Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for October 30, 2020

 

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week withtributes to Richard A. Lupoff, season 3 of Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek in general, the new version of The Witches, His House, The Craft: Legacy, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Spell, the continuing woes of the James Bond film No Time to Die and the impact that the repeated delays of various blockbusters have on movie theatres worldwide, a whole lot of horror and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Publishers Weekly lists its favourite science fiction, fantasy and horror books of 2020. 
• Powell's Books share their favourite science fiction, fantasy, horror and graphic novels of 2020.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction stories about dead or dying worlds. 
• Emily Temple shares her fifty favourite apocalyptic novels. 
  
• Danielle Trussoni recommends recent horror novels. 
• Gabriel Bergmoser shares his ten favourite horror novels.
  
• Leah Schnelbach shares horror recommendations by classic monsters. 
• Rachel Brittain shares nine literary witches and warlocks. 
• Matthew Lyons shares the scariest fictional haunted houses that aren't actually houses.
  
• K. Eason talks about the relationship between robots and capitalism. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction works about being alone. 
• Evie Green shares seven novels about characters with imaginary friends.
  
• Regina Kanyu Wang discusses how Chinese science fiction has gone global. 
• Frank Ormond attempts to define weird fiction.
  
• Matthew Ilseman discusses how horror fiction uses diaries, journals, newspaper articles, letters, etc...  to tell its stories.
• Jason Ray Carney explains how sword and sorcery relates to the political and economic turmoils of the interwar years.
  
• G.W. Thomas talks about gothic elements in sword and sorcery. 
• Andrew Mazoni wonders whether there is such a thing as far right literature.
  
• Anna Martino shares her love for the works of Jules Verne. 
• Emily Heller shares her appreciation for A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
  
• Sarah Light Walker remembers Harry Bates.
  
• Andrew Firestone profiles Frank Frazetta. 
• Scott Simon and Elizabeth Bradley celebrate the 200th anniversary of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
  
• Bobby Derie recounts H.P. Lovecraft's correspondence with an unnamed descendant of a supposed witch executed in Salem, Massachussetts.
  
• Cora Buhlert takes a look at East and West German comics of the 1960s.
  
• Jessica Ramos explains how the Neopets online world spawned a generation of artists, writers and coders. 
• The Tor.com staff share what brought them nerdy joy in 2020.
  
• Tales from the Magician's Skull announces that they will be publishing new Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories authorised by the estate of Fritz Leiber. 
• Jeff Schalles remembers Steve Stiles.
  

 

Tributes to Richard A. Lupoff:

• Science fiction writer and fan Richard A. Lupoff has died aged 85.
• Mike Glyer shares a tribute to Richard A. Lupoff.
• Maggie Thompson remembers Richard A. Lupoff.
  
• Ted White remembers Richard A. Lupoff.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd discuss the best horror movies of 2020 so far. 
• Christina Marie shares five horror movies and TV shows starring people of colour. 
• Staff writers of The Guardian share their favourite spooky TV programs.
  
• Eric Diaz determines the scariest horror movie of all time. 
• Peter Bradshaw praises the performance of Elizabeth Moss in the Shirley Jackson biopic Shirley.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls The Sister a truly haunting nail-biting thriller. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Possessor a gift to fans of gory horror movies.
  
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the horror movie The Lighthouse.
  
• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on the horror series Evil.
  
• Luke Buckmaster shares his thoughts on the horror movie Relic. 
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the horror movie The Dead Ones.
• A.A. Dowd shares his thoughts on the supernatural thriller Come Play. 
  
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the technothriller action movie Hobbs and Shaw.
  
• Leslie Felperin shares her thoughts on the animated movie Two By Two. 
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 2 of the anthology series Unsolved Mysteries.
  
• The AV Club recommends nine genuinely frightening documentaries to watch this Halloween.  
  
• Coco Khan interviews Amir Wilson and Nina Sosanya, who play Will Parry and his mother in His Dark Materials. 
• Ann Lee interviews Olivia Newton-John, star of Grease, Xanadu and many others.
  
• George Bass interviews cast and crew of the infamous 1992 mockumentary Ghostwatch. 
• Jason Shawhan revisits the 1934 horror movie The Black Cat.
  
• Lindsay Romain revisits the 1944 gothic horror movie The Uninvited.
  
