Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for February 3, 2023

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the uproar surrounding horror editor Thomas F. Monteleone, Star Trek in general, Doctor Who in general The Last of Us, Poker Face, Lockwood & Co, Wolf Pack, Knock at the Cabin, the future of The Orville, the future of the DC Cinematic Universe, Groundhog Day at thirty, tributes to Annie Wershing, Lisa Loring and Cindy Williams and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Locus shares its 2022 recommended reading list. 
• Cheryl Eddy shares 49 science fiction, fantasy and horror novels coming out in February 2023.
  
• Molly Odintz shares twenty horror novels coming out in 2023.
• James Davis Nicoll lists some women SFF writers who debuted in the 1980s. 
  
• Shannon Dittemore shares five YA SFF books featuring crews you'll want to join.
  
• James Davis Nicoll lists five evil science fiction corporations. 
• Adrian Collins recommends books for fans of Warhammer 40000.
  
• Theresa DeLucci shares six horror thrillers for fans of the TV show Yellowjackets. 
• Christy Edwall shares her ten favourite imaginary journeys in literature.
  
• Lorna Wallace shares her eight favourite post-apocalyptic dogs. 
• M.C. Tuggle talks about the values and aesthetics of pulp fiction. 
• Sarah McCarry finds unexpected parallels between H.P. Lovecraft's 1931 science fiction horror novella At the Mountains of Madness and Christopher Pike's 1992 science fiction horror novel The Season of Passage.
• Molly Templeton points out that there is nothing wrong with anybody's personal library.
  
• Aaron Jones talks about the toxic side of fandom. 
• Dayten Rose discusses the history of spoiler warnings.
  
• Stan Wagenaar shares his appreciation for the historical fantasy novels of Keith Taylor. 
  
• David Barnett discusses how young readers are embracing Jane Austen.  
• Sarah Shaffi reports that Salman Rushdie will not promote his latest novel Victory City in person, following the nigh fatal attack on him. 
   
  

The uproar surrounding Thomas F. Monteleone:

• The Horror Writers Association has expelled writer and editor Thomas F. Monteleone, following derogatory statements against other writers. 
• File 770 has compiled selection of social media reactions to Thomas F. Monteleone's inflammatory statements and and to his expulsion from the HWA. 
• Brian Keene weighs in on a recent uproar in the horror community and on social media in general 
  

 

Comics and Art:

• James Smart reviews Your Wish Is My Command by Deena Mohamed.
• Rachel Cooke reviews Why Don't You Love Me? by Paul B. Rainey.
  
• Colleen Doran explains how she adapted Neil Gaiman's Chivalry into a graphic novel.
  
• Deuce Richardson revisits the sword and planet comic Starslayer by Mike Grell for its fortieth anniversary. 
• Florian Hardwig talks about Davison Art Noveau, the distinctive font used on the covers of the Dune editions of the 1970s. 
• Vote for the new members of the X-Men. 
  

 

Film and TV:

• Cath Clarke calls Skinamarink an atmospheric horror movie that runs out of steam. 
• Hattie Lindert calls Baby Ruby a mind-bending but uneven motherhood horror. 
  
• Brandon Yu declares that The Wandering Earth II wanders off course.
  
• Austin Gilkerson compares The Rings of Power with J.R.R. Tolkien's source material. 
• Judith Tarr takes a look at the many versions of Teen Wolf, from the original 1985 film to the most recent version Teen Wolf: The Movie. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Jethica a comedy horror film that oscillates between the creepy and the funny.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Rewilding an endearingly bad folk horror film. 
• Cheryl Eddy shares her thoughts on the documentary Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Puss in Boots: The Last Wish a sequel no one ever asked for or wanted.
  
• Phil Hoad shares his thoughts on the anime Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night. 
• Cole Rush wonders how to persuade sceptics to give animated shows a chance. 
• Mark Lawson recounts how terrified British politicians and religious leaders were of television and how they tried to limit broadcasting times. 
  
