The third and fourth episodes of the Doctor Who’s Flux features a chaotic but fairly original episode followed by one that embodies everything that has characterized this season, good and problematic.
What might be good and what, problematic, lies, of course, in the eye of the beholder.
A collection of my short fiction, old and new, will be released in March. Today the publisher unveiled the cover, with great original art by Dan Barrick.
“One cannot have all the lives one desires.”
–Saru
Discovery returns with those cool uniforms from last year, a lot of sound and fury, and an inconsistent start for a season for which many have high hopes.
Petra Mayer, NPR book editor and reviewer and long-time promoter of SF, fantasy, and comics, has died suddenly on November 13 as the result of a (probable) pulmonary embolism. She was 46.
In addition to her help promoting SF and Fantasy to a broader audience, she also worked for two years as an audio editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and she made a number of appearances at SF conventions.
Requiescat in pace.
The next chapter of the season-long arc arrived Sunday. It has an intriguing premise, but the results are not promising.
Some Fallout 76 players erected a theatre in their virtual world and staged an online production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Information may be found here (the post also references Station Eleven).
The second half of Chapelwaite leaves the source material far behind as it develops an interesting and disturbing tale, but one that lacks much originality and probably should have been two or three episodes shorter.
Doctor Who returns, with a Halloween Special that hands out Part One of a longer story, brings together friends and foes old and new, and doesn’t reference the recent retcon/revelations regarding the Doctor’s origins.
For our final October Countdown Review, for the Big Day itself, we have the 2019 adaptation of the middle grade books accused of warping the minds of a generation, the late-twentieth-century “Tales from the Crypt,” Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Alvin Schwartz and artist Stephen Gammell presented the collections as folk literature, drawing on urban legends, old yarns, and local folklore, and the books have become classics, despite the concerns of some parents and school boards.1
The movie creates a larger frame in which to place the horror. It begins Halloween Night, 1968, in a small town haunted by a mysterious figure known for her scary stories…. And alleged to have been a killer of children.
Oh zephyr winds which blow on high
Lift me now so I can fly
Joanna Cameron, most famous for playing the superhero Isis on 1970s TV, has died at 70 as a result of a stroke.