• Mike D'Angelo revisits the 1953 horror movie House of Wax. 
• Charles Bramesco shares his thoughts on the 1957 horror movie The Curse of Frankenstein.
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1958 horror movie The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1961 horror movie The Devil's Hand.
  
• Eliza Smith revisits the 1968 horror movie Rosemary's Baby.
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1973 horror movie Horror Rises From the Tomb.  
• Jesse Hassenger revisits the 1979 horror movie The Fog. 
• Noah Berlatsky revisits the 1980 space opera movie Battle Beyond the Stars. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1981 horror movie Wolfen.
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1982 horror movie The Beast Within. 
• Lee Mandelo revisits the 1985 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and the 2019 documentary about the movie Scream Queen!
  
• Caroline Siede revisits the 1998 paranormal romantic comedy Practical Magic.
• A.A. Dowd revisits the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• Joe George revisits the 2014 horror movie Spring.
• Lesley Goldberg reports that Tiny Toons will be revived.
• Anna Lewis reports about Carol-Anne Hillman who has been taking care of a memorial shrine dedicated to Torchwood character Ianto Jones in Cardiff, Wales, for ten years now.
• Marge Champion, actress, dancer and the model for Walt Disney's Snow White among others, has died aged 101.
  

Comments on season 3 of Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek in general:

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Far From Home", the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
• Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on "Far From Home".
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Far From Home".
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on "Far From Home".
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on "Far From Home". 
• James Whitbrook explains why he loves a particular scene from Star Trek Discovery. 
• Andrew Tejada looks ahead at the rest of season 3 of Star Trek Discovery.
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Voyager episodes "Year of Hell, Part 1" and "Part 2".
  
• Alvaro Zinos-Amaro revisits the 2015 Star Trek Deep Space Nine tie-in novel Ascendance by David George III.
  
• Bill Capossere reviews The Voyages of Star Trek: A Mirror on American Society through Time by K.M. Heath and A.S. Carlisle

 

Comments on the new version of The Witches:  

• Charles Pulliam-Moore calls the new version of The Witches a silly comedy for kids who are not afraid of the dark. 
• Aja Romano calls the latest adaptation of The Witches incredibly strange and offensively bad. 
• Jessica Mason calls the new version of The Witches completely cursed.
  
• Fiona Underhill shares what for her is the scariest scene in The Witches.
  

Comments on The Haunting of Bly Manor: 

• Tyler Dean talks about The Haunting of Bly Manor and Henry James.
• Abigail Nussbaum shares her thoughts on The Haunting of Bly Manor. 
  

 

Comments on His House: 

• Benjamin Lee calls His House an effective haunted house horror with a timely spin. 
  
• Ryan Gilbey shares his thoughts on the horror film His House. 
• Anya Stanley shares her thoughts on His House.
  

 

Comments on The Craft: Legacy:

• Katie Rife calls The Craft: Legacy a kinder and gentler teen witch movie than the 1996 original. 
• Emmet Asher-Perrin finds that The Craft: Legacy focusses on the wrong villain. 
• Cameron Scheetz interviews the cast of The Craft: Legacy.
  
• Shannon Miller interviews Rachel True, one of the stars of the original 1996 The Craft.
  

 

Comments on Spell:

• Benjamin Lee calls Spell a hokey hoodoo horror.  
• Charles Pulliam-Moore calls Spell a great B horror movie with interesting things to say about power and class.

 

Comments on the renewed delay of the James Bond film No Time to Die and other movies and its impact on the ailing movie theatre chains: 

• Steve Rose wonders whether small indie films could save cinemas in the absence of blockbusters.
  
• Harriet Sherwood reports that even though UK cinemas are struggling, the Regent, a 1931 art deco cinema in Christchurch, Dorset, has been restored to its former glory. 
• Brent Lang and Matt Donelly report that the much delayed James Bond film No Time To Die was almost released straight to streaming, which would have worsened the woes of UK cinemas.  
• Rachel Leishman hopes that the producers will reconsider skipping theatres and sending the new James Bond film straight to streaming.
  
• Stuart Heritage report that some Bond fans from Coventry, UK, have started a crowdfunding campaign to purchase the rights to No Time to Time from the distributor and distribute it themselves.
  
• Erik Adams reports that Ghostbusters Afterlife has been delayed until June 2021.
  

Awards: 

• The winners of the 2020 Nommo Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2020 Galaxy Awards have been announced.
  
