It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the 2023 Academy Award nominations, the uproar surrounding Dungeons & Dragons, the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Star Trek in general, Star Wars in general The Last of Us, Poker Face, M3GAN, the new Interview with the Vampire, Infinity Pool, the removal of voice actor Justin Roiland from several animated shows, the legal consequences of the shooting of cinematorgrapher Halyne Hutchins on the set of Rust, Edgar Allen Poe at 214, A. Merritt at 139, news from the 2023 Worldcon in Chengdu, China and much more.
Speculative fiction in general:
- Charlie Jane Anders shates some ideas for how to save SFF short fiction.
- Eugen Bacon talks about the radical nature of slipstream fiction.
- Emma Beddington wonders why people are fascinated by horror.
- Lorna Wallace share five horror stories set during winter.
- Rachel Brittain shares her eight favourite weird westerns.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction novels about ruined civilisations.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five fantasy stories about accepting help from supernatural sources.
- Cole Rush admires the five best cats in fantasy fiction.
- Grady Hendrix shares his favourite novels about killer dolls and puppets.
- Grady Hendrix also shares some tips about what to do if you've accidentally bought a haunted house.
- James Davis Nicoll talks about learning to love paper books again.
- Molly Templeton asks what makes a story comforting.
- Jonathan Thornton shares his appreciation for the works of Karin Tidbeck.
- The Toronto Public Library profiles Judith Merril for her 100th birthday.
- Michael Curtis profiles Clark Ashton Smith.
- Ngo Vinh-Hoi profiles John Bellairs.
- Bill Ward discusses Conan the Cimmerian and Elric of Melniboné as archetypes of heroic adventure.
- Bobby Derie discusses Anna Laetitia Aikin's 18th century horror criticism.
- Legendary musician and noted science fiction fan David Crosby has died aged 81.
- Jason Heller discusses the influence of science fiction on David Crosby's work.
- Horror and fantasy author Paul La Farge has died aged 52.
- Science fiction writer and illustrator Ray Nelson has died aged 91.
Edgar Allen Poe at 214:
- Bradley K. McDevitt profiles Edgar Allan Poe and his works.
- Scott Peeples explains how Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood.
- Dave Kindy talks about Edgar Allen Poe's shortlived military career that became the basis of the movie The Pale Blue Eye.
- Untapped New York shares ten places to remember Edgar Allen Poe in New York City.
A. Merritt at 139:
The uproar surrounding Dungeons & Dragons:
Comics and Art:
- Liam McGuire shares his favourite comics of 2022.
- C.T. Phipps reviews Fatale Vol. 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
- C.T. Phipps reviews Blade Runner ‘Black Lotus’ #4 by Nancy Collins and Enid Balam.
- Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Real Hero Shit by Kendra Wells.
- Jesse Schedeen looks ahead at the upcoming The Expanse: Dragon Tooth tie-in comics from Boom Studios.
- Benjamin Mara shares a gallery of Michael Kaluta comic covers.
- Jeremy Blum reports that the Comixology online comic service was gutted by Amazon's recent round of layoffs.
- James Whitbrook also reports about the trouble at Comixology.
- Cartoonist Michael Dougan has died.
- Robert Boyd remembers Michael Dougan.
Film and TV:
- Cheryl Eddy looks ahead at all the science fiction, fantasy and horror TV shows coming out in 2023.
- Germain Lussier looks ahead at the science fiction, fantasy and horror movies coming out in 2023.
- Paul Levinson calls the horro film Chasing the Ghost a two hour anti-drug spot.
- Jennifer Bisset calls Jung_E a beautiful and heart-rending science fiction thriller from South Korea.
- Leslie Felperin calls Shadow Master a pulpy, ultraviolent science fiction horror film.
- Hope Rehak explains how Our Flag Means Death helped her take emotional risks.
- Ellen E. Jones calls Unwelcome a fun Irish folk horror.
- Germain Lussier calls Talk To Me the perfect horror movie series starter.
- Cheryl Eddy calls Birth/Rebirth a grisly motherhood horror film.
- Phuong Lee declares that The Wandering Earth II wanders off course.
- Lucy Mangan calls Extraordinary a fun but underbaked superhero comedy.
- Jenna Scherer calls Lockwood & Co. a supernatural teen show done right.
- Lauren Coates calls Wolf Pack a regurgitation of previous paranormal teen TV shows that even Sarah Michelle Gellar can't save.
- Ray Greene declares that Teen Wolf: The Movie lacks bite.
