Blog Archive
April 2022
Fri Apr 29
Peter V. Brett’s The Warded Man Book Is Getting a Television Adaptation
by Vanessa Armstrong
Watch the Gorgeous Opening Titles for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
by Molly Templeton
Six Bizarro Made-for-TV SFF Movies That Actually Exist
by Robert Repino
Read an Excerpt From Vincent Tirado’s Burn Down, Rise Up
by Vincent Tirado
Hunger Games Prequel Adaptation The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Is Coming Next Year
by Molly Templeton
Lexi Alexander’s Absolute Dominion Puts a Post-Apocalyptic Spin on Martial Arts Championships
by Molly Templeton
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Interesting Times, Part III
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
5 SFF Adaptations That Need To Happen
by Foz Meadows
Thu Apr 28
The Semblance of a Point — Star Trek: Picard’s “Hide and Seek”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Iron Man 2 Apparently Went Through A Lot Of “Writing Gyrations,” None Of Which, Sadly, Involved Justin Hammer
by Vanessa Armstrong
Royal Romance and Equal Partnership: Dana Swift’s Wickery Series
by Federica Bocco
The Next Quiet Place Movie Has a Title
by Molly Templeton
Season Two of Russian Doll Shows Us How Necessary — and Awful — Reconciling Trauma Can Be
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Chris Pratt Makes a Promise to a Dinosaur in the Latest Trailer for Jurassic World Dominion
by Molly Templeton
Eight SFF Stories About the Joys of Bread and Baking
by Lindsay Eagar
Is Series Fatigue Real?
by Molly Templeton
Let’s Rank All the Needledrops in Our Flag Means Death
by Leah Schnelbach
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Seventy-Six
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Apr 27
LAIKA’s Next Stop-Motion Film Is Based On a Fantasy Novel by the Lead Singer of The Decemberists
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Ol’ “Just Invite Me In” Con: J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (Part 6)
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Harley Quinn Series Spinoff Is Heading to HBO MAX Starring Everyone’s Favorite Lug, Kite Man
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Rose Szabo’s We All Fall Down
by Rose Szabo
Memory Palace, or Prison? Moon Knight: “The Asylum”
by Leah Schnelbach
The Books We Read as Children Always Change Us — Let’s Embrace It
by Kali Wallace
Consumerism Run Amok: The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth
by Alan Brown
Five SFF Stories That Are Much Funnier Than They Sound
by James Davis Nicoll
Robert Pattinson’s Batman Will Haunt Gotham Once Again
by Molly Templeton
The Long View
by Susan Palwick
Tue Apr 26
Trailer For Bodies Bodies Bodies Reveals That One of Those Bodies Is Lee Pace
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Black Phone Is Dialing Up the Scariness Factor
by Vanessa Armstrong
700 Pages of Pure Narrative Magic: Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
by Martin Cahill
Everything Everywhere All at Once Is the Non-Diaspora Diaspora Story We’ve Been Waiting For
by R.F. Kuang
Optimism, Identity, and the Fourth Doctor’s Scarf
by Sarah Welch-Larson
There’s Too Much Wickedness for Just One Film, Apparently
by Molly Templeton
5 SFF Books About Technology and Grief
by Dante Medema
Reading The Wheel of Time: Death, Heritage, and Aes Sedai Gold in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 17)
by Sylas K Barrett
Tom Hardy’s Great Symbiotic Love Story Will Continue in Venom 3
by Molly Templeton
Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey7 Adaptation Has the Potential to Be a Truly Great Science Fiction Movie
by Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for May and June 2022
by Tobias Carroll
Mon Apr 25
Star Trek: Lower Decks Teaser Reveals a Very Not-So-Smart Plan to Steal the U.S.S. Cerritos
by Vanessa Armstrong
Bid On Cool Props From Wachowski Films and Support Trans Rights at the Same Time
by Vanessa Armstrong
Knife Fights, Lockpicking, and Other Things That Helped Me Become a Better Writer