• The shortlist for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards has been announced. 
• The nominees for the opening round of the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2020 Chesley Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2020 Ringo Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2020 Pegasus Awards have been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2020 Forry Award has been announced. 
• The longlist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal has been announced.
  
• The shortlist for the 2020  Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize has been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2020 Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year has been announced. 
• The candidates for the 2020 SFPA Grand Master have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2020 Not the Booker Prize has been announced.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Samantha Penn shares some tips for crafting a vibrant setting. 
• Nisi Shawl shares some tips for writing about someone else's culture and experience. 
• Peter Clines talks about twist endings and why he dislikes them.
  
• Alice Henderson explains why it's so important to use accurate science in your fiction. 
• Gideon Marcus shares his path to publishing. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about discoverability in the 21st century.  
• Deutsche Welle reports how Chinese censors are exerting pressure on German publishers of Chinese literature in translation. 
  
• Bryan Covert talks about the impact of the corona pandemic on independent bookstores. 
• Martin Pengelly reports that customers rush to support the famous Strand bookstore in New York City, which had gotten in trouble due to the pandemic.  
• Sam Adams also reports about the woes of the Strand bookstore. 
• Alison Flood reports that the legendary bookstore Shakespeare & Company in Paris, France, was forced to ask for help as well. 
• Alison Flood reports that French bookshops ask to be classified as essential services.
  
• Caroline Davies reports that e-book lending in British libraries has surged during the corona pandemic.
  

Interviews:

• Jonathan Thornton interviews Elizabeth Bear.
• Alison Flood interviews Rick Riordan. 
• Scott Edelman interviews Robert Shearman.
• Christian L. Coleman interviews C.L. Polk.
• Locus interviews Marshall Ryan Maresca.
  
• The Guardian interviews Jeffery Deaver.  
• Lisa Levy interviews Elizabeth Hand.  
• Barry Lillie interviews Jan Edwards.
  
• Jen Gheller interviews Victoria V. 
• Derrick O'Keefe interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
  
• Charles Pulliam-Moore interviews John Ridley. 
• The Imagination Desk interviews Troy L. Wiggins. 
• Sam Thielman interviews Matt Furie.
  

Reviews: 

• Liz Bourke reviews Seven Devils by Elizabeth May and Laura Lam. 
• Sean Dowie reviews Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.
  
• Liz Bourke reviews The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.
• Martin Cahill reviews Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee.
• Kate Elliott and Zoraida Córdova review Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine.
• Marian Deeds reviews The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk. 
• Kelly Lasiter reviews A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong.
  
• Bethan Hindmarch reviews The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow.
• Katie Burton and Rebecca Fisher reviews Verdigiris Deep by Frances Hardinge.
  
• For Winter Nights reviews The Devil and Dark Water by Stuart Turton.  
• Bill Capossere, Tadiana Jones and Jana Nyman review The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab.
• Charlie Hopkins reviews The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn by Tyler Whitesides.
• Camestros Felapton reviews Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. 
• Garik16 reviews Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
  
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews City Under the Stars by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick.
• Paul di Filippo reviews To Hold Up the Sky by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu.
• Paul Weimer reviews Nucleation by Kimberly Unger.
  
• Paul Weimer reviews Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Katharine Coldiron reviews Ivory's Story by Eugen Bacon.
• Natalie Zutter reviews Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.
  
• Aidan Moher reviews The Last Druid by Terry Brooks.
• Fantasy Faction reviews Shields in Shadow by Andy Peloquin.
• Fantasy Faction reviews Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire. 
• Fantasy Faction reviews Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore.
  
• Fantasy Faction reviews Tales of the Thief City by Gareth Lewis. 
• Mark Chitty reviews The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. 
• Russell Letson reviews Failed State by Christopher Brown. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Once Again by Catherine Wallace Hope.
  
• Katharine Coldiron reviews The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey. 
• Kat Hooper reviews The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Greyfriars Reformatory by Frazer Lee. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Voodoo Heart by John Everson. 
• Mark Yon reviews The Haunted Shore by Neil Spring.
  
• Jonathan Thornton reviews Ruby by Nina Allen.
• Karen Burnham reviews Night Roll by Michael J. DeLuca. 
• Ian Samson reviews The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean. 
• Ian Mond reviews The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk.
  
