Books

Great catch by our friends at 404 Media — a declassified WWII-era US government guide to sabotaging fascism is currently the 5th-most downloaded ebook on Project Gutenberg.

In what kinda feels like a play to the “TV and movies have gotten too sexy” crowd, Netflix is moving forward with a Little House on the Prairie reboot from executive producer / showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys) that the streamer describes as “a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.”

Many SFF readers know of Harlan Ellison’s development-hell anthology The Last Dangerous Visions, which was posthumously released to tepid reviews last year. Paul Kincaid’s recent essay delves into the cultural impact of Ellison’s earlier Dangerous Visions books and the broader transformation of science fiction — as well as how Ellison’s own (checkered, though it’s not a major theme here) position in the genre shaped both.

Though Greta Gerwig’s new Narnia feature will eventually make its way to Netflix, the movie will reportedly have a two-week theatrical run ahead of its streaming debut in 2026.

John Chu’s Wicked sequel was always going to need some sort subtitle to set it apart from Part One, and it seems the studio has decided on calling it Wicked: For Good — an allusion to one of the songs we’ll all probably be humming to ourselves next year.

It took a lot of technical know-how to create Dune: Part Two’s mesmerizing score, and this new video from Expressive E breaks down how Hans Zimmer made it happen using a fleet of Osmose synthesizers.

Lots of folks are probably watching F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu before Robert Eggers’ new remake premieres later this month. Obviously, the 1922 film played a huge rule in influencing Eggers’ ideas about how to present the classic vampire tale. But in a new interview with Deadline, he explains how seeing the original on VHS before it was remastered gave him a deep appreciation of how real it could feel.

The era of the LLM means you now have to figure out whether you are talking to another person — or just some bot. There’s one sci-fi author who focused on just that.

Our sister site just released a new book with Insight Editions called Year of the Ring. It’s an incredibly fun (and totally comprehensive) look at the history of the franchise and its fanbase.

Though it’s a bit mind-boggling to hear Lionsgate refer to American Psycho as “potent and classic IP,” the news that Luca Guadagnino is directing the studio’s new reboot is definitely intriguing. The question now: who’s gonna be Patrick Bateman?

We’ve known for a while now that HBO was aiming to debut its Dune: Prophecy prequel series at some point this fall. But in addition to dropping a new trailer, the network has finally announced that the show will premiere on November 17th.

Darryl Campbell’s new book, Fatal Abstraction, argues that many of Big Tech’s issues are related to “managerialism.” His reporting — some of which he published for The Verge — finds that Silicon Valley’s love of spreadsheets, productivity software, and MBAs has undermined many companies’ ability to ship good products. Or in Boeing’s case, keep doors from flying off planes.

Remember when Joe and Anthony Russo snatched up the rights to adapt Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State?

While Netflix has yet to officially announce who will be voicing / portraying Tony Tony Chopper in the second season of its live-action One Piece adaptation, the (CGI) anthropomorphic reindeer makes a brief appearance in this new behind-the-scenes video.

Though production on the third and final season of Good Omens was well into production in Scotland, Deadline reports that Amazon has put the project on hold seemingly in response to sexual assault allegations surrounding author Neil Gaiman.