Blog Archive
October 2021
Fri Oct 29
N. K. Jemisin Shares How She’s Adapting The Broken Earth Trilogy for the Big Screen
by Vanessa Armstrong
It’s Important That You All Know That Wonder Woman Is a Mountain Goats Fan
by Molly Templeton
The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions
by Michael Livingston
German Robot Rom-Com I’m Your Man Weighs Data Against Desire
by Natalie Zutter
A Comprehensive and Infallible Ranking of Community’s Halloween Costumes
by Leah Schnelbach
The World’s Acting Strange in the Trailer for The Witcher’s Second Season
by Molly Templeton
Netflix’s Three-Body Problem Casts Twelve Actors in Unknown Roles
by Molly Templeton
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Small Gods, Part IV
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Mac Rogers’ Audio Drama Give Me Away Reminds Us How Compelling Small-Stakes Sci-Fi Can Be
by Natalie Zutter
Thu Oct 28
Jodie Whittaker Promises Massive Doctor Who Arc Will Be Bigger, Kick Off With “The Halloween Apocalypse”
by Vanessa Armstrong
Picking the Perfect Horror Movies for Halloween
by Alasdair Stuart
Lynda Carter Has a New Song Out, and It’s Inspired by WW84’s Diana and Steve
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Unexpected Lives and Bizarre Revelations of Un-su Kim’s The Cabinet
by Tobias Carroll
The Smithsonian’s “Future Visions 2071” Includes New Fiction by Tochi Onyebuchi and Madeline Ashby
by Molly Templeton
Star Trek: Prodigy Is the Best New Trek Series
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Greatest Halloween Costumes in Pop Culture
by Leah Schnelbach and Emmet Asher-Perrin
You Really Don’t Have to Finish Every Book You Start
by Molly Templeton
Eldritch Abominations for the SFF Soul: Five Works of Cosmic Horror
by James Davis Nicoll
Skeletor Has the Power In the Masters of the Universe: Revelation — Part 2 Trailer
by Molly Templeton
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Fifty-Six
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Oct 27
The Low Standards of the Legal Profession: John Connolly’s “The Fractured Atlas” (Part 6)
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
A Wonderful Use of YA Tropes: Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray
by Alex Brown
Step Right Up! Five Recent Fantasy Stories Set at a Circus
by James Davis Nicoll
Amazon’s New Wheel of Time Trailer Sets the Show’s Epic Stakes
by Molly Templeton
Beyond Dark Academia: The Real Horror in Magic School Is Systemic Inequality
by Courtney Floyd
A Murder Mystery in Space: Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
by Alexis Ong
Pixar’s Lightyear Achieves First Teaser Liftoff
by Molly Templeton
Pesky Pirates and Purple Prose: Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings
by Alan Brown
Telling Our Stories: When Mexican Folklore and Oral Tradition Meet Sci-Fi
by Donna Barba Higuera
Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Gets a Snappy, Stellar Trailer
by Molly Templeton
Baby Teeth
by Daniel Polansky
Tue Oct 26
Read a Selection From Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
by Kim Fu
Why Fantasy Should Seem Real
by Vivian Shaw
Unwelcome Is a Reminder to Always Look a Gift House in the Mouth
by Molly Templeton
Horror as Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King’s IT
by Alex London
Reading the Wheel of Time: Bandits, Assassins, and Carneira in Robert Jordan’s New Spring (Part 12)
by Sylas K Barrett
Fear of Desire: Dracula, Purity Culture, and the Sins of the Church
by JR. Forasteros
A Modern Gothic Ghost Story: Revealing Katrina Monroe’s They Drown Our Daughters
by Tor.com
Mon Oct 25
Alternate Historical Fantasy Done Right in The Shadow of Albion
by Judith Tarr
13 Spooky Poems to Get You in the Mood for Halloween
by Holly Kybett Smith
Welp, We Finally Have a Movie That Sure Seems Like Dune
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: Seventh Season Overview
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Reading Steven Erikson’s The God is Not Willing: Chapter Two
by Bill Capossere
“Peppers” and Pink, Conspiracy and Coup on Y: The Last Man
by Natalie Zutter
Apple’s Dr. Brain Looks to the Dead to Solve a Mystery
by Molly Templeton
Asking the Tough Questions About Superheroes and Public Nudity
by James Davis Nicoll
Let the Right One In Understands the Dark Maelstrom That Is Love
by Dan Persons
Hayden Christensen’s Star Wars Renaissance Will Continue in Ahsoka
by Molly Templeton
Seven Thrilling Murder Mysteries With SFF Flair
by Elisa Shoenberger
Fri Oct 22
Vampire Weeknight: Does Night Teeth Bite Off More Than It Can Chew?