• Mark Yon reviews The Hollow Ones by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews After Sundown, edited by Mark Morris.
• Paula Guran reviews The Best of Michael Marshall Smith by Michael Marshall Smith.
  

Classics reviews:

• Frank Ormond revisits the 1928 horror story "Call of the Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft. 
• James Reasoner also revisits "Call of the Cthulhu". 
• Steve J. Wright revisits the September 1940 issue of Unknown.
  
• Judith Tarr revisits the 1955 historical adventure novel Yankee Privateer by Andre Norton.
  
• Jason Sacks revisits the 1965 time travel novel The Hunter Out of Time by Gardner F. Fox, John Boston revisits the 1965 science fiction collection Now Then by John Brunner and Gideon Marcus revisits the 1965 YA science fiction novels The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle and Quest Crosstime by Andre Norton. 
• Mark Yon reviews the November 1965 issues of New Worlds and Science Fantasy.
  
• Ed McBride reviews the 1967 post-apocalyptic novel Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny. 
• Paul Fraser revisits the 1973 anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2, edited by Terry Carr.
  
• Sean Guynes revisits the 1978 science fiction novel The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1978 fantasy novel Cast Down the Stars by McClure Jones.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews the 1979 science fiction collection Vectors by Charles Sheffield.
  
• Emmett Asher-Perrin revisits the 1988 Discworld novel Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1989 horror novel Trapped by Edmund Plante.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1998 nautical horror novel The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 2001 horror novel The Devil's Night by David Jacobs.
  

Con and event reports:

• Boskone 58 will be going virtual. 
• Molly Templeton looks ahead at Shudderfest, a free virtual horror convention that will happen on Halloween.
  
• Mark L. Blackman reports about the latest virtual edition of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, featuring Joe Hill and Laird Barron.
• Steven Morris reports about an amateur production of Alien put on by a troupe from Dorset, UK, which became an unlikely hit in London's West End.  
• Alison Flood reports that Peter Florence, founder of the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, has been suspended because of bullying allegations. 

Crowdfunding:

• Wendy Aldiss, daughter of Brian Aldiss, is looking for funding to print a photobook entitled My Father's Things. 
• Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a tabletop RPG by April Kit Walsh, is looking for funding. 
• A group of James Bond fans from Coventry, UK, is looking for funding to purchase the rights to the still unreleased Bond movie No Time to Die from the studio and release it themselves.
  
• Comic artist Trina Robbins is looking for help to recover some of her art which has gone missing.
  

 

Science and technology:

• George Dvorsky shares some footage of the NASA probe OSIRIS-REx taking a sample from the asteroid Bennu.
• NASA reports about the status of the OSIRIS-REx mission.
• Layal Liverpool reports that NASA have found water on the Moon. 
• EconoTimes reports that NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft has captured a massive solar flare.
• Victor Tangerman reports that NASA has detected unusual bright flashes on Jupiter. 
• Susie Neilson reports that physicists have discovered a superconductor that works at room temperature.
• Jeff Spry reports that paleontologists in Mongolia have uncovered a new species of pterosaur.
• Amy K. Bruni declares that ghost hunting is a hobby, not a job.
• Nate Berg explains how a new Google experiment lets you travel 200 years into the past in a given town.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Enchanted Objects: Buy-Sell-Trade Group, YOU MUST BE APPROVED TO JOIN" by Tina Connolly in Daily Science Fiction
• "Backwards" by Gregory Velloze in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Ashes Under Uricon" by Adrastos Omissi in Clarkesworld. 
• "All Living Creation" by Xiu Xinyu, translated by Elizabeth Hanlon, in Clarkesworld. 
• "Scales as Pale as Moonlight" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia in Oprah Magazine.
  
• "The Wendigo at the End of the Blue Line" by Gabriela Santiago in The Dark.  
• "The Little Witch" by M. Rickert at Tor.com.
  
• "Origin Story" by T. Kingfisher at Tor.com.
  
• "Prodigal Son" by Daniel M. Lavery in Tor.com.
  
• "The Family Recipe" by Alexandra Grunberg in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "The Secret of Flight" by A.C. Wise in Nightmare Magazine. 
• "Open House on Haunted Hill" by John Wiswell in Diabolical Plots.
  
• "Spider Threads" by Craig Laurence Gibney in Tor.com.
  
• "The Devil's Reel" by Sean Eads and Joshua Viola in Tor.com.
  
