Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for July 22, 2022

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with tributes to Herbert W. Franke and Eric Flint, the many iterations of Star Trek, Ms. Marvel, Thor: Love and Thunder and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, season 4 of Westworld, the latest version of Resident Evil, She Will, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Nope, the 2022 San Diego Comic Con and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Christina Orlando shares the thirty most anticipated SFF books for the rest of 2022. 
• Tobias Carroll shares his favourite small press SFF coming out in July and August 2022.
  
• Lyndsie Manusos offers a primer to science fiction subgenres.
  
• Lincoln Michel writes about speculative epics. 
• Alex Jennings explains what culture shock taught him about science fiction and fantasy storytelling. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF comfort reads.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF novels that travel to alternate Earths.
  
• Max Gladstone points out that villains can parodoxically keep the protagonists safe, because they monopolise all the danger. 
• Crime Reads hosts a roundtable discussion about the meaning of "The Other". 
• Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason talks about the concept of "The Other" in horror.
  
• Jason Ray Carney talks about the New Edge sword and sorcery movement and shares some history. 
• Mike Signor shares some links pertaining to the cozy fantasy movement. 
• Emily Jane Buehler shares a list of cozy fantasy romances.
  
• Sarah Gailey talks about loving monsters. 
• Melissa Albert shares five SFF boosk that deal with magic and its aftermath.  
• Nina Nesseth talks about friendship, loss and high school horror. 
• Linda Codega shares thirteen fungus-themed horror novels.
  
• Rebecca Stott talks about the challenges of writing fiction set during the darkest part of the so-called "dark ages".
  
• Daniel Rabuzzi talks about the fairy tales school of English language poetry. 
• Brian Murphy shares his appreciation for the works of Lord Dunsany.
  
• Bill Slocum shares his thoughts on the Bran Mak Morn stories by Robert E. Howard.
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia talks about the mad scientists of nineteenth century literature and their tendency to build artificial humans. 
  
• Ben Riggs recounts how a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons crossover almost happened.
  
• Tobias Carroll discusses how Marvel's No-Prize helped shape modern fandom.
  
• Shaun Duke pointss out that so-called "cancel culture" is not a publishing refusing to publish a racist Norman Mailer essay, but marginalised writers, artists and fans being subjected to harassment mobs.
  
• Yahoo reports about the thirtieth anniversary of the Goosebumps series of horror novels for young readers.
  

Tributes to Herbert W. Franke:

• Austrian science fiction writer and pioneering computer artist Herbert W. Franke had died aged 95.
  
• Dietmar Dath remembers Herbert W. Franke.
• Claudia Koestler shares an obituary for Herbert W. Franke.
  

 

Tributes to Eric Flint:

• SFF writer and editor Eric Flint has died aged 74.  
• Mike Glyer remembers Eric Flint.
  

 

Comics and Art:

• Justin Carter reports that Namor, the Sub-Mariner will be getting a new comic by Christopher Cantwell and Pasqual Ferry.
  
• James Whitbrook reports about the latest X-Men Hellfire Gala event in the comics.
• Rachel Cooke reviews the graphic novel Alison by Lizzy Stewart.
  
• Ravynn K. Stringfield shares her appreciation for the character of Monica Lynne, T'Challa's girlfriend in the Black Panther comics of the 1970s,  
• Justin Carter reports about the problems at the comic and graphic novel publisher Oni Press.
  
• Deuce Richardson celebrates the 80th birthday of comics artist Mike Ploog. 
• Alan Grant, writer of Judge Dredd and Batman, has died aged 73.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Luke Y. Thompson calls The Deer King a beautiful animated movie that plays it a little too safe.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Orville. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of What We Do In the Shadows. 
  
• David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of For All Mankind. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time a heartfelt documentary.
  
• Phuong Le declares that Fruits Basket: Prelude gives an ending no one deserves to the heartrending anime series. 
• Stuart Heritage wonders what to expect from the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.
  
• Ben Child discusses how the ancient alien storyline in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came to be and why it was not a good idea. 
• The film critics of The Guardian pick their favourite movies about aliens. 
  
• Hadley Freeman explains which classic Disney animated movies her children loved and which didn't work for them.
  
• Stephen Kelley revisits the 1997 anime film Princess Mononoke.
• Justin Carter revisits the 2012 Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. 
  
• Melissa Malone lists ten SFF TV series with disappointing endings. 
• Todd Gilchrist interviews legendary director and film producer Roger Corman.
  
• Zoe Williams interviews Julian Glover who has been in everything, mostly playing villains.
  
• Sean O'Hagan interviews Gabriel Byrne, star of Excalibur, Miller's Crossing and The Usual Suspects. 
• Adam B. Vary interviews Noah Schnapp who plays Will in Stranger Things.
  
• Adam Nagourney reports that a Hitler marionette made by Isidore Oznowicz, father of puppeteer Mike Oz, has resurfaced and is now being exhibited in San Francisco, California.
• Tatiana Siegel reports that the campaign to release the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League may have been driven by bots.
  

 

Comments on the many iterations of Star Trek: 

• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "Marauders".
  
• Aaron Hicklin interviews John Cho who played Lieutenant Sulu in the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies.
  

 

Comments on Thor: Love and Thunder and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general (spoilers): 

• James Whitbrook declares that Thor: Love and Thunder fails the Mighty Thor.
• Leah Schnelbach discusses the religious themes in Thor: Love and Thunder.
• Mia Galuppo interviews Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of The Gray Man and several Marvel movies.  
• Aaron Couch reports how Marvel is underpaying creators when using their characters in its movies.
  

 

Comments on Ms. Marvel (spoilers): 

• Justin Carter wonders what the Ms. Marvel finale means for Kamala Khan. 
• Sydney Odman notes that Ms. Marvel embodies the essence of teendom.
  
• Brahmjot Kaur interviews Sana Amanat, co-creator and producer of Ms. Marvel.
• Ben Travis interviews Sana Amanat. 
• Drew Taylor interviews Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, directors of Ms. Marvel.
• Redditors interview Iman Vellani who plays Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel.
  

 

Comments on season 4 of Westworld: 

• Bob Mayer declares that Westworld is still going strong in season 4.
• Sam Barsanti shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Westworld. 
• Rob Bricken shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Westworld. 
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Westworld.
  