by Leah Schnelbach
Cast a Spell With Nine Literary Witches and Warlocks
by Rachel Brittain
Listen to a Clip From Lindsay Ellis’ Truth of the Divine
by Lindsay Ellis
An Outsider’s Perspective on a Classic of American Gothic Literature
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Thu Oct 21
5 SFF Homes from Hell
by James Davis Nicoll
The Precious Art of Yoon Ha Lee’s The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales
by Martin Cahill
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Endgame”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Hometown Horrors: The Blair Witch Project and the Power of Local Legends
by S.A. Hunt
Lee Pace Reads Science Fiction, So Obviously His Characters Do Too
by Molly Templeton
The Good, the Bad, and the Awesome — Star Trek: Lower Decks Second Season Overview
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Trailer for Uncharted Covers Familiar Ground
by Molly Templeton
Five Experimental SFF Works by Writers From London
by Alex Pheby
The Wheel of Time’s Rosamund Pike Narrates a New Audiobook of The Eye of the World
by Molly Templeton
Parallel Romance: Revealing The Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz
by Tor.com
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Fifty-Five
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Oct 20
Gossip Man Was Not Meant to Know: Fritz Leiber’s “To Arkham and the Stars”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
A Jittery, Near-future Thriller: Femlandia by Christina Dalcher
by Mahvesh Murad
You Should Really Be Reading Victoria Goddard’s Nine Worlds Series
by Alexandra Rowland
The Desolation of Smaug Soars to New Highs and Plummets to New Lows
by Austin Gilkeson
Malacandra as Utopia: Plato’s Republic as Reflected in C.S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet
by Matt Mikalatos
Five SFF Books About Road Trips
by R.W.W. Greene
Walk Among Dreams: Announcing The Last Dreamwalker by Rita Woods
by Tor.com
Small Monsters
by E. Lily Yu
Tue Oct 19
Read an Excerpt From the First English Translation of the Classic Japanese Novel How Do You Live?
by Genzaburo Yoshino and Bruno Navasky
Claudia Black’s Sci-Fi Advice to a Young James McAvoy Proves Timeless
by Molly Templeton
Beware the Evil Eye in Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
by Vanessa Armstrong
Halloween Kills Is a Cautionary Tale Against True Crime and Vigilante Justice
by Natalie Zutter
Droning and Dread: How Hereditary Gets Under Your Skin
by Sarah Brunstad
Tricks, Treats, and Halloween Hijinks: Richie Tanskersley Cusick’s Trick or Treat and R.L. Stine’s Halloween Night duo
by Alissa Burger
Superstition Was a Compass: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
by Lee Mandelo
The Mystery of Aes Sedai Agelessness
by Sylas K Barrett
Chivalry Is Undead: Kink, Sword Lesbians, and The Locked Tomb
by Grace Johnson and Carolin Dithrich
It’s Noodles First in Cowboy Bebop’s “Lost Session”
by Molly Templeton
The First Annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction will be Awarded in 2022!
by Tor.com
5 Books for People Who Crave More Vampires
by Linden A. Lewis
Mon Oct 18
Horses and Star Trek: Considering Captain Picard’s Saddle
by Judith Tarr
Rebecca Campbell Wins This Year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
by Andrew Liptak
Read an Excerpt From Chloe Gong’s Our Violent Ends
by Chloe Gong
A New Trailer Gives Us a Much Better Look At Doctor Who’s 13th Season
by Andrew Liptak
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Renaissance Man”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
All the News from This Year’s DC FanDome
by Andrew Liptak
Reading Steven Erikson’s The God Is Not Willing: Chapter One
by Bill Capossere
Movie Musical Chairs Continues With New Release Dates for Black Panther 2, The Marvels, Doctor Strange 2, and More
by Molly Templeton
The Latest Trailer for The Batman Shows Off Its Numerous Villains
by Andrew Liptak
Y: The Last Man Won’t Return to FX on Hulu
by Molly Templeton
“Ready. Aim. Fire.” on Y: The Last Man
by Natalie Zutter
The Muslimness of Dune: A Close Reading of “Appendix II: The Religion of Dune”
by Haris Durrani
Fifteen Classic SFF Works By Three Extremely Prolific Authors
by James Davis Nicoll
Fri Oct 15
Why I Love Haunted Honeymoon, Gene Wilder’s Underrated Horror-Comedy
by Jeff LaSala
The Trailer for Shudder’s Horror Noire Showcases Six Stories of Black Horror
by Andrew Liptak
The Universe Simply Can’t Seem to Kill Bruce Willis in the Trailer for Apex
