New Science Fiction and Fantasy This Week, July 12, 2024

What if you had a chance to change it all? Marsh, who just turned 45, meek and dissatisfied with her career, relationships, and family, gets that chance when she’s invited to participate in All This and More, a TV show that lets its contestants review their pasts and change their presents using quantum technology. Yet even as Marsh is redoing her life so it’ll be perfect this life, she’s plagued more and more by the realization that something is terribly wrong.

Forensic therapist Dr. Miranda Ecuovo has helped many victims of violent crime recover their memories so they can testify in court, most famously leading to the conviction of a serial killer called the “Butcher of the City.” But when she is taken by the Undying spirit Chance to a dreamlike world, she discovers that the Butcher’s case is not as clear cut as it seemed. The murders were masterminded by a rogue Undying, and Miranda and Chance must work together to capture that culprit.

Misha has been struggling for success in Hollywood for years, and he might have finally reached it. An Oscar nomination is within his grasp. But not everything is going well; the executives in charge of his long-running streaming series have concluded the best way to juice the algorithm is by killing off all the gay characters in the season finale. Misha’s refusal to cooperate isn’t the only target that gets put on his back. Suddenly, the monsters he remembers from his days in horror movies are also after him and his friends.