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Aurora Perrineau, one of the stars of Westworld.
  

 

Comments on the latest version of Resident Evil:

• Briana Lawrence calls the latest version of Resident Evil an unbelievably mess.
  
• Justin Carter notes that Lance Reddick is the only reason he is watching Resident Evil.
  

 

Comments on Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: 

• Germain Lussier calls Marcel the Shell With Shoes On one of the year's best films. 
• Germain Lussier interviews Dean Fleisher Camp, director of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.
  

 

Comments on She Will: 

• Leslie Felperin calls She Will an atmopsheric horror film about post-menopausal revenge fantasies. 
• Bryan Cairns interviews Alice Krige, star of She Will.
  

 

Comments on Nope: 

• Todd Gilchrist declares that in Nope, the metaphor gets in the way of clear and concise storytelling.
  
• Matthew Jackson reports that director Jordan Peele claims it would have been impossible to make his latest horror movie Nope five years ago.

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2021 World Fantasy Award have been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2022 Self-Published Science Fiction Competition has been announced. 
• The nominees for the 2021 Sidewise Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Premios Kelvin 205 have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2022 Kurd Laßwitz Prize in the category Best Radio Play has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 Orwell Prizes have been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2022 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize has been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced.
  
• Sadie Hartmann interviews James Chambers, administrator of the Bram Stoker Awards.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Barbara Bourland talks about writing under the surface.
  
• Ann Langley offers writing advice based on tarot cards. 
• Ellery Kane talks about research as inspiration.
  
• The SFWA has launched a page with resources for indie writers. 
• Jacqui Lipton talks about agency agreements. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about agents.
  
• Sarah Shaffi reports that alleged manuscript thief Filippo Bernardini, who scammed authors out of unpublished manuscripts, may avoid trial in the US. 
• Sydney Page reports how the bookstore The 27th Letter in Detroit, Michigan, was scammed and how the local community stepped in to save the store.
  
• Ty Rushing reports that the Vinton public library in Vinton, Iowa, was forced to close after most of the staff quit following complaints by locals about LGBTQ themed book displays.
  

Interviews:

• The Fantasy Hive interviews Foz Meadows. 
  
• Fire the Canon interviews Sarah Gailey. 
• Locus interviews Nadia Afifi.
  
• Cat Luria interviews Savannah Wade.
• Marissa van Uden interviews Aimee Picchi.
  
• David Agranoff interviews Joachim Boaz. 
• Cora Buhlert interviews Michael McCarty. 
• Sukhdev Sandhu interviews Edward George.
  

Reviews:

• Becky LeJeune reviews Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik. 
• Camestros Felapton reviews Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
  
• Elizabeth Tabler reviews August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White.
• Carrie Chi Lough reviews Fearless by Allen Stroud. 
• Paul Weimer reviews Warlady by Jo Graham. 
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Swordsman's Descent by G.M. White. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse.
  
• Adrienne Martini reviews Rosebud by Paul Cornell, The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler and And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed  
• Fiona Noble reviews Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. 
• Paul Weimer reviews City of Dusk by Tara Sim. 
  
• Michael Aaron Harrington reviews The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune. 
• Fabienne Schwizer reviews In a Garden Burning Gold by Rory Power. 
• Bill Capossere reviews The Deep and Shining Dark by Juliet Kemp.
  
• John Mauro reviews The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino.
  
• Adri Joy reviews The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings 
• Martin Cahill reviews Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid.
  
• Rob Bedford reviews A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow. 
• Martin Cahill reviews A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow.
  
• Arturo Serrano reviews Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Hooked by A.C. Wise. 
• Colleen Mondor reviews Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Ghost of Ivy Barn by Mark Stay.
• Camestros Felapton reviews Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire. 
• Leah Schnelbach reviews The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons. 
• Lee Mandelo reviews Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Death Warrant by Bryan Johnston.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Chrysalis by Lincoln Child. 
  
• Anthony Cummins reviews Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman. 
• Colleen Mondor reviews Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye.
  
• Elizabeth Tabler reviews Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis.
  
• Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Babel by R.F. Kuang. 
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky.
  
• Ian Mond reviews Rouge Street: Three Novellas by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang.  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat Al-Himma, edited and translated by Melanie Magidow. 
• Joe Kenney reviews In the Pulp Fiction Trenches by Len Levinson. 

Classics reviews:

• Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys revisit the 1894 horror story "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" by H.G. Wells.
  
• The Appendix N Book Club revisits the 1922 fantasy novel The Worm Ourobouros by E.R. Eddison.
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1930 superhero novel Gladiator by Philip Wylie. 
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1950 dystopian science fiction story "Spectator Sport" by John D. MacDonald.
  
• Gideon Marcus revisits the August 1967 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
  
• Cora Buhlert revisits the 1967 sword and planet novel Flame of Iridar by Lin Carter, Gideon Marcus revisits the 1967 science fiction novel The Jewels of Elsewhen by Ted White and Gideon Marcus and Cora Buhlert revisit the 1967 science fiction novel Chthon by Piers Anthony.
  
• Jason Sacks revisits the 1967 science fiction novel The Ganymede Takeover by Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson, Gideon Marcus revisits the 1967 science fiction collection I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, Robin Rose Graves revisits the 1967 science fiction novel City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin and Kris Vyas-Myall revisits the 1967 science fiction novel The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1974 science fiction anthology Before the Golden Age, edited by Isaac Asimov. 
• Ruthanna Emrys revisits the 1976 time travel novel Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy.
  
• Liam's Lyceum revisits the 1977 horror novel Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber.
  
• Mark Yon revisits the 1978 Doctor Who tie-in novel The Androids of Tara by David Fisher. 
• James McGlothlin revisits the 1980 anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories VIII, edited by Karl Edward Wagner. 
• Alissa Burger revisits the 1986 YA horror novel Chain Letter and its 1992 sequel Chain Letter 2 by Christopher Pike. 
• Brian Murphy revisits the 1989 Death Dealer sword and sorcery novel Lords of Destruction by James Silke.
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1989 fantasy novel Eldrie the Healer by Claudia J. Edwards.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• The anthology Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, edited by Andrea D. Lobel and Mark Shainblum, is looking for funding.
• Lucille Robbins, widow of the late Eric Flint, needs some help with treatment and funeral costs.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Carly Savageau reports about the 2022 Westercon in Tonopah,. Nevada.
  
