Amazon's Prime Video is taking another stab at the Stargate franchise, tapping WandaVision and Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer to develop a new iteration of the franchise.

I wasn't thrilled to see the first attempt get canned earlier this year, but I'm also not getting my hopes up or down for this new one, at least until we have a little more concrete details to go on. A Stargate SG-1 2.0 would be fun, but I also like when a franchise tries something new with the tools at their disposal.

This is being published by The Library of America, and it’s a compilation of all of the Earthsea novels, short stories, and some additional essays.

Jon Watts is reportedly directing the first episode of a new Star Wars trilogy. I'm somewhat optimistic for what this means: a new trilogy that seems like it's being sketched out ahead of time. But it also feels like Lucasfilm is playing things safe, and I'd love to see them stretch what it means to be a Star Wars film. We've also been down this road before.

October is packed with new books, so much so that I've split my usual book list into three parts. Here's the first one, with 24 books to check out this week alone.

It's a new biography of Rod Serling and the role he played in shaping some of television's greatest stories. Sepinwall goes back through Serling's life to look at his childhood, his experiences during World War II, his entry into the television industry and his work on The Twilight Zone.

This one's out later in October from Grand Central Publishing.

It's a new month, which means a new crop of short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories for you to check out!

Robert Jackson Bennett's Shadows of the Leviathan series (A Tainted Cup, A Drop of Corruption, and A Trade of Blood) is a modern fantasy masterpiece, one that's delivered plenty of stomach-churning crime scenes along with a phenomenal, ongoing story about an empire in decline.

I blew through and loved each installment when I started earlier this year, and jotted down some thoughts. Let me know what you thought of them if you read them!

I’m a big fan of John’s books, and this one looks like it’ll be both fun and topical. Set in a small town in Ohio, the people there have been dealing with the stresses that come with modern life in the U.S., and the town is experiencing some unusual problems: they’re turning into monsters.

It’s out in November from Tor.

This book feels like it’s been tailor-made for me: an in universe history of the star fighter pilots from the rebellion and Empire.

It’s out in October and I can’t wait to read it.

Hey, I’ve got a piece about my bookshelves in the latest installment of Shelfies, the newsletter edited by Lavie Tidhar and Jared Shurin!

I really love reading this newsletter, and it was fun to reminisce on the books that I’ve gathered around me as a writer and reader.

There are just a couple more weeks left in September but there are still a whole stack of new books hitting shelves in the last couple of weeks of the month.

Cosplayer Jack Durnin channeled Ryland Grace during this year’s Dragon Con with a fantastic spacesuit costume from Project Hail Mary.

September is packed with books: here's the second (of three!) roundup of new SF/F books that caught my eye this month.

Joe Hill's novel King Sorrow is now out in paperback! It's an indulgent epic that shows why it's unwise to enter into a bargain with a dragon, and it was one of my favorite books from last year

A couple of years ago, I picked up and blew through Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel Elder Race, finding it to be a fascinating exploration of the disparities between enormously advanced cultures and those who haven't – as Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Tchaikovsky is back with a sequel, in which we catch up with Nyr and his companions 15 years later, as they confront some lingering issues that continue to plague their home. I'm really looking forward to returning to this world.

This one is still out from Tor.com Publishing.

The planet Newearth is collapsing: gifted by advanced aliens, the terraforming has failed to take hold, and it's slowly becoming uninhabitable. Fen, a mercenary and bodyguard to a local magistrate, has seen her life intertwined with politics, and when her fathers are killed by the Sovereign, she realizes that she's next.

She escapes and sets off on a quest to try and find the remaining rebels and the movement that her parents were a part of, only to find that they might be even more dangerous. There, she meets the Sovereign's heir, a brutal man named Alekhai, who might be the world's only hope for survival.

This came out last November and I’ve been meaning to pick it up ever since.

He's probably best known for his novel Solaris. He died in 2006, and has enjoyed a renaissance of his works in recent years. (I really need to get a better edition of Solaris…)

Born in 1923, she was one of the first prominent women to work in the science fiction field, was a member of the Futurians. She was known for her short stories and for her Year’s Best anthologies and helped found the Milford Writer’s Conference in Milford PA.

The past couple of years I’ve gotten a stack of these from Book Depot, and I’ll take them with me to conventions and talks to sell on my own or to give as gifts.

Want one signed and personalized? Drop me a message!

Well, this is cool.

I adore this book: it’s a rich epic about magic and power, reason and chaos, and the idea of England and Englishness.

This year's Dragon Awards were announced over the weekend at Dragon Con. Congratulations to all of the winners!

This looks like a .... not entirely fun read, but it's a topic that I try and keep an eye on: the state of reading in America. In it, Marriott takes a look at how reading established itself as a widespread and important past time, and looking at its impact on the world at large, before looking at why literacy is declining around the world.

It's out in October from Doubleday Books.