I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky: ( rocs and manticores )
Douglas Smith, The Hollow Boys: ( dream riders )
Al Hess, World Running Down: ( kindness among ruins )
T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones: ( horror with bugs )
N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make: ( city fight )
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Wish You Weren’t Here: ( hunting things, occasionally saving people )
Kai Butler, Saffron Wilds: ( wedding prep )
Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell:( too cute for me )

Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found: ( cw: threatened child abuse )

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation: ( destroyers of world destroyers )

Samit Basu, Resistance: ( The Boys with more women )

Eddie Robson, Hearts of Oak:( architecture in the wooden city )

Firefly rewatch:

(1) When I rewatched Terminator:TSCC, what really stood out was the beauty of the cinematography (and the characters, but that goes without saying). This time on Firefly, what I’m noticing is the sound design. It’s not just that space is silent, but all the locations have a distinct aural texture. Well done, Mutant Enemy!

(2) 1x03, Bushwhacked, Mal, of the sole survivor of the Reavers: “Charity’d be a bullet in the brainpan.” Never noticed that callback in the movie before. I found a list of callbacks and (alleged) inconsistencies, though many of the latter seem quite handwavable: the best callback of all is the Trans-U Reaver ship.

( Claudia Gray, Harlan Ellison, zombie YA, Connie Willis )