A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2019

I never felt comfortable with eligibility posts, but I posted such an overview for the first time in 2016, when someone added my name to the Hugo Nominations Wiki. And since I’ve been doing it for three years now, I decided to make an overview post for 2019 as well.

So if you’re interested in what I write, here is an overview of all SFF related blogposts of 2019, in chronological order, as well as a list of all the SFF fiction I published.

At this blog:

• And the 2018 Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents goes to…
• Science Fiction is Dying Again – The Hopepunk Edition
• Star Trek Discovery is back… and it actually feels like Star Trek, for a change
• A Few Words on Some Very Lacklustre Academy Award Nominees
• Star Trek Discovery Visits “New Eden” and Still Feels Like Star Trek.
• Star Trek Discovery suddenly remembers that season 1 existed with “Point of Light”
• In Memoriam Václav Vorlícek
• Star Trek Discovery pays “An Obol to Charon” and gets back on form
• Spock is still missing, but Star Trek Discovery offers the return of other familiar faces in “Saints of Imperfection”
• Some Thoughts on the 2018 Nebula Award Finalists
• Star Trek Discovery delivers a Saru-centric episode with “The Sound of Thunder”
• Introducing Thurvok and the Return of Richard Blakemore
• Some Comments on the 2019 Academy Award Winners
• Some Reactions to the 2018 Nebula Award Finalists
• The Latest Developments Regarding the 2018 Nebula Award Finalists
• Star Trek Discovery visits Vulcan in “Light and Shadow”
• Star Trek Discovery revisits Star Trek‘s origins yet again in “If Memory Serves”
• Star Trek Discovery Uncovers a Conspiracy in “Project Daedalus”
• Star Trek Discovery dishes up more shocking twists (TM) in the hunt for “The Red Angel”
• Star Trek Discovery jerks the old tear ducts in “Perpetual Infinity”
• Two New Thurvok Stories and a New Silencer Story
• Some Thoughts on the Hugo Award Finalists, Part I: The 1944 Retro Hugo Awards
• Some Thoughts on the Hugo Award Finalists, Part II: The 2019 Hugo Awards
• Star Trek Discovery passes “Through the Valley of Shadows”
• Star Trek Discovery jerks the old tear ducts again in the aptly named “Such Sweet Sorrow”
• Ian McEwan is Clueless about Science Fiction
• Star Trek Discovery Boldly Goes Where None Has Gone Before in the Season 2 Finale
• In Memoriam Martin Böttcher
• The Joy of Writing, How to Lose It and How to Get It Back
• The Premature Death Announcement of Steampunk
• The Golden Age Was More Diverse Than You Think
• The Problem About “The Bells” and Game of Thrones That No One Talks About
• Some Comments on the 2018 Nebula Award Winners (and a bit about the Eurovision Song Contest)
• And the Iron Thrones Goes to…
• Some Reactions to the 2018 Nebula Award Winners and a Post-mortem on the 20Booksto50K Issue
• Dispelling More Misconceptions About the Golden Age
• More about the Golden Age
• The Gradual Vanishing of the Planetary Romance
• Science Fiction is Not Evenly Distributed
• Why you should not dismiss “Münchhausen” out of hand
• The 2019 July Short Story Challenge – Day by Day
• Remembering Artur Brauner and Dr. Mabuse
• The 2019 July Short Story Challenge Post-Mortem – 31 Stories in 31 Days
• The 2019 Dragon Award Finalists: Mainstream Respectability at Last?
• Eric John Stark – Social Justice Warrior of Mars
• The Dublin Travel Travails Saga
• Some Comments about the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards Winners
• The 2019 Dragon Awards successfully manage to evade responsibility for another year
• WorldCon 77 in Dublin, Part 1: The Good…
• WorldCon 77 in Dublin, Part 2: The Hugos
• A no longer quite so new Thurvok story available: The Night Court
• Steampunk in East Frisia: Steamfest Papenburg 2019
• Time Travel, Bond Rip-Offs and the Fashion for Folksy Rural Themes in the 1960s
• Old Directors Yell at Clouds – Pardon, Superheroes
• Two new In Love and War stories and a new Thurvok story
• The Women Science Fiction Fans Don’t See
• Two New Holiday Stories Available: Christmas after the End of the World and Santa’s Sticky Finger
• The End of a Saga: The Rise of Skywalker
• The 2019 Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents
• as well as twelve regular editions and four holiday editions of Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month and Indie Crime Fiction of the Month

At Galactic Journey:

• Building the City of the Future Upon Ruins: A Look at Postwar Architecture in Germany, Europe and the World
• Weird Menace and Villainy in the London Fog: The West German Edgar Wallace Movies
• The Valley of Creation by Edmond Hamilton in Bad Comic Book Style and Good Comic Book Style (Galactoscope)
• The Immortal Supervillain: The Remarkable Forty-Two Year Career of Dr. Mabuse
• Leigh Brackett Times Two: The Secret of Sinharat and People of the Talisman (Ace Double M-101)
• A Mystery Mastermind Double Feature: The Ringer and The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
• Davy by Edgar Pangborn in Out in Space and Down to Earth (October’s Galactoscope #1)
• The State of the Solar Empire: Perry Rhodan in 1964
• Message from the Eocene and Three Worlds of Futurity by Margaret St. Clair (Ace Double M-105) in December Galactoscope

Elsewhere:

• “Month of Joy: Space Opera and Me” at The Skiffy and Fanty Show.
• Introduction to “Of All Possible Worlds” by Rosel George Brown in Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958 – 1963), edited by Gideon Marcus
• Interview at the Steamtinkerers Könschnack podcast (in German)
• “Buhlert: Dublin 2019 WorldCon Photos – Part 1: Hugo Reception” at File 770.
• “Buhlert: Dublin 2019 WorldCon Photos – Part 2: The Hugo Losers Party” at File 770.
• “Buhlert: Dublin 2019 WorldCon Photo – Part 3: Raksura Colony Tree at File 770.
• “Aunt Gisela’s Cider-pickled Pumpkin: A Family Recipe from Germany” at The Homepunks.
• The Germany part of “Discover The Old Continent: Ninety Remarkable European Speculative Books From The Last Decade” at File 770
• I also co-run the Speculative Fiction Showcase, a group blog focussed on indie SFF, and the Indie Crime Scene, a blog focussed on indie mysteries, crime fiction and thrillers.

Fiction (SFF):

• The Valley of the Man Vultures (short story)*
• The Tomb of the Undead Slaves (short story)*
• The Road of Skeletons (short story)*
• The Forest of the Hanged (short story)*
• The Bleak Heath (novelette)*
• The Cave of the Dragon (short story)*
• The Night Court (short story)*
• The Temple of the Snake God (short story)*
• Mementos and Memories (short story)
• Honourable Enemies (short novel)
• Christmas after the End of the World (novelette)

Fiction (other genres):

• A Valentine for the Silencer (crime novelette)
• Santa’s Sticky Fingers (mystery novelette)

*published under the name Richard Blakemore