We’re restricting this post to upcoming releases, because if we covered all the media we have in our wishlists, Netflix lists and so forth (people who bought all three German St Clare’s DVDs: me), we’d be here all day.
In chronological order with a caveat that release dates may change!
1 September
The Handbook: surviving and living with climate change
Steph is already breaking the rule but only because it just came out last week.
22 September
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
This is already out in other markets, and the buzz is strong!
The Muppets, (US)ABC, Channel 7 in Australia, no airdate here
23 September
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Smoke and Shadow (Part 1) by Gene Luen Yang
My OTP might look at each other! (They broke up, like, three books ago. Stop judging me.)
The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
I’m clearly going to get a lot of use out of my new Canadian Kindle account. Someone should give me a large sum of money so that I can open a bookstore and import Canadian YA to sell alongside Australian books.
6 October
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
JUST GO THROUGH THE GHOST GATE ALREADY, BREQ!
18 October
Spear, Adelaide Film Festival, no general Aus release date
This has got to get a general release eventually, right? RIGHT?
21 October
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
I die in this book. Also some other stuff happens, probably. I’ve seen an ARC, it’s pretty big.
26 October
Supergirl, CBS, no Australian network yet
The pilot was charming, and we are in favour of family-friendly entertainment about girls being superheroes. Also, No Award ships Kara/James Olsen.
27 October
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Legends
STOP LAUGHING AT ME.
A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston
The premise wouldn’t normally grab me, but I loved The Story of Owen and Prairie Fire enough that I’ll give anything Johnston writes a burl.
Sometime in November
If You Are the One / 非诚勿扰 Australian special
1 November
The Sea is Ours: Tales from Steampunk South-East Asia
19 November
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (part 2)
(Steph will recuse herself here, she has Feelings about this franchise, both Casting Feelings and Archery Feelings.)
14 December
The Expanse, Syfy, doesn’t seem to have an Australian network yet
I quite liked the first book, and I’ve been meaning to read the next two. I’m mostly just happy to have some space ships on my screen.
17 December
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
I saw The Phantom Menace on opening day, and it marked the very first time she walked out of the cinema, went home and started writing about a movie being Problematic, although I didn’t know that word then, so I just said “majorly racist”.
AND YET.
2016
24 January
The X-Files, FOX, doesn’t seem to have an Australian network yet
I’m slogging through season 9. It’s a struggle, but I’m determined to finish the damn series. The reboot cannot possibly be as bad as this … can it?
5 April
The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks
What’s it about? I have no idea! But I love Hicks’s art, I’ve been seeing snippets on her Twitter for ages, and it’s blurbed by Bryan Konietzko. That’s enough to make me curious, despite the cynical marketing ploy of putting the Avatar: the Last Airbender font on the cover.
16 March
Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
July 2016
Bell Shakespeare – Othello
A good portion of the No Award staff writers are planning to see this one!
The Three-Body Problem
Did you think we wouldn’t be seeing this? The only thing holding us back will be the inevitable delay between the Chinese release in July, and whenever the Australian distributor deigns to bring it here.
(Stephanie, of course, is not limited by puny things like “needing subtitles”. Note to self: learn Mandarin asap.)
Some time in 2016
Cleverman, the ABC
Indigenous Australian dystopian SF on Our ABC. We have high hopes for this! (Of course, we also had high hopes for Serangoon Road, and look how that worked out.)
Icon by Genevieve Valentine
The sequel to Persona, YA about politics and beauty pageants and spies.
The Federal Election, all the networks
Election routine: vote, eat democracy sausage, watch results come in, drink.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend
No one knows anything about this, but it has Michelle Yeoh in it, so we’ll be there with bells on.
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