• Chicon 8, the 2022 Worldcon in Chicago, Illinois, has posted the preliminary agenda for the WSFS Business Meeting. 
• Ben Child reports about San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
  
• Various creatives from the film, TV and comics industry explain why San Diego Camic Con in San Diego, California, is important to them.
  
• Germain Lussier shares the most intriguing panels of the 2022 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
• Germain Lussier explains what movie news to be expected at San Diego Comic Con. 
• Cheryl Eddy reports about the "Dragon's Den" experience at San Diego Comic Con.
• Cheryl Eddy reports about the Dungeons and Dragon "Tavern Experience" at San Diego Comic Con.
  
• Germain Lussier reports about the Severance experience at San Diego Comic Con. 
• Linda Codega reports that workers at the Hilton Boyfront Hotel in San Diego, California, popular with attendants of San Diego Comic Con, went on strike and won.
  
• Zack Sharf reports that Stranger Things actor Joseph Quinn was mistreated by security at the London Film and Comic Con in London, UK, for spending too much time interacting with fans. 
• NBC DFW reports that the real life sport of quidditch is changing its name to quadball to distance itself from J.K. Rowling and her increasingly transphobic behaviour. 

Science and technology:

• Jonathan Amos reports that ESA's Vega-C rocket has successfully completed its debut flight.
• Nicholas Barber discusses the wave of UFO sightings that swept the US in the late 1940s and 1950s and its impact on popular culture.
  
• Eric Jay Dolin talks about the rise of privateering during the American revolution. 
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Sadness Box" by Suzanne Palmer in Clarkesworld. 
• "Creatures of the Dark Oasis" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam in Apex Magazine.
  
• "The Owl and the Reptiloid" by Ian Tregillis in The Sunday Morning Transport. 
• "Elizabeth and the Egg-Laying Rooster" by Connor Landon Freeman in Wyngraf Magazine. 
• "The Legend of Urgoro" by Ephraim Orji in Omenana.
  
• "Ghosts in My Lungs" by Madeleine Sardina in Luna Station Quarterly. 
• "Grow" by Carrie Vaughn in Tor.com. 
• "Singing the Ancient Out of the Dark" by R.J. Theodore and Maurice Broaddus in Lightspeed. 
  
• "The Sun in Exile" by Catherynne M. Valente in Lightspeed.
  
• "In Mercy, Rain" by Seanan McGuire in Tor.com.
  
• "Lorelei" by Álex Souza in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
  
• "Ìdolo" by Jame Bennett in The Dark.
  
• "Self-Inflicted Haunt" by A.J. Wentz in Fantasy Magazine. 
• "Bunnies" by Dante Luiz in Nightmare Magazine.
  
• "Rummage Sale Finds" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "The Alchemies of Time" by Jack Pagliante in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "The Time Traveler" by Pamela Horitani in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "In Pictures of Gunmetal Gray" by Wendy Nikel in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "Verisya" by Mari Ness in Daily Science Fiction.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 5 of The Handmaid's Tale.
• Watch a trailer for Glorious.
  
• Watch a trailer for Wifelike. 
• Watch a trailer for Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
  
• Watch a trailer for House of the Dragon.
  
• Watch a trailer for Secret Headquarters. 
• Watch a trailer for Halloween Ends.
  
• Watch a trailer for Suzume.
  
• Watch a trailer for Drifting Home. 
• Watch a trailer for season 3 of Harley Quinn.
  
• Watch a trailer for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for July 15, 2022

 

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek, Ms. Marvel, Thor: Love and Thunder and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, season 4 of Stranger Things, season 4 of Westworld, season 3 of The Orville, the latest version of Resident Evil, She Will, The Baby, Tron at forty, Minions 2: The Rise of Gru, tributes to James Caan and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Lisa Tuttle lists the best recent science fiction and fantasy novels. 
• Alex Brown shares all the new YA SFF books coming out in July.
  
• Adam Roberts shares his definition of science fiction. 
• Ryan Van Loan talks about the mirrored politics of science fiction and fantasy.
  
• Camestros Felapton discusses science fiction's connection to the esoteric.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction stories about long vanished forerunners. 
• James Davis Nicoll lists five impractical reasons to establish space colonies.
  
• Eve Taft shares her favourite horror novels from the last one hundred years. 
• Katrina Monroe talks about feminism in horror. 
• Joe Bonadonna and David C. Smith analyse the collapse of the sword and sorcery genre in the early 1980s.
  
• B.L. Blanchard shares five mystery novels set in speculative worlds.  
• Rachel Taylor shares eight books to read while waiting for part 2 of Dune. 
• Rachel Taylor lists her five favourite comfort fantasy reads.
  
• Cole Rush lists five fantasy cafés he'd like to visit. 
• Kim Stanley Robinson talks about the importance of imagination. 
• Molly Templeton explains what to read when you can't seem to stop staring at the television.
  
• Bill Ward shares his appreciation for Charles R. Saunders' Nyumbani Tales.
  
• Bobby Derie takes a look at Harry Houdini's link to Weird Tales in general and H.P. Lovecraft in particular.
• Matthew Ilseman talks about cosmic horror in the work of Jean Ray. 
• Casey Sherman reports about the literary holiday community in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that J.K. Rowling has endorsed a transphobic documentary by far right commentator and filmmaker Matt Walsh.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that Harlan Ellison's infamous lost anthology The Last Dangerous Visions finally has a release date.
  
• SFF writer Geoffrey Goodwin has died aged 51. 
• Science fiction writer, con-linguist and long-term Star Trek fan Dorothy J. Heydt had died aged 80. 
• SFF writer Barbara Haldeman a.k.a. Barbara Delaplace has died.
  

Comics and Art:

• Alan Brown shares his appreciation for the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs a.k.a. Xenozoic comic series by Mark Schultz. 
• Alan Stewart discusses the guest appearance by Fafhrd and Gray Mouser in the September/ October 1972 issue of Wonder Woman.
  
• Chloe Mavael interviews artist and graphic designer Butcher Billy.
  
• Cartoonist and comic scholar Robert C. Harvey has died aged 85.
  

