Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for March 10, 2023

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the 2022 Nebula Award finalists, the discussion surrounding the rise of AI writing and art bots, the editing of books by Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine and Ian Fleming, Star Trek Picard and Star Trek in general, The Mandalorian and Star Wars in general, The Last of Us, Scream VI, tributes to Christopher Fowler and Tom Sizemore and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Tor.com shares all the new science fiction books coming out in March 2023. 
• Tor.com shares all the new fantasy books coming out in March 2023. 
• Tor.com shares all the new horror and genre-bending books coming out in March 2023.
  
• Tor.com shares all the new YA SFF books coming out in March 2023.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF stories about creepy houses and architectural oddities.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF stories about forests.
• Kellie Doherty talks about mythological creatures of Oregon. 
• Emilia Hart shares five novels featuring witchcraft.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares four SFF books about living gods working in mysterious ways. 
• Idra Novey shares her ten favourite fairytale retellings. 
• James Wallace Harris talks about pre-1960 science fiction novels about nuclear war and the world after.  
  
• T.H. Ponders shares four science fiction podcasts featuring spaceship crews you'll want to join. 
• The BBC profiles Octavia E. Butler.
  
• Jeremy Dauber explains what Isaac Asimov can teach us about artificial intelligence. 
• James Wallace Harris wonders how SpaceX's Starship will influence science fiction. 
• Bradley K. McDevitt profiles Arthur Machen. 
• Molly Templeton talks about trying to read too many books at once.
  
• SFF editor and publisher John Teehan has died aged 56. 
• The SFWA remembers John Teehan.
   
  

Comments on the flooding of Clarkesworld and other SFF magazines with AI spam:

• Elizabeth Minkel discusses the flood of AI submissions deluging SFF magazines.
• The SFWA shares a round-up of member responses to the issue of AI writing and art. 
• Matt Ford reports that AI generated writing and artwork runs up against the US copyright office. 
• John Scalzi has found a positive use for AI, namely photography.
  

 

Tributes to Christopher Fowler: 

• Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant & May series of supernatural mysteries, has died aged 69.  
• J. Kingston Pierce remembers Christopher Fowler. 
• Janet Rudolph remembers Christopher Fowler.
• Locus remembers Christopher Fowler. 
• Martin Edwards remembers Christopher Fowler.
  

 

Comments on the edits to Roald Dahl's, R.L. Stine's and Ian Fleming's works:

• Matthew Walther weights in on the edits to Roald Dahl's books
  
• Tom Gauld weighs in on the edits to Roald Dahl's works.
• Sky News reports that R.L. Stine's Goosebumps novels have also been edited to remove terms deemed offensive.
  

 

Comics and Art:

• Roy Schwartz traces how Superman became a Christ-like figure in American mythology. 
• Roy Thomas talks about the history of Doctor Strange.
  
• Charlie Jane Anders explains that writing comic books is hard.
  
• Julie Zigoris profiles comic artist and writer Trina Robbins.
  
• Jennifer Lyn Parsons interviews artist Olivia Hintz.
• Emell Derra Adolphus reports that the Image Comics Union has ratified its first contract. 
• David Harper shares the results of a survey of comic book shops and bookstore carrying comics and graphic novels in the US.
  

 

Film and TV:

• C.T. Phipps calls Mandy a bog-standard story of grief-fueled vengeance turned psychedelic journey through Hell.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey a terrible horror film that's neither scary nor funny. 
• Saloni Gajjar declares that Poker Face ends its first season in a blaze of glory.
• Arturo Serrano declares that We Have a Ghost has no point to make. 
• Alasdair Stuart calls Cocaine Bear an apex B-movie that does exactly what it says on the tin. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls The Curse of Rosalie a clunky horror film. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episodes of The Ark. 
• Phil Hoad calls the latest adaptation of The Three Musketeers a stripped down but fresh take on a classic.  
• Aaron Jones shares his thoughts on season 2 of the Japanese science fiction series Alice in Borderland. 
• Rob Bricken shares eleven competent time travellers from film and TV.
  
• Cheryl Eddy shares ten horror film series that deserve a prequel. 
• Lorna Wallace shares six SFF movies so bad they're good.
  
• Steve Rose interviews Idris Elba, star of the Thor movies, Pacific Rim, Luther, The Wire, Ultraviolet, Three Thousand Years of Longing and many others.  
• Jimmy Fallon interviews Stephanie Hsu, star of Everything Everywhere All At Once. 
• Germain Lussier interviews David F. Sandberg, director of Shazam: Fury of the Gods.
• Dax Shepard interviews Jenna Ortega, star of Wednesday. 
  
