Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for August 18, 2023

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with season 2 of Foundation, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek in general,  the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Ahsoka and Star Wars in general, Teenage Murant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Blue Beetle, Barbie, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Talk To Me, season 7 of Outlander, season 5 of What We Do In the Shadows, Red, White and Royal Blue, Strays, the 2023 Power-Con, the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes,, the debate about AI writing and art, tributes to William Friedkin and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Lisa Tuttle shares a round-up of the best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror novels.
• Amal El-Mohtar shares a round-up of recent science fiction and fantasy novels. 
• Alice Nuttall notes that science fiction has always been rebellious and that marginalised people have written it from the beginning. 
• Brian Collins explains why he reviews old science fiction and fantasy.
  
• John Mauro shares ten cinematic science fiction and fantasy novels for grimdark fans
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction stories about unforeseen planetary disasters. 
• Rowdy Geirsson shares five fascinating retellings of Norse mythology
  
• Suzan Palumbo talks about her love for and issues with gothic fiction. 
• Lorna Wallace shares five novels that put a fascinating twist on the classic haunted house story. 
  
• Linden A. Lewis shares five books about vampires.
• Hailey Piper shares seven works of religious horror. 
• Akemi C. Brodsky shares seven SFF novels involving schools or universities. 
• Nghi Vo explains how historical figures take on a life of their own in fictional retellings of their stories. 
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares notable works of non-fiction written by SFF authors. 
• Cole Rush remembers books he loved as a kid but will never read again.
  
• Keith Roysdon shares a brief introduction to the Wold Newton universe.
• Molly Templeton talks about the ritual of rearranging your books. 
  
• Lucy Knight traces how the gaming novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow became an unlikely bestseller. 
• Sammy Gecsoyler reports how authors feel about rewriting older books to match modern sensibilities. 
• Harriet Sherwood shares Jacqueline Wilson's thoughts on rewriting older books. 
• Ella Creamer reports that Stephen King has said that he may finish the Talisman series he co-wrote with the late Peter Straub. 
  
• Kai Nishino reports about Japan's vibrant zine culture.
  

Comics and Art:

• Robin Marx reviews Conan the Barbarian #1 by Jim Zub and Roberto De La Torre
  
• Jonathan Cowie reviews Essential Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra,
• Rachel Cooke reviews the graphic novel A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
  
• Justin Carter takes a look at Marvel's future plans for the X-Men.
  
• Scott Edelman interviews comic artist Howard Bender. 
• Kermit Woodall interviews SFF artist Frank Wu. 
• Linda Codega interviews N.D. Stevenson, creator of Nimona and Lumberjanes. 
• James Whitbrook reports that director James Gunn's comic recommendations on Twitter keep putting DC Comics on the Amazon bestseller list. 
  
• Rich Johnston reports that playwright George Bernard Shaw sicced his lawyers on DC Comics, because he felt that Superman was infringing on his 1902 play Man and Superman.
  

 

Film and TV:

•  Arturo Serrano calls Robots an otherwise forgettable movie that nonetheless has a lot to say about our AI anxieties.
  
• Cath Clarke calls TIM a movie about a robot who looks like a Nazi youth leader and turns out – surprise surprise – to have creepy designs on his owner
• Leonard Maltin calls Jules a slight but enjoyable science fiction film and praises the performance of Ben Kingsley.
  
• Lyvie Scott calls Aporia a low-key time travel movie with a dark twist. 
• Chris Garcia discusses some short films about time travel. 
• David Cote calls The Winter King a grim, bloody and satisfying take on classic Arthurian legends. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Mother, May I? a high-end horror film put together with immense amount of style
  
• Phil Hoard calls Bad Things a sharp gender-flipped horror film that is a queer remix of The Shining
• Leslie Felperin calls The Monkey King a lively animated adaption of the Chinese classic epic Journey into the West. 
  
• Cheryl Eddy shares eight things she liked and two things she didn't like about season 4 of Solar Opposites. 
• Redanian Intelligence wonders how The Witcher will explain the change from Henry Cavill to Liam Hemsworth in season 4. 
• Anne Billson is disappointed by the lack of blood and gore in modern monster movies.
  
• Marlow Stern interviews Randall Park, star of the Ant-Man movies and The Mentalist.
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Cory Finley, writer and director of Landscape With Invisible Hand.
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Laura Moss, director of birth/rebirth.
  
• Camestros Felapton takes a look at notable roles future Doctors played before being cast in Doctor Who. 
  