 

Film and TV:

• S. Qiouyi Lu shares some cultural background on Everything Everywhere All At Once. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the season 4 premiere of What We Do In the Shadows.
  
• Cath Clarke calls Executive Order a chillingly believable dystopia from Brazil 
• Leigh Monson calls American Carnage a thought-provoking but unpolished horror thriller.
  
• Manuel Betancourt calls Boo, Bitch a breezy but slight supernatural high school comedy. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Good Madam an eerie post-apartheid horror film from South Africa. 
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the Spanish horror movie Malnazidos a.k.a. Valley of the Dead.
  
• Martin Tsai calls Paws of Fury an animated clearinghouse for Asian martial arts clichés.
  
• Ben Child shares some speculations about Avatar: The Way of Water.
• David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of For All Mankind.
  
• George Bass notes that television almost always gets street violence wrong.   
• Pamela Hutchinson notes that Hollywood movies from the pre-Hays Code era were much more interesting and had much better roles for women.
  
• Kristy Ambrose lists the best and worst film and TV adaptations of Ray Bradbury stories and novels.
  
• Lucas Ropek shares the ten best and worst hacker movies. 
• Martin Belam shares behind the scenes photos from the Doctor Who movies of the 1960s.
  
• Natalie Devitt revisits the 1967 gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. 
• Fiona Moore revisits the 1967 horror comedy Carry On Screaming. 
• Jason Sacks revisits the 1967 Japanese science fiction film The Face of Another. 
  
• Chris Morgan shares twenty little known facts about the 1997 science fiction film Men in Black.
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Natalie Holt, composer for Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  
• Artem Golub interviews Emma McDonald, star of Moonhaven. 
• Rob Bricken interviews P.J. Lewis, the current person in charge of the various Masters of the Universe toylines.
  
• Katie Gill traces how Sailor Moon revolutionised the magical girl anime genre. 
• Stuart Heritage celebrates the eightieth birthday of Harrison Ford, star of Star Wars, the Indiana Jones movies, Blade Runner and many others.
  
• L.Q. Jones, actor and director of A Boy and His Dog, has died aged 94. 
• Monty Norman, composer of the James Bond theme, has died aged 94.
  

 

Tributes to James Caan:

• James Caan, star of Rollerball, Misery, The Godfather, Thief , Alien Nation, El Dorado and many others has died aged 82.
• Peter Bradshaw shares his appreciation for James Caan. 
• Ronald Bergan shares an obituary for James Caan.  
• Director Carol Morley remembers James Caan. 
  
• Ian Spelling remembers James Caan's fifteen best performances. 
  
• Greg Whitmore shares photos of James Caan's lengthy career. 
• Robin McKie notes that the deaths of James Caan, Ray Liotta and Tony Sirico with a short period of time are a blow for the kind of mafia drama, through which all three became famous. 
  

 

Comments on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek: 

• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "A Quality of Mercy", the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "A Quality of Mercy".  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "A Quality of Mercy". 
• James Whitbrook shares his appreciation for the Christopher Pike versus James T. Kirk scene in "A Quality of Mercy".
  
• Rob Bricken compares "A Quality of Mercy" to the original series episode "Balance of Terror".
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares an overview over the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
  
• Nick Romano interviews Paul Wesley, who plays the young James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. 
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the Star Trek Enterprise episode "A Night in Sick Bay".
  

 

Comments on Thor: Love and Thunder and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general (spoilers): 

• Emmet Asher-Perrin delcares that Thor: Love and Thunder is not really the promised romance and that is a good thing.
  
• Leonard Maltin finds Thor: Love and Thunder uneven and abruptly veering in tone. 
• Ben Child shares a spoilerish review of Thor: Love and Thunder.
  
• Justin Carter shares his thoughts on Thor: Love and Thunder. 
• Adam Whitehead shares his thoughts on Thor: Love and Thunder.
  
• Germain Lussier explains the end credits of Thor: Love and Thunder. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw wonders what Thor: Love and Thunder is about.
  
• Brian Hiatt interviews Taika Waititi, director of Thor: Love and Thunder.
• Alex Flood interviews Taika Waititi. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that some sexist internet trolls claimed that Natalie Portman's muscles in display in Thor: Love and Thunder are CGI.
  
• James Whitbrook shares the best moments of Jane Foster as Thor from the comics. 
• Justin Carter reports that Thor: Love and Thunder had a very good opening weekend.
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on Spider-Man: No Way Home. 
• A.A. Dowd wonders whether we have gone from Marvel fatigue to Marvel exhaustion.
  

 

Comments on Ms. Marvel (spoilers): 

• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on "No Normal", the season finale of Ms. Marvel. 
• Sarah Shaffi shares her thoughts on "No Normal". 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "No Normal".
  
• Richard Phippen interviews Iman Vellani who plays Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel.
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Sana Amanat, producer of Ms. Marvel.
  

 

Comments on season 3 of The Orville: 

• Steve Vertlieb shares his thoughts on season 3 of The Orville so far.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Orville.
  

 

Comments on season 4 of Stranger Things (spoilers): 

• Paul Levinson calls season 4 of Stranger Things a big step forward for the series.
  
• Kevin Hurler discusses how season 4 of Stranger Things deals with depression.
• Sabina Graves notes that the descriptive captions of season 4 of Stranger Things include various Easter eggs such as Dungeons and Dragons references.
  

Comments on season 4 of Westworld: 

• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Westworld.
• Rob Bricken shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Westworld.
  

 

Comments on the latest version of Resident Evil:

• Lucy Mangan calls the latest version of Resident Evil mindless, blood-soaked zombie fun.
• Tom Philip declares that the latest Resident Evil TV show fails to breath new life into the franchise that just won't die. 
  

 

Comments on The Baby: 

• Lucy Mangan calls The Baby a truly terrifying comedy horror film, particularly in the light of the repeal of Roe vs. Wade in the US.
• Inspired by The Baby, Hollie Richardson discusses TV's problem with portraying women who don't want children.
  

 

Comments on She Will: 

• Jordan Hoffman calls She Will a vicious horror tale of vengeance.
• Cath Clarke interviews Charlotte Colbert, director of She Will. 
  

 

Comments on Tron at forty: 

• Justin Carter revisits the 1982 science fiction film Tron for its fortieth anniversary. 
• Ryan Britt also revisits Tron. 