- Phil Hoad calls Project Wolf Hunting a bloody and bombastic horror thriller from South Korea.
- Michaele Jordan shares her thoughts on the South Korean afterlife drama Missing: The Other Side.
- Cheryl Eddy calls In My Mother's Skin a a frightful Filipino fairy tale.
- Leah Schnelbach declares that Arrival and Final Destination 5 are the same movie.
- Tim Pelan revisits the 1981 Arthurian fantasy movie Excalibur by John Boorman.
- Deuce Richardson profiles director John Boorman.
- Shaun Corley discusses the secret origin of Masters of the Universe villain Skeletor.
- For Eternia interviews Tim Sheridan, screenwriter for Masters of the Universe Revelation, Dragon Age: Absolution and many DC Comics cartoons.
- Stephen Colbert interviews Stephanie Hsu, one of the stars of Everything Everywhere All At Once.
- Anthony Cummins interviews Aleksandar Hemon, screenwriter of The Matrix Resurrections.
- Andrew Liszewski shares the coolest vehicles from 1980s and 1990s TV shows.
- Ray Greene chronicles traumatic moments in Disney movies.
- Molly Templeton reports that Outlander will end with season 8, but that a prequel series focussing on Jamie Fraser's parents is in the works,
- Ramon Antonio Vargas reports that actor Alec Baldwin and armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will be charged with involuntary manslaughter following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.
- Richard Luscombe has more details about the charges brought against Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed for the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins.
- Andrew Pulver reports that Avatar: The Way of Water continues to break more box officer records around the world.
- Sam Barsanti reports that Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos claims that Netflix has never cancelled a successful show.
- Joe Otterson reports that both Titans and Doom Patrol have fallen victim to the HBO Max cancellation spree.
- Actor Lance Kerwin, star of James at 15 and Salem's Lot, has died aged 62.
Comments on the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general:
- Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
- The Guardian reports that Jeremy Renner, star of Hawkeye and Mayor of Kingstown, broke thirty bones during his snow-ploughing accident earlier this month.
- Paul P. Murphy reports that Jeremy Renner was trying to protect his nephew when he was run over by his own snow-plough.
Comments on Star Trek in general:
Comments on The Last of Us:
- Aaron Jones calls The Last of Us an emotional masterpiece and faithful adaptation of the eponymous videogame.
- David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Last of Us.
- Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Last of Us.
- Andy Welch shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Last of Us.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of The Last of Us.
- Kenneth Shepard notes that The Last of Us has turned Pedro Pascal into everybody's favourite daddy, if The Mandalorian didn't do so already.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw postulates that the so-called "clickers" are the true breakout stars of The Last of Us.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw also notes that episode 2 of The Last of Us confirms a popular fan theory regarding the source of the zombie fungus outbreak.
- Claire Jackson finds The Last of Us hard to watch after the covid pandemic.
- Nick Romano interviews Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, creators of The Last of Us.
- Jonathan Dornbush interviews Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann.
- Todd Martens recounts the history of the eponymous 2013 computer game The Last of Us is based upon.
Comments on Star Wars in general:
- Dan Persons declares that the General Krell arc in Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a treatise on humanity, loyalty, duty and war.
- Marlow Stern interviews Daisy Ridley, who played Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
- Germain Lussier interviews Rian Johnson, director of The Last Jedi, Knives Out, Glass Onion and Poker Face.
Comments on M3GAN:
Comments on Poker Face:
Comments on the new Interview with the Vampire:
- Jordan Hoffman calls Infinity Pool a brilliant and disturbing horror thriller.
- Benjamin Lee calls Infinity Pool a full-on violent thriller.
- Cheryl Eddy calls Infinity Pool an astonishing and outrageously icky triumph.
Comments on the removal of voice actor Justin Roiland from various animated shows:
- Katie Kilkenny reports that Rick and Morty co-creator and voice actor Justin Roiland has been removed from the show with immediate effect, following a domestic abuse charge, and his voice roles will be recast.
- Cheryl Eddy reports that Justin Roiland has also been removed from the animated shows Solar Opposites, which he co-created and in which he starred, and Koala Man, for which he was a voice actor.
Awards:
- The preliminary ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards has been announced.
- The winner of the 2023 Robert A. Heinlein Award has been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Critters Readers' Poll have been announced.
- The winner of the 2023 SLF Illustration of the Year Award has been announced.
- The finalists for the 2023 Academy Awards have been announced with quite a bit of love for genre film.
- The finalists for the 2023 Producers Guild Awards have been announced with some love for genre film and TV.