by April Henry
5 of the Creepiest Monsters in Fantasy
by Aliette de Bodard
Zen Cho Wins the Bradbury Prize for Spirits Abroad
by Tor.com
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Fallen Hero”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Act of Grace: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Queer Catharsis in Our Flag Means Death
by Maya Gittelman
Imagining and Understanding the Alien: Insects in Science Fiction
by Jonathan Thornton
Epix’s Creepy Town Series, From, Will Return for Season Two
by Molly Templeton
Laugh-Out-Loud Fantasy Mayhem: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
by Cole Rush
Five Books Featuring Uploaded Minds and Memories
by James Davis Nicoll
Fri Apr 22
See If Your Home Is Lousy With Dinosaurs, According to Jurassic World Dominion
by Vanessa Armstrong
Learn More About Moon Knight’s Elusive Character, Mork Sphincter
by Vanessa Armstrong
Come Gaze at Amazon’s Night Sky With Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons
by Molly Templeton
8 Stories to Help You Rebuild After an Ecological Catastrophe
by Stubby the Rocket
Playwrights, Magicians, and Zombies: 19 Fictional Shakespeares
by Stubby the Rocket
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Interesting Times, Part II
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five Books Featuring Shocking Revelations and Forbidden Knowledge
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu Apr 21
Space Races and Other Pursuits: Sylvain Neuvel’s Until the Last of Me
by Tobias Carroll
Coming Soon to Netflix: Spiderhead, The Chris Hemsworth-Starring Sci-Fi Movie Based on a George Saunders Story
by Vanessa Armstrong
D&D Gives Us Shohreh Aghdashloo, Spelljammer Update, and a Title for Their Chris Pine Movie
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
by Katherine Locke
Emptiness and Fear — Star Trek: Picard’s “Mercy”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Ever Fonder in the Trailer for HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Molly Templeton
I Was (Sort Of) A Teenage Vampire: Caroline B. Cooney’s The Cheerleader and Christopher Pike’s The Last Vampire
by Alissa Burger
Lightyear Inches Closer to Launch With a New Trailer
by Molly Templeton
Georgiou Is a Jealous God—Feminine Power and the Jewish Divine in Star Trek: Discovery
by Lisa Huberman
Miles Morales Won’t Swing Across the Spider-Verse Until 2023
by Molly Templeton
Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg: A Dying Earth Fantasy Unlike Any Other
by Brian Collins
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Seventy-Five
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Apr 20
Space Lampreys and Singing Earthworms: Amelia Gorman’s Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Read an Excerpt From A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
by Foz Meadows
An Adaptation of Walter Tevis’ Mockingbird Is in the Works
by Molly Templeton
Mummies! Hippos! Ominous Goats! Moon Knight Gives Us Everything in “The Tomb”
by Leah Schnelbach
12 Books About Mermaids, Sirens, and Sea Gods
by Taiwo Balogun
The Gods on Trial: C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces
by Matt Mikalatos
Zig-Zagging through The Zone: Zona by Geoff Dyer
by Leah Schnelbach
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
by Stephen Graham Jones
Tue Apr 19
The Art of Spear: Rovina Cai’s Illustrations for Nicola Griffith’s Spear
by Nicola Griffith and Rovina Cai
Matt Reeves Confirms This Riddler-Specific Easter Egg in The Batman
by Vanessa Armstrong
Piracy Provides Perfect Cover to Talk About Your Feelings in Doctor Who’s “Legend of the Sea Devils”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Eleven Irresistible Musical Numbers From Animated Movies
by Sasha Lee
Exploding Kittens Gets a Mobile Game and Animated Show On Netflix
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Janelle Monáe’s The Memory Librarian
by Janelle Monáe
Living Religions, Living Myths: On Retelling the Ramayana
by Vaishnavi Patel
Will the Minecraft Movie Actually Happen if Jason Momoa Signs On?
