Blog Archive
June 2022
Mon Jun 27
A Master Class in Writing Horses: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
by Judith Tarr
Read an Excerpt From Dan Chaon’s Sleepwalk
by Dan Chaon
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Dead Stop”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
15 Years Later, Ratatouille’s Message About Art Still Inspires Me
by Leah Schnelbach
Five Stories About Sending Teens Into Space
by James Davis Nicoll
Immortal Combat: Nicola Griffith’s Spear
by Tobias Carroll
“A little strategic violence” — The Umbrella Academy Season Three Continues to Bring the Bugnuts
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Fri Jun 24
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Feet of Clay, Part III
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Scientifically Plausible SF Settings That Provide an Alternative to FTL Travel
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu Jun 23
Trailer for Season Three of Solar Opposites Is All About Family … And Also Includes Gargoyle Gun
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Crawling King: A Conversation With Einar Baldvin
by Cole Rush
Indiana Jones 5 Might Be the Last Film John Williams Scores, But He’s Not Done With Music
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Ava Reid’s Juniper & Thorn
by Ava Reid
Fairy Tale Fanfic — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “The Elysian Kingdom”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Adulthood Meets Adolescence in Young Justice: Phantoms
by Tahmeed Shafiq
Hunger Games Prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Rounds Out Its Ensemble Cast
by Molly Templeton
Summer Reading Assignments for Grown-Ups
by Molly Templeton
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Eighty-Three
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Eat the Rich With the Vampires of What We Do in the Shadows
by Molly Templeton
Wed Jun 22
Natalie Portman Had to Be Six Feet Tall in Thor: Love and Thunder—Here’s How
by Vanessa Armstrong
Obi-Wan Kenobi Aims Straight for the Heart in Part VI
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
New Smile Trailer Will Very Likely Not Make You Smile. At All.
by Vanessa Armstrong
Tentacle Monster TV: N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (Part 2)
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Read an Excerpt From Dark Earth
by Rebecca Stott
Kamala Deals With Interdimensional Wedding Crashers in Ms. Marvel: “Destined”
by Leah Schnelbach
A New Tolkien Collection Will Answer All Your Second Age Questions
by Molly Templeton
Please Let F.C. Yee’s Kyoshi Sequence Be the Next Avatar: The Last Airbender Movie
by Cole Rush
Five SF Stories That Look Like Fantasy
by James Davis Nicoll
I Rewatched Poltergeist for Its 40th Anniversary and I Have Questions
by Leah Schnelbach
Adrian Tchaikovsky Continues His Epic Series With Children of Memory
by Tor.com
Tue Jun 21
Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Adaptation Casts Some Series Antagonists
by Vanessa Armstrong
Dune: Part Two Finds Its Lady Margot in No Time to Die’s Léa Seydoux
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Daughter of Redwinter
by Ed McDonald
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Minefield”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Other Side: The Time Traveler’s Wife, “Episode Six”
by Natalie Zutter
Why “Partners in Crime” Is the Perfect Episode of Doctor Who
by Christina Orlando
Bask in the Absurdity of LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation
by Molly Templeton
Murderbot: An Autistic-Coded Robot Done Right
by Cassie Josephs
Elven Detective Thara Celehar Has a New Case in Katherine Addison’s The Grief of Stones
by Leah Schnelbach
“Hawkins Will Fall” in the Trailer for Stranger Things 4, Volume 2
by Molly Templeton
Reading The Wheel of Time: The Amyrlin Plans in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 23)
by Sylas K Barrett
Brazil Weaponized Audience Identification for All the Right Reasons
by Dan Persons
Revealing Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
by Tor.com
Fri Jun 17
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for May 2022
by Alex Brown
Read an Excerpt From In the Shadow of Lightning
by Brian McClellan
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Feet of Clay, Part II
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Jon Snow May Live Again in Another Game of Thrones Spinoff
by Molly Templeton
Dracula Daily Reminds Us Why We Can Never Get Enough of the Count
by Holly Kybett Smith
Thu Jun 16
A Marvel Wonder Man Series Is in the Works With Shang-Chi Filmmaker & Community Writer on Board
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Elayne Audrey Becker’s Wildbound
by Elayne Audrey Becker
What Is Reality? Westworld Season 4 Trailer Suggests The Show’s Characters Have No Idea
by Vanessa Armstrong
ARRRRRRRRR! — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “The Serene Squall”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
