Knightfall Animated, Popular French Novel Translation, Connie Willis Insane Rant - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
Mix of positive stories in today, which I’m happy about. I can’t wait to see Chuck’s work in animation form, some of the best Batman comics ever. If you don’t know who Connie Willis is, how dare you! She’s won more awards than anyone! It’s okay, because most people probably don’t know her work despite her being propped up by establishment sci-fi publishing. Once you read her boomerific Facebooking, you might understand why.
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DC Animation Is Adapting Batman: Knightfall Into a Trilogy
Warner Bros. Animation, DC, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced Batman: Knightfall, a multi-part animated event bringing to life one of the most iconic and beloved runs in the rich history of Batman comics. Part One premiered at Annecy in June 2026 to thunderous applause. The animated Batman: Knightfall film series is officially R-rated. Anson…
The Jesuit, the Starship, and the Star Trek Books: A James Blish Retrospective
Most science fiction readers know one thing about James Blish. If they came up in the 1970s, they know he wrote the Star Trek books. Every episode of the original series adapted as a short story, twelve mass-market paperback volumes from Bantam, sold in every airport and drugstore for a decade. For an entire generation of fans, Blish’s adaptations were …
Castalia House Publishes the First English Translation of a Beloved French Novel That Fourteen Editions Couldn’t Reach Across the Channel
Castalia House released The Little Duchess this week, the first English translation in the 150-year history of La Petite Duchesse, one of the most popular novels by Zénaïde Fleuriot, a Breton author whose eighty-three novels shaped a generation of young French readers in the late nineteenth century. The translation is by Summer Charrette, and the ebook …
Celia Rose Gooding Turns Trek Long Island Into a Political Rally: Joy, Resistance, and “The Powers That Be”
Trek Long Island 2026 was billed as a joyful conversation with Celia Rose Gooding. What it became was an extended political address, with the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actress using her convention panel to deliver commentary on black joy as political resistance, institutional oppression, and the ongoing “discourse” around the direction of Star Trek itself.
The Most Award-Winning Science Fiction Author Alive Spent the Nation’s 250th Birthday Calling Trump a Nazi
Connie Willis has won eleven Hugo Awards, seven Nebula Awards, and the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Grand Master designation. She is the most decorated author in the history of the genre, more honored than Heinlein, Asimov, or Bradbury by the industry’s own accounting. She lives in Greeley, Colorado, about forty miles north of Denver.
Silo Season 3 Premiere Buries Its Best Moment And Serves Up The Same Mystery Box Instead
Apple TV+’s “Silo” returned for a third season on July 3 with an episode titled “Who Are You?”, and the premiere skips past the one scene the show owed its audience for two years running.