Blog Archive
April 2019
Tue Apr 30
The 100 May Be Bonkers As Hell, But It Has Some of the Best Worldbuilding on TV
by Natalie Zutter
Sleeps With Monsters: Forests, Kingdoms, and Secrets
by Liz Bourke
All the New Science Fiction Books Coming Out in May!
by Tor.com
A Satisfying Conclusion: The Unbound Empire by Melissa Caruso
by Liz Bourke
How Y: The Last Man Made Me Fall in Love with the Craft of Writing
by Michael Moreci
Breaking Down the Battle of Winterfell from a Military Perspective
by Michael Livingston
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 32 and 33
by Leigh Butler
Sonic Saves the World in the First Sonic The Hedgehog Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
Facing Down Death in Game of Thrones Season 8
by Tyler Dean
Ignite the Future: Revealing Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
by Tor.com
Reading the Wheel of Time: Egwene Lets Go of Rand and Is Nearly Lost Herself in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 10)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Apr 29
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapter 6
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
SFF Horse Breeds: The Arabian
by Judith Tarr
American Gods Season 2 Review
by Alex Brown
Read Gideon the Ninth: Chapter 5
by Tamsyn Muir
Avengers: Endgame Shows Us a Universe That Still Can’t Do Right By Women
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Adapting Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London for Television
by Stubby the Rocket
All the New Fantasy Books Coming Out in May!
by Tor.com
Moral Quandaries and Misdirection: Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me
by Tobias Carroll
On Needless Cruelty in SF: Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”
by James Davis Nicoll
Revealing Come Tumbling Down, A New Wayward Children Novella from Seanan McGuire
by Tor.com
Sun Apr 28
Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 3: “The Long Night” / Battle of Winterfell Discussion Thread
by Theresa DeLucci
Fri Apr 26
8 Lingering Questions We Have Post-Avengers: Endgame
by Stubby the Rocket
14 Things We Loved (and 8 Things We Hated) in Avengers: Endgame
by Stubby the Rocket
Stupor Friends — Justice League
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
5 Books Where the Hero Doesn’t Save the Day
by Curtis Craddock
Thu Apr 25
Do Yourself a Favor and Binge the First Season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Infinite Pathways and a Sense of Menace: Liz Harmer’s The Amateurs
by Tobias Carroll
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: April 2019
by Alex Brown
Avengers: Endgame, and What It Means to Reach the End of an Era
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Good Omens Invites You to Meet the Tiny Baby Antichrist in This Devout Musical Interlude
by Stubby the Rocket
Fight for the Future — Star Trek: Discovery Second Season Overview
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
First Contact Goes Awry: The Mote in God’s Eye and The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
by Alan Brown
Get Deja Vu from the New Trailer for Men in Black: International
by Stubby the Rocket
The Most Marvelous Moments in the MCU
by Stubby the Rocket
Oathbringer Reread: Part Three Epigraphs
by Alice Arneson
Wed Apr 24
Run Your Fingers Down My Spine: Inoue Masahiko’s “Night Voices, Night Journeys”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Read the First Chapter from Into the Crooked Place
by Alexandra Christo
“And the waters prevailed”: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
by Alex Brown
The Hidden Layers of Every Novel (and Why They Should Stay Hidden)
by Meg Elison
CBS Partners With Nickelodeon to Create Animated Star Trek Series for Kids
by Stubby the Rocket
We Need More Roswell, New Mexico in Our Lives
by Alex Brown
Queer Relationships in Pern: Dragonquest
by Mari Ness
Middle-earth’s Weirdest Movie: Rankin-Bass’ Animated The Return of the King
by Austin Gilkeson
Announcing Three New Novellas from Carrie Vaughn, Eddie Robson, and Alex Irvine
