News Fantastic Four Fantastic Four Villain Will Be Galactus, Played by Ralph Ineson; John Malkovich Also Joins Cast Who’s excited to see some planets get eaten? By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 10, 2024 Screenshot: 20th Century Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: 20th Century Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Fantastic Four film is gearing up for production, and we now not only have confirmation on who the Big Bad of the movie will be, but also who will be playing them. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news yesterday that Ralph Ineson—whose credits include The First Omen, The Green Knight, and the upcoming films Frankenstein and Nosferatu—has joined the Fantastic Four cast and will be playing the villain, Galactus. Galactus is a major Marvel bad guy created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. While he used to be a mere human, circumstances made him a giant cosmic being who likes to scarf down planets in order to stay alive and thriving. He had an appearance as a CGI monstrosity in 2007’s Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, and we can only hope (and I’m optimistic) that Ineson’s portrayal will be a vast improvement. Deadline had more casting news for the upcoming MCU movie yesterday: None other than John Malkovich has also joined in the cast in an unknown role. The two join previously announced cast members Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby (the titular Fantastic Four) as well as Paul Walter Hauser and Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal. The film is directed by WandaVision’s Matt Shakman and takes place in the 1960s. Fantastic Four is set to start shooting sometime this summer in England and is currently scheduled to premiere in theaters on July 25, 2025. [end-mark] The post <i>Fantastic Four</i> Villain Will Be Galactus, Played by Ralph Ineson; John Malkovich Also Joins Cast appeared first on Reactor.

News Locus Awards Here Are the Finalists for the 2024 Locus Awards Congratulations to the finalists! By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 10, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We now have this year’s top ten finalists for the Locus Awards! The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the list, which was the result of an open public ballot from February 1 to April 15 of this year. The winners will be announced at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Oakland, California on June 22, 2024. See below for the full list of recipients. Congrats to all the finalists! Science Fiction Novel The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom) A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books) Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra) Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor) Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK) Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK) System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey) Fantasy Novel To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey) The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK) Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom) The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK) Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher (Argyll) He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle) My Brother’s Keeper, Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra) City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra) Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) Horror Novel Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas (Berkley) The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere) Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK) Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK) Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World) Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher) Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) Young Adult Novel Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK) The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido) Damned If You Do, Alex Brown (Page Street) A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard) The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK) The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz) Into the Light, Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen) Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK) The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick) The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen) First Novel Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon) The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK) The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK) These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US) The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW) Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz) Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK) Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century) Novella The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom) The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean) “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun) The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) Rose/House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean) Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor) The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom) The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom) Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) Novelette “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata,” P. Djèlí Clark (The Book of Witches) “John Hollowback and the Witch,” Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches) I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave) “The Year Without Sunshine,” Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23) “Prince Hat Underground,” Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog) “At Every Door a Ghost,” Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown) “The Rainbow Bank,” Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus 8/23) “One Man’s Treasure,” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 1-2/23) “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge,” Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23) “On the Fox Roads,” Nghi Vo (Tor.com 10/31/23) Short Story “A Soul in the World,” Charlie Jane Anders (Uncanny 3-4/23) “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub,” P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23) “The Mausoleum’s Children,” Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 5-6/23) “Suppertime,” Tananarive Due (New Suns 2) “Window Boy,” Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23) “Reckless Eyeballing”, N.K. Jemisin (Out There Screaming) “The Sound of Children Screaming,” Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23) “Those Hitchhiking Kids,” Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23) “Stones,” Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 9/23) “There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead,” Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands 6/23) Anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade) Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK) The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic) Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage) The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador) New Suns 2, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris UK) The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android) The Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Ad Astra) Collection The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon) Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Apex) The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic) White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra) No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow) Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow) Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock) Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer) The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean) The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean) Magazine Analog Asimov’s Beneath Ceaseless Skies Clarkesworld F&SF FIYAH khōréō Strange Horizons Tor.com Uncanny Publisher Angry Robot DAW Gollancz Neon Hemlock Orbit Small Beer Subterranean Tachyon Tor Tordotcom Editor Neil Clarke Ellen Datlow Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Arley Sorg & Christie Yant Jonathan Strahan Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Sheree Renée Thomas E. Catherine Tobler Ann VanderMeer Sheila Williams Artist Brom Rovina Cai Kinuko Y. Craft Julie Dillon Bob Eggleton Abigail Larson John Picacio Charles Vess Michael Whelan Alyssa Winans Non-Fiction The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History, Jack Dann (Bloomsbury Academic) 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies, ed. (Unbound UK) Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir, M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail; Saga 2024) All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene) 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing) Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver) Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House) A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Luna Press Publishing) Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Robert Charles Wilson (Pitchstone) Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood) Illustrated and Art Book The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wallace Wood, et al. (Fantagraphics) The Pen & Ink Drawings of Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (self-published) Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume Three, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art) The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Dian Hanson, ed., art by Frank Frazetta (Taschen) The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett, art by Tristan Roach (Megascope) Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star, George R.R. Martin, art and adaptation by Raya Golden (Ten Speed Graphic) Thalamus, Volumes 1 & 2: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse) Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (Abrams) Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds. (Smithsonian) [end-mark] The post Here Are the Finalists for the 2024 Locus Awards appeared first on Reactor.

