Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for November 11, 2022

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the 2022 World Fantasy Awards, the many iterations of Star Trek, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Andor and Star Wars in general, the new Interview With the Vampire, My Father's Dragon, Next Exit, Spirited, the cancellation of Westworld, tributes to Kevin O'Neill, Carlos Pancheco and Leslie Phillips and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Tor.com shares all the new science fiction book coming out in November 2022.
  
• Tor.com shares all the new fantasy books coming out in November 2022. 
• Tor.com shares all the new horror and genre-bending books coming out in November 2022.
  
• Tobias Carroll shares the best small press science fiction and fantasy for November and December 2022. 
• Tor.com shares all the new YA SFF books coming out in November 2022.
  
• Lavie Tidhar shares his favourite robots in science fiction.
  
• Lorna Wallace shares five pairings of science fiction movies and novels. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five classic science fiction collections too good to be forgotten. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares ten SFF stories from the end of history.
  
• Alan Brown revisits the Frank Reade Jr. series of science fictional dime novels by Luis Senarens. 
  
• Kim Bannerman shares her appreciation for the magical realism of María Luisa Bombal.
• Molly Templeton talks about the anxiety of the To-Be-Read pile or shelf. 
  
• Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer announce that they are getting a divorce.
  

 

Comics and Art:

• Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Wonder Woman Historia Book 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Phil Jimenez. 
• Matt Davis reviews the graphic novel Blade Runner: Origins by K. Perkins, Mellow Brown, Mie Johnson and Fernando Dagnino.
• Rachel Cooke reviews the graphic novel No Surrender by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard.
  
• FanAc Fan History interviews comic book editor and fan Maggie Thompson.
• Cartoonist George Booth has died aged 96. 
• British comic artist Kevin O'Neill has died aged 69.
• 2000 AD remembers Kevin O'Neill. 
• Jevon Phillips remembers Kevin O'Neill.
  
• Spanish comic artist Carlos Pacheco has died aged 60.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Cheryl Eddy shares ten reasons to watch the new Quantum Leap. 
• Hector DeJean calls Enola Holmes 2 a standout sequel.
  
• Emmet Asher-Perrin finds a surprising allegory in season 4 of the animated series The Dragon Prince. 
• Judith Tarr talks about the dragons in House of the Dragon.
  
• Michaele Jordan shares her thoughts on the South Korean horror movie The Guest. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Peripheral.
  
• Rob Bricken shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Walking Dead. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Is That Black Enough For You?!? a tremendous study of black American cinema. 
  
• Stephanie Burt wonders whether multiverses kill originality or unlock new storytelling possibilities.
  
• Tom Shone talks about paracosms, worldbuilding and what happens when private worlds invented in childhood become movies or TV shows. 
• Livia Gershon argues that colonialism birthed the zombie movie.
  
• Eve Taft discusses how to end a horror movie franchise.
• Inspired by the cancellation of Batgirl and other high profile director firings and recuts of movies, Ben Child wonders if studios are increasingly interfering with a director's vision. 
• Michael Hann talks about the power of music in the films of John Hughes.
  
• Paul Thompson interviews John Carpenter, director of Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, They Live, Escape From New York and many others. 
• Linda Codega interviews Christian Linke and Alex Yee, creators of Arcane.
  
• Michael Segalov interviews Lee Jung-jae, star of Squid Game. 
• Jack Smart interviews Eva Green, star of Nocebo, Casino Royale, Penny Dreadful, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and many others. 
• Jessica Holmes revisits the 1967 Doctor Who serial "The Abominable Snowmen".
• Madeline Ashby revisits the 2004 folk horror movie The Village.
  
• Diane Callahan revisits the 2007 fantasy TV-series Pushing Daisies. 
• James Whitbrook reports that Doctor Who will have a much higher budget per episode thanks to the Disney+ distribution deal.
  
• Vanessa Armstrong explains how the upcoming Willow TV series came to be. 
  
• Jennifer Maas reports that Warner Bros Discovery CEO and all around terrible human being David Zazlav has said that Warner Bros will to focus on franchises like A-list DC Comics superheroes or Harry Potter in the future.
  

 

Comments on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general: 

• Peter Bradshaw declares that grief overshadows the spectacle in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. 
• Todd Gilchrist declares that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever manages to pass the torch while processing unimaginable grief. 
• Germain Lussier calls Black Panther: Wakanda Forever a cathartic cinematic celebration.
  
