Back in 2019, Netflix released an intriguing animated project called
Love, Death + Robots, an anthology series made up of 18 standalone shorts that adapted a number of short stories from some prominent science fiction authors.
After a long wait, Netflix has released a trailer for the next season, which is set to debut on the platform on May 14th.
The series was created by Tim Miller (the director of
Deadpool) and produced by Joshua Donen, David Fincher, and Jennifer Miller, originally as a remake of the film
Heavy Metal. Following the success of
That first season contained a number of stories from authors like Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, Joe Landsale, Ken Liu, Marko Kloos, David Amendola, Steven Lewis, Kirsten Cross, and Michael Swanwick, with a couple of other episodes that weren’t adapted from existing stories.
Netflix s Animated Anthology Series Love, Death + Robots Returns May 14th
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February was another locked down month with a curfew in Quebec, and I was at home going nowhere. It snowed a lot. I saw a total of three other human beings in the whole month. The prevailing mood of this pandemic for many of us is “other people have it worse, but this sure sucks.” I read a perfectly reasonable seventeen books, and many of them were really excellent, which is always cheering.
This is the story of a young man with enough money to live on in London for a year and try to write, who entirely fails to achieve anything. It’s a comedy, though it is very sad, and you can see here the beginnings of the class consciousness which will make so much of Sharp’s later work so excellent. I enjoyed reading it, though I wouldn’t call it good, exactly. It also surprised me that it was 1932; it’s much more a book of the 1920s in feel. For Sharp completists, I suppose. Don’t start here. But I am excited to have so much new to me Sharp available as ebooks.
January was another lockdown month worse than ever, because now we have a curfew at 8 PM and huge fines for breaking it, which means it’s not just illegal but pretty much impossible to see anyone. Isolation is really getting to me. The numbers are going down, though, which is good, and people are starting to be vaccinated, though I am low on the list. In any case, I spent a lot of time in January on pure escapist reading, and I read twenty-eight books in a variety of genres, with a very high rate of excellence.
A delightful romance, recommended by a friend. Two men in London who haven’t been making relationships work pretend to be each other’s boyfriends and of course end up falling in love. Really well written, memorable, and really fun to read. As an attempt to read feel-good romances that are not set in Italy but are actually good, this was really successful.