Between my German vampire series WWAC and my impending coverage of the Splatterpunk Awards, I’ve had to slow down a little on my book A Long Year’s Dreaming: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2020. It’s still continuing to take shape, though. I now have a fairly clear idea of how many essays are left to write, and I should be able to reveal the cover art soon as well.
Here’s a (still not quite complete) contents list:
- Bang in the Coffin: Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s Dracula
- Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Controversy
- Prophets of Doom: Did these Authors Predict COVID-19?
- The Last Laugh: Animated Films Before the Pandemic
- Coronaphobia: Horror Films in Lockdown
- 2020 A.D.: Reviving the British Anthology Comic
- Broken Futures: Iron Man 2020
- The Year we Had No Heroes, Except for This Lot: Superhero Films in 2020
- Investing in the Gods: Jiang Ziya and the Fengshen Cinematic Universe
- Wit, Weirdness and Warped Ethics: Megan Giddings’ Lakewood
- Cannibal Women, Laughing Lords and Ownvoices Iconoclasm
- First Lady: Lilith as Icon of 2020
- Out with the Old and into the Sun: The 2020 Hugo Awards
- Dragons and Death Cults: The 2020 Dragon Awards
- Red Brains: Zombies in 2020
- Blue Veins: Vampires in 2020
- MAGA 2020 and Beneath: The Strange World of Trumpist SF
- 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
- Untitled Doctor Who Essay
- Aquaman’s Architect: Robson Rocha in Memoriam
- Ghosts of Christmas Present
- Franchised Fears: The Year’s Horror Reboots
- Hill House: DC Horror Comics Post-Vertigo
- Cyborg und Hausmartian: Remixing Fairy Tales
- Could be Worse: Dystopian Fiction
- Dragons, Demons and Anime Adventures
- Untitled essay about children’s literary adaptations
- Untitled essay about apocalyptic films
- Viral Stories: COVID-19 Fiction Anthologies
Doris V. Sutherland 