• Liz Coopersmith shares ten questions she has about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
  
• Adam B. Vary interviews Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of several Marvel movies.
• Todd Gilchrist interviews director Ryan Coogler and several cast members of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.  
• Sabina Graves interviews Danai Gurira, who plays Okoye in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
  
• Sabina Graves interviews Mabel Cadena and Alex Livinalli, who play two Talokan warriors in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
• Germain Lussier shares fifteen facts about She-Hulk: Attorney at Law revealed in the Making Of documentary.
  

 

Comments on the many iterations of Star Trek: 

• Galactic Journey revisits the 1967 Star Trek episode "I, Mudd".
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enteprise episode "Horizon".
  

 

Comments on Andor and Star Wars in general: 

• Emmet Asher-Perrin revisits "One Way Out", the latest episode of Andor. 
• Tom Philip shares his thoughts on "One Way Out". 
• Sabina Graves shares her thoughts on "One Way Out". 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "One Way Out".
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw offers a breakdown of the ending of the Andor episode "Nobody's Listening".
• The Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog talks about Nazi analogies in science fiction in general and Star Wars and Andor in particular.
  
• Bryan Young interviews Tony Gilroy, showrunner of Andor. 
• Brian Hiatt interviews Tony Gilroy.
  
• Ryan Scott interviews Andy Serkis who plays Kino Loy in Andor. 
• Ernesto Valenzuela explains how the sound of the torture device seen in Andor came to be and why the original sound was scrapped.
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Andrew Stanton, director of John Carter, Finding Nemo and Wall-E, about writing two episodes of Obi-Wam Kenobi. 
• Germain Lussier reports that Lucasfilm has announced that they are collaborating with Studio Ghibli on an unnamed project. 
  
• Molly Templeton shares a list of Star Wars movies currently planned.
  

 

Comments on the new Interview With the Vampire: 

• Linda Codega shares her thoughts on the latest episode of the new Interview With the Vampire.
• Linda Codega praises the performance of Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy in the new Interview With the Vampire. 
  

 

Comments on My Father's Dragon: 

• Benjamin Lee calls My Father's Dragon a sweet animated fantasy adventure with an excellent voice cast from Netflix. 
• Leigh Monson declares that My Father's Dragons has its moments, but never quite takes flight.
  

 

Comments on Next Exit: 

• Brent Simon calls Next Exit a low-key film about the afterlife. 
• Linda Codega declares that Next Exit never fully explores its grim premise.
  

 

Comments on Spirited: 

• Brent Simon calls Spirited a mildly amusing musical take on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. 
  
• Benjamin Lee calls Spirited a Christmas musical that hits all the wrong notes. 
  

 

Comments on the cancellation of Westworld: 

• James Hibberd reports that HBO has abruptly cancelled Westworld after four season, making the show yet another victim of the Warner Bros Discovery merger.. 
• Lesley Goldberg declares that falling ratings are to blame for the cancellation of Westworld.
  
• Darren Franich declares that Westworld destroyed itself with three big mistakes.
  
• Nellie Andreeva reports that the cast of Westworld will still be paid for season 5 in spite of the cancellation.
  

 

Tributes to Leslie Phillips:

• British actor Leslie Phillips, best known for his roles in the Carry On movies, the Doctor movies, The Day of the Jackal, Empire of the Sun, Midsomer Murders, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and for voicing the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies, has died aged 98.
• Michael Coveney shares an obituary for Leslie Phillips.
• Peter Bradshaw remembers Leslie Phillips.
• Greg Whitmore shares photos from Leslie Phillips' lengthy career.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 Curt Siodmak Preis have been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2022 Prix Joel-Champetier has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Awards have been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2022 Diagram Prize has been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2023 Southern Book Prize have been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2022 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize has been announced.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Haruki Murakami talks about writing and finding your voice. 
• Meet the Thriller Author shares writing advice from famous authors.
  
• Camestros Felapton shares blogging advice for writers in a two-part post. 
• Lynne Reeves explains how her hypervigilance helps her to write fiction. 
• James Wade talks about how he grapples with writing violent fiction.
  
• Sarah Miller discusses how to handle violence in historical non-fiction for YA audiences. 
• Amy Wallen explains how baking pie helped her beat writer's block.
  