by Tor.com
Tue Apr 23
Read the First Chapter of Elizabeth Bear’s The Red-Stained Wings
by Elizabeth Bear
Place Your Titan-Sized Bets on the Final Trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters
by Stubby the Rocket
Compelling Contemporary Fantasy: Ragged Alice by Gareth L. Powell
by Liz Bourke
Everything Happens Too Late To Matter in Game of Thrones Season 8
by Tyler Dean
The Conversation Tony Stark and Thanos Should Have Had
by Max Gladstone
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 30 and 31
by Leigh Butler
Snapture vs. Rapture: Where Avengers: Infinity War Sticks With Biblical Lore, And Where It Departs
by Leah Schnelbach
Reading the Wheel of Time: Choosing Who You Want to Be in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 9)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Apr 22
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapters 4 and 5
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Touching Magic with Andre Norton’s The Hands of Lyr
by Judith Tarr
5 Reasons Pike and Spock Star Trek Spinoff Should Happen (And 3 Reasons Why it Shouldn’t)
by Ryan Britt
Hey, Star Wars: Episode IX — Don’t Retcon Rey Into a Skywalker
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Donato Giancola Is the Caravaggio of Middle-earth
by Jeff LaSala
Announcing the 2018 BSFA Award Winners
by Tor.com
Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 2 Review: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”
by Theresa DeLucci
Read Gideon the Ninth: Chapter 4
by Tamsyn Muir
Fri Apr 19
The Medieval Origins of Easter Traditions
by Michael Livingston
5 SF Stories that Celebrate the Ordinary
by Jack McDevitt
End All Wars — Wonder Woman (2017)
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Five Really Cool Things I Learned at NASA
by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Director of Your Opponent’s Fate — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Remembering the Great Opening Sentences of Gene Wolfe
by Matthew Keeley
Thu Apr 18
Finding the Throbbing Heart of a City: The Municipalists by Seth Fried
by Leah Schnelbach
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright
by Bogi Takács
The Gothic and Game of Thrones, Part I: The Burial of Sansa Stark
by Tyler Dean
Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Glorfindel, Resurrected Hero and Spiritual Warrior
by Megan N. Fontenot
A Brief History of Pamela Sargent’s Women of Wonder Anthologies
by James Davis Nicoll
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Seventy-Four
by Alice Arneson and Aubree Pham
Wed Apr 17
The Normal(ish) Lovecraft: Wilfred Blanch Talman and H.P. Lovecraft’s “Two Black Bottles”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Studying the White Man: Pym by Mat Johnson
by Nisi Shawl
How Much Research Should You Do For Your Book?
by Vivian Shaw
Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive Book Four Shaping Up to Resemble The Way of Kings
by Stubby the Rocket
4 Great Post-Harry Potter Works (That Aren’t Harry Potter)
by Natalie Zutter
Learn About Jean Grey’s New Powers in Final Dark Phoenix Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
Different Ways of Exploring Blindness: Bird Box and The Luminous Dead
by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
Announcing Zen Cho’s Fantasy Novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
by Tor.com
Mama Bruise
by Jonathan Carroll
Tue Apr 16
Sleeps With Monsters: Two Uneven SF Sequels
by Liz Bourke
Aftermath of a Revolution: Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly
by Liz Bourke
Five Works Involving Weird, Unsettling Isolation
by Liz Harmer
Read the First Chapter of Jo Walton’s Lent
by Jo Walton
Download a Free Ebook of Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway Before April 20, 2019!
by Tor.com
Ahsoka Gets Her Lightsabers Back in Newest Trailer For Season 7 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
by Stubby the Rocket
Electronic Waste: Can We Really Turn the Tide?
