News Link Tank: Death of the Author Is Nnedi Okorafors Best Novel in an Already Stellar Body of Sci-FiThe latest meta novel from Nnedi Okorafor, the ascension of Dreamworks, a Star Wars mystery solved, and more in the Link Tank!By Michael Ahr | January 24, 2025 | | Photo: Mark PetermanNnedi Okorafor has earned her status as a trailblazer in modern science fiction, but her latest work, Death of the Author, is on another level.Death of the Author is a masterwork of modern speculative fiction, and arguably Nnedi Okorafors best book yet. Its an unusual novel that defies easy definition, combining Africanfuturism, speculative fiction, and literary fiction; the result is magnificent, weaving multiple narratives into an incredibly unique and powerful rumination on family, storytelling, and life.Read more at Winter is ComingFlight Risk, the Mel Gibson film starring Mark Wahlberg, presents a promising premise, but the execution is lacking.Flight Risk, the new Mel Gibson directorial outing, [follows] characters trapped in a dangerously small plane with even more of a dangerous man. Some elements and moments are effective, but theyre layered with subplot details, character performances, and related choices that dont work as well as intended, firmly grounding an otherwise promising concept.Read more at ColliderMove aside, Pixar! Dreamworks is slowly taking over the 3D animation space.Long considered Pixars lesser cousin, Dreamworks didnt do itself many favors when it doubled down on the winking meta-commentary of its mega-hit Shrek. For years, thats what you could expect from Dreamworks movies: the smirking Dreamworks face and desperately hip pop culture references that aged like milk. Ironically, it was a Shrek spinoff that signaled a turning point for Dreamworks, and a recent critically acclaimed sci-fi fable cemented the studio as the major U.S. studio making hybrid 3D/2D the standard.Read more at InverseBetween Robert De Niros Zero Day and Captain America: Brave New World, it seems February will be the month of America has a problem storytelling.Following last weeks debut of The Alto Knights trailer which featured two De Niros for the price of one we now have a fresh teaser for his upcoming Netflix limited series, Zero Day He plays George Mullen, a former POTUS who after a devastating cyber attack on US soil known as Zero Day is forced with hunting down the perpetrators. Thats because the attackers have promised more violence, a ticking clock element as Mullen looks for the truth.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!Read more at EmpireAn upcoming Star Wars comic may very well answer a long held question for many fans: whatever happened to Watto?As revealed in a trio of teasing previews from Legacy of Vaders second issue, due out in March, by Marvel Star Wars editor Mark Paniccia on social media today, Kyloapparently joined by Vaders former attendant Vane, who has lopped his head off and put it in a droid body, bomarr monk-stylewill venture to Tatooine in some capacity to explore Vaders history with his home planet and realize that at some point he showed back up just to pay Watto a violent visit.Read more at Gizmodo