• Stuart Heritage remembers the horror anthology movies produced by the British studio Amicus in the 1960s and 1970s and reports that Amicus has been revived and is producing new anthology horror films. 
• Steve Vertlieb takes a look at the cinematic history of King Kong. 
  
• Paul Morton revisits the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons of the 1940s.
• Fiona Moore revisits the 1968 horror movies Torture Garden and The Devil Rides Out.
  
• Scott Tobias revisits the 1973 teen movie American Graffiti. 
• David Alexander revisits the 1973 science fiction film Westworld. 
  
• Doris V. Sutherland revisits the 1978 zombie movie Dawn of the Dead. 
• H.A. Clarke revisits the 1984 animated fantasy film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Henry Hoke revisits the 1988 children's science fiction film Mac and Me and explains what a film starring a wheelchair user means to him. 
• Judith Tarr revisits the 2014 animated fairy tale movie Song of the Sea. 
• Stuart Heritage shares the greatest falsehoods and inaccuracies in supposedly fact-based movies.
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports about the backlash against Rachel Zegler, who has been cast to play Snow White in a live action remake of the 1937 animated classic.  
• Rebecca Rubin, Brent Lang and Matt Donnelly explain why Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1 struggle so badly at the box office and failed to make a profit.   
• Reggie Ugwu reports about the phenomenon of TikTok movie reviews. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports about a backlash against Reggie Ugwu's article for comparing TikTok influencers paid to promote movies to serious movie critics.
  
• German voice actor Jürgen Kluckert, who portrayed the lovable elephant Benjamin Blümchen in a long-running series of audio dramas and was the German voice of Morgan Freeman, Chuck Norris, James Brolin and many others, has died aged 79.
  
• Actor Darren Kent, who appeared in Game of Thrones and Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, has died aged only 36.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Foundation:

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "The Sighted and the Seen", the latest episode of Foundation.
• Stars End share their thoughts on "The Sighted and the Seen". 
• Julia Roth shares her thoughts on "The Sighted and the Seen". 
• Joseph Kolcinski shares his thoughts on "The Sighted and the Seen". 
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on "The Sighted and the Seen".
  

 

Comments on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek in general:

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Hegemony", the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Hegemony". 
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Hegemony". 
• Avery Kaplan shares her thoughts on "Hegemony". 
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on season 2 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.
  
• Ryan Britt interviews Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldman, showrunners of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "Borderland". 
  

 

Comments on the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general: 

• C.T. Phipps shares his thoughts on the Secret Invasion episode "Home".
  
• Kim Taylor Foster interviews Nia DaCosta, director of The Marvels.
• Ben Child wonders whether with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine showing up in Deadpool 3, we may see other characters from Fox's X-Men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and whether anybody actually wants to see them there.
  

 

Comments on Blue Beetle:

• Sabina Graves declares that Blue Beetle sets the bar for DC Studios' new movie era
  
• Benjamin Lee calls Blue Beetle a milestone for representation and a solidly entertaining diversion that suffers from overplayed beats  
• Justin Lowe calls Blue Beetle an energetic Latino superhero movies that combines taut action with cultural specificity
  
• Sabina Graves shares early reactions to Blue Beetle.
• Cindy White wonders whether Blue Beetle might be a surprise hit for the DC Cinematic Universe. 
  
• io9 interviews Angel Manuel Soto, director of Blue Beetle.  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that people are posting photos of empty theatres to prove that Blue Beetle is a flop when it is barely in theatres,
  

 

Comments on Ahsoka and Star Wars in general: 

• James Whitebrook interviews Rosario Dawson, star of Ahsoka. 
• Justin Carter discusses the problems of Ahsoka Tano as an original character created for the animated Star Wars series appearing in live action.
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw explains whether the character of Ahsoka Tano is a Jedi or not. 
• James Whitbrook also discusses whether Ahsoka Tano is a Jedi or not. 
• Cindy White shares eleven episodes to watch to prepare for Ahsoka.
  
• Watch a trailer for Ahsoka. 
  

 

Comments on Barbie:

• Kyle Buchanan wonders whether Hollywood will learn the right lessons from Barbie. 
• Stuart Heritage worries that the success of Barbie will unleash a glut of toy-based movies on cinemas. 
• Germain Lussier declares that Barbie and The Super Mario Bros Movie, the two highest grossing movies of 2023 to date, represent both the good and the bad of the film industry as it is.
  
• Caspar Salmon notes that films like Barbie and Talk To Me have given more visibility to trans actors. 
• Riley Utley reports that actors Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet almost appeared in Barbie, but that scheduling conflicts got in the way.
  