 

Comments on Minions 2: The Rise of Gru:  

• Calum Marsh attempts to explain why the Minions have taken over the world.
• Claire Fahy and McKenny Oxenden report about the "Gentleminions" phenomenon of fans dressing up in suits to watch Minions 2: The Rise of Gru.
  

 

Awards:

• The shortlist for the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced.
• The winners of the 2022 Prometheus and Prometheus Hall of Fame Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 Imadjinn Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award have been announced.
• The nominations for the 2022 Emmy Awards have been announced with some love for genre television.
  
• Adri Joy and Joe Sherry share their thoughts on the 2022 Hugo finalists for Best Short Story. 
• The Hugos There! podcast discusses the 2022 Hugo finalists for Best Novelette.
  
• Rich Horton wonders what the 1951 Hugo finalists might have looked like.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Rachel Howzell Hall shares some tips for avoiding burnout and resetting your creative gears. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about the importance of finding the right words.
  
• Eva V. Gibson shares a beginner's guide to using and exploring horror tropes. 
• Phoebe Wynne talks about writing unlikeable heroines. 
• Kelley Armstrong shares some tips for writing time travel. 
• Locus reports that DAW Books has been sold to the Chinese company Astra Publishing House.
  
• Andrew Albanese reports about the latest developments in the lawsuit of various publishing companies against the Internet Archive over making scanned copies of books illegally available.
  
• Andrew Albanese reports about a new study of trauma in librarians.
• Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris report that bookstores are not only thriving after the covid pandemic, but also becoming more diverse.
  

Interviews:

• Scott Edelman interviews David Gerrold. 
• Locus interviews Daniel Abraham.
  
• Oliver Brackenbury interviews David C. Smith.
  
• D.M. Ritzlin interviews S.E. Lindberg. 
• Phoebe Barton interviews Sabrina Vourvoulias. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Liz Michalski.
  
• Cat Luria interviews Kathleen Chadwick.
  

Reviews:

• Paul Weimer reviews Currency of War by Melinda M. Snodgrass.
• Maya Gittelman reviews A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers. 
• Jennie Ivins reviews Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral.
  
• Jennie Ivins reviews Iron Truth by S.A. Tholin. 
• Aigner Loren Wilson reviews Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta.
  
• Jennie Ivins reviews In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno.
  
• Michael Dodd reviews Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.
  
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Mage of Fools by Eugen Bacon.  
• Rob Bedford reviews Kagen the Damned by Jonathan Maberry. 
• James Tivendale reviews The Tyrant's Law by Daniel Abraham.
  
• Molly Templeton reviews For the Throne by Hannah Whitten.
• Alasdair Stuart reviews The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee. 
• Adrienne Martini reviews Last Exit by Max Gladstone. 
• Michael R. Brown reviews Nick Nightmare: Nightmare Cocktails by Adrian Cole.
  
• Marion Deeds reviews The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune. 
• Marion Deeds reviews Flash Fire by T.J. Klune.
  
• Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Uncommon Charm by Emily Bergslien and Kat Weaver.
• Fiona Denton reviews The Hedge Witch by Cari Thomas. 
• Mahvesh Murad reviews The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey.
  
• Alex Brown reviews The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta. 
• Alice Jolly reviews Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott.
  
• Maya Gittelman reviews An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan.
  
• Maya C. James reviews City of Orange by David Yoon. 
• Kat Hooper reviews The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
• Runalong the Shelves reviews She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. 
• Sarah McCarry reviews Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.
• Fabienne Schwitzer reviews Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
• Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane.
• Lee Mandelo reviews Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Last Storm by Tim Lebbon. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews What Doesn't Break Us by Helen Sedgwick.
  
• John Mauro reviews The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison. 
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews Utopias of the Third Kind by Vandana Singh. 
• Bill Ward reviews Savage Scrolls: Thrilling Tales of Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jason Ray Carney.
  

Classics reviews:

• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1911 science fiction novel The Wonder by J.D. Beresford. 
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1956 science fiction story "And Now the News..." by Theodore Sturgeon.
  
• Benjamin Espen revisits the 1965 science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1965 gothic suspense novel The Pavilion at Monkshood by Anne Maybury a.k.a. Anne Arundel. 
• Gideon Marcus revisits the August 1967 issue of Galaxy. 
• John Boston revisits the August 1967 issue of Amazing Stories.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews the 1972 anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year, edited by Terry Carr. 
• Steve Carroll revisits the 1977 historical fantasy novel Cormac Mac Art: The Sign of the Moonbow by Andrew J. Offutt. 
• Young People Read Old SFF revisit the 1979 science fiction story "Cassandra" by C.J. Cherryh.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the May 1983 issue of White Dwarf. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1984 science fiction novel Palimpsests by Carter Scholz and Glenn Harcourt. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1985 TV tie-in novel Street Hawk by Jack Roberts.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the 1986 Simon of Gitta historical fantasy story "The Blade of the Slayer" by Richard L. Tierney. 
• Alissa Burger revisits the 1991 YA horror novel Mother's Helper by A. Bates and the 1995 YA horror novel The Claw by Carmen Adams.
• John Mauro revisits the 1998 epic fantasy novel A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• The Last Ranger, an epic fantasy novel by J.D.L. Rosell, is looking for funding.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• The Texas Center shares Fred Malmberg's guest of honour speech at the 2022 Howard Days in Cross Plains, Texas. 
• Tim Knight looks ahead at the Conan Ninetieth Anniversary Panel at the 2022 San Diego Comci Con in San Diego, California.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that Bryan Brandenburg, co-founder of the FanX Comic Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been arrested in Hawaii for making several bomb threats.
• Jacob Scholl has more on the Bryan Brandenburg case. 
• Norbert Fiks reports about the Multivers SFF reading in Bremen, North Germany. 
• Mike Glyer reports that the 2022 FantasyCon in Heathrow, UK, will take place after all, though shortened to two days. 
  
• Mike Glyer reports that the 2022 SMOFCon will take place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in December. 
• Anime News Network reports about bad ventilation in artist alley at the 2022 AnimeExpo in Los Angeles, California.
  