- The finalists for the 2023 DGA Awards have been announced with some love for genre film and TV.
- The finalists for the 2023 Golden Reel Awards have been announced with lots of love for genre TV.
- The nominations for the 2023 Razzie Awards have been announced with quite a bit of not-love for genre films.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw notes that Nope was snubbed by the Oscars.
- Richard Newby wonders why the Oscars tend to overlook horror movies.
- The Guardian reports that twelve-year-old actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong has been removed from the Razzie ballot, following a backlash about nominating child actors.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Open Culture shares Stephen King's twenty rules for writers.
- Amber and Danielle Brown explain how they found their own distinct writing voice.
- Stephen Hunter shares an author's guide to stealing from the books you love.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five ways writers can make sure that technology doesn't get in the way of storytelling.
- Joyce Reynolds-Ward talks about serialisation.
- Lincoln Michel notes that maybe the reason that initiatives towards enhanced books have gone nowhere is because the book does not need to be disrupted.
- Locus reports that Hugo-winning editor Navah Wolfe has joined DAW as executive editor.
- Victoria Strauss warns authors of the Hongkong based serialised fiction service Webnovel.
Interviews:
- Arley Sorg interviews Malka Older.
- Mike Doherty interviews N.K. Jemisin.
- Kristy Anne Cox interviews Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
- Tim Lewis interviews Mark Gatiss.
- Locus interviews Adrienne Maree Brown.
- Semantic Reactions interviews Paul Levinson
- Runalong the Shelves interviews Mario Coelho.
- Bill Ward intervews Harley Stroh.
- D.M. Ritzlin interviews Tais Teng.
- Cora Buhlert interviews Nathaniel Webb.
- Scott McLemee interviews Robert T. Tally.
Reviews:
- Marion Deeds reviews The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Sounding Dark by Jo Graham.
- John Mauro reviews Wistful Ascending by J.C.M. Berne.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee.
- Paul Weimer reviews Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus.
- Colleen Mondor reviews Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier
- Lis Carey reviews Eversion by Alasdair Reynolds.
- John Self reviews In Ascension by Martin MacInnes.
- Liz Bourke reviews The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott.
- Colleen Mondor reviews The Nightland Express by J.M. Lee
- Ryan Howse reviews World Running Down by Al Hess.
- James Tivendale reviews City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
- Shellie Horst reviews City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Haunted by the Past by Simon R. Green.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Barrow of Winter by H.M. Long.
- Martin Cahill reviews Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans.
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett reviews The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon.
- Lis Carey reviews Doing Time by Jodi Taylor.
- Joe Sherry reviews The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold and Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire.
- Paul Weimer reviews Quicksilver Court by Melissa Caruso.
- John Mauro reviews The Blood of Outcasts by D.A. Smith.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Ashes of the Ancestors by Andrew Knighton.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Broken Paradise by Eugen Bacon.
- John Mauro reviews Curse of the Fallen by H.C. Newell.
- Alex Brown reviews Direwood by Catherine Yu
- Maya C. James reviews The Last Dreamwalker by Rita Woods
- Chris Kluwe reviews The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Parry.
- Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews Beyond the Burn Line by Paul J. McAuley
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Maror by Lavie Tidhar.
- Lee Mandelo reviews How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix.
- Marion Deeds reviews What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher.
- Bobby Derie reviews A Song for Quiet by Cassandra Khaw.
- Rob Bedford reviews Episode 13 by Craig DiLouie.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Flowering by Alison Littlewood.
- Ian Mond reviews Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada, translated by David Boyd.
- Michael K. Vaughn reviews issue 0 of New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine.
Classics reviews:
- James Maliszewski revisits the 1918 lost world adventure The People of the Pit by A. Merritt.
- Niall Harrison revisits the 1919 dystopian novel What Not by Rose Macauley, the 1923 time travel novel The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle and the 1923 post-apocalyptic novel Nordenholt's Million by J.J. Connington.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1925 horror story "The Temple" by H.P. Lovecraft.
- The Elder Sign revisits the 1935 dark fantasy story The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith.
- James Wallace Harris revisits the 1936 post-apocalyptic novel The Empty World by D.E. Stevenson.
- Alan Brown revisits the 1947 YA science fiction novel Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Gideon Marcus revisits the February 1968 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
- Mark Yon revisits the February 1968 issue of New Worlds.