• Justin Carter reports that Barbie is even bringing people back into the cinema who have been avoiding movie theatres since the covid pandemic.
• Jon Blistein reports that Barbie has been banned in Algeria for alleged promoting immoral lifestyles. 
• Pamela McClintock reports that Barbie is now the highest grossing Warner Bros movie of all time, beating The Dark Knight.
  
• Brent Lang and Matt Donnelly report that Barbie will earn producer and star Margot Robbie some 50 million US-dollars. 
  

 

Comments on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: 

• Hoai-Tran Bui calls Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem a radical blast that makes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fun again. 
• Alex Welch declares that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is not a typical action film, which is what makes it so great. 
• Rafael Motomayor declares that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem along with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish are at the forefront of an animation renaissance.
  

 

Comments on The Last Voyage of the Demeter: 

• Luke Y. Thompson calls The Last Voyage of the Demeter a cheap and predictable slasher movie with a classy veneer.
• Benjamin Lee calls The Last Voyage of the Demeter a Dracula horror film that is lost at sea 
• Olivia Rutigliano calls The Last Voyage of the Demeter a creative Dracula adaptation that bites off a bit more than it can chew
• Kimberly Pierce shares her thoughts on The Last Voyage of the Demeter. 
• Lorinda Donnovan shares a spoilerish review of The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
  
• Sam Barsanti takes a look at the chapter from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula that inspired The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
  

 

Comments on season 5 of What We Do In the Shadows:

• William Hughes shares his thoughts on "Urgent Care", the latest episode of What We Do In the Shadows.
• Noetta Harjo shares her thoughts on "Urgent Care".
  
• William Hughes interviews Yaba Gorskaya, director of "Urgent Care" and several other episodes of What We Do In the Shadows.
  

 

Comments on Red, White and Royal Blue: 

• Drew Gillis calls  Red, White and Royal Blue a fun and frothy fantasy
  
• Benjamin Lee calls Red, White and Royal Blue a bland gay romance. 
• Melis Amber shares her thoughts on Red, White and Royal Blue.
  
• Cindy White interviews Matthew López, director of Red, White and Royal Blue about the wedding cake scene in the movie. 

 

Comments on season 7 of Outlander:

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Turning Points", the latest episode of Outlander. 
• Melody McCune shares her thoughts on "Turning Points".
• Natalie Zutter shares her thoughts on "Turning Points".
  

 

Comments on Talk To Me:

• J.R. Forasteros talks about how possession films like Talk To Me, The Exorcist and The Conjuring focus on the wrong things to be scared about. 
  
• Zack Sharf reports that director Peter Jackson has praised the horror movie Talk To Me.

 

Comments on Strays: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Strays a brutally funny comedy of foul-mouthed talking dogs
• Leigh Monson calls Strays a talking dog comedy that chases its own tail.
  

 

Tributes to William Friedkin: 

• Mark Kermode remembers his friend William Friedkin.
  
• Matthew Walther praises William Friedkin for getting Catholicism right in his 1973 horror movie The Exorcist.

 

Comments on the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike:

• Lesley Goldberg reports about day 100 of the WGA strike.
• Gene Maddaus reports that the WGA has restarted negotiations with the studios. 
• Gene Maddaus reports that one of the main issues is the WGA's minimum staffing demand for writers' rooms and quotes some anonymous showrunners who oppose this. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares responses by non-anonymous showrunners supporting the WGA demand for minimum writers room staffing requirements.
  
• Nadia Khomani and Jem Bartholomew report about the impact of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes on film and TV workers in the UK. 
• Gene Maddaus reports that SAG-AFTRA will no longer grant interrim agreements to independent productions produced under a WGA contract to allow them to continue filming in spite of the strike.
  
• Neil Gaiman explains why writers need to be on set. 
• James Whitbrook reports that Joachim Rønning, director of Tron: Ares, which was forced to indefinitely postpone filming, has criticised the lack of negotiation attempts on all sides of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
• Cheryl Eddy reports that actor Stephen Amell, best known for playing Oliver Queen in Arrow, has apologised for criticising the SAG-AFTRA strike.
  

 

Awards:

• The winner of the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Dwarf Star Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2023 Splatterpunk Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2023 Harvey Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2023 Bulwer-Lytton Contest have been announced. 
• The 2023 Hugo Voter Packet is at least partially available.
  
• The Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog tackles the question of how many people should be listed as Hugo finalists in categories which are team efforts. 
• The inaugural Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship is open for submissions.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Laura Childs talks about sparking inspiration.
  