If you’re achievement hunting in Little Kitty, Big City, you’ll definitely want to find all the fish locations. By grabbing all 4, you will get the fin-tastic achievement. Here’s where to find them all. Find the fish in Little Kitty, Big City Most of these are easy enough to find once you know where, but it will take some progress through the game before they can be grabbed. I’ll let you know the parameters and locations. Fish #1 The first fish is actually the key to the rest of them. When you return four shinies to the crow on top of the bike, you will receive your first of the four fish in Little Kitty, Big City. This will actually give you the stamina you need to climb and grab the rest of the fish. You can find out where to grab all the shinies with our handy guide. Fish #2 The next fish you need to grab is in the superstore. Get through those doors and to the back of the shop as fast as possible. Here you will see a chest freezer in the mi...

One of the modes that will challenge your RTS and Homeworld 3 chops is the War Games mode. This roguelike mode will have you complete objectives that will vary between clearing enemy presence, securing resources, and even gaining control of space vantage points. Here is how to unlock all War Games Fleets in Homeworld 3. Homeworld 3: How to unlock all Fleets Coming in ill-equipped for a job such as completing objectives in space might end up having you flying across space for eternity without moving forward. Thankfully, the game does provide specific Fleet combinations that will make or break your game – we all have to rely on RNG on roguelikes. But, if you are just starting up, you are completely stuck with what the game gives you. If you wish to unlock other starting Fleet combinations, then you must level up your War Games level. Screenshot: PC Invasion Doing this is pretty straightforward: all you have to do is complete objectives. Now, similar to games such as Ris...

There are 12 new characters to play with in the Operation Guns DLC. Each one has a shiny new gun, but some deserve your time more than others. With this in mind, here are the best characters in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns ranked. Every character in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns ranked Screenshot: PC Invasion Before we dive in, I want to preface this list by saying you can easily beat the game with any of the new characters. There are so many powerful weapons in Vampire Survivors that you can pick your favorites and ignore your hero’s base equipment. With this in mind, I’ve rated each character based on their stats and starting gear. You can find my reasoning below, but here’s my tier list of every character in the Operation Guns DLC: S-Tier Bahamut Lucia Zero Sheena A-Tier Bill Stanley Brad Simondo B- Tier Lance Ariana Browny Probotector C-Tier Newt Plissken Vampire Surv...

The main goal of Little Kitty, Big City is to find your way back home. That’s easier said than done because your human parents live in an apartment building. So naturally, you’d need to climb. To learn how to climb and increase your stamina, in Little Kitty, Big City, you should read this guide. Little Kitty, Big City: How to climb and increase stamina At the start of the game, you won’t be able to climb well. If you recall, Breath of the Wild has the same sort of mechanic. As you climb, the stamina meter depletes. It’s almost the same with our little kitty adventure. So as you go up onto buildings, you won’t be able to get very far.  Fortunately, there are a couple of ways to increase your energy to make climbing easier, which should help in finding all the Chameleons. Like a cat’s normal diet, you need to find four fishes. Each of them can be earned in different ways. By finding t...

One of the most challenging things you will do in Homeworld 3 is probably going to be attempting to thrive in the War Games roguelike mode. Might be a bit tough if you’re new to the series. Here is how to capture Control Modules in War Games mode in Homeworld 3. Homeworld 3: How to capture Control Modules Capturing Control Modules is one of the many tasks you will have to perform during your War Games encounters to keep moving forward, surviving, and amassing experience points. As the very nature of a roguelike mode, you will never know when you will be tasked with capturing a Control Module, but the only hint you will receive as to how to do so is to send over a ship with the Capture ability. Now, if that sounds like a non-answer, then that’s because it is. Or at least it is for players who are new to the game’s mechanics and have not played the first campaign missions in Homeworld 3. You see, the only thing you need to do, for some reason, is to send your R...

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, amended in 2008), as a whole and its Section 702 in particular have been a “gift that keeps on giving” where all manner of controversies are concerned. In late April, it was time to once again reauthorize this legislation whose privacy safeguards have been routinely bypassed by law enforcement for years, and this did happen, with persistent major points of contention being warrantless access to data belonging to Americans (and respect for their constitutional rights). The issue this time surfaced in a provision that changed the definition of electronic communications service providers (ECSPs) – in terms of which companies fall under this category, that is, which providers are obligated to give the government access to communications. As things stand, more US businesses than ever would have to provide access to phones, Wi-Fi routers, and other equipment. This in April launched a debate in the Senate around the scope of surveillance authorities – opponents were saying it significantly expanded them – yet in the end, they failed to stop the reauthorization (“Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act”). The question was left open with a “pledge” that it would be revisited down the line, and now reports say that Congress is working to “fix” the problem through the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual intelligence authorization bill. The promise was originally made by Senator Mark Warner, who heads the committee when he assumed a major role last month in making sure the reauthorization bill passed without incorporating changes to the controversial provision. The Democrat was now speaking at the RSA security conference when he repeated that promise, saying that work is being done toward fulfilling it, and adding that he is “absolutely committed to getting that fixed.” However, Warner was rather vague about what the solution might entail, saying only that the committee is “very much in progress” and reassuring his audience that it won’t be difficult to “fix” the problem. “I don’t think it is a high hurdle” – he said, referring to addressing the secret surveillance expansion in the upcoming intelligence bill. When the extension bill passed, opponents were warned that the government had gained even more power in this space, while spy agencies would continue to evade accountability. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post The Warrantless Surveillance Bill Renewal Is Even Broader Than Many Noticed appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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