Rebecca Kuang has earned considerable acclaim since her debut novel, The Poppy War: She earned the Compton Crook Award in 2019, and has since earned nominations for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and BFA awards.
Her next is set to come out in 2022: Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, which she describes as The Secret History meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
The trailer for Netflix’s upcoming science fiction film Awake sets up an interesting premise: Some sort of event takes place that not only fries electronics, but also takes away our ability to sleep, setting up a ticking clock as society devolves into chaos.
Netflix wants to remind us that it’s working on a fourth season of its hit supernatural horror series Stranger Things, and released an all-too-brief teaser for the upcoming season featuring our favorite numerological character, Eleven.
Millennium Films has found its star for its upcoming adaptation of Red Sonja: Killjoys and Ant-Man and the Wasp actress Hannah John-Kamen. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that she’ll play the film’s lead character, and that she’s recently completed work on another upcoming project, Netflix’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
And yet somehow it’s not titled There’s A Good Boy.
Apple has picked up another film featuring Tom Hanks for its streaming platform. Originally titled Bios, the film was slated for an October 2020 release, only to get shuffled off the release calendar because of COVID-19. Now, Apple has snapped up the film, which it plans to release later this year under the title Finch.
The CW’s Stargirl is coming back for a third year. The network announced that it was renewing the series for another season ahead of its Season 2 premiere next week.
Alan Moore has signed a five-volume epic fantasy series, as well as a collection of short fiction with Bloomsbury. According to The Guardian, the six-figure deal will kick off with Illuminations (the collection of short fiction in fall 2022), and will be followed by the Long London quintet, which the publisher describes as a “dazzlingly original and brimming with energy” of beguiling and elegantly crafted tales that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.”
Over the weekend, the Locus Science Fiction Foundation revealed its finalists for this year’s Locus Awards, which will be handed out during this year’s virtual Locus Awards Weekend on June 26, 2021.
With its slate of television shows for Disney+ well underway, Marvel has been steadily working on its next phase of programs for the platform, and it looks as though its upcoming series Ironheart is about to begin preproduction: According to Variety, the studio has tapped Chinaka Hodge as the head writer for the series.
HBO’s next series set in George R.R. Martin’s Westeros franchise is officially underway. According to Deadline, production has begun on House of the Dragon, a prequel series that’s set three centuries before Game of Thrones.
Now that cameras are rolling, HBO says that the series will debut sometime in 2022.
Marvel’s Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier wrapped up last week, and the studio has cleared any doubts about a followup.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney’s putting a Captain America 4 into development, with Malcom Spellman, the show’s showrunner, tapped to write the screenplay along with series writer Dalan Musson.
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination has been looking at how science fiction can help communicate scientific ideas to the wider public, producing its own anthologies of shorter fiction for the last couple of years.
Its latest is called Everything Change Volume III, an anthology about climate fiction, drawn from entries in a contest that it ran last year. The book is now out, and best of all, it’s free.
Disney and the Jim Henson company have put a movie into development about the life and career of puppeteer Jim Henson, reports Deadline. The project comes from Michael Mitnick, the screenwriter behind movies like The Giver and The Current War and shows like HBO’s Vinyl.
Thor: The Dark World and Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor has found a new project to helm—a television adaptation of Jim Dodge’s 1990 novel Stone Junction, described as a coming-of-age fantasy set in a “mythologized 80s California.”
Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion is apparently snagging some royalty to join its growing cast: The Crown‘s Olivia Colman and Game of Thrones‘ Emilia Clarke.
