I’m still at work on my essay collection A Long Year’s Dreaming: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2020 and it’s steadily coming together. As noted before, my plan is to squeeze in as much work over the course of January and February before I’m distracted by my annual review cycle (hello, Splatterpunk Awards!) Right now I’m hoping to get the Last Emperox, Mulan and perhaps Tenent essays finished by the end of the month, then a few more essays come February. Then, hopefully, it’ll be plain sailing.
Here’s a list of the essays that are complete, in-progress or at least firmly decided upon:
- Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Controversy
- Coronaphobia: Horror Films in Lockdown
- 2020 A.D.: Reviving the British Anthology Comic
- MAGA 2020 and Beneath: The Strange World of Trumpist SF
- Broken Futures: Iron Man 2020
- Investing in the Gods: Jiang Ziya and the Fengshen Cinematic Universe
- Out with the Old and into the Sun: The 2020 Hugo Awards
- Dragons and Death Cults: The 2020 Dragon Awards
- The Year we Had No Heroes, Except for This Lot: Superhero Films in 2020
- Wit, Weirdness and Warped Ethics: Megan Giddings’ Lakewood
- Cannibal Women, Laughing Lords and Ownvoices Iconoclasm
- First Lady: Lilith as Icon of 2020
- The Last Laugh: Animated Films Before the Pandemic
- Prophets of Doom: Did these Authors Predict COVID-19?
- Red Brains: Zombies in 2020
- Blue Veins: Vampires in 2020
- For Better or Worse, the Film of the Year: Tenet
- Huns, Rouran and Uyghurs: Mulan goes to Xianjiang
- Untitled Last Emperox Essay
- From Smashing the klan to Killing Jimmy Olsen: The Superman Family in 2020
- Bang in the Coffin: Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s Dracula
- Ghosts of Christmas Present
- Untitled Doctor Who Essay
Doris V. Sutherland 