• Sorayya Khan talks about revising her work. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about how writers tend to blame outside factors for their lack of sales. 
  
• Mike Glyer reports that Steve Davidson will step down as editor of Amazing Stories and that Lloyd Penney will be the new editor-in-chief.
• CBS Los Angeles reports that the Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, California, was damaged by fire and is temporarily closed.
• Locus reports that the HarperCollins Union has gone on strike, 
• Molly Templeton reports that Entangled Publishing has launched Red Tower Books, a new imprint focussed on romantic SFF. 
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that the book piracy site Z-Library has been taken down and that users are blaming fans of Colleen Hoover. 
  

Interviews:

• Scott Edelman interviews Michael Swanwick. 
• Adri Joy interviews Marshall Ryan Maresca. 
• Oliver Brackenbury interviews Christopher Rowe. 
• Marissa Van Uden interviews Renan Bernardo. 
• John Mauro interviews Mitriel Faywood. 
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Daniel Church. 
• Tobias Carroll interviews Tariq Goddard.
  
• Paul Weimer interviews Joelle Presby.
• The New York Times interviews Kevin Wilson. 
• Fantasy Magazine interviews Z.K. Abraham.
  
• The Geek Shock Podcast interviews Oliver Brackenbury. 
• Jean-Paul Garnier interviews Cora Buhlert.
  

Reviews:

• Grab This Book reviews Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb.
• Bill Capossere reviews Neom by Lavie Tidhar. 
• Paul Weimer reviews The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal.
  
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald reviews Legends and Latte by Travis Baldree. 
  
• John Mauro reviews A Gamble of Gods by Mitriel Faywood.
• Reader at Work reviews A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows.
• Alex Brown reviews Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews A Restless Truth by Freya Marske.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Strike the Zither by Joan He.
• Bill Capossere reviews The Nightland Express by J.M. Lee. 
• Lyndsey Luther and Ross Newberry review The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson. 
• Cole Rush reviews Prosper's Demon by K.J. Parker.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Blood of a Novice by Davis Ashura. 
• Bill Capossere reviews The Killing God by Stephen R. Donaldson. 
• Philip Womack reviews Loki by Melvin Burgess. 
  
• Nina Allan reviews We Spread by Iain Reid. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Last Storm by Tim Lebbon.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Hollows by Daniel Church.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett.
• John Mauro reviews Little Eve by Catriona Ward.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Fervor by Alma Katsu.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The People Before by Charlotte Northedge.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Family Business by Jonathan Sims. 
• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews Every Version of You by Grace Chan.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Haven by Adam Roberts.
  
• Arturo Serrano reviews The Peacekeeper by B.L. Blanchard.
• Aigner Loren Wilson reviews Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong. 
  
• Tobias Carroll reviews The Surf by Kwaku Osei-Afrifa.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw. 
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews Night Shift by Eileen Gunn.
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews The Carnival and Other Stories by Charles Beaumont. 
• Sandy Ferber reviews Food for the Fungus Lady and Other Stories by Ralston Shields.
  
• Grace Byron reviews It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, edited by Joe Vallese. 
• Adam Fleming Petty reviews Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession by Ander Monson.
• Sean O. Hagan reviews Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami.
• Kathryn Hughes reviews Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami. 
• Alvaro Zinos-Amaro reviews Brian W. Aldiss by Paul Kincaid. 
• Katy Guest reviews How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Iwan Rhys Morus.

Classics reviews:

• Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1932 planetary romance Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
• MarzAat revisits the 1933 fantasy story "A Vintage from Atlantis" by Clark Ashton Smith.
  
• Balladeer's Blog revisits the 1934 historical adventure story "The Shadow of the Vulture" by Robert E. Howard, which introduced Red Sonya of Rogatino to the world. 
• Rich Horton revisits the 1936 post-apocalyptic novel The Empty World a.k.a. A World in Spell by D.E. Stevenson. 
• Brian Collins revisits the 1946 horror story "Daemon" by C.L. Moore. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1948 technothriller The Smuggled Atom Bomb by Philip Wylie. 
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1962 science fiction novel Hothouse a.k.a. The Long Afternoon of Earth by Brian W. Aldiss. 
• Gideon Marcus revisits the December 1967 issue of Galaxy.
  
• David Levinson revisits the December 1967 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1971 dystopian science fiction novel Half Past Human by T.J. Bass.
  