• Steve Vertlieb revisits the 1933 horror movie King Kong for its ninetieth anniversary.
• Leah Schnelbach shares eleven life lessons she learned from the 1988 animated/live action fantasy crime movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1992 speculative literary adaptation Orlando. 
  
• Shaun Duke ranks all the James Bond theme songs. 
• Rob Bricken lists ten Marvel Cinematic Universe characters whose futures are unclear.
  
• Mark Guggenheim, showrunner and producer for the various DC television shows, laments that the new heads of DC Studios don't even acknowledge his work.
  
• Lane Brown notes that bad projection is ruining the movie theatre experience. 
• Andrew Pulver reports that actor and screenwriter Seth Rogen has spoken about how painful negative reviews can be.
  
• Actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks out against Anti-Semitism.  
• Catherine Shoard reports that actress Sharon Stone lost custody of her than four-year-old son because of her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct.
  
• Denise Petski reports that actress Melissa Benoist will voice Teela in the upcoming animated Masters of the Universe: Revolution, working alongside her real life husband Chris Wood who voices Prince Adam a.k.a. He-Man.  
• Israeli actor Chaim Topol, star of Flash Gordon, For Your Eyes Only and Fiddler on the Roof has died aged 87.
  
• Actor Ed Fury, star of the Ursus series of sword and sandal films, has died aged 94. 
• Bert I. Gordon, director of many science fiction and monster B-movies, has died aged 100.
  

 

Comments on Star Trek Picard and Star Trek in general (spoilers): 

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Seventeen Seconds", the latest episode of Star Trek Picard.
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Seventeen Seconds". 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Seventeen Seconds". 
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of season 3 of Star Trek Picard.
• Vanessa Armstrong shares some background in the evolution of Worf in Star Trek Picard. 
• Galactic Journey revisit the 1968 Star Trek episode "The Omega Glory".
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "The Shipment". 
  
• James Hibberd reports that Star Trek Discovery will end with season 5. 
• Luke Y. Thompson wishes Paramount would pull the plug on the much delayed Star Trek 4 movie already.
  

 

Comments on The Last of Us:  

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "When We Are In Need", the latest episode of The Last of Us.
• David Cote shares his thoughts on "When We Are In Need". 
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "When We Are In Need".
• Andy Welch shares his thoughts on "When We Are In Need". 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on episodes 7 and 8 of The Last of Us. 
• Roxana Hadadi explains what The Last of Us can tell us about the myth of American exceptionalism. 
• Corrado Nai explains what The Last of Us gets right and wrong about fungi. 
• The AV-Club shares fifteen post-apocalyptic shows to watch after The Last of Us.
  

 

Comments on season 3 of The Mandalorian and Star Wars in general: 

• Emmet Asher-Perrin shares their thoughts on "The Mines of Mandalore", the latest episode of The Mandalorian. 
• Sam Barsanti shares his thoughts on "The Mines of Mandalore". 
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "The Mines of Mandalore".
  
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on "The Apostate", first episode of season 3 of The Mandalorian. 
• James Whitbrook shares some background about a giant monster seen in "The Mines of Mandalore". 
• Arezou Amin interviews Giancarlo Esposito, who plays Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian.
  
• Ben Child wonders whether the future of The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu lies on the big screen.
• Germain Lussier notes that The Mandalorian is finally crediting Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder, the stunt actors who wear the Mandalorian suit in many scenes, in the end credits.  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw report about a controversy regarding who really directed the Darth Vader lightsabre fight scene in Rogue One.  
• Adam B. Vary reports about some changes to the slate of upcoming Star Wars movies.
  

 

Comments on Scream VI: 

• Benjamin Lee calls Scream VI a standout slasher sequel. 
• Phil Pirello calls Scream VI one of the best and most brutal sequels of Scream. 
• Germain Lussier declares that Scream VI keeps the series fresh and that he loves that about it. 
• Germain Lussier interviews Scream VI directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and producer Chad Villella
• Cheryl Eddy shares her ten favourite supporting characters in the Scream series.
  

 

Tributes to Tom Sizemore:

• Actor Tom Sizemore, who appeared in Heat, Natural Born Killer, True Romance, Point Break, Saving Private Ryan, The Relic, Hawaii Five-0 and many others, has died following a brain aneurysm aged 61
• Peter Bradshaw remembers Tom Sizemore. 
• Michael Carlson shares an obituary for Tom Sizemore. 
• Matt Zoller Seitz remembers Tom Sizemore. 
• Alejandra Gularte shares tributes to Tom Sizemore from friends and colleagues.