• Oliver Wainwright reports about the exhibition "Space Popular: The Portal Galleries" at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, UK.
• Hattie Lindert reports that the fictional theme park Jupiter's Claim from the upcoming horror movie Nope will become a permanent attraction at the Universal Studios theme park in Hollywood, California. 
• Sabina Graves shares the latest news and attractions from the Disney Parks, the Universal Studios parks and other US theme parks.
  

Science and technology:

• NASA shares the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. 
• Marina Koren reports that the first images transmitted by the James Webb Space Telescope are dazzling and only the beginning.
• Jeffrey Kluger reports what the James Webb Space Telescope images mean for space. 
  
• Paola Rosa Aquino discusses the difficulties of troubleshooting the aging Voyager space probes.
• George Dvorsky reports that a SpaceX Starship booster rocket has exploded during a test.
  
• Dave Kindy celebrates the 75th anniversary of the suppose UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. 
• Caroline Delbert reports that scientists may have stumbled upon an entirely new elementary particle. 
• Science Daily reports that the mechanism of the biosynthesis of strychnine has been discovered. 
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch" by Garth Nix in Tor.com.
• "How to Be a True Woman While Piloting a Steam-Engine Balloon" by Valerie Hunter in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• "River of Sons" by Geoffrey W. Cole in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 
• "Liberty: Seeking Support for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for a Non-Human Being" by Samuel Peralta in Lightspeed. 
• "An Old Man Cometh and He Is Overgrown" by Lyndsie Manusos in Lightspeed. 
• "The Tiger Who Fell In Love With the Sky" by Kathleen Chadwick in Luna Station Quarterly.
  
• "The Pale Sparrow" by Fernando Medici in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
  
• "Nothing Is Wasted" by Sean Padraic Birnie in The Dark.
• "Carapace" by David Goodman in Clarkesworld. 
• "To Be" by Ahmed Asi in Clarkesworld. 
• "The Memory of Chemistry" by Sabrina Vourvoulias in Fantasy Magazine. 
• "Notes to a Version of Myself, Hidden in Symphonie Fantastique Scores Throughout the Multiverse" by Aimee Picchi in Apex Magazine.
• "Crazy" by Don Tassone in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Stubbornness and Sisters and Spite" by Aimee Ogden in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "You Always Have To Ask" by Philip Apps in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Read the Manual" by Lynne Lumsden Green in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "The Hollow Prisoner" by Paul Starkey in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Elvis at the White House" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
  
• Watch a trailer for Day Shift.
• Watch a trailer for Prey for the Devil.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Artifice Girl.
• Watch a trailer for season 3 of Harley Quinn.
  

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for July 8, 2022

It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek, Ms. Marvel, Thor: Love and Thunder and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general, season 4 of Stranger Things, season 4 of Westworld, season 3 of For All Mankind, Doctor Who past, present and future, Brian and Charles, The Undeclared War, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Minions 2: The Rise of Gru and much more.

Speculative fiction in general:

• Cheryl Eddy lists all the new science fiction, fantasy and horror books coming out in July.
  
• Adrian Collins offers recommendation for reading grimdark SFF. 
• Adalyn Grace shares five fantasy villains you love to hate. 
• Elizabeth Evitt Davidson profiles Neil Gaiman.
  
• Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer takes a look at H.P. Lovecraft from the POV of an Australian woman. 
  
• Interesting Literature lists the ten best ghost stories by M.R. James. 
• Bobby Derie discusses the correspondence between Margaret St. Clair and Clark Ashton Smith.
  
• Sasha Ann Panaram explains why the world continues to need Octavia E. Butler.
  
• K.G. McAbee profiles Leigh Brackett.
• Leslie Kendall Dye declares that the organisation of people's bookshelves tells its own story. 
• Fanzine writer and editor Robert Lichtman has died aged 79.
  
• Science fiction fan, convention organiser and disability advocate Samantha Jeude has died aged 69.
  

Comics and Art:

• Luke Healey shares his ten favourite funny comic books.
  
• G.W. Thomas shares his appreciation for Enrique Alcatena's take on Conan.
• Benjamin Marra shares his appreciation for Bill Sienkiewicz's take on Conan. 
• Debbi Mack interviews Fabian Nicieza.  
• The Conservation Center explains how they preserved Hubert Rogers' cover art for the May 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. 
• Japanese manga artist Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!, has died aged 60. 
  

 

Film and TV:

• Brent Simon calls The Princess a forgettable fantasy action film. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Rubikon a nifty multilingual science fiction film. 
• Phil Hoad calls Corrective Measures a schlocky but distinctive superpowered prison drama.
  
• Mary Kate Carr calls Maggie a promising sitcom about the love troubles of a clairvoyant. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Orville.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of The Man Who Fell To Earth.
  
• Tracy Townsend shares her appreciation for the character of Luisa in Encanto.
• Lucy Mangan calls On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) an animated documentary about the false nuclear missile alarm that terrorised Hawaii in 2018.
• Ben Child wonders whether E.T. the Extraterrestrial could get a sequel and whether it even needs one. 
• Keith R.A. DeCandido revisits the 1994 time travel movie Timecop and its 2004 sequel Timecop: The Berlin Decision.
  
• Rachel Handler shares an oral history of the 1997 science fiction movie Contact.
  
• Aaron Jones revisits the 2006 dark fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth.
  
• Justin Carter revisits the 2007 science fiction action movie Transformers. 
• Danielle Ryan shares nine dystopian movies set in worlds that are still better than what we have today.
  
• Kevin Hurler lists the worst bunkers in which to spend the time after the apocalypse from science fiction films and other media. 
• Alissa Simon interviews Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper, writer and director of Vessper. 
• Catherine Shoard reports that James Cameron has defended the fact that the sequel to Avatar is three hours long. 
• Lynnette Rice and Nellie Andreeva report that the Tom Swift TV series has been cancelled after only six episodes. 
• Sarah Shaffi reports that Ben Aaronovitch's River of London urban fantasy cirme novels will be adapted for television.
  
• Manori Ravindram and Adam B. Vary report about the latest round of scandals, assaults and unhinged behavious by actor Ezra Miller. 
• Jamaican-British actress Mona Hammond, who appeared in Eastenders and The Archers and had a lengthy stage career, has died aged 91.    
• James Caan, star of Rollerball, Misery, The Godfather, Thief , El Dorado and many others has died aged 82.

