Blog Archive

August 2022

Fri Aug 12

Lisa Frankenstein Features Cole Sprouse as a Victorian Corpse and That’s Really All We Need to Know by Molly Templeton

Exploring the Depths of Middle-earth With Artist Kip Rasmussen by Jeff LaSala

Brett Goldstein Had Very Little Time to Prepare for His Marvel Debut by Molly Templeton

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Hogfather, Part IV by Emmet Asher-Perrin

A Very Metaphysical Techno-Satire: Adam Roberts’ The This by Tobias Carroll

Yellowjackets Continues Its Excellent Casting, Adding Lauren Ambrose for Season 2 by Molly Templeton

Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for July 2022 by Alex Brown

Thu Aug 11

All the New Horror and Genre-Bending Books Arriving in August! by Tor.com

Read an Excerpt From Day Boy by Trent Jamieson

Long After Last Call: Natalka Burian’s The Night Shift by Molly Templeton

Elizabeth Hand’s Next Novel Is Inspired by The Haunting of Hill House by Molly Templeton

Middle-earth’s Hottest Hobbits by Emmet Asher-Perrin

It’s Time to Do a Die Hard in the Trailer for Rick and Morty’s Sixth Season by Molly Templeton

Five Dark YA Fantasies About the Fae by Cyla Panin

Stephen King’s The Regulators Is Headed to the Screen by Molly Templeton

Sometimes, Only the Most Heart-Crushing Book Will Do by Molly Templeton

Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Eighty-Nine by Lyndsey Luther and Paige Vest

A Town of Washed-Out Memories: Revealing Naomi Salman’s Nothing but the Rain by Tor.com

Wed Aug 10

Understatement of the Space-Time Continuum: N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (Part 5) by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth

The Future Struggles to Grow in the Promising Trailer for Vesper by Molly Templeton

Read an Excerpt From Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwah

All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in August! by Tor.com

The Menu Puts the Pain in Ralph Fiennes’ Painstakingly Planned Meal by Molly Templeton

The Pursuit of Happyness — Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Five SFF Takes on Reality TV by Randee Dawn

How to Keep Fighting: Romance & Rebellion in Suleikha Snyder’s Third Shift Series by Jenny Hamilton

Porgee’s Boar by Jonathan Carroll

Tue Aug 9

Read an Excerpt From A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I. Lin

The Creator of Veep and the Director of Skyfall Are Making a Superhero Comedy for HBO by Molly Templeton

All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in August! by Tor.com

Man in the Mirror: Worlds of the Imperium and The Other Side of Time by Keith Laumer by Alan Brown

How to Paint With Words: 6 Descriptive Works of SFF by Kerstin Hall

Reading The Wheel of Time: Lots of Animal Metaphors in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 27) by Sylas K Barrett

On Remaking Myths: Tolkien, D&D, Medusa, and Way Too Many Minotaurs by Jeff LaSala

There’s Going to Be a Live-Action Pac-Man Movie and We Have Questions by Molly Templeton

Mon Aug 8

Read an Excerpt From The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in August! by Tor.com

Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Singularity” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

How Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Reimagines the “Hero’s Journey” for the Better by Emmet Asher-Perrin

Tom Doherty Associates Is Now Tor Publishing Group by Molly Templeton

To Tame the Untamable Unicorn: Diana Peterfreund’s Killer Unicorns by Judith Tarr

The Sandman Is Damn Near Perfect by Leah Schnelbach

The Plotter vs. Pantser Divide Has Been Exaggerated by Ada Palmer

Fri Aug 5

Anson Mount First Thought the Strange New Worlds-Lower Decks Crossover Would Be Like Roger Rabbit by Vanessa Armstrong

The Joy of Painting Middle-earth With Ted Nasmith by Jeff LaSala

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Hogfather, Part III by Emmet Asher-Perrin

Jo Walton’s Reading List: July 2022 by Jo Walton

Thu Aug 4

Lady Gaga Will Be The Harley to Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker in Joker: Folie à Deux by Vanessa Armstrong

A Beloved City of Music and Magic: The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings by Tobias Carroll

We Have Unofficial Claims From Verifiable People That Moon Knight and Eternals Will Get Sequels by Vanessa Armstrong

Found Family Saves the Universe: Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes by Paul Weimer

Characters Out of Time: The Steve Rogers Support Group by James Davis Nicoll

What Would Have Happened in the Never-Made Stargate Extinction Movie? by Molly Templeton

The Power of a Myth Retold: Hadestown Makes A Melodic Case For Reviving and Reimagining Stories by Cole Rush

Starz’s Outlander Prequel Is About Jamie Fraser’s Parents by Molly Templeton

Landlines and Mystery Callers: Party Line, The Wrong Number, and Call Waiting by Alissa Burger

Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Eighty-Eight by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest

Wed Aug 3

I Wish the Goblin King Would Come and Take You Away: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “When I Was a Witch” by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth

Retelling the Bard: Shakespeare in Recent SFF by Alana Joli Abbott

Comprehensive Network Coverage: A Look at the Wild Card Universe’s Predatory Alien Coalition by Jason Powell

The Few Against the Many — Morbius by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Five Fantastic SFF and Horror K-Dramas by Lorna Wallace

We’re Never Going to Get to See Batgirl by Molly Templeton

Middle-earth: A World on the Edge of Destruction by Elise Ringo

Tue Aug 2

Read an Excerpt From R.F. Kuang’s Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s Galadriel saw herself as “more of a Hobbit” than an Elf by Vanessa Armstrong

Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang Talk to Tor.com About Paper Girls TV Adaptation and Whether They’ll Work Together Again by Vanessa Armstrong

Glorious Trailer Stars J.K. Simmons As “Glory Hole Adjacent” God Forcing Ryan Kwanten to “Satisfy His Physical Form” by Vanessa Armstrong

Lee Pace Made Good Use of a Certain Prop from The Hobbit to Rehearse a Scene for Bodies Bodies Bodies by Molly Templeton

On the Cultural Importance of Poltergeist’s “Meat Scene” by Leah Schnelbach

Everything You Might Need to Know About The Sandman by Leah Schnelbach

Shveta Thakrar’s Star Daughter Deserves the Star-Studded Silver Screen Treatment by Cole Rush

Download Brandon Sanderson’s The Alloy of Law — Before August 6! by Tor.com

Mon Aug 1

Crafting Cultural Historiographies in Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan by Alexis Ong

Friends and Fans of Nichelle Nichols Celebrate Her Life After Her Passing by Vanessa Armstrong

Read an Excerpt From Alan Heathcock’s 40 by Alan Heathcock

Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “The Communicator” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Daphne du Maurier and the Borders of the Uncanny, Gothic, and Weird by Jonathan Thornton

Amazon’s Victories Greater Than Death Adaptation Has a Showrunner by Molly Templeton

Beauties Which Pierce Like Swords: Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn by Judith Tarr

Max Headroom Is Making a Comeback by Molly Templeton

Five SF Works About Nuclear Families by James Davis Nicoll

The New Andor Trailer Puts the War Back in Star Wars by Molly Templeton