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2022 Nebula Awards have been announced.
  
• The shortlist for the 2022 BSFA Awards has been announced. 
• The winners of the 2023 Romantic Novel Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Pulp Factory Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2023 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2023 SFWA Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award has been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2023 Dell Magazine Award has been announced. 
• The winner of the 2022 Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize has been announced.
• The longlist for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 BAFTA Games Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2023 anime awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards have been announced with lots of love for Everything Everywhere All At Once. 
• The winners of the 2023 Writers Guild Awards have been announced with some love for genre film and TV. 
• File 770 shares where to find the 2022 Nebula Award Finalists for free online.
  
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on the 2022 Nebula Award finalists. 
• Mark Keizer ranks the fifteen worst winners of the Oscar for Best Picture.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Xavier Grillo-Marxuach shares tips for building better SFF worlds. 
• Jeffe Kennedy talks about choosing to build a non-patriarchical fantasy world.
  
• William Landay talks about blurring the lines between author and narrator. 
• G.D. Dess talks about book blurbs. 
• C.L. Polk declares that BookTok fame is a lightning strike.
  
• Victoria Strauss warns writers about a spammy and scammy book award. 
• Nadia Khomani reports about women opening bookshops in the UK.
  
• Lucy Knight reports that the bookstore chain Waterstones claims that there is no truth to the claim that they refuse to stock certain books on gender and feminism.
  
• Alina Selyukh reports that bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has expanded in 2022 for the first time in years.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that the library of the Massachussetts Institute for Technology Science Fiction Society in Boston, Massachussetts, suffered flood damage after several pipes burst in the building where it is housed.
• Rupert Heath, publisher of Dean Street Press, has died aged 55.
  

 

Interviews:

• Keziah Weir interviews Margaret Atwood.
  
• Neil McRobert interviews Stephen Graham Jones. 
• Paul Weimer interviews Cass Morris. 
• Mira Manga interviews Dan Abnett.
  
• Arley Sorg interviews Gideon Marcus and Janice L. Newman.
• Indie Book Talk interviews Gideon Marcus.
  
• Arley Sorg interviews Nadia Afifi. 
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Vida Cruz-Borja.
  
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Oliver Brackenbury. 
• D.M. Ritzlin interviews Paul R. McNamee
  

Reviews:

• Liz Bourke reviews The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott
• Bill Capossere reviews The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
• Brigid Flanagan reviews The Faithless by C.L. Clark. 
• Fiona Denton reviews Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs
  
• Out of This World SFF reviews Wraithbound by Tim Akers.
  
• Arturo Serrano reviews Endurance by Elaine Burnes.
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews Hopeland by Ian McDonald
• Alex Brown reviews The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older.
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone.  
• John Mauro reviews Quantum Radio by A.G. Riddle.
  
• Fiona Denton reviews Barrow of Winter by H.M. Long.
  
• Tobias Carroll reviews Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enriquez. 
• Alex Brown reviews Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury
• Ian Mond reviews I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane 
• Colleen Mondor reviews The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings.
• Mahvesh Murad reviews Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy Snyder.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Hob by David M. Barnett. 
• Bill Capossere reviews Dead Country by Max Gladstone.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Dying Squad by Adam Simcox. 
  
• Rob Bedford reviews Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones. 
  
• Robin Marx reviews Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones.  
• Tobias Carroll reviews The Curator by Owen King.
  
• Bill Capossere reviews Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
• Lis Carey reviews Diamond Jubilee: Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, and the Peril of the Empire by Paul Schullery
  
• Maya C. James reviews All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein 
• Liam Hall reviews A Book of Blades, edited by Matthew John.
• Caren Gussoff Sumption reviews Dreams for a Broken World, edited by Julie C. Day and Ellen Meeropol.
• Katy Guest reviews The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think by Carolyne Larrington
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak.
  
• Travis Miller reviews Flame & Crimson: A History of Sword and Sorcery by Brian Murphy. 
  

Classics reviews:

• The Cromcast revisits the 1933 Conan sword and sorcery story "The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard.
  