• "Faust, Redux" by Rodney Witherspoon in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "One for the Aegis" by Marcus Vance in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Byzantine Empathy" by Ken Liu in Lightspeed. 
• "Everquest" by Naomi Kanakia in Lightspeed.
  
• "Ogbanje" by Kingsley Okpii in Omenana. 
• "The Caldera: A Halloween Ghost Story" by Margaret Mendel in King's River Life.
• "Phantom" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "Political Fundraising E-Mails from Middle Earth" by Keith Rubin in McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
  

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Part 4 of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. 
• Watch a trailer for Alice in Borderland.
• Watch an animated fan video about The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.

Odd and Ends:

• Camestros Felapton shares some photos of buildings that look like Daleks.
• See the Muppets reimagined as classic horror movie characters.
• Annika Barranti Klein shares the best horror-related baking books for Halloween.
  

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for October 23, 2020

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with season 3 of Star Trek Discovery and the various iterations of Star Trek, the season 1 finale of Lovecraft Country, The Haunting of Bly Manor, a new version of The Witches, The Walking Dead and its spinoffs, a proposed Mad Max prequel featuring Furiosa, the impact that the repeated delays of various blockbusters have on movie theatres worldwide, a lot of horror and a lot of sword and sorcery and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Eric Brown shares the best recent science fiction and fantasy.
• Danielle Trussoni recommends some recent horror novels.
  
• Time Magazine share their one hundred favourite fantasy books of all time. 
• Rich Horton takes issue with the Time Magazine list.
  
• Tasha Robinson explains how the science fiction genre has changed in the past ten years.
• N.K. Jemisin talks about the timeless power of fantasy fiction.
• Damien Walter wonders whether science fiction can help people to heal and grow. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF novels driven by terrible choices and appalling judgment.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF books build around dead or mostly dead people. 
• Anifowoshe Ibrahim shares ten African SFF novels.
  
• Alaya Dawn Johnson muses about alternate history.
  
• Howard Andrew Jones attempts to define sword and sorcery. 
• G.W. Thomas discusses the connection of Conan to the Cthulhu Mythos. 
• Matthew John wonders whether Robert E. Howard was the godfather of grimdark fantasy.
  
• G.W. Thomas talks about yellow peril plots in science fiction of the 1930s and 1940s. 
• Chris Napier wonders whether Dune by Frank Herbert can be considered grimdark. 
• C.D. Covington discusses how science fiction deals with swearing.
  
• James Wallace Harris talks about humour in science fiction. 
• Jane Gilmartin talks about the ongoing fascination with mad scientists. 
• John Woods talks about the intersection of noir and horror. 
  
• David Barnett takes a look at forgotten women writers of ghost stories of the 19th and early 20th century.
  
• Emily Danforth talks about lesbian relationships in gothic horror.  
• Natalie Zutter shares nine SFF books with complicated female narrators.
  
• Lila Shapiro profiles Rebecca Roanhorse.
  
• Steven Erickson discusses the relationship between authors and literary criticism. 
• Chris Leadbeater takes a look at the real world inspirations for Narnia. 
• Doris V. Sutherland notes a revival of the so-called Satanic Panic of the 1980s in the QAnon conspiracy theory and alt-right circles in general. 
• Bruce Sterling shares some Lovecraftian illustrations that Robert Bloch did in the 1930s. 
• Livia Gershon discusses what she considers fascist tendencies in SFF fandom in the 1930s and 1940s.
  
• Doug Ellis unearthes a study of the readership of Analog from the early 1960s.
• Kris Vyas-Myall takes a look at British comics of the 1930s to 1960s. 
  
• David Hochman details the Stan Lee elder abuse case.
• J. Michael Straczynski discusses the many problems he faces as the executor of the estate of Harlan and Susan Ellison.
• Rob Beschizza reports that Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss are sueing Wizards of the Coast over cancelling the latest Dragonlance trilogy.
• The Daily Mail reports about a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which went missing from a library in Portsmouth, UK, and was later sold at auction for 55000 US-dollars.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Joe George shares ten international horror movies to watch this Halloween. 
  
• Gavia Baker Whitelaw calls Helstrom a derivative misfire.
• Katie Rife calls Synchronic a time-travelling genre-bender.
  
• Chelsea Steiner declares that Love and Monsters proves that dystopias don't have to be depressing. 
• Benjamin Lee calls His House an effective haunted house horror with a timely spin. 
• Shannon Miller calls Bad Hair a tousled horror comedy.
  