• Lauryn Chamberlain talks about the difficulty of juggling many narrative voices. 
• Kiersten White talks about recapturing the power of childhood fears in fiction. 
• Mike Glyer reports that Sean C.W. Korsgaard, editor and publicity manager at Baen Books, was banned from Twitter after publicly fantasizing about travelling back in time to murder directors Kevin Smith and Joss Whedon before they could make movies he disapporves of.
  
• Andrew Albanese shares an update on the lawsuit of the Big Five publishers against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement.  
• Alexandra Alter reports that authors and booksellers are urging the US Department of Justice to investigate Amazon.
  
• Althea Lesgaspi reports that the school district of Mason City, Iowa, has banned nineteen books after an AI review claims to have discovered graphic depictions of sex therein.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy: 

• Mehul Reuben Das reports that OpenAI is bleeding money and may well go bankrupt next year, to no one's regret.
• Maggie Harrison notes that the AI boom is begining to look a lot like the dot.com bubble of the 1990s. 
  
• Wendy N. Wagner talks about Amazon, social media, artificial intelligence and the threat to creatives. 
• Kyle Barr reports that Associated Press has banned its journalists from using ChatGPT and similar programs to write articles or do research.  
• Jane Sullivan reports about Death of an Author, a novel which is supposedly 95 percent AI written.
  

 

Interviews:

• Paul Weimer interviews Premee Mohamed.
  
• Tonya R. Moore interviews Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joshua Uchenna Omenga 
• Locus interviews Karen Lord. 
• io9 interviews Chuck Tingle.
  
• John Mauro interviews Richard Kadrey. 
• Leah Schnelbach interviews Samara Breger. 
• Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan interview each other. 
  
• Fantasy Magazine interviews Davida Kilgore.
  
• Emad Aysha interviews Best Fan Writer Hugo finalist RiverFlow.
• Diamond Bay Press interviews Emad Aysha.
  

 

Reviews:

• Publishers Weekly reviews A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard.
• Matt Holder reviews Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 
• Aigner Loren-Wilson reviews The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
  
• C.T. Phipps reviews Space Punks by Anna Mocikat
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Grave Suspicions by Alice James 
• Marion Deeds reviews The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
  
• Colleen Mondor reviews The Shadow Sister by Lily Meade 
• Alex Faccibene reviews The Water Outlaws by S.F. Huang. 
• Michael Donkor reviews Shark Heart by Emily Habeck.
  
• Adri Joy reviews The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha and The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift 
• Ian Mond reviews Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
• Abigail Nussbaum reviews The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera.  
• Alexandra Pierce reviews Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara 
• Rob Bedford reviews The Tyranny of Faith by Richard Swann.
  
• Aaron Jones reviews Thralls of a Tyrant God by Mars G. Everson
• C.T. Phipps reviews Dragons of Fate by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
• Bill Capossere reviews House of Odysseus by Claire North
  
• Marlene Harris reviews The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
• Alexis Ong reviews More Perfect by Temi Oh.
  
• Alex Brown reviews You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron 
• Alex Brown reviews Damned If You Do by Alex Brown (no relation).
  
• Brenna Ehrlich reviews Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Wild Spaces by S. L. Coney
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Everything The Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca
  
• Fiona Sturges reviews the audiobook version of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis. 
• Sean Dowie reviews No Edges: Swahili Stories, edited by Sarah Coolidge
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Horror Library - Volume 8, edited by Eric J. Guignard.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Sam Reader revisits the 1928 cosmic horror story "Call of the Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft.
  
• Brian Collins revisits the 1929 dark fantasy story "Skull Face" by Robert E. Howard in a two-part post.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1935 Conan sword and sorcery story "Shadows in Zamboula" by Robert E. Howard. 
• Matthew Wuertz revisits the January 1955 issue of Galaxy. 
• James Wallace Harris revisits the 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.
  
• Brian Collins revisits the 1961 Elric sword and sorcery story "The Dreaming City" by Michael Moorcock.
• Gideon Marcus revisits the September 1968 issue of Galaxy. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1969 postapocalyptic novel The Hieros Gamos of Sam and an Smith by Josephine Saxton.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1978 horror novel Death Tour by David J. Mitchell.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1980 fantasy novel The Sword and the Satchel by Eluzabeth Boyer. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1983 time travel novel The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Starmen, a novel by Francis Hamit, is looking for funding. 
  
• The Dolmenwood Tabletop RPG is looking for funding.
• Fire & Ice: The Miniatures Board Game is looking for funding.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Mega Jay Retro shares his adventures at the 2023 Power-Con in Columbus, Ohio.
• Mega Jay Retro shares more of his adventures at the 2023 Power-Con in Columbus, Ohio.
• Justice Cury shares his adventures at the 2023 Power-Con. 
• Mega Jay Retro shares a livestream of the Mondo panel at the 2023 Power-Con. 
• Scott Neitlich shares his thoughts on the 2023 Power-Con. 
• Pixel Dan takes a look at the Formo Toys Legends of Dragonore display at the 2023 Power-Con.
  
