2019

Judgement of the Judoon by Colin Brake

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The novel “Judgement of the Judoon” by Colin Brake was published for the first time in 2009.

A Judoon squadron approaches the space freighter Tintin searching for the Invisible Assassin. The fugitive is not on board and the Judoon leave the spaceship half destroyed after having searched it so thoroughly that it’s been seriously damaged. The Tenth Doctor picks up Tintin’s request for help and when he finds out what happened he decides it’s time for someone to say something to the Judoon and follow them.

Arriving on the planet New Memphis, the Doctor materializes the Tardis in the Elvis the King spaceport, where a terminal is having a series of problems. When the Judoon arrive at the spaceport, other crimes are discovered and the coincidence leads the Doctor to suspect that everything’s connected. He manages to convince the Judoon Commander to start a discreet investigation together but the two of them will also have to face local gangsters. Meanwhile, young detective Nikki is engaged in an investigation that appears to be separate.

The study of the pelvis of a Rudapithecus hungaricus offers clues to the evolution of the bipedal posture

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An article published in the “Journal of Human Evolution” reports the study of a partial pelvis of Rudapithecus hungaricus, a hominid that lived about ten million years ago, in the Miocene period, in today’s Hungary related to both modern African apes and human beings. A team of researchers led by Carol Ward of the University of Missouri analyzed that fossil bone concluding that human bipedal posture has more ancient origins than previously thought.

Dichronauts by Greg Egan

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The novel “Dichronauts” by Greg Egan was published for the first time in 2017.

Seth and Theo live in a symbiosis that allows them to combine their physical abilities to live and work in their world where there are two spacel and two time dimensions. Seth has mobility and sees forwards and backwards whereas Theo, who lives in Seth’s skull, sees what lies to his left and right. Together they can scout the territory and let others know about the safe routes to travel.

Because of the conformation of the world in which the Seth’s and Theo’s peoples live, they live a nomadic life, periodically moving their cities to keep them in habitable areas. During a survey expedition, the two of them encounter something never seen before, a fissure in the surface of the world so wide that nobody can see how far it gets. The next migration will be blocked unless someone explores a territory different from the rest of the known world.

Luz Ojeda (Cristina Rodlo) in Shatter Like a Pearl (Image courtesy AMC Studios / Amazon. All rights reserved)

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“Shatter Like a Pearl” is the fifth episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “The Weak Are Meat”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.

At the internment camp, the Japanese-Americans are forced to complete a questionnaire that is supposed to establish their loyalty to the USA but two of the questions generate a lot of arguments and resistance among them. New translators arrive in Guadalcanal but one of them behaves strangely. Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) finds out what happened to his sons while he and his fellow translator Arthur Ogawa (Marcus Toji) interrogate a Japanese prisoner who claims he’s possessed by a yurei.

It by Stephen King

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The novel “It” by Stephen King was published for the first time in 1986. It won the British Fantasy Award.

1957. Georgie Denbrough is taking advantage of the heavy rains to play on the streets of Derry with a paper boat. When it ends up into a gutter, Georgie fears he lost it, but in the gutter’s opening he sees the face of a clown who starts talking to him. When Georgie approaches, the entity with the appearance of a clown kills him tearing him to pieces. It’s just the first of a series of murders that strike Derry.

1985. Mike Hanlon is Derry’s librarian and realizes that a new cycle of strange murders has begun so he calls his six old friends who moved elsewhere but many years before sworn that they would return to Derry if that happened. They had completely forgotten the events of their childhood but Mike’s call starts restoring those memories with the horrors attached to them.