• Rich Horton revisits the 1980 science fantasy novel The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the August 1984 issue of White Dwarf. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1988 cyberpunk thriller Metrophage by Richard Kadrey. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1994 horror novel Shade by David Drake.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 2010 science fiction novel The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. 
• Lis Carey revisits the 2012 science fiction novel Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson. 
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Locus reports about the 2022 ICon in Tel Aviv, Israel. 
• Wayne Brown and Chris M. Barkley talk about the 2022 Astronomicon in Rochester, New York. 
• Chris M. Barkley shares his Fan Guest of Honour speech for the 2022 Astronomicon.
• Mike Glyer reports that the 2025 World Fantasy Convention will take place in Birmingham, UK. 
• The minutes of the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting at Chicon 8, the 2022 Worldcon in Chicago, Illinois, are available online. 
• Rob Hansen reports about Supermancon, the 1954 British National Science Fiction Convention in Manchester, UK.
  
• Jada Yuan reports about the 2022 vampire ball held by Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat Fan Club in New Orleans, Louisiana. 
• Veronica Esposito reports about the 2022 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival in San Francisco, California.  
• The 2023 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund is looking for candidates.
  
• Mike Glyer reports about a performance of Somtow Sucharitchul's opera Helena Citrónová in Hof, Bavaria, Germany.
• Rachel Treisman reports about a memorial to Dobby the house elf from the Harry Potter novels in Freshwater West Beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
• Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing offers a glimpse into the mysterious CIA Museum in Langley, Virginia.
  
• Alice Davis, who designed the costumes for the Disney rides It's a Small World and Pirates of the Caribbean, has died aged 93. 

 

Crowdfunding:

• The Amazing Stories 2022 Special SOL System is looking for funding.
  
• The Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, California, needs some help to recover from an arson attack.
• Violet Dawn, a dark fantasy graphic novel by Alexander Freed and Jeffrey Visgaitis, is looking for funding.
  
• Sex on Wheels, a comic by Larame and Sylv Taylor, is looking for funding.
  

  

Science and technology:

• Isaac Schulz reports that wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded upon launch in 1986, killing all aboard, was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  
• Dania Rodrigues reports about the fight about the skull of nineteenth century Italian bandit Giuseppe Villella, which was used by anthropologist Cesare Lombroso to formulate his theory of how skull shapes influence criminal behaviour.
  

Free online fiction: 

• "Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript" by Lavie Tidhar in Tor.com.  
  
• "How the Cat Woman Became the Giant Lady, Circa 1995" by Sean Padraic Birnie in The Dark.
• "Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black" by Isabel J. Kim in Clarkesworld. 
• "The Lonely Time Traveller of Kentish Town" by Nadia Afifi in Clarkesworld. 
• "The Watchers in the Stairwell" by Emily Henry Burnham in The Deadlands. 
• "The Walking Mirror of the Soul" by Renan Bernardo in Apex Magazine.
  
• "The Found Recollections of Revalor's Last Oracle" by Elsa Sjunneson in The Sunday Morning Transport.
  
• "The Hall of Being" by T.K. Rex in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "Six Goats" by Isabel Cañas in Fireside Magazine.
• "Devil Take Me" by Gordon B. White in Nightmare Magazine.
• "The Dragon's Hand" by Alex Irvine in Lightspeed.
• "The Blindfold" by Tobias Buckell in Lightspeed. 
  
• "The Fulminous" by E.G. Condé in Swords and Sorcery Magazine. 
• "The Typewriter" by Z.K. Abraham in Fantasy Magazine.
  
• "Jon Menzi" by Nos Jondi in Omenana.
• "Apples" by Daniel M. Cojocaru in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "All God's Creatures" by Melissa Kobrin in Daily Science Fiction.
• "The Overlords and Their Wizards" by Steve Lance in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Speaking For Those With Obsidian Tongues" by Wendy Nikel in Daily Science Fiction. 
  
• "Up the Steps" by F. Brett Cox in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Matilda" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "The Thing From the Dread Swamp" by Cora Buhlert.
   

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin. 
• Watch a trailer for Dragon Age: Absolution.
  
• Watch a trailer for Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio.
• Watch a trailer for Christmas, Bloody Christmas.
  
• Watch some test footage from Guillermo Del Toro's never made adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.