• Cheryl Eddy lists ten genre directors whose fathers are also genre directors. 
• Ollie Barber interviews Shinichiro Watanabe, director of Cowboy Bebop among others. 
  
• Tim Lewis interviews Helena Bonham-Carter, star of the Harry Potter movies, Ocean's 8, Enola Holmes, Sweeney Todd, Fight Club and many others. 
• Jazz Tangcay interviews Lachlan Pendragon, director of An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Believe Him.
• Jessica Smith revisits the 1902 science fiction film A Trip to the Moon. 
• Sam Barsanti explains why Disney is the most potent and problematic force in pop culture today.  
• Tom Power reports about the upcoming TV series The Power, based on Naomi Alderman's  eponymous novel.
  
• Ben Child reports that Tron 3 is in the works, starring Jared Leto, and wonders what the point is.
• Vanessa Armstrong reports that the fictional Marvel character Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant-Man has a real memoir coming out.
  
• Tim Jonze reports that Scottish actor Alan Cumming, who appeared in Goldeneye, X-Men 2 and many others, has returned his Order of the British Empire, declaring that British Imperialism was toxic. 
• Lesley Goldberg reports that Kindred, the TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's eponymous novel, has been cancelled. 
• Nellie Andreeva reports that the vampire series Let the Right One In and the crime drama American Gigolo have been cancelld after only one season each. 
• Nellie Andreeva reports that the time travel series La Brea has been renewed for a third season, but that it will probably be a shortened season. 
  
• Sal Piro, president of The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Club who created the audience participation at screenings of that movie, has died aged 71. 
• Actress Cindy Williams, star of Laverne and Shirley, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Gas-s-s-s, The Killing Kind, UFOria and many others, has died aged 75.
  

 

Tributes to Annie Wershing and Lisa Loring: 

• Actress Annie Wershing, who appeared in Star Trek Picard, Runaway, Bosch, Timeless, The Rookie and 24 among others, has died aged only 45.
• Stuart Heritage shares a tribute to Annie Wershing.
  
• Actress Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday Addams in the 1964 version of The Addams Family and also appeared in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and As the World Turns, has died aged 64. 
• Chloe Kim remembers Lisa Loring.
  
• Leila Latif declares that Lisa Loring's performance defined the character of Wednesday Addams and made her an icon for goth girls everywhere.
  

 

Comments on Star Trek in general: 

• Galactic Journey revisits the 1968 Star Trek episode "The Immunity Syndrome".
  
• James Whitbrook shares nine episodes from season 1 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that are better than people remember.
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "Extinction". 
• Liam Pape interviews Tig Notaro who plays Jet Reno in Star Trek Discovery.
  

 

Comments on The Last of Us:  

• Andy Welch shares his thoughts on "Long, Long Time" the latest episode of The Last of Us.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Long, Long Time" the latest episode of The Last of Us. 
• David Cote shares his thoughts on "Long, Long Time", the latest episode of The Last of Us. 
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "Long, Long Time", the latest episode of The Last of Us. 
• Germain Lussier interviews Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, showrunners of The Last of Us. 
• Jimmy Kimmel interviews Nick Offerman who had a notable guest appearance in the episode "Long, Long Time". 
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw notes that every new episode of The Last of Us feels like an event, which is why it's so successful, whereas Netflix tends to dump and bury good shows. 
• Saloni Gajjar wonders whether actor Nick Offerman will finally win an Emmy for his guest role in The Last of Us.
  
• Germain Lussier reports that the 1970 song "Long, Long Time" by Linda Ronstadt has hit the charts again after being played in The Last of Us. 
• Steve Knopper reports Linda Ronstadt isn't profiting from the belated success of "Long, Long Time", but that songwriter Gary White is.
  
• Molly Templeton reports that The Last of Us has been renewed for season 2.
  