• Ellen E. Jones calls Antrum an eerie horror mockumentary.
  
• Font Folly praises the LGBTQ representation in Julie and the Phantoms. 
• Monica Castillo shares her thoughts on the finale of The Third Day. 
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.
  
• Font Folly explains why he loves spooky SFF. 
• Eric Piepenburg talks about the popularity of horror anthology TV shows.
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1932 horror film White Zombie. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1971 horror thriller Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1983 horror movie The Entity.
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1985 horror movie Demons and its 1986 sequel Demons 2.
  
• Leslie Felperin revisits the 2002 werewolf movie Dog Soldiers. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 2014 horror film The Babadook.
  
• David Tennant, best known for playing the Tenth Doctor, interviews former Doctor Who co-star Billie Piper.
  
• Hannah J. Davies interviews Samuel L. Jackson, who appeared in Star Wars, Avengers, Pulp Fiction and lots of other things. 
• Jimmy Kimmel interviews former Batman Michael Keaton. 
• Catherine Shoard interviews Jennifer Lawrence, star of The Hunger Games.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano ranks the best, worst and strangest filmic Draculas of all time.
  
• Cameron Scheetz interviews Ann Dowd, best known for her roles in Rebecca and The Handmaid's Tale.
  
• Anne Billson shares the ten best adaptations of Daphne du Maurier's novels.  
• Matthew John hopes that Netflix's planned Conan adaptation will finally get the character right. 
• Steve O'Brien explains why writers' rooms make for great television.
  
• The Guardian shares some behind the scenes photos from the sets of Ridley Scott's movies. 
• Dalya Alberge reports that concept designs for a 1979 Flash Gordon movie, which was never made, have been found. 
• Brian Pietch reports that Disney is adding disclaimers and warnings before several of its classic movies streaming on Disney Plus.  
• Rick Porter reports that Disney is planning a Willow series, which will once again star Warwick Davis.  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that Jared Leto will reprise his role as the Joker for the so-called Snyder cut of Justice League.
  
• The Guardian reports that actor Jeff Bridges, best known for Starman, True Grit, The Fabulous Baker Boys and lots of other roles, is suffering from lymphoma. 
  
• Jamie Doward reports that EON Productions, who produce the James Bond movies, receive millions in UK tax credits 
• James Randi, magician and paranormal debunker, has died aged 92. 
  
• Rhonda Fleming, who appeared in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Spellbound, The Spiral Staircase, Out of the Past and others, has died aged 97. 
  

Comments on season 3 of Star Trek Discovery and the many versions of Star Trek:

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "That Hope Is You, Part 1", episode 1 of season 3 of Star Trek Discovery. 
• Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on "That Hope Is You, Part 1". 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "That Hope Is You, Part 1" 
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "That Hope Is You, Part 1". 
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on "That Hope Is You, Part 1". 
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on "That Hope Is You, Part 1".
  
• Sam Thielman shares his thoughts on "That Hope Is You, Part 1" and calls it Star Trek Discovery's most thoughtful episode yet. 
• David Betancourt interviews Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Michael Burnham in Star Trek Discovery.
  
• Craig Elvy wonders whether a reference to the Gorn in Star Trek Discovery is a plot hole.  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Voyager episodes "The Raven" and "Scientific Method".
  
• Christian Bone reports that there might be plans for a Star Trek Deep Space Nine revival.
  

Comments on Lovecraft Country: 

• Alex Brown shares her thoughts on "Full Circle", the season finale of Lovecraft Country.
• Ellen E. Jones shares her thoughts on "Full Circle".
• Joelle Monique shares her thoughts on "Full Circle".
• Tyler Dean shares his thoughts on season 1 of Lovecraft Country.
  

 

Comments on the new version of The Witches:  

• Peter Bradshaw declares that the new adaptation of The Witches faills to capture the magic of the 1990 version.  
• A.A. Dowd also feels that the new adaptation zaps all the magic out of The Witches.

Comments on The Haunting of Bly Manor: 

• Brynne Ramella explains the plague doctor ghost in The Haunting of Bly Manor.
• Inspired by Rebecca, Shirley and The Haunting of Bly Manor, Steve Rose wonders why haunted house movies are making a comeback.
  