A Different Kind of Love Language: “Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders
by Leah Schnelbach
Released Into the Wild: How an Android Taught Me to Let Go
by Erin Swan
It Wasn’t Me: Duos and Doppelgangers in Caroline B. Cooney’s The Perfume and Twins
by Alissa Burger
The Tie That Binds: Announcing The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
by Tor.com
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Eighty-Two
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
A Cozy Gaslamp Mystery and Sapphic Romance in The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
by Tor.com
Wed Jun 15
Ms. Marvel’s Head Writer Shares How Kamala Khan’s Story Was “Intensely Personal”
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Hazards of Bad Poetry: Kelly Link’s “The Specialist’s Hat”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Obi-Wan Kenobi Has an Extremely Relevant Flashback in Part V
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Read an Excerpt From Ordinary Monsters
by J. M. Miro
Superpowers and Sacrifices — Ms. Marvel: “Crushed”
by Leah Schnelbach
Three Avatar: The Last Airbender Movies Are In Development
by Molly Templeton
Emma Thompson Is a Terrifying Miss Trunchbull In the Trailer for Nextflix’s Matilda the Musical
by Molly Templeton
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Brings Miranda Otto’s Éowyn Back to Middle-earth
by Molly Templeton
Slight of Hand — Mandrake
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Five Stories That Test the Limits of Bodily Consciousness
by Cole Rush
Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction
by Nathanial White
Revealing Breakup From Hell by Ann Dávila Cardinal
by Tor.com
Tue Jun 14
Netflix Forgets the Premise of Their Biggest Hit and Decides to Make Squid Game a Reality
by Vanessa Armstrong
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Has More in Common With Frankenstein Than the Disney Version
by Vanessa Armstrong
Five SF Stories About Strangers Bearing Gifts
by James Davis Nicoll
Read Chapter Two of Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron
by Alexandra Rowland
We Are One Thing: Boys, Beasts & Men by Sam J. Miller
by Lee Mandelo
5 Novels Rooted in West African Folklore and Magic
by Veronica Henry
Crafting the Wardrobe of Strange New Worlds: An Interview with Costume Designer Bernadette Croft
by Vanessa Armstrong
Reading The Wheel of Time: The Amyrlin Seat is Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 22)
by Sylas K Barrett
Justin Lin Moves From Fast Cars to Flying Fists With One Punch Man
by Molly Templeton
Lady Gaga As Harley Quinn? It Might Happen in Todd Phillips’ Joker Sequel
by Molly Templeton
Severance and the Work of Philip K. Dick
by David Agranoff
Mon Jun 13
Welcome to the Future, Comrade: The Time Traveler’s Wife, “Episode Five”
by Natalie Zutter
Paddington 3 Finally Has a Title—And a Director
by Molly Templeton
Netflix’s Squid Game Officially Gets a Second Season and Returning Characters
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Headless Horseman Will Ride Yet Again in a New Sleepy Hollow
by Molly Templeton
Read Chapter One of Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron
by Alexandra Rowland
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Carbon Creek”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Sailor Moon at 30: Looking Back at the Iconic Series
by Katie Gill
AMC+’s Moonhaven Wants to Solve the Problem of People
by Molly Templeton
The Extraordinary Talents of Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro
by Vanessa Armstrong
Why We Love Evil: The Surprising Depth of Our Favorite Religious Horror Series
by Leah Schnelbach
Five Stories About Actual Movie Monsters
by Sam J. Miller
Fri Jun 10
The Boys Will Have a Fourth Season, Which Creator Eric Kripke Attributes to Exploding Genitalia
by Vanessa Armstrong
Henry Golding and Uma Thurman Join the Cast of The Old Guard 2
by Molly Templeton
Jo Walton’s Reading List: May 2022
by Jo Walton
The Future Is Dark and Full of Strange Plants in Vesper
by Molly Templeton
Magic, Manga, and Hard Fantasy: Witch Hat Atelier
by James Davis Nicoll
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Feet of Clay, Part I
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
5 Books About Fragile Worlds
by Erin Swan
Thu Jun 9
Second Season of Our Flag Means Death Will Shoot In New Zealand, Hopefully Starting This October
by Vanessa Armstrong
All the New Horror and Genre-Bending Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
Stranger Things 4, Vol. 2 Trailer Shows Explosions, An Angry Vecna, and Terrified Kids
by Vanessa Armstrong
Childhood’s End — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Ten Expansive SFF Worlds to Fall Into
by Stubby the Rocket
The Awesome Women Scientists of 1990s SFF
by Leah Schnelbach
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Eighty-One
by Lyndsey Luther and Paige Vest
The Final Trailer for Jordan Peele’s Nope Reveals Just a Teensy Bit More of the Plot
by Molly Templeton
Tor.com Is Sponsoring the Flash Fiction Workshop for the 2022 Clarion West Write-a-thon!
