo in Berlin, Germany.
• Martin Morse Wooster shares his thoughts on a performance of A Monster Calls, based on a novel by Patrick Ness, in Washington DC.
• Kate Wyver reports about the play The Haunting of Susan A. by Mark Ravenhill, performed in London, UK.
• Keith R.A. DeCandido reports about the 1966 Broadway show It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!

Science and technology:

• Helen Regan and Yong Xiong report that China has launched a Shenzhou-14 spacecraft to send a crew to the Tiangong Space Station.
• Loren Grush reports that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been hit by a larger than expected micrometeorite, but is still functional. 
• George Dvorsky declares that Elon Musk's plan to send a million colonists to Mars by 2050 is pure delusion.
• Isabel Kershner reports that Israel is building a laser weapon.
• Christine Schiefer and Em Schultz report about Harry Houdini's conflict with the fake medium Mina Crandon a.k.a. the witch of Lime Street.

Free online fiction:

• "Arabella and the Kraken King" by Gretchen Tessmer in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. 
• "As Yet Unsent" by Tamsyn Muir in Tor.com. 
• "The Crowning of the Lord Tazenket, Vulture God of the Eye, Part I" by S.G. Demciri in Lightspeed.
• "Picnic, With Monster" by Susan Palwick in Lightspeed. 
• "The Odyssey Problem" by Chris Willrich in Clarkesworld. 
• "Manjar Dos Deuses" by Anna Martino in Clarkesworld. 
• "Tatterdemalion, or of Apple Bough and Straw" by Elou Carroll in Luna Station Quarterly.
• "Sword of Bone, Hall of Thorns" by Aliette de Bodard in The Saturday Morning Transport.  
• "The Scholar of the Bamboo Flute by Aliette de Bodard in Uncanny Managzine. 
• "Drowning Songs" by M.S. Dean in Anathema.  
• "The Walk of Contemplation" by Jason Ray Carney in Wyngraf Magazine.
  
• "In Hades, He Lifted Up His Eyes" by James Bennett in The Dark.
• "Rat/God" by Victor Forna in Fantasy Magazine.
• "The Activist" by Christopher Mlalazi in Omenana.
• "Last of the Juggalos" by Alex Saint-Widow in Nightmare Magazine.
  
• "To the Graduating Class of '22" by Alexandra Grunberg in Daily Science Fiction.  
• "Four Score and Seven Years of the End of America: A Bibliography" by Larry Hodges in Daily Science Fiction.
• "Memory Replay" by Tim Boiteau in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "Memories of Blue" by Matt Tighe in Daily Science Fiction.
• "Hungry" by Linda Niehoff in Daily Science Fiction.
• "The Beast from the Sea of Blood" by Cora Buhlert.
• "The Observer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Black Adam.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Sandman
  
• Watch a trailer for The Princess. 
• Watch a trailer for season 4 of What We Do In the Shadows. 
• Watch a clip from season 3 of The Umbrella Academy.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 3 of Locke and Key. 
• Watch a trailer for Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Midnight Club.
  
• Watch a trailer for Wolf of the Tegri. 
• Watch a trailer for Prey. 
• Watch a trailer for The School of Good and Evil.
• Watch a trailer for Nope.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Munsters. 
  
• Watch a trailer for Wednesday. 
• Watch a clip from First Kill. 
• Watch a trailer for Resident Evil.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Menu. 
• Watch a trailer for Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Sea Beast.
  
• Watch a trailer for Strange World.
  
• Watch a trailer for Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe.