(1) BUMMER, MAN. Camestros Felapton studies a claim about sff readers in “The downbeat end”. …So the dire warnings of what might happen if “cosy horror” got a foothold in the horror community was that horror would be assimilated by … Continue reading
(1) F&SF COVER. Gordon Van Gelder revealed The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction’s Jan/Feb. 2019 cover by artist Jill Bauman. (2) ROLL ‘EM. Deadline blabbed that the Amazing Stories TV show has gone into production: “‘Amazing Stories’: Edward Burns … Continue reading
(1) SAME NAME, DIFFERENT GAME. At Strange Horizons, Abigail Nussbaum reviews Netflix’ “The Haunting of Hill House”. …Netflix’s miniseries adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, by Mike Flanagan (who wrote most of the series’s ten episodes and directed all … Continue reading
(1) REALLY AND SINCERELY DEAD. [Item by Bill.] Harry Houdini died 92 years ago today: The Official Houdini Seance will be held this year in Baltimore at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. The event will feature talks by Houdini experts … Continue reading
(1) THE ORVILLE RETURNING. The second season of The Orville premieres December 30 on Fox. THE ORVILLE is a live-action, one-hour space adventure series set 400 years in the future that follows The Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. Its crew, … Continue reading
By JJ: Imagine being groomed from birth for a role on an galactic construction ship, on an endless journey to build a cosmic superhighway of wormhole transport gates for humans to use in the far future. Imagine being awakened by … Continue reading
The European Science Fiction Association released the 2020 nominees for the ESFS Achievement Awards and the ESFS Hall of Fame Awards on September 13. The Hall of Fame award celebrates lifetime contributions while the Chrysalis award recognizes authors who have emerged … Continue reading