by Chen Qiufan
Time is a Bloody Spiral Between “Winter Is Coming” and “Winterfell”
by Tyler Dean
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 28 and 29
by Leigh Butler
Y: The Last Man Showrunners Part Ways with FX Amid Creative Differences
by Natalie Zutter
Star Trek Discovery Shows Us That Spock’s Greatest Battle Was Never “Emotion Versus Logic”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Announcing Lina Rather’s Sisters of the Vast Black
by Tor.com
Reading the Wheel of Time: Mat Struggles With the Past in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 8)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Apr 15
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapter 3
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
SFF Horse Breeds: The Appaloosa
by Judith Tarr
Five Years On, There’s Still Nothing Like Patrick Rothfuss’ The Slow Regard of Silent Things
by Samuel Chapman
Read Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame: Part Five
by Seanan McGuire
Author and Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019
by Tor.com
Hellboy Doesn’t Know What to Do With Its R-Rating, So It Became a Bad Music Video
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 1 Review: “Winterfell”
by Theresa DeLucci
Read Gideon the Ninth: Chapter 3
by Tamsyn Muir
Sun Apr 14
Everything We Know About the First Live Action Star Wars Series: The Mandalorian
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Fri Apr 12
A Busy Person’s Primer for Game of Thrones Season 8
by Theresa DeLucci
That Death Star Wreckage in Star Wars Episode IX is Probably the First Death Star
by Chris Lough
What Does the Star Wars Episode 9 Title “The Rise of Skywalker” Mean?
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Everything You Need to Know From the Star Wars Celebration’s Episode IX Panel
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Watch the First Trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
by Stubby the Rocket
“We’re bad guys, it’s what we do!” — Suicide Squad
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Disney+ Streaming Service Announces Launch Date and Lineup of Marvel and Star Wars Series
by Stubby the Rocket
“Today rocks!”—Star Trek: Discovery’s “Such Sweet Sorrow”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Tom Doherty Associates Announces Nightfire, a New Horror Imprint
by Tor.com
Thu Apr 11
Surviving the End of the World: Girls’ Last Tour
by James Davis Nicoll
A Rollicking Tale of Revenge: Sam Sykes’ Seven Blades in Black
by Martin Cahill
Read Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame: Part Four
by Seanan McGuire
Where the Fiction of Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler Meets Jordan Peele’s Us
by Joe George
Love, Loss, and Adventure: The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
by Alan Brown
8 Characters From Star Trek’s Original Series Who Could Appear in the Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Finale
by Ryan Britt
Meet Author Jay Kristoff on Tour For Aurora Rising
by Tor.com
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Seventy-Three
by Alice Arneson
Wed Apr 10
Taking School Rivalries Seriously: Seanan McGuire’s “Away Game”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
N. K. Jemisin is Working On a Green Lantern Comic Unlike Any Before
by Stubby the Rocket
Enter to Win a $1000 Game of Thrones Season 8 Prize Pack Before April 16
by Tor.com
Hawkeye Series Starring Clint Barton and Kate Bishop Reportedly in the Works for Disney+ Streaming Service
by Stubby the Rocket
Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2019
by Jo Walton
How The Dragon Prince Replaced Game of Thrones as My Favorite Fantasy Show
by Ilana C. Myer
The Constraints of Time Travel: Dragonflight, Part Four
by Mari Ness
The Tick’s Incredible Second Season Asks Us All to Make a Choice
by Leah Schnelbach
Get Nostalgic With the First “Live Action” Trailer For The Lion King
by Stubby the Rocket
Painless
by Rich Larson
Tue Apr 9
A Revolution Founded on Lies: Joan He’s Descendant of the Crane
by Alex Brown
The Magic of Perfume
by Lara Elena Donnelly
Read Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame: Part Three
by Seanan McGuire
Welcome to Their Horrible Home in the First Addams Family Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
What Defines a “Good” or “Bad” Adaptation?