by Molly Templeton
Managing My Ever-Expanding TBR Stack
by Alex Brown
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Small Gods, Part III
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five Stories in Which Changing the Laws of Physics Leads to Bigger Problems
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu Oct 14
Being a Saint Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: Margaret Rogerson’s Vespertine
by Molly Templeton
Read an Excerpt From The Last Cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Homestead”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
We’ll Get a Second Serving of Hawkeye for Thanksgiving
by Molly Templeton
Five Dark Historical Gothics to Savor This Fall
by Holly Kybett Smith
Out of the Woods: In Search of More Ominous Landscapes
by Molly Templeton
It’s Captain Freeman Day! — Star Trek: Lower Decks: “First First Contact”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Dune Is Apparently Coming a Day Early to HBO Max
by Andrew Liptak
The Roots and Rebirth of the Anthology Series
by Faefyx Collington
Survive a Hot and Poisoned Landscape: Announcing Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister
by Tor.com
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Fifty-Four
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Oct 13
The First Trailer for Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone Looks Creepy AF
by Andrew Liptak
An American Werewolf in Piedmont: Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle
by Alex Brown
Read an Excerpt From Garth Nix’s Terciel & Elinor
by Garth Nix
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for September 2021
by Alex Brown
Actually, Théoden Has the Best Dialogue in The Lord of the Rings
by Elayne Audrey Becker
The Very Model of a Major Modern Gothic: The Keep by Jennifer Egan
by Leah Schnelbach
A Glimpse Into the Calrissian Chronicles: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu by L. Neil Smith
by Alan Brown
What Makes John Carpenter’s The Thing So Effing Scary?
by Robert Repino
Revealing The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
by Tor.com
Sand
by Jasmin Kirkbride
Tue Oct 12
A Shadow of Things to Come: Andre Norton’s Huon of the Horn
by Judith Tarr
AMC Has Greenlit a Walking Dead Anthology Series
by Andrew Liptak
Read an Excerpt From Gregory Maguire’s The Brides of Maracoor
by Gregory Maguire
Breakup Brownies and Great Big Feelings Cookies: The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta
by Alex Brown
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Natural Law”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Moviegoing During a Pandemic
by Leah Schnelbach, Christina Orlando and Emmet Asher-Perrin
25 Years Later, Scream’s Ghostface Is Still Calling On a Landline
by Molly Templeton
Brent Spiner and Gates McFadden Talk in Launch for Spiner’s First Book!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
First Trailer for Star Trek: Discovery’s Fourth Season Shows Off Giant Planet-Eating Anomaly
by Andrew Liptak
Reading the Wheel of Time: An Oath and a Grudge in Robert Jordan’s New Spring (Part 11)
by Sylas K Barrett
Moving Beyond Binaries in Gender-Based Magic Systems: The Wheel of Time and Iron Widow
by Allison Alexander
Doctor Who: Flux Is Just a Few Weeks Away
by Molly Templeton
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga Returns in January 2022
by Andrew Liptak
Revealing J. M. Miro’s Ordinary Monsters
by Tor.com
Mon Oct 11
Horror Recommendations for Every Mood
by Emily Hughes
Your Guide to the Fantastical Worlds of Rebecca Roanhorse
by Zoraida Córdova
Reading Steven Erikson’s The God Is Not Willing: Prologue
by Bill Capossere
Y: The Last Man Has a Problem: “My Mother Saw a Monkey”
by Natalie Zutter
Anti-Doorstoppers: Ten Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes
by Alex Brown
Read “Wait for Night” by Stephen Graham Jones
by Stephen Graham Jones
Fri Oct 8
The Wheel of Time Debuts Key Scene, First Piece From Series Soundtrack
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Expanse’s Final Season Arrives in December
by Molly Templeton
Five SF Novels Featuring Ancient Alien Artifacts
by James Davis Nicoll
Sabrina Spellman Will — Somehow — Show Up In the Next Season of Riverdale
by Molly Templeton
Apple’s Foundation Is Coming Back for a Second Season
by Andrew Liptak
Baseball, Body Modification, and Murder: Lincoln Michel’s The Body Scout
by Tobias Carroll
All the New Horror and Genre-Bending Books Arriving in October!