- Kris Vyas-Myall revisits the 1968 Alyx sword and sorcery novel Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ, Cora Buhlert revisits the 1968 Fafhrd and Gray Mouser sword and sorcery novel The Swords of Lankhmar, Victoria Silverwolf revisits the 1968 children's fantasy The Weathermonger by Peter Dickinson and the 1968 science fiction novel City of the Chasch by Jack Vance and Gideon Marcus revisits the 1968 time travel novel Operation Time Search by Andre Norton.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1969 science fantasy novel The Warlock In Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1978 sword and sorcery novel Children of the Dragon by Frank Robinson.
- James Maliszewski revisits the April 1985 issue of White Dwarf.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1986 Endworld post-apocalyptic novel Thief River Falls Run by David Robbins.
- Rob Bricken revisits the 1988 Dragonlance fantasy novel Weasel's Luck by Michael Williams.
- Alissa Burger revisits the 1988 YA horror novel Spellbound and the 1990 YA horror novel Fall Into Darkness by Christopher Pike.
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1993 historical fantasy novel The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1994 anthology The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
Con and event reports:
- Mike Glyer reports that the 2023 Worldcon in Chengdu, China, has announced a change of venue and dates.
- Christele Harrouk reports about the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, the proposed venue for the 2023 Worldcon in Chengdu, China.
- File 770 shares reactions by Chinese fans to the venue and date of the Chengdu Worldcon
- File 770 also reports that the Chengdu Worldcon is now finally able to accept western credit cards.
- Mike Glyer reports that the Chengdu Worldcon is asking for program suggestions and Business Meeting proposals.
- Octothorpe discusses the confusion surrounding the 2023 Worldcon in Chengdu, China.
- Mark L. Blackman reports about the latest edition of the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series, featuring Jonathan Carroll, in Brooklyn, New York.
- Germain Lussier looks ahead at the SFF films playing at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
- Sarah Shaffi reports about the ESEA Lit Fest, the first festival for East and South East Asian writing at Foyles on Charing Cross Road in London, UK.
- Laura Collins-Hughes reports about a performance of the play Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences by Zoe Seaton in New York City.
- Brian Logan calls the stage play Crybabies: Bagbeard a bold science fiction caper, which is currently playing in London, UK.
- Elisabeth Vincentelli reports about the puppet play The Immortal Jellyfish Girl by Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock, which is currently playing in New York City.
- Daniel Kline reports that Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel attraction is having trouble attracting guests.
- Sabina Graves shares a look at the queue area of the Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
- Sabina Graves reports that people are allegedly purchasing jars of water from the Spash Mountain log flume ride at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, before the ride closes for refurbishments.
Crowdfunding:
Science and technology:
- George Dvorsky reports that a mysterious spiral seen in the sky above Hawaii was likely caused by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
- Isaac Schultz reports that almost one hundred Titanosaur nests, complete with fossilised eggs, have been discovered in India.
- Kaye Dee reports about the Apollo 5 and Surveyor 7 space missions in 1968.
- SF Gate reports that astronaut Buzz Aldrin has celebrated his 93rd birthday by marrying his longtime partner Dr. Anca V. Faur.
Free online fiction:
- "Waystation City" by A.T. Greenblatt in Uncanny Magazine.
- "Skyscrapers That Twist to the Sun" by Erin Brown in Fantasy Magazine.
- "From the Largest Crater" by Jendayi Brooks-Flemister in Lightspeed.
- "In the Deep Woods, the Light Is Different There" by Seanan McGuire in Lightspeed.
- "What the Mountain Takes, What the Journey Offers" by Jae Steinbacher in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "A Sin for Freedom" by Eboni J. Dunbar in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "The Work-Clock" by Benjamin C. Kinney in The Sunday Morning Transport.
- "The White Necked Ravens of Camissa" by Nick Wood in Omenana.
- "Linden's Legends" by Z.Q. Taylor in Luna Station Quarterly.
- "The Immortal Game" by Lindz McLeod in Apex Magazine.
- "We All Fall Down" by Ai Jiang in The Dark.
- "Pearl" by Felix Rose Kawitzky in Clarkesworld.
- "Fruit" by Alyza Taguilaso in Nightmare Magazine.
- "Ice Breakers" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Trailers and videos:
- Watch a trailer for Shazam: Fury of the Gods.
- Watch a trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
- Watch a trailer for 65.
- Watch a trailer for Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special.
- Watch a trailer for Aliens Abducted My Parents And Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
- Watch a trailer for We Have a Ghost.
- Watch a trailer for She Came From the Woods.
- Watch a trailer for The Wandering Earth 2.
- Watch a trailer for Invincible.
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