 

Comments the proposed Mad Max prequel featuring Furiosa:

• The Guardian reports that a Mad Max prequel featuring Furiosa and starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth is planned.
• Ben Child wonders how the Furiosa movie will expand on the feminist polemic of Mad Max. Fury Road.
  

Comments on the renewed delay of the James Bond film No Time to Die and other movies and its impact on the ailing movie theatre chains: 

• Catherine Shoard and Andrew Pulver interviews several people who work in the UK film insutry about the continued impact of the pandemic onto the industry.
  
• Scott Campbell reports that the movie theatre chain AMC will run out of money in six months.
• Zoe Wood reports that the British movie theatre chain Everyman is laying off 400 employees. 
  
• Kate Hutchinson reports about various people working in arts and culture who has to retrain and find other jobs due to the covid pandemic.
  

Awards: 

• The winners of the 2020 Ignyte Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2020 WSFA Small Press Awards has been announced.
• The winners of the 2019 Quantum Short Flash Fiction Awards have been announced.
• The 2020 Not the Booker Prize is open for voting.
• Doris V. Sutherland shares her thoughts on the winners of the 2020 Ignyte Awards.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch declares that there is not just one way to succeed in writing and tells writers to write what they love. 
• Dean Wesley Smith also tells writers to write what they love.
• Seraphina Nova Glass explains how to write a novel in three months. 
• Charlie Jane Anders discusses the importance of a strong narrator. 
• Stuart Turton declares that mixing genres is all about messing with structure. 
• Molly Spencer talks about juggling writing and motherhood.
• Ginger Smith explains what collecting comic books and toys taught her about writing.
• Jim Milliot reports that book sales are surprisingly strong.
  
• Elizabeth Stamp reports about the striking architecture of the Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore in Chengdu, China.
• Locus reports that Barnes & Noble suffered a cyberattack and that customers' personal data may have been accessed.
  

Interviews:

• Locus interviews Naomi Kritzer.
  
• Petra Mayer interviews Rebecca Roanhorse. 
• Nick Spacek interviews Ursula Vernon a.k.a. T. Kingfisher.
  
• Paul Weimer interviews Ausma Zehanat Khan. 
• Tasha Robinson interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
  
• Jen Gheller interviews Chelsea Sutton. 
• Andrea Johnson interviews Eliana González Ugarte and Coral Alejandra Moore.
  
• Sam Leith interviews Art Spiegelman.
  

Reviews: 

• James Davis Nicoll reviews Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes
• Mark Yon reviews Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott.
• Ryan Howze reviews The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling.
  
• Camestros Felapton reviews Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. 
• Randy Money reviews Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 
• Bill Capossere reviews Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.
  
• Jessica P. Wick reviews The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold. 
• Tadiana Jones reviews Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark.
• Colleen Mondor reviews Burn by Patrick Ness. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Greensmith by Aliya Whiteley. 
• Jana Nyman reviews Sea Change by Nancy Kress.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison.
  
• Jodie Crump reviews The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart. 
• C.T. Phipps reviews Sea of Quills by Seth Skorkowsky. 
• Katharine Coldiron reviews The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke. 
• Sean Dowie reviews King of the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender.
  
• A.M. Justice reviews The Worth of Hair by A.A. Freeman.
  
• Larissa Irankunda reviews A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik. 
• Bill Capossere and Jana Nyman review A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik.
  
• Alasdair Stuart reviews Stone by Ho Che Anderson.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews D by Michael Faber. 
• Randy Money reviews The Remaking by Clay McLeod Chapman.
  
• The G. reviews My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. 
• Rob Bedford reviews The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix.
  
• Bonnie McDaniel reviews The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher. 
• Linda H. Cordega reviews The Fourth Island by Sarah Tolmie.
  
• Lee Mandelo reviews Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton.
  
• Andrea Johnson reviews Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist by Lola Robles, translated by Lawrence Schimel.  
• Ian Mond reviews Red Pill by Hari Kunzru.
  
• Ian Mond reviews Tender Is the Flesh, by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses.
• Bill Capossere reviews To Hold Up the Sky by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu.
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews My Favourites by Ben Bova. 
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 by M. John Harrison.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Clarkesworld Year 5, edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace. 

Classics reviews:

• John Miller revisits the May 1923 issue of Weird Tales. 
• Steve J. Wright revisits the July 1940 issue of Unknown. 
• Steve J. Wright revisits the August 1940 issue of Unknown.
  