 

Comments on Doctor Who in general:

• Jessica Holmes revisits the 1968 Doctor Who serial "The Enemy of the World".
• Patrick Cremona shares some speculations about series 14 of Doctor Who.
  

 

Comments on Lockwood & Co.: 

• Leila Latif calls Lockwood & Co an absolute delight. 
• Jenna Scherer calls Lockwood & Co. a supernatural teen show done right. 
  
• Joe Cornish, director of Lockwood & Co and Attack the Block, remembers the horror movies and TV-shows that terrified him as a kid.
  

 

Comments on Poker Face: 

• Saloni Gajjar declares that episode 3 and 4 of Poker Face fulfil the promise of the two-part premiere.
• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on episode 5 of Poker Face.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano declares that Poker Face is a crackling, groovy, heirloom PI show.
  

 

Comments on the future of The Orville:

• Brandon Louis reports that Hulu is currently not planning to renew The Orville for season 4.
• Mike Joest shares the reaction of Penny Johnson Jerald who plays Dr. Claire Finn to the lack of renewal for The Orville. 
• Alesia Stanford reports that Seth MacFarlane, creator and star of The Orville, has recently adopted a cat named Arthur.
  

  

Comments on the future of the DC Cinematic Universe:

• Anthony De Alessandro shares the announcements of future movies and TV shows set in the DC Cinematic Universe.
• Brooks Barnes also reports about the DC announcements.
  
• Germain Lussier interviews James Gunn and Peter Safran, the heads of DC Studios.
• Ryan O'Rourke interviews Leslie Grace who played Barbara Gordon a.k.a. Batgirl in the Batgirl movie that was never released, but cancelled as a tax write-off.
• Sabina Graves reports that Batgirl was not releasable, according to the new DC Studios head James Gunn.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that fans have criticised DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran for defending Ezra Miller, who plays Barry Allen a.k.a. The Flash in many DC movies, even though there are multiple criminal charges against Miller.
• Germain Lussier reports that James Gunn shares some of the comics that inspired DC's upcoming movies.
  

 

Comments on Wolf Pack: 

• Jack Seale calls Wolf Pack a mindbendingly bad werewolf teen drama. 
• Lauren Coates calls Wolf Pack a regurgitation of previous paranormal teen TV shows that even Sarah Michelle Gellar can't save. 
  
• Elle Hunt interviews Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wolf Pack, Masters of the Universe Revelation, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scooby Doo and many others.
• Jimmy Fallon interviews Sarah Michelle Gellar.
  

 

Comments on Knock at the Cabin: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Knock at the Cabin a typical M. Night Shyamalan film - in the worst way. 
• Leigh Monson calls Knock at the Cabin a tense apocalyptic thriller.
  
• Germain Lussier declares that Knock at the Cabin almost knocks it out of the park. 
• James Grebey interviews M. Night Shyamalan, director of Knock on the Cabin. 
• Catherine Shoard interviews M. Night Shyamalan. 
  

 

Groundhog Day at thirty: 

• Alex Reid revisits the 1993 time loop film Groundhog Day for its thirtieth anniversary and traces its continuing impact.
• Tor.com shares fourteen Groundhog Day style time loop stories in SFF. 
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2022 Clarkesworld Reader's Poll have been announced. 
• The shortlists for the 2023 Romantic Novel Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2023 ALA Youth Media Awards have been announced. 
• The longlist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award has been announced with some love for genre fiction. 
• The shortlist for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize have been announced with quite a bit of love for genre fiction. 
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Writers Guild Awards have been announced with quite a bit of love for genre film.
• Nerds of a Feather share their Hugo recommendations in the fiction categories. 
• Nerds of a Feather share their Hugo recommendations in the visual categories. 
• Nerds of a Feather share their Hugo recommendations in the individual categories. 
• Nerds of a Feather share their Hugo recommendations in the other categories.
  