 

Comments on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the many other iterations of Star Trek: 

• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "All Those Who Wander", the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "All Those Who Wander".
• Keith R.A. De Candido shares his thoughts on "All Those Who Wander".
  
• Angelica Jade Bastien and Kathryn VanArendonk declare that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds feels like Star Trek again.
• Adam B. Vary interviews Melissa Navia, who plays Lieutenant Erica Ortegas in Star Trek: Strane New Worlds. 
• James Whitbrook explains how Star Trek: Strange New Worlds brought their version of the Gorn to life.
  
• James Whitbrook shares the twelve scariest episodes of Star Trek.
  

 

Comments on Thor: Love and Thunder and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general (spoilers): 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Thor: Love and Thunder a mighty hammer blow of fun. 
• Todd Gilchrist calls Thor: Love and Thunder an enjoyable superhero film largely unthethered from the wider Marvel mythology. 
• Germain Lussier calls Thor: Love and Thunder an uneven but worthy adventure.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Thor: Love and Thunder a massive disappointment. 
  
• Dave Itzkoff interviews Taika Waititi, director of Thor: Love and Thunder. 
• Peter Scobel and Todd Gilchrist interview Natalie Portman, who plays Jane Foster in Thor: Love and Thunder.
  
• Peter Scobel and Todd Gilchrist interview Christian Bale, who plays Gorr the Godkiller in Thor: Love and Thunder. 
  
• Justin Carter wonders whether there are too many Marvel movies and TV shows these days.

 

Comments on Ms. Marvel (spoilers): 

• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on "Time and Again", the latest episode of Ms. Marvel. 
• Sarah Shaffi shares her thoughts on "Time and Again". 
• Swara Salih shares her thoughts on "Time and Again".
  
• Zuha Siddiqui reports that many Pakistanis enjoy the cultural nods in Ms. Marvel, but are mixed on the casting.
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Farhan Akhtar, who plays Waleed in Ms. Marvel.
  

 

Comments on Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars in general: 

• Alasdair Stuart shares his appreciation for how Star Wars makes us care about all of those weird side characters.
• Anthony Breznican takes a look at the future of Star Wars on Disney+.
  

 

Comments on season 4 of Stranger Things (spoilers): 

• Jack Seale calls the season 4 finale of Stranger Things so perfect that it could have served as a series finale.
• Saloni Gajjar declares that season 4 of Stranger Things ended with an explosive and emotional bang.
  
• Maggie Fremont shares her thoughts on the season 4 finale of Stranger Things. 
• Jen Chaney finds the season 4 finale of Stranger Things a bit repetitive. 
• Cheryl Eddy shares six things she loved and five things she didn't about the season 4 finale of Stranger Things.
  
• Emily Longaretta and Jennifer Maas explain the ending of season 4 of Stranger Things. 
• Saloni Gajjar ranks the characters of season 3 of Stranger Things.
  
• Roxana Hadadi ranks the deaths in season 4 of Stranger Things. 
• Jazz Tangcay interviews Jamie Campbell Bower who plays Vecna in season 4 of Stranger Things.
  
• Jason P. Frank speculates whether the character of Will Byers came out as gay in the season 4 finale of Stranger Things.
  
• Stuart Heritage wonders whether Stranger Things even counts as TV anymore, considers that every episode of season 4 has been movie length.  
• Rob Bricken explains how the guitar solo in the season 4 finale of Stranger Things came to be. 
  
• Todd Spangler reports that so many people were streaming the second half of season 4 of Stranger Things shortly after it dropped that Netflix crashed.
  

 

Comments on season 4 of Westworld: 

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Westworld.
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts about the latest episode of Westworld. 
• Rob Bricken shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Westworld. 
  
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Evan Rachel Wood, one of the stars of Westworld.
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Alison Schapker, writer and executive producer of Westworld.
  

 

Comments on Doctor Who past, present and future: 

• Jessica Holmes shares her thoughts on the 1967 Doctor Who serial "The Evil of the Daleks". 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1965 movie Doctor Who and the Daleks and the 1966 sequel Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD.
  

 

Comments on season 3 of For All Mankind: 

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episodes of For All Mankind.
• David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of For All Mankind. 
  

 

Comments on Brian and Charles:

•  Peter Bradshaw calls the robot comedy Brian and Charles the bromance of the year.
• Michael Hogan interviews David Earl, writer and star of Brian and Charles.  

 

Comments on The Undeclared War: 

• Lucy Mangan calls The Undeclared War a cybersecurity drama that could have been written by Enid Blyton. 
• Cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward finds The Undeclared War remarkably realistic.
  
• Mark Lawson declares that the dystopian TV series The Undeclared War shows the perils and pitfaalls of near future science fiction. 

 

Comments on Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: 

• Leonard Maltin really enjoyed the animated film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. 
  
• Thomas Floyd interviews Dean Fleischer-Camp, director of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. 
• Leonard Maltin interviews Dean Fleisher-Camp.

 

Comments on Minions 2: The Rise of Gru:  

• Sammy Gecsoyler notes that Minions 2: The Rise of Gru is an example of a trend of media siding with workers over bosses.
  
• Stuart Heritage reports about the so-called "Gentleminions" craze, where teenagers dress up in formal clothes to disrupt screenings of Minions 2: The Rise of Gru to shout gibberish at the screen.
• Reid McCarter also reports about the "Gentleminions" phenomenon.
  
• The Guardian reports that some cinemas in the UK have banned young people in formal suits from attending screening of Minions 2: The Rise of Gru. 
• J. Kim Murphy reports that Minions: The Rise of Gru is a huge box office success for unfathomable reasons. 
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Award have been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award has been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis have been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2022 Prix Rosny Aîné has been announced.
• The winners of the 2021 Leo Literary Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Silver Falchion Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 Science Fiction Research Association Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction has been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2022 Diana Jones Awards has been announced.
  
• Sarah Shaffi reports that the Blue Peter Book Awards have been discontinued. 

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about writing with chronic illness.
  
• Elizabeth A. Harris explains how TikTok generates bestsellers. 
• Jim Milliot reports that the HarperCollins Union has authorised a strike at the publishing company.
  

Interviews:

• Arley Sorg interviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
• Sally Wiener-Grotta interviews Samuel R. Delany. 
  