• Cora Buhlert revisits the 1940 fantasy story "Transparent Stuff" by Dorothy Quick. 
• Alan Brown revisits the 1960 space opera The Vortex Blaster a.k.a. Masters of the Vortex by E.E. Smith.
  
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1962 post-apocalyptic novel The Wind From Nowhere by J.G. Ballard.
  
• Rich Horton revisits the 1963 science fiction novels The Rites of One and Castaways World by John Brunner. 
• Paul Fraser revisits the 1965 anthology New Writings in SF #6, edited by John Carnell.
  
• Gideon Marcus revisits the November 1965 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 
• Victoria Silverwolf revisits the November 1965 issue of Fantastic.
  
• Paul Fraser revisits the January 1966 issue of New Worlds. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1978 tie-in novel The Hulk: Stalker From the Stars by Len Wein, Marv Wolfman and Joseph Silva. 
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1979 YA time travel novel Time Piper by Delia Hardy.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1980 science fiction thriller Star Driver by Lee Correy a.k.a. G. Harry Stine.
  
• Simon Stephenson revisits the 1991 mystery thriller The Crow Road by Iain Banks.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1992 post-apocalyptic series Swampmaster by Jake Spencer a.k.a. Jerome Preisler.
  

Con and event reports:

• DisCon III, the 2021 Worldcon in Washington DC, has lauched its Capitalize! Fan Fund to offer sponsored memberships to people from marginalized communities. 
• Arley Sorg reports about the virtual Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird.
• Oline H. Cogdill reports about the virtual 2020 Bouchercon.
• Criminal Element reports about a live short story writing event featuring several horror authors and hosted by Christopher Golden and Amber Benson. 
• Watch a virtual panel featuring several Wild Cards authors. 
• Olivia Rutigliano reports about the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula and the sets by Edward Gorey. 

Crowdfunding:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith are looking for funding for their 2020 WMG Holiday Spectacular, an advent calendar of free holiday short stories. 
• The Mab, an anthology of stories from the Mabinogion retold by Welsh writers and edited by Matt Brown and Eloise Williams, is looking for funding.
  
• The Stargate SG-1 tabletop roleplaying game is looking for funding.
  

 

Science and technology:

• Jason Davis reports about the NASA probe OSIRIS-REx, which will collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. 
• NASA reports that OSIRIS-REx has successfully taken a sample from the asteroid Bennu.
  
• Evelyn Arevalo reports that Elon Musk has presented his plans for the SpaceX Starship to the Mars Society.
  
• Jacob Oller reports about a retractable plasma sword, which functions a little like a lightsabre.
  
• Lizzie Roberts reports about 13000-year-old human and animal footprints discovered in New Mexico. 
• Daco Auffenorde talks about the so-called White Death train disaster in Wellington, Washington, in 1910.

Free online fiction:

• "Everything and Nothing" by Jenny Rae Rappaport in Lightspeed. 
• "The Virtue of Unfaithful Translations" by Minsoo Kang in Lightspeed. 
• "Girls With Needles and Frost" by Jenny Rae Rappaport in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• "Degeneration" by Dominic Wright in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 
  
• "Clockwork Wives" by Caroline Diorio in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "You and Whose Army?" by Greg Egan in Clarkesworld. 
• "Last Wishes" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires in Clarkesworld. 
• "Vó Úrsula's Magical Shop for Soul Aches" by Victoria V. in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "The Bend of Water" by Tiah Marie Beautement in Omenana.
  
• "Reflections in Black" by Steve Rasnic Tem in The Dark. 
• "The Monkey Trap" by Adam Troy Castro in Nightmare Magazine. 
• "The War Was Over" by Geoffrey A. Landis in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "Assisted Suicide" by Brian Wells in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Outside Order" by Philip Gerwer in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat" by Usman T. Malik in Tor.com. 
• "Children of the Night" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  
• Read several flash fiction stories from the Breathe FIYAH anthology, edited by Brent Lambert and DaVaun Sanders.
• Download the free Africanfuturism anthology, edited by Wole Talabi. 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of The Mandalorian.
  
• Watch another trailer for season 2 of The Mandalorian. 
• Watch a trailer for the new Animaniacs.
  
• Watch a trailer for Invincible. 
• Watch a trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon.
  
• Watch a trailer for Greenland.