• Locus reports about the 2023 Locus Award ceremony in Oakland, California. 
• Mike Glyer reports that Morrow's Isle, an opera by Ken MacLeod and Gary Lloyd will debut at the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland.
  
• Linda Codega shares some news about the suspects in the card heist at the 2023 Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
• Anne Marble shares her adventures at the National Book Festival in Washington DC.
  
• Lucy Knight reports that more than fifty authors have threatened to boycott the Edinburgh Book Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, because the sponsor investment firm Baillie Gifford also invests in fossile energy.
• Ellen Datlow shares photos of the latest Fantastic Fiction Reading at the KGB Bar in New York City, featuring C.S.E. Cooney and Steve Berman. 
• Adam Nagourney reports about the uncertain future of the so-called Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California.
• io9 interviews the cast of the Back to the Future musical which is currently playing in New York City.
  

 

Science and technology:

• Passant Rabie reports that the Ingenuity Mars helicopter has resumed flights after making an untimely landing.
• Katrina Miller reports that our galaxy is home to trillions of rogue planets.
  
• Nicola Davies reports that scientists may be on the brink of discovering a fifth force of nature.
  

 

Gaming: 

• Joe DelFranco reviews Final Fantasy XVI
• Ali Jones reviews Baldur's Gate 3. 
• James Whitbrook shares a guide to Baldur's Gate 3 for people who do not play Dungeons and Dragons.
  
• Alyssa Mercante wonders whether anbody is still playing Hogwarts Legacy six months after the controversial game was released. 
• Luke Winkie profiles Matthew Mercer of Critical Role. 
• Kali Wallace explains what video games mean to her.
  

 

Toys and collectibles:

• Luke Y. Thompson reviews the Masters of the Universe Masterverse San Diego Comic Con exclusive Motherboard figure.
• Pixel Dan reviews the Masters of the Universe Origins Moss-Man figure.
  
• Lis Carey reviews the Folkmanis Beaked Dragon Hand Puppet
• Kato's Kollection reviews the Ramen Toys MAKINA Red Gullwing.
• Iain Delaney reviews the NERF Pulse Rifle replica of the M41-A Pulse Rifle from Aliens. 
• Mega Jay Retro interviews Brian Flynn of Super 7 about the corwdfunded Thundercats Cat's Lair and their other offerings. 
• Geek Dad Life shares some new reveals for the Spero Toys Animal Warriors of the Kingdom line. 
• Geek Dad Life shares the reveal of the new Cyberzoic line of cybernetically enhanced dinsaurs from Creative Beasts studios.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You with an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body" by Adam-Troy Castro in Nightmare Magazine.
• "The Boy Who Ran from His Faerie Heart" by David Anaxagoras in Lightspeed. 
• "Monopticon" by Dani Atkinson in Lightspeed.
  
• "Anything with a Void at the Center" by Lee Mandelo in Uncanny Magazine.
• "Home for the Rising Sun" by Devon Borkowski in Luna Station Quarterly.
  
• "Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down" by Josh Rountree in The Deadlands.
• "Yours, Wickedly: A Story in Thirteen Letters" by Stephanie Burgis in The Sunday Morning Transport.
• "The Magazine of Horror" by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki in Apex Magazine.
  
• "The Voice of the Siren" by Matthew Ilseman in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
• "Empathetic Ear" by M. J. Pettit in Clarkesworld.
• "Who Can Have the Moon" by Congyun 'Muming' Gu, translated by Tian Huang in Clarkesworld.
• "Amber Child" by Madalena Daleziou in Seaside Gothic.
• "My Dear, My Love" by Davida Kilgore in Fantasy Magazine.
  
• "The Rituals of Bathing" by Libby Cudmore in The Dark.
• "Mame Coumba Lambaye’s Stinky Pinky" by Mame Bougouma Diene in Omenana.
• "Duel" by R.M. Gulaya in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. 
• "Spirit Guides" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a clip from Babylon 5: The Road Home.
  
• Watch a trailer for El Conde.
• Watch a trailer for Scott Pilgrim.
  
• Watch a trailer for Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
  
• Watch a trailer for Landscape With Invisible Hand.
• Watch a trailer for A Million Miles Away.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Other Black Girl.
  
• Watch a trailer for My Animal.
  
• Watch a featurette about the making of A Haunting in Venice.