• Cheryl Eddy lists ten amazing performances in horror movies in the last ten years that should have been nominated for Oscars and yet weren't.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch notes that the problems in your writing are the problems in your life.
  
• Penguin UK shares the best places to write. 
  
• Lincoln Michel notes that fairy tales break all so-called rules of writing and that they serve as an antidote to received creative writing wisdom.
  
• Locus reports about the Portolan Project, which offers creative resources to speculative writers of marginalised backgrounds. 
• Jean-Paul Garnier shares some microphone tips for live readings and recordings.
  
• Michael Murphy-Burton conducts a survey of author websites. 
• Lara Feigel reports how illness affects writers and their work, inspired by the recent fall of Hanif Kureishi, which left him paralysed.
  
• Olivia McGiff shares some insight into the strike of the HarperCollins union from the POV of one of the strikers.
  
• Emell Derra Adolphus reports that HarperCollins and the HarperCollins Union will engage an independent mediator to try to resolve their conflict.
  

Interviews:

• Arley Sorg interviews Ian McDonald.
  
• Paul Weimer interviews Marshall Ryan Maresca.
• Arley Sorg interviews Kelly Barnhill
  
• Scott Edelman interviews Cory Doctorow. 
• Breakfast in the Ruins interviews Oliver Brackenbury.
  
• Morian Press interviews Mario Caric. 
• Go Solo interviews D.M. Ritzlin.
  
• D.M. Ritzlin interviews himself.
  

Reviews:

• Robin Marx reviews Frolic on the Amaranthyn by Chase A. Folmar.
• Brian Murphy reviews Conan: Blood of the Serpent by S.M. Stirling. 
• Paul Di Filippo reviews Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold and After Many a Summer by Tim Powers 
• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews Unbreakable by Mira Grant
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Fire Heart by Joyce Ch'ng. 
• Maya Gittelman reviews Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse.
• John Mauro reviews Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Barrow of Winter by H.M. Long. 
• Mark Yon reviews The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler.
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews The Scarab Mission by James L. Cambias
  
• Maya C. James reviews The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi 
• Grimdark Magazine reviews The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi. 
• Rob Bedford reviews The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi.
  
• John Mauro reviews The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland. 
  
• Alexandra Pierce reviews Twice in a Lifetime by Melissa Baron 
• Alex Brown reviews Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo.
  
• Anthony Cummins reviews Victory City by Salman Rushdie. 
• Xan Brooks reviews Victory City by Salman Rushdie.
  
• The Hugo Book Club Blog reviews Babel by R.F. Kuang.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Pomegranates by Priya Sharma.
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Forcing by Paul E. Hardisty.
  
• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews RUIN by Cara Hoffman
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
• Marlene Harris reviews Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
• Colleen Mondor reviews The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake 
• Adrienne Martini reviews The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik 
• Robin Marx reviews Gothic by Philip Fracassi. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix.  
• Mahvesh Murad reviews Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Night Begins by Abigail F. Taylor. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
  
• Alexandra Pierce reviews The Future is Female! Vol 2: the 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction by Women, edited by Lisa Yaszek
  

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1866 gothic thriller A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott. 
• James Maliszewski revisits the 1930 Kull sword and sorcery story "The Cat and the Skull" by Robert E. Howard. 
• The Cromcast revisits the 1932 Conan sword and sorcery story "The Frost Giant's Daughter" by Robert E. Howard.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1933 Conan sword and sorcery story "The Scarlet Citadel" by Robert E. Howard.
  
• Brian Collins revisits the 1934 Conan sword and sorcery novella "The People of the Black Circle" by Robert E. Howard. 
• Christopher M. Chupik revisits the 1941 time travel story "Lord of the Earthquake" by Leigh Brackett. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1953 science fiction novel The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett. 
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1953 science fiction story "Lot" by Ward Moore and the 1964 science fiction story "I Remember, Anita..." by Langdon Jones. 
  
