(1) STAR TREK SPOILER WARNING. Let that be said right up front. Anybody that doesn’t want Picard Season 2 spoiled, please skip to the next item. Okay. Now for the rest of you: “Star Trek Producers Fought Over Which New … Continue reading
(1) BAFTA TV. Today’s BAFTA TV Awards 2022 winners predictably had almost no genre presence because there were very few sff nominees. (Even the new Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa, lost – as a nominee in the Male Performance in a … Continue reading
(1) WRITING ADVICE. Cat Rambo advises “Write What You Love” in a guest post at Stone Soup. …Write what you love is one of those pieces of writing advice that gets trotted around and may even seem the equivalent of … Continue reading
THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the 2022 shortlists for their annual Awards of Excellence. Best Crime Novelsponsored by Rakuten Kobo, with a $1000 prize Linwood Barclay, Find You First, William Morrow, an imprint … Continue reading
(1) I’M JUST A POE BOY. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In the Washington Post, Andrea Sachs writes about the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, which opened in April 1922. The museum has as official greeters two black cats, … Continue reading
(1) #METOO. On February 12, attorney and former Weller colleague Cara Dehnert published an essay detailing her previous relationship with Bradbury biographer Sam Weller. The piece alleges mental, emotional, and sexual abuse from Weller, including rape. “What Happened To Me. By: … Continue reading
(1) THE MIND’S EYE. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] Carmen Maria Machado was interviewed by Mikaella Clements in a Washington Post story about whether fiction writers see their characters as they’re writing about them. “Gillian Flynn, Carmen Maria Machado and … Continue reading
(1) LOTR SERIES TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT. Amazon Studios will be calling it — The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series begins airing on Amazon Prime on September 2, 2022. Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for … Continue reading
By Mike Glyer: Hugh Hammond thinks he has been swapped to another timeline. Or else he’s insane. He’s trying to figure it out. Martin Reed’s alternate history tale The Hammond Conjecture finds Hugh regaining consciousness in an isolation ward of … Continue reading
(1) EXTRA EXPANSE. The Verge warns, “PSA: You’ll miss 25 minutes of The Expanse’s final season if you don’t pause it”, and tells you where to find it. If you’re a fan of The Expanse, like me, you’re probably wondering whether its … Continue reading