by Molly Templeton
Four Characters Who Prove There’s More to Life Than Being Super Smart
by James Davis Nicoll
Announcing the Shortlist for the 2022 Ignyte Awards
by Tor.com
The Thirteenth Doctor’s Final Episode Will See the Return of Two Beloved Companions
by Molly Templeton
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Wonders if the Human Adventure Is at Heart a Solitary One
by Dan Persons
Thor’s Existential Journey Begins With the First Teaser for Thor: Love and Thunder
by Molly Templeton
Revealing Stephanie Feldman’s Saturnalia
by Tor.com
Mon Apr 18
Transcending Words: The Real Fantasy of Human-Animal Communication
by Judith Tarr
5 Sympathetic Science Fiction Bureaucrats
by James Davis Nicoll
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Vox Sola”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Where to Begin Reading the Work of Nicola Griffith
by Jonathan Thornton
A Nostalgic SFF Playlist for the Stressed Out Millennial
by Alex Brown
11 Modern Fantasy Stories Based in Classic Mythology
by Carly Silver
Fri Apr 15
21 Bunnies (and Other Strange, Rabbit-Type Creatures) in SFF
by Bridget McGovern
Return to the Hub in the Trailer for Made for Love’s Second Season
by Molly Templeton
Five Darkly Comic SFF Books
by Anna Carey
Neil Gaiman’s Dead Boy Detectives Are Officially Headed to HBO Max
by Molly Templeton
Read an Excerpt From Guy Gavriel Kay’s All the Seas of the World
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Five Unlikely SFF Friendships
by Cole Rush
Thu Apr 14
Come Sail Away Aboard the Best Boats of Fantasy Fiction
by Fran Wilde
Read the Fourth Chapter of Nghi Vo’s Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
Jurassic World Dominion Featurette Reminds Us That Nostalgia Is Far From Extinct
by Vanessa Armstrong
“It’s not my job to be interesting” — Star Trek: Picard’s “Monsters”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Five Unconventional SFF Heists
by Marion Deeds
The Witcher’s Cast Gets Even Bigger for Season Three
by Molly Templeton
Cheering for the Unsung: The Specific Joy of Reading Hidden Gems
by Molly Templeton
David Cronenberg Returns With a Horrifying Teaser for Crimes of the Future
by Molly Templeton
Life of Brian: The Gospel According to Monty Python
by Leah Schnelbach
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Seventy-Four
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Apr 13
Men Don’t Explain Things to Me: J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (Part 5)
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Read the Third Chapter of Nghi Vo’s Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
Khonshu Pushes the Sky Away in Moon Knight: “The Friendly Type”
by Leah Schnelbach
Please Adapt: TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea
by Cole Rush
Accidental Adventure: Adrift in the Stratosphere by “Professor” A. M. Low
by Alan Brown
Announcing the Third Annual TorCon!
by Tor.com
The Dominion of Leviathan
by Manish Melwani
Tue Apr 12
Chosen Ones Are Overrated: Kel Kade’s Destiny of the Dead
by Tobias Carroll
Read the Second Chapter of Nghi Vo’s Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
The Stunning Artistry of BTS’s “Black Swan”
by Delia Harrington
13 Gothic Horror Books That Will Unsettle You in 2022
by Taiwo Balogun
Reading The Wheel of Time: An Embassy and a Youngling Arrive in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 16)
by Sylas K Barrett
War Is Coming In the New Stranger Things Trailer
by Molly Templeton
The Adam Project’s Walker Scobell Will Play Percy Jackson
by Molly Templeton
Artificial Intelligence in Fiction, Fact, and Our Dreams of the Future
by Fran Wilde
Ten Heartbreakingly Brilliant Works of Animation
by Dan Persons
Mon Apr 11
Five SF Novels Featuring Different Kinds of Wormholes
by James Davis Nicoll
Realm’s Marigold Breach Starts With a Single Compelling Idea, But Fails to Deliver
by T.H. Ponders
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Detained”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Starting a Home Lending Library Has Made Me a Better Friend
by Cole Rush
The Nimona Movie has Shapeshifted into a Netflix Release
by Leah Schnelbach
Read the First Chapter of Nghi Vo’s Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
How the Science Fictional West Was Won: Michael Crichton’s Westworld
by Noah Berlatsky
Revealing Sim Kern’s Real Sugar is Hard to Find
by Tor.com
Fri Apr 8
You Are the Hero: Learning Storytelling From Video Games
by Sarah Maria Griffin
All the New Horror and Genre-Bending Books Arriving in April!
by Tor.com
5 Captivating SFF Mystery Novels
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu Apr 7
Fantasy Feature Damsel Snags Angela Bassett to Co-Star With Millie Bobby Brown
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath
by Ian Green
Sapphic Romance and Magic: Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May
by Vanessa Armstrong
Russian Doll’s Season Two Trailer Has Natasha Lyonne Traveling Through Time and Multiple Existential Crises
by Vanessa Armstrong
Whoopi Goldberg Is Anansi Boys’ Bird Woman
by Molly Templeton
“How much worse could it possibly get?” — Star Trek: Picard’s “Two of One”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Everything Is Better With Velociraptors, Including West Side Story
by Molly Templeton
Corsages, Romance, and Death: Lael Littke’s Prom Dress and Diane Hoh’s Prom Date
by Alissa Burger
Announcing the 2022 Hugo Award Finalists
by Tor.com
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in April!
by Tor.com
Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2022
by Jo Walton
Revealing Gemma Amor’s Full Immersion
by Tor.com
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Seventy-Three
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed Apr 6
Vampires of Madison Avenue: Fritz Leiber’s “The Girl With the Hungry Eyes”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in April!
by Tor.com
Read an Excerpt From Hotel Magnifique
by Emily J. Taylor
Netflix’s Locke and Key Will End After Third Season
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Mirror Cracks in Moon Knight: “Summon the Suit”
by Leah Schnelbach
The Queer Joy of Our Flag Means Death
by Alex Brown
5 Books to Pair With a Good Cup of Tea
by Judy I. Lin
Severance Will Get Back to Work for a Second Season
by Molly Templeton
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for March 2022
by Alex Brown
Sword & Spore
by Dominica Phetteplace
Tue Apr 5
HBO Max and Robert Downey Jr. Are Building a Sherlock Holmes Universe
by Vanessa Armstrong
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in April!
by Tor.com
Watch Josh Brolin Cowboy It Up in This Creepy Outer Range Trailer
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read the First Two Chapters From T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
Star Trek: Picard Boldly Goes Back to the Cast of The Next Generation
by Molly Templeton
5 Books About Telepathy
by Brendan P. Bellecourt
On the Importance of Art Spiegelman’s Maus
by Leela Corman
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Makes His Tiny Way to the Big Screen
by Molly Templeton
Reading The Wheel of Time: Pure Mat Cauthon and Unusual Sammael in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 15)
by Sylas K Barrett
Slang, Accents, and Linguistic Worldbuilding in Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough
by CD Covington
Revisiting Long Book Series
by Jo Walton
Mon Apr 4
Let Shelly Webster Be the Hero of The Crow Reboot, You Cowards
by Molly Templeton
New Dino Doc Will Show T-Rex’s Parenting Style Set to Hans Zimmer Score
by Vanessa Armstrong
Understanding Horses: Changing Seasons
by Judith Tarr
An Intimate Mystery: Sara A. Mueller’s The Bone Orchard
by Molly Templeton
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Oasis”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Science Has Determined That the Fremen Could Live Better On Arrakis If They Moved
by Molly Templeton
Five of the Best Zombie Movies from Around the World
by Lorna Wallace
It’s Yo Ho Ho and a Ship Full of Sea Devils In the Next Doctor Who Special
by Molly Templeton
A Deal For The Devils: Tor Books To Publish New Epic Fantasy From Joe Abercrombie
by Tor.com
Radical, Wild, and Wise: Angela Carter’s Subversive Fantasy
by Jonathan Thornton
Captain Pike Loves His Job In the New Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Trailer
by Molly Templeton
Which John Scalzi Novel Should You Read Next?
by Renay Williams
Fri Apr 1
A Guide to Preparing Your Supernatural Advance Directive
by Jessica Lévai
Watch the First Ever Public Screening of George A. Romero’s Short Film Jacaranda Joe
by Molly Templeton
Here’s What Brandon Sanderson’s Four Kickstarter Books Are About
by Vanessa Armstrong
Syfy’s The Ark, From Two Stargate Writers, Has Begun Bringing Cast Aboard
by Molly Templeton
Rating 15 of the Best Time Travel Movies Ever Made
by Joe George
Dragon or Balrog: Who Would Win in the Ultimate Middle-earth Showdown?
by Austin Gilkeson
Five SFF Stories About Lawyers and the Law
by James Davis Nicoll