While he’s best known for his novels Name of the Wind and Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss is also known for his charitable work with Worldbuilders, a charity dedicated to raising money for various organizations that do good works, such as Project HOPE, First Book, BYP100, Mercy Corps, and Heifer International.
This week, he and Worldbuilders launched this year’s Geeks Doing Good Showcase campaign on IndieGogo with the goal of raising $30,000 in the next week.
CBS has finally released its first trailer for its upcoming animated Trek series, Star Trek: Lower Decks. Set during the same timeframe as The Next Generation, it’ll be a comedic take on the people who aren’t usually found on the bridge of a Starfleet ship.
The recipients of this year’s Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced!
The awards ceremony is usually held each year at ReaderCon in Massachusetts, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s ceremony was a virtual one.
Warner Bros. is looking to expand on the Matt Reeve’s upcoming film The Batman. It was announced today that it’s greenlit a TV series set in Gotham City’s police department from Reeves, Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, and The Batman producer Dylan Clark.
The CW has found its new Batwoman: Javicia Leslie, who recently stared in the CBS series God Friended Me. She’ll replace Ruby Rose, who departed Batwoman abruptly in May.
Ernest Cline’s sequel to his blockbuster novel Ready Player One—unimaginatively titled Ready Player Two—finally has a release date: November 24th, 2020, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, who earned the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel Children of Time and the 2019 British Science Fiction Association Award for its sequel Children of Ruin, has sold a new epic science fiction trilogy, The Final Architecture, to Pan McMillan and Orbit Books, according to The Bookseller.
We might get a new Tron film after all: A decade after Joseph Kosinski rebooted the franchise with Tron: Legacy, Disney is reportedly rebooting efforts to film a new installment of the science fiction franchise.
Dragon Con, one of the largest major conventions holding out for an in-person event in 2020, has announced that it won’t hold a physical convention this year, and will instead go virtual in 2020.
DC’s Stargirl has been renewed for a second season, reports Deadline. But there’s a catch: it’s jumping homes from Warner Bros. DC Universe streaming service to The CW, where it’ll join the rest of that network’s DC adaptations.
Specialty genre publisher Subterranean Press has announced a new novella from Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower, about… a princess trapped at the top of a perilous tower, of course.
Netflix has dropped a new trailer for its upcoming action thriller, The Old Guard, which stars Charlize Theron as Andy, an immortal soldier who been fighting an endless war, and who now has to contend with a new recruit.
Amazon Studios has ordered an adaptation of the Fallout video game franchise from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Variety reports that the project has gotten a “substantial series commitment,” and will also be produced by Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
After a long hiatus, Fantasy Magazine is returning to print. The publication, which had been folded into John Joseph Adams’ Lightspeed Magazine in 2012, will come back online on November 1st 2020, with editors Arley Sorg and Christie Yant.
In May, Gollum actor Andy Serkis powered through a 12-hour reading marathon (a Hobbitathon) of the entirety of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Now, he’ll go back behind the microphone to do it again, for a new edition of the fantasy novel’s audiobook.
