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The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense
I used to live on the roof of the world, trying to understand why some stories get preserved for millennia and other ones disappear. I spent three years there. I wasn’t alone: I had colleagues with me,...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Epic Fantasy and Feminism in The Women’s War and The...
Who doesn’t like epic fantasy? And feminist epic fantasy, at that? The Women’s War by Jenna Glass and The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons are both opening volumes in new epic fantasy series. I read them...
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Upon a Burning Throne Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Upon a Burning Throne, available April 16th from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! The first book in Ashok K. Banker’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series the Burnt Empire Saga is...
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All the New Science Fiction Books Coming Out in February!
Come February, will it be the frigid cold of the dark side of January (the planet, not the month), or will the sun burn us in its unforgiving light? There’s no way to know, but Charlie Jane Anders’ The...
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A Huge Mess—