by Amber Troska
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 26 and 27
by Leigh Butler
Brienne, The Hound, and Other Game of Thrones Characters Who Deserve a Satisfying Ending
by Jaclyn Adomeit
Announcing Out of Body, a New Novella from Jeffrey Ford
by Tor.com
Reading the Wheel of Time: Everyone Wants to Help and They Can’t Be Trusted in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 7)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Apr 8
40 Years of the Prometheus Award
by James Davis Nicoll
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapter 2
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Quietly Subversive’70s Fantasy: Andre Norton’s Red Hart Magic
by Judith Tarr
6 Ways That Fanfiction Makes Your Writing Stronger
by Vivian Shaw
Star Trek: Discovery Proves Captain Pike Passed One Test Kirk Failed
by Ryan Britt
A Question of Heroes and Villains in Children of Blood and Bone, Chapters 74-85
by Alex Brown
Exhuming Lady Stoneheart: What We Lost in Game of Thrones’ Biggest Cut
by Tyler Dean
Read Gideon the Ninth: Chapters 1 and 2
by Tamsyn Muir
Fri Apr 5
The Tick Is Back Early and it’s Better than Ever!
by Leah Schnelbach
On the Origins of Modern Biology and the Fantastic: Part 10 — Ray Bradbury and Mechanisms of Regulation
by Kelly Lagor
Pet Sematary Acknowledges that Death is Inevitable; Cats are Monsters
by Leah Schnelbach
Doomsday Schlock — Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Shazam! is Best When It Shifts Focus Off of Its Main Character
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
While I Look Around for My Possibility — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Through the Valley of Shadows”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
First Impressions from Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Premiere
by Theresa DeLucci
Thu Apr 4
Truth, Loss, and Identity in This Spring’s Upcoming Young Adult SFF
by Alex Brown
Patrick Rothfuss Provides Kingkiller Chronicle Book 3 Update: The Doors of Stone is “Moving Forward”
by Stubby the Rocket
Blue Morphos in the Garden
by Lis Mitchell
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
by Bogi Takács
The Past as Fantasy, and Our Fantasies of the Past
by Lara Elena Donnelly
Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan
by Megan N. Fontenot
The Scariest of All the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
by Esther Inglis-Arkell
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Seventy-Two
by Alice Arneson and Aubree Pham
Wed Apr 3
Mythosian Candidates for Cuddling: Keris McDonald’s “Special Needs Child”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Rich and Complicated Survival Horror: The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
by Liz Bourke
Read Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame: Part Two
by Seanan McGuire
Almost Every SFF/Horror/Comic Book Adaptation in the Works!
by Natalie Zutter
Why Villain Schools Are Having a Pop Culture Moment
by Emily Burack
Watch Joaquin Phoenix Become the Clown Prince of Crime in First Joker Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
7 Space Operas and Adventures to Read If You Loved A Memory Called Empire
by Natalie Zutter
Announcing Kathleen Jennings’ Debut Novella Flyaway
by Tor.com
One/Zero
by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Tue Apr 2
Vonda N. McIntyre, 1948-2019
by Tor.com
Sleeps With Monsters: Brief and Complementary Tales
by Liz Bourke
The Consequences of Meddling: Suzanne Palmer’s Finder
by Paul Weimer
Read the First Chapter from Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide
by Chen Qiufan
Return of the Obra Dinn Proves Game Writing Deserves SFF Award Recognition
by Tamsyn Muir
An Ancient Curse, A New Cycle: Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
by Alex Brown
Marvel Dropped a Special Look at Avengers: Endgame to Celebrate Tix Release
by Stubby the Rocket
2019 Hugo Award Finalists Announced
by Tor.com
Reading the Wheel of Time: Searching for the Black Ajah in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 6)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Apr 1
Where Futurism Meets the Liminal: The Short Fiction of Sarah Pinsker
by Tobias Carroll
Bill Murray and Adam Driver Need to Stop a Horde of Famous Zombies in First Trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapter 1
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for April
by Tor.com
Spring Comes to Horse World
by Judith Tarr
Magic for Liars: Chapter 3
by Sarah Gailey
5 Reasons Star Trek: Discovery is Bringing Back the Borg (And 3 Reasons Why It’s Not)
by Ryan Britt
Betrayal, Torture, and Bad Romance in Children of Blood and Bone, Chapters 61-73
by Alex Brown
A Game of Feels: The Radical Empathy of Game of Thrones
by Tyler Dean
Read Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame: Part One
by Seanan McGuire