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Short SF Film: Sunbelly | Dust
A very unusual animation style brings you the story of a routine scouting of a distant planet that uncovers a lost civilization. Where the explorers discover the long forgotten origins of their mission.
Streaming Genre Report 8/9/22
Top honors traded for majority domination seems a fair trade this week
Time to Cram: 2022 Hugo Voting Ends 8/11
Voting closes in 3 days!
AMAZING NEWS: 8/7/22
Patton Oswalt, Neil Gaiman, Batgirl, Vaughn Bode, CJ Cherryh, Adam-Troy Castro, Lady Gaga, David Brin, The Orville and many more
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 8/7/22
Lots of Awards and lots of news this week!
TIME MACHINE: 8/7/22
A BIG roundup of most popular posts this week – a good time to play catch-up. (Not mustard, catch-up)
Review: Prey
Prey, the latest in the Predator film franchise, is a mixed bag
JustWatch Top Ten Film & TV Streamers for July 2022
Fans need to do a little bit better on the monthlies! Television dips to ZERO Genre Goodness!
Short SF Film Recommendations from Kiev: CARRIER | On Dust
It’s business as usual for a deep space pilot, until a strange anomaly hits her ship and knocks it off course.
JustWatch Streamers Report: 8/2/22
A mixed bag this week – 10% genre goodness on TV, fifty percent genre goodness in film
Kukla, Fran & Ollie Win Fantasy Award
An early award for Fantasy goes to an unexpected winner
Nichelle Nichols 1932 – 2022: Updated
Nichelle Nichols is gone
Short Science Fiction: Fives | Recursor TV
A resourceful loner makes his way through a post-apocalyptic America followed closely by one of the very creatures that destroyed the world.
STREAMING STATS: 7/26/22
This week’s top ten streaming roundup for film and television
Short SF Film: Antumbra | From DUST
Major Remy Barnes is the first astronaut to make contact with extraterrestrials on board of an unidentified flying object in orbit around earth.
(I’d be a lot happier with the ending of this short film if it had been produced during the previous administration.)
Ultimate Publishing’s Reprint Magazines – Bane of Authors, Friend to Readers
If I were to tell you that these dozen titles were for individual science fiction magazines, many of which were published in the same years, were all owned by the same publisher, you’d probably be astonished to discover that the publisher was not a dominating force in the industry during their heyday. Despite appearances to […]
Short SF Film: The Encounter At Boundless | From Dust
A family on a camping weekend to a remote national forest realise they are not alone.
Resident Evil: Should Be Evicted
New Netflix series proves, once again, making shows from video games doesn’t hardly ever work
JustWatch: Top Streaming Shows & Films: 7/19/22
Genre is still hanging out at less than 50% penetration.
Short SF Film: Clones | Dust
Rutger Hauer stars in this short SF film that originally appeared on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d0iJ4lFKFQ; As a highly intelligent man on board a space station prepares himself for a risky brain operation, he has to overcome his fear of losing his identity before surgery can even begin.
Recursor TV Announces Broken Road Audio Drama
New Audio Drama: In a near and uncertain future, veteran Sergeant Emmett Lee wanders the countryside in search of replacements for his obsolete military-issue implants
AMAZING NEWS: 7/17/22
UFO 9 Kickstarter, Larry Niven & Known Space, David Gerrold’s new book on writing, predictive pulp fiction and a lot more!
JWST First Images Revealed
Check out NASA’s reveal of the first images from the JWST!
Lawrence Watt-Evans is Having a Sale!
Want you some Watt-Evans? Now is your chance with this author sell-off.
Astra Publishing House Acquires DAW
DAW sells!
Weekly Streamer Report from JustWatch
Genre penetration of the entertainment airwaves remains at 30% across the board, according to the latest reporting from JustWatch!
Short SF: Ruin
Vine-covered derelict cities may have a few remaining inhabitants
Just Watch: Monthly Streaming Stats
Streaming Stats for June
