It’s been a little while since we’ve done a round-up for you. So here are the nine things we’ve spotted online in the last couple of months that we think you might like to see too.

• Sad to see that Ron Glass who played Shepard in Firefly has died. (Gizmodo)
• ‘People hope my book will be China’s Star Wars’: Liu Cixin on China’s exploding sci-fi scene (Guardian)
• ‘Any Black man would want to be bulletproof’ – interview with Mike Colter, the star of Luke Cage (Green Left Weekly)
• Inmates at a Colorado’s maximum security prison use Dungeons & Dragons to collaborate and exercise their creativity… all without dice. (Waypoint)
• Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel (New York Times)
• Peter Cushing declared fit for work by DWP after Rogue One (News Thump)
• Choosing some of the best book covers of 2016 (Hodderscape)
• Sociologist and Jacobin editor Peter Frase considers the possibilities in Four Futures, a work of “social science fiction” (The New Inquiry)

Finally, here’s the teaser trailer for the Bladerunner reboot/rehash/cash in/homage/sequel. Please do not be rubbish.