Despite decent ratings and generally positive reviews and audience response, Amazon will not be renewing Paper Girls. The series, based on the acclaimed graphic novel, featured a solid cast and stayed true to the spirit, at least, of its source material.
The series is currently shopping for a new home.
NASA’s second attempt to launch the Artemis I Moon Mission takes place at 2:17 p.m. EDT on Saturday, September 3. Although the capsule contains no humans, it represents a step to returning astronauts to the moon and beyond. Details on the Artemis missions may be found here.
I finally attended Toronto Fan Expo, the third-largest nerd-con in North America. I was a panelist, though the literary panels fall very much in the shadow of the celebrity guests, gaming, and cosplayers.
The cosplayers also dominate my video. Enjoy!
If dreams disappear, so will humanity.
The long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman has finally dropped the ten eleven episodes of Season One. It covers Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll’s House, and a bit of Dream Country.
We haven’t been doing summer weekend reviews of older films and shows, so here’s a bingeworthy series from 2019 which received a surprise second season in 2022. We’ll get to that (and Sandman) later. Meanwhile, here are four fascinating, rotoscoped hours of psychological drama, comedy, dark secrets, and time-travel.
Nichelle Nichols, the groundbreaking actress best-known as Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series and subsequent films, has died of natural causes. She was 89 years old.
I am a fan of the graphic novel, which was the timey-whimy and less nostalgia-smitten Stranger Things with female protagonists, before Stranger Things existed. I awaited the Amazon adaptation with hope and trepidation.
Season One dropped this past weekend. What’s the verdict?
Legendary and influential comics writer Alan Grant has died at the age of 73. He is best-known for his work on Batman and Judge Dredd.
The two most recent episodes of Strange New Worlds include a quirky comedy and a riff on an old philosophical question, one better explored in a classic story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Strange New Worlds serves up some military SF this week, keeps the enemies in the shadows, and delivers the strongest episode thus far.