by Tor.com
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Small Gods, Part II
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Jo Walton’s Reading List: September 2021
by Jo Walton
Thu Oct 7
JAMIE WEPT: Jamie Clayton to Play Pinhead in Hulu’s Hellraiser Reboot
by Leah Schnelbach
Read an Excerpt From The Keeper of Night
by Kylie Lee Baker
Swift and Strange: Harold R. Johnson’s The Björkan Sagas
by Matthew Keeley
A Lot Is Going On in This Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Trailer
by Molly Templeton
Lucasfilm Announced New Star Wars Novels Featuring Luke & Lando and Anakin & Obi-Wan
by Andrew Liptak
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Friendship One”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Best Space Family Is Back in Teaser for the Final Season of Lost in Space
by Molly Templeton
All Aboard! Five SFF Stories About Trains and Railways
by James Davis Nicoll
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in October!
by Tor.com
It’s Still Agatha (All Along): WandaVision’s Witchy Neighbor Is Getting Her Own Series
by Molly Templeton
What to Read When You Are Worn Out on World-Saving
by Molly Templeton
The Wild and Tender Magic of Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars
by Maya Gittelman
ghuS choQpu’ — Star Trek: Lower Decks: “wej Duj”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Revealing a New Audiobook Cover for Frank Herbert’s Dune
by Tor.com
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Fifty-Three
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Oct 6
The Universe as Unreliable Narrator: John Connolly’s “The Fractured Atlas” (Part 5)
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Read the Third Chapter of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth
by Cassandra Khaw
Watch a New Trailer for the Second Season of Netflix’s Locke & Key
by Andrew Liptak
AMC’s Interview With the Vampire Has Cast Its Central Trio
by Molly Templeton
Mike Flanagan’s Next Series for Netflix Is Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall Of The House Of Usher
by Andrew Liptak
Asimov’s Foundation and Finding Hope in Crisis
by Ben Gierhart
Five Books With BIPOC Chosen Ones
by June CL Tan
What If… “The Watcher Broke his Oath?” Ties Up a Multiverse of Loose Ends
by Leah Schnelbach
Hnau and the Nature of Humanity in C.S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet
by Matt Mikalatos
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in October!
by Tor.com
A Manga for the Transgender Soul: Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma 1/2
by Ryka Aoki
Dark Magic and Twisted Family Secrets: Revealing The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter
by Tor.com
The Bookstore at the End of America
by Charlie Jane Anders
Tue Oct 5
A Light Will Always Burn, But So Will Dark Desires: Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat
by Natalie Zutter
Read the Second Chapter of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth
by Cassandra Khaw
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed to Become TV Series
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Once, Twice, Infinite Times Upon a Dream: Alix E. Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered
by Natalie Zutter
I Sold My Soul to Arcade Satan for the YA Horror Novel Game Over
by Henry Hoke
Femme Fatales and Toxic Masculinity in Christopher Pike’s Die Softly and Master of Murder
by Alissa Burger
Tilda Swinton and George MacKay Will Sing About Being the Last Humans on Earth
by Molly Templeton
Shang-Chi Director to Helm American Born Chinese Series for Disney+
by Andrew Liptak
Reading the Wheel of Time: The Black Ajah Revealed in Robert Jordan’s New Spring (Part 10)
by Sylas K Barrett
Somebody’s Outfit Is Too Tight in the First Clip From HBO Max’s Peacemaker
by Molly Templeton
Art, Myth, and Magic Come Alive in Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife
by Jonathan Thornton
House of the Dragon’s First Teaser Shows Off Plenty of People and Some Dragons
by Andrew Liptak
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in October!
by Tor.com
Download a Free eBook of Gideon the Ninth This Bonestober — Before October 9th!
by Tor.com
Mon Oct 4
Dreaming of Wild Horses
by Judith Tarr
Read the First Chapter of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth
by Cassandra Khaw
The Sparrow Academy Doesn’t Care About Your Stupid Umbrella Academy Friends
by Molly Templeton
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Author, Author”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Malazan Refresher: Everything You Need to Know Before Reading The God Is Not Willing
by Bill Capossere
Y: The Last Man Mourns the Greats in “Weird Al is Dead”
by Natalie Zutter
Five African-inspired YA Fantasy Novels
by Lauren Blackwood
Winter Came, Now Spring Arrives: Announcing the Table of Contents for The Way Spring Arrives
by Tor.com
Fri Oct 1
Under the Skin: Shape-Changing in Mexican Folklore
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Religious Horror and Horrific Religion in Midnight Mass
by Leah Schnelbach
David Tennant and Michael Sheen Reprise Roles for New Good Omens Audiobook
by Andrew Liptak
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Small Gods, Part I
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
When History Echoes: Monica Byrne’s The Actual Star
by Tobias Carroll