Do you hear the noise? It’s the sound of a blockage being cleared and a free flow beginning. My book A Long Year’s Dreaming: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2020 has taken rather longer than I would’ve liked to finish, but I’ve made heavy progress and I’m confident that, over the next few weeks, a healthy chunk of the chapters will be moving from the “WIP” to the “complete” folder.
Completed articles:
- 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
- Weird Streets: N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became
- 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
- For Better or Worse, the Film of the Year: Tenet
- Huns, Rouran and Uyghurs: Mulan goes to Xianjiang
- Untitled Last Emperox Essay
- Aquaman’s Architect: Robson Rocha in Memoriam
- Ghosts of Christmas Present
- The Year We Had No Heroes, Except for This Lot: Superhero Films in 2020
- American Wats: The Superman Family in 2020
- Do Black Lives Matter to a Green Lantern? Far Sector
- Gangland Dreamland: Batman in 2020
- Am I Dreaming Now? Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga
- Blue Veins: Vampires in 2020
- Untitled essay about children’s literary adaptations
- Untitled essay on haunted houses and stuff
- Short Capes: Two Superhero Novelettes
Work-in-progress articles:
- Red Brains: Zombies in 2020
- MAGA 2020 and Begone: The Strange World of Trumpist SF
- Franchised Fears: The Year’s Horror Reboots
- Hill House: DC Horror Comics Post-Vertigo
- Cyborg und Hausmartian: Remixing Fairy Tales
- It Could be Worse: Dystopian Fiction
- Dragons, Demons and Anime Adventures
- Viral Stories: COVID-19 Fiction Anthologies
- Untitled Doctor Who Essay
- Untitled Ghost-Spider Essay
- Untitled Dorohedoro/BNA essay
- The Onscreen Apocalypses of 2020
- Untitled essay on prestige animated features
- Untitled Only Good Indians/Night of the Mannequins essay
- Untitled Hugo novella essay
- Untitled Operation Thunder Child essay
- Fire Before Plague: Oz is Burning
- Untitled Black Sun essay
- Die essay
- Hardly a Modest Proposal: The Hunt
- The Old Guard review
Articles I’m still considering:
- Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick review
- More Marvel superhero stuff
- I Am Not Starfire review
- Something splatterpunk-related
- Big Girl essay
- Space Force essay
- Palm Springs review
- Something about short-form animation
- Something about Bill and Ted Face the Music that may or may not also cover Ready Player Two
- Night of the Kings review
- Nine Days review
- Possessor review
Doris V. Sutherland 