• The SFFaudio Podcast revisits the 1964 science fiction crime novel The Star King by Jack Vance. 
• Gideon Marcus revisits the February 1968 issue of Analog.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1969 time travel collection Times Without Number by John Brunner.
  
• The PorPor Books Blog revisits the 1972 sword and sorcery fix-up novel Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock. 
• The PorPor Books Blog revisits the 1975 space opera novel Berserker's Planet by Fred Saberhagen. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1978 Morgaine science fantasy novel Well of Shiuan by C.J. Cherryh. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1995 vampire novel Thirst by Pyotyr Kurtinski a.k.a. Peter McCurtin. 
  

 

Con and event reports:

• The 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland, shares their first progress report. 
• Mike Glyer reports about an uproar involding the proposed guest of honour of the 2024 MarsCon in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
  
• Mike Glyer shares the autograph schedule of the 2023 Vintage Paperback Collectors Show and Sale in Glendale, California. 
• Arifa Akbar calls Welcome Home by Willy Hudson, which is currently playing in London, UK, a madcap science fiction caper about sexuality and religious homophobia.
• Arifa Akbar reports about a production of 2:22: A Ghost Story by Danny Robins in London, UK.
  
• Chris Wiegand reports that the Oldham Coliseum in Oldham, UK, will shut down in March after losing one hundred percent of its Arts Council funding. 
• Mona Holmes reports about the Steampunk-themed Toothsome Chocolate Emporium in Los Angeles, California.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine is looking for funding,
  
• Swords & Heroes, a sword and sorcery anthology edited by Lyndon Perry, is looking for funding.
  
• Darkness of the Demimonde, a Victorian pulp horror RPG by Joseph Salvador is looking for funding.
• Cuban SFF writers Malena Salazar Maciá, Lucía March and Elaine Vilar Madruga are looking for funding to attend the 2023 annual conference in LASA (La Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos) in Vancouver, Canada.
  

 

Gaming: 

• Linda Codega reports that Dungeons & Dragons is planning to update rather than deauthorise its Open Gaming Licence.
• Bennett Foddy and Nathalie Lawhead discuss the subtleties of videogame design.
  
• Samantha Riedel reports about a controversy surrounding the videogame Hogwarts Legacy.
  
• The Guardian reports that World of Warcraft will go offline in China, leaving millions of gamers bereft.

 

Science and technology:

• Scott Simon and Pat Duggins remember the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia during reentry for its twentieth anniversary.  
• Tim Newcomb reports about a company that plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth.
  
• Lorenzo Tondo reports that an antique Hercules statue has been discovered in Rome during sewer repairs.
  

Free online fiction: 

• "Learning Letters" by Carrie Vaughn in Lightspeed. 
• "The House of Linear Change" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe in Lightspeed.
• "The Ordeal of the Cave" by Matthew Ilseman in Swords and Sorcery Magazine. 
• "The Counterworld" by James Bradley in Tor.com. 
• "The Portrait of a Survivor, Observed from the Water" by Yukimi Ogawa in Clarkesworld.
  
• "Who the Final Girl Becomes" by Dominique Dickey in Nightmare Magazine.
  
• "The Mother Tree" by Elana Gomel in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "Flower, Daughter, Soil, Seed" by Eugenia Triantafyllou in Uncanny Magazine. 
• "Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds, Part 2" by Sarah Rees Brennan in The Sunday Morning Transport. 
• "Experimental Protocol for the Coronal Sectioning and Assessment of a Human Soul" by Sagan Yee in Apex Magazine.
• "Of Gentle Wolves" by James Bennett in The Dark.
  
• "Taal" by Abigail Godsell in Omenana.
• "The Almond Pirates" by Annalee Newitz in Anthroposcene. 
• "Bigfeet" by Torie Bosch in Slate Future Tense.  
• "Dragon Slayer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Viking Wolf.