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1951 post-apocalyptic story "Generation of Noah" and the 1958 post-apocalyptic story "Eastward Ho!" by William Tenn.
• Alan Brown revisits the 1954 children's science fiction novel The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1956 anthology S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Judith Merril.
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1960 science fiction novel The Atlantic Abomination by John Brunner.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1967 Conan sword and sorcery story "The Hand of Nergal" by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. 
• Gideon Marcus revisits the April 1968 issue of Galaxy.
  
• Kris Vyas-Myall revisits the 1968 anthology New Writings in SF 12, edited by John Carnell, and three issues of Famous Science Fiction.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1971 non-fiction book Black Magic Today by June Johns.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1978 near future novel Tornado Alley by William Tuning.
• Judith Tarr revisits the 1984 fantasy novel Shapechangers and its sequels The Song of Homana and Legacy of the Sword by Jennifer Roberson.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the July 1985 issue of White Dwarf. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1985 science fiction anthology The Last Man on Earth, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh.
  
• Gary Romeo revisits the 1994 Kull of Atlantis sword and sorcery story "Treason in Zagadar" by Adrian Cole.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Octothorpe discuss the latest developments regarding the 2023 Worldcon in Chengdu, China.
• Olav Rokne talks about the cultural practices of Worldcon.
  
• Brian Murphy looks ahead at the 2023 Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains, Texas. 
  
• Skye Cervone announces that guest of honour Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki will take part in the 2023 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida, in absentia due to his recent problems entering the US.  
  
• Chris Wiegand shares his thoughts on The Time Machine: A Comedy, a stage adaptation of H.G. Wells' famous novel, which is currently playing in Ipswich, UK. 
• Alex Wood reports about a planned production of The Lord of the Rings musical in Newbury, UK.
• Alex Wood also reports about a Stranger Things stage play to be performed in London, UK. 
• Andrew Pulver reports that the Edinburgh Film Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, will return this summer in scaled down form following its surprising cancellation last year. 
  
• Kari Johnson reports about the Misalignment Museum in San Francisco, California.
  
• Jordan Valinsky and Natasha Chen report that Disneyland in Anaheim, California, has removed the controversal "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" song from Song of the South from its parade.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience, an anthology edited by Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner, is looking for funding.
• Nigerian SFF author Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki needs some help with visa application and legal fees.

 

Gaming: 

• Bill Ward remembers Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
• Linda Codega reports about a labour dispute at the eBay subsidiary TGCplayer.
  

 

Science and technology:

• Nature reports that the James Webb Space Telescope has been photobombed by a small asteroid.
• Stuart Heritage reports that scientists have named a new range of antimicrobials after actors Keanu Reeves. 
• Amit Katwala talks about the invention of the polygraph. 
  

Free online fiction: 

• "Gift of the Moon God" by Mark Mills in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
• "Over Moonlit Clouds" by Coda Audeguy-Pegon in Apex Magazine.
  
• "The Demon Fesman" by Lynn Rushlau in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. 
• "A Soul in the World" by Charlie Jane Anders in Uncanny Magazine. 
• "The Changeling and the Child" by Pooja Peravali in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  
• "Discreet Services Offered for Women Ridden by Hags" by Stephanie Malia Morris in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  
• "Enchanted Mirrors Are Making a Comeback. That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing" by Mari Ness in Fantasy Magazine.
  
• "Pinocchio Photography" by Angela Liu in Clarkesworld.
• "A Timely Horizon" by Karen Lord in The Sunday Morning Transport. 
• "The Dizzy Room" by Kristina Ten in Nightmare Magazine.
  
• "Mother's Teeth" by E.L. Chen in The Dark. 
• "Intangible Variation" by Meg Charlton in Slate Future Tense. 
• "One Pinch, Two Pinch" by Beth Goder in Lightspeed. 
• "The Chosen Six" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees in Lightspeed.
  
• "What They Do Not Tell You" by A.M. Young in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "Frog Pond" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro in Library of America Story of the Week.
  
• "Seedlings" by Cora Buhlert. 
• "The Impossibles" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 7 of Riverdale.
• Watch a trailer for Silo. 
• Watch a trailer for Simulant.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Tank. 
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Yellowjackets.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Big Door Prize.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Schmigadoon!
• Watch a trailer for The Challenge. 
  

 

Odds and ends:

• Cora Buhlert shares a new Masters-of-the-Universe.piece Theatre photo story entitled "Cat Fight".
• Ryan Dinsdale reports that Funko, manufacturer of the popular Funko Pop collectible figures, is dumping 30 million US-dollars worth of figures in a landfill, because they feel it's the cheapest option to get rid of excess stock.