• Carmen Maria Machado and Ottessa Moshfegh interview each other. 
• Arley Sorg interviews Eileen Gunn. 
  
• Oliver Brackenbury interviews David C. Smith. 
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Tim Lebbon.
  
• Scott Adlerberg interviews Jason Starr.  
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Lauren Wilkinson. 
• Paul Burke interviews Jack Lutz. 
  
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Rym Kechacha. 
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Cat Hellisen.
  
• Sasha Ann Panaram interviews Lynell George.
  
• The Cromcast interviews Matt John.
• Lincoln Michel interviews Vauhini Vara.
  
• Jen Gheller interviews E. Fox. 
• Jen Gheller interviews Jenna Grieve. 
• D.M. Ritzlin interviews David J. West. 
• David L. Ulin interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
  
• Matthew Pungitore interviews Howie Bentley.
  

Reviews:

• Blue Book Balloon reviews Six Lights of Green Scar by Gareth Powell.
• Arturo Serrano reviews Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 
• Jennie Ivins reviews A Star Named Vega by Benjamin J. Roberts.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Casacde by Rachel A. Rosen. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett.
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree.
  
• Kat Hooper reviews Night Shift Dragons by Rachel Aaron. 
• Roseanna Pendlebury reviews the Saint of Steel series by Ursula Vernon.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter.
  
• John Mauro reviews In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey. 
• Colleen Mondor reviews A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross.
  
• Jennie Ivins reviews Duckett & Dyer: Dicks for Hire by G.M. Nair.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews A Scandal in Brooklyn by Lauren Wilkinson. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews No Second Chances by Rio Youers.
  
• Grab This Book reviews London Black by Jack Lutz.
• Becky LeJeune reviews The White Hare by Jane Johnson.   
• Paperback Warrior reviews Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell.
  
• John Mauro reviews Earthlings by Sayaka Murata.
  
• Gabino Iglesias reviews El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl, a Chicano Sci-fi Anthology, edited by Scott Russell Duncan, Armando Rendón and Jenny Irizary.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, edited by Jonathan Strahan. 

Classics reviews:

• Bob Byrne revisits the 1933 weird memace story "Black Talons" by Robert E. Howard.
  
• James Maliszewski revisits the 1951 sword and planet story "Witch of the Demon Seas" by A.A. Craig a.k.a. Poul Anderson. 
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1954 post-apocalpytic vampire novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
  
• David Levinson revisits the August 1967 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1972 science fiction anthology Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, edited by Lester Del Rey. 
• Murray Ewing revisits the 1975 YA fantasy novel The Stones of the Moon by Judy Allen. 
• Mark Yon revisits the 1978 Doctor Who tie-in novel The Stones of Blood by David Fisher.
  
• Steven H. Silver revisits the 1979 fantasy story "Wizard's Bounty" by Charles De Lint. 
• Theo Zenou revisits the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
• John Mauro revisits the 1996 epic fantasy novel A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is looking for funding.
• Plant Girl Game, a tabletop roleplaying game by Sly Robot Games, is looking for funding.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Locus reports about the 2022 WisCon in Madison, Wisconsin. 
• John Tilden reports about the 2022 Balticon in Baltimore, Maryland. 
• Heidi MacDonald reports about the 2022 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
  
• Kevin Standlee shares photos of the 2022 Westercon in Tonopah, Nevada.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that the 2024 Westercon will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
• Mike Glyer reports that guest of honour and former Disney animator Floyd Norman will be unable to attend Chicon 8, the 2022 Worldcon in Chicago, Illinois,
  
• Mike Glyer reports that the 2022 FantasyCon in Heathrow, UK, has been cancelled due to financial issues.
  
• Mike Glyer reports about the Kamen Rider panel at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, California.
  
• Watch a video of the "Fandom through the Generations" panel at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California.
• Aindrea Emelife reports about the Afrofuturism exhibition "In the Black Fantastic" at the Hayward Gallery in London, UK.
• David Barnett reports about an exhibition of Steve Dillon's comic art in Luton, UK. 
• April Rubin reports that security guard was charged with illegally removing an R2-D2 model from a Star Wars themed hotel in Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  
• Gabby Romero reports about the Stranger Things Experience in Brooklyn, New York. 
  

Science and technology:

• Regina Rini wonders whether we should worry about sentient AI.
• Tom Warren reports that ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is being upgraded to Windows 98.
  
• Tim Sweeney reports about a breakthrough in trying to use bacteria to generate biofuel.
  
• Paul Richards reports that a mysterious incident of fish raining down along the border of Texas and Arkansas last December may have been solved.
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Life and Death of Atomic Tangerine" by Michelle Muenzler in Fantasy Magazine. 
• "For Mercy, For Death" by Matthew X. Gomex in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
  
• "A Start to Judgment" by Benjamin C. Kinney in Kaleidotrope. 
• "Your Life Sentence" by C.C. Finlay in Futurismic.
  
• "The Hunter's Child" by Amelia Brunskill in Luna Station Quarterly.
• "The Forgotten" by Eliane Boey in Clarkesworld. 
• "Creatures of the Dark Oasis" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam in Apex Magazine. 
• "The Rustle of Growing Things" by Isabel Cañas in Lightspeed.
• "Critical Mass" by Peter Watts in Lightspeed. 
• "The Closet Game" by Robert Levy in Nightmare Magazine. 
• "Matrimonial Quest at Luna Prime and Other Existential Dread" by Deka Omar in Fireside Fiction.
  
• "Fisheyes" by Ai Jiang in The Dark. 
• "The Truth About Storks" by S. Cameron David in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "A Trinity of Truths" by Gordon Pinckheard in Daily Science Fiction.
  
• "Ninety-nine Percent Support" by Filip Wittgren in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "Upper Beta Great Alcove Very Happy" by Ron Fein in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "The Messenger" by Mari Ness in Daily Science Fiction. 
• "The Husnock" by Robert Cooperman in The Five-Two. 
  
• "The Hidden Castle" by Cora Buhlert. 
• "The Hanging Judge" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Paper Girls.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Primal. 
• Watch a trailer for season 3 of Stargirl.
• Watch a trailer for The Woman King. 
• Watch a trailer for Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie.
  
• Watch a trailer for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. 
  
• Watch a trailer for Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons.
• Watch a trailer for Light and Magic.