by Tor.com
Wed Jun 8
Fellowship of the Big Apple: N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (Part 1)
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Obi-Wan Kenobi Executes a Daring Rescue in Part IV
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
NOPE Behind-the-Scenes Video Keeps Plot a Mystery While Drowning Us in Atmosphere
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Adalyn Grace’s Belladonna
by Adalyn Grace
Netflix’s School for Good and Evil Opens Its Doors With a First Teaser
by Molly Templeton
Todd Phillips’ Joker Sequel Has a Title and a Screenplay
by Molly Templeton
Ms. Marvel Pits Kamala’s Family Against Her Fandom in “Generation Why”
by Leah Schnelbach
“We need him, we need him” — It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Oops, I Just Bought a Planet: Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
by Alan Brown
Lady Macbeth, the Pontianak, and the Compulsive Power of the Monstrous Feminine
by Wen-yi Lee
Dwayne Johnson Kneels Before No One In the Black Adam Trailer
by Molly Templeton
Harper Voyager Announces The Rogue Crown From TikTok Sensation A.K. Mulford
by Tor.com
As Yet Unsent
by Tamsyn Muir
Tue Jun 7
Read an Excerpt From Brigid Kemmerer’s Forging Silver Into Stars
by Brigid Kemmerer
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
When Invisible Wrestlers Revealed the Art of Wrestling
by Hubert Vigilla
Captain Kirk’s First Adventure Was About Choosing Between Two Friends
by Charlie Jane Anders
A Close View of the Post-Apocalypse: David Yoon’s City of Orange
by Trisha Low
Reading The Wheel of Time: Rand Plans and Egwene Meets Her Toh in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 21)
by Sylas K Barrett
How to Be a Protagonist When You’re Not the Chosen One and the World is Unsaveable
by Samit Basu
First Look at First Kill Shows Things Getting Steamy in This Vampire-Monster Hunter Romance
by Vanessa Armstrong
Erewhon Books Announces The Pomegranate Gate, a New Historical Fantasy From Ariel Kaplan
by Tor.com
Download Elżbieta Cherezińska’s The Widow Queen — Before June 11!
by Tor.com
Mon Jun 6
What We Do In The Shadows Returns With a Raunchy Season Four Trailer and Renewal News
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Umbrella Academy 3 Sneak Peek Shows the Hargreeves Checking Into Hotel Obsidian
by Vanessa Armstrong
SFF Equines Revisits the Classics: Walter Farley’s Black Stallion Books
by Judith Tarr
You’re Not Dreaming! We Now Have a Date and a Trailer for Netflix’s The Sandman
by Vanessa Armstrong
Bottomless Brunch: The Time Traveler’s Wife, “Episode Four”
by Natalie Zutter
Read an Excerpt From Emily Thiede’s This Vicious Grace
by Emily Thiede
Locke & Key Season 3 Trailer Shows Things Getting Revolutionary at Key House
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Midnight Club Is Ready to Tell Some Scary Stories
by Molly Templeton
The First Teaser for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Is All Vibes
by Molly Templeton
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Shockwave, Part II”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Netflix Offers the Quickest of Introductions to Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams
by Molly Templeton
Severance, Severance, and the Importance of Honest Corporate Sci-Fi
by Cole Rush
Jake Gyllenhaal Is Out of This World in the Teaser for Disney’s Strange World
by Molly Templeton
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
Seven Scary Sci-Fi Diseases That Thankfully Aren’t Real
by Lorna Wallace
Rival Chosen Ones: Announcing A Fate So Cold by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
by Tor.com
Fri Jun 3
18 of Our Favorite Books About the Craft of Writing
by Leah Schnelbach
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Maskerade, Part IV
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five Works Featuring Truly Alien Versions of Earth
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu Jun 2
Read an Excerpt From The Dream Runners
by Shveta Thakrar
“Hijinks are the most logical course of action” — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Spock Amok”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Read an Excerpt From Jason Denzel’s Mystic Skies
by Jason Denzel
What I Did on My Summer Vacation: R.L. Stine’s Beach Party and Beach House
by Alissa Burger
An Enthralling Modern Fairy Tale: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
by Martin Cahill
Reality Competition Shows With Big SFF Energy
by Cole Rush
Discover the Destiny of the Craft in Max Gladstone’s Dead Country
by Tor.com
Wed Jun 1
Spook-of-the-Month Club: Gordon B. White’s “Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Read an Excerpt From T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher
Obi-Wan Kenobi Finds Friends (and Enemies) in Unexpected Places in Part III
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Our Flag Means Death Will Set Sail for a Second Season!
by Leah Schnelbach
The Chill of the Latter Days: John Crowley’s Flint and Mirror
by Matthew Keeley
Embracing the Weird With Holly Black
by Christina Orlando
Human Sacrifice in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces
by Matt Mikalatos
We Need Heroes Who Can Remind Us That Heroism Is Fun
by Charlie Jane Anders
Meet Kate Elliot’s Badass Spell-Slinging Mom in The Keeper’s Six
by Tor.com
India World
by Amit Gupta