Finally about recovering from my bronchitis! Been such a rough two weeks let me tell you. There’s a lot of interesting stories, some I haven’t gotten to yet but I went back to work full time researching. Trying to find out what’s going on everywhere is the hardest part of all of this and takes the most time and so it’s a couple of days ramping back up, but we still have a lot for you and more since I didn’t manage to get out the daily brief yesterday.
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Paramount Won’t Cancel HBO’s Harry Potter Despite Internal Panic Over Backlash
Paramount is not canceling HBO’s “Harry Potter” series, according to a Cosmic Book News exclusive citing insiders close to David Ellison. That denial arrives the same week as a separate Cosmic Book News report that Paramount leadership held internal meetings over backlash to “Harry Potter,” “Lanterns,” “House of the Dragon,” and “The People v. Gorilla G…
Did Strange New Worlds Just Copy A Star Trek Fan Film?
Star Trek fans are lining up the season 4 finale of “Strange New Worlds,” titled “Tomorrow’s Enterprise,” against a five-year-old fan film from the Avalon Universe production called “Cosmic Stream,” and the plot points keep landing in nearly the same order.
Restoration Games’ Lord of the Rings: The King’s Gambit Recasts Aragorn As Black, and Backers Who Object Say They’re Being Shut Out
The Kickstarter campaign for The Lord of the Rings: The King’s Gambit has raised more than $1.2 million on the strength of the license alone. Backers are also arguing over something that has little to do with miniatures or dice: the game’s art depicts Aragorn, heir of Isildur and King of Gondor, as a black man. It’s a race-swap play we’ve all seen before and it’s getting beyond tired.
Cosmic Lighthouse Lands Murderbot For Its Next Graphic Novel
Paul Cornell announced in his newsletter that Cosmic Lighthouse, the comics company he co-founded, is adapting Martha Wells’ “Murderbot” into a graphic novel. The book is titled “Murderbot: All Systems Red,” adapted by Erica Schultz, with art by Gary Erskine, color by Yel Zamor, and letters by Simon Bowland. Jaime Jones, who already illustrates the pros…
Tomi Adeyemi Refuses To Watch Her Own Film Because Amandla Stenberg Is In It
“Children of Blood and Bone” author Tomi Adeyemi says she will not watch the movie adaptation of her bestselling novel. The reason, according to her own account, is star Amandla Stenberg.
Fiction Writer Laments Fantasy Flight Games Removing Links To All Of His Legend Of The Five Rings Work
Fantasy Flight Games has been retooling its website, and many of its “Living Card Games” pages, or LCGs, that made the company famous are getting removed or trimmed down, and a long-time writer for Legend of the Five Rings is not happy about it.
Dungeon Crawler Carl Crowdfunding Tops $16.5 Million Across Two Campaigns
Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl has raised more than $16.5 million on crowdfunding platforms across two campaigns. Its author started out drawing pet portraits at cat shows.
The Complete Deryni Chronological Reading Order: Katherine Kurtz’s Gwynedd From 888 to 1128
Katherine Kurtz published Deryni Rising in 1970, then spent the next 44 years writing the two and a half centuries of history behind it. The Deryni saga now runs to 16 novels, 15 shorter works, a poem, and four companion volumes, and almost none of it came out in the order the events take place. This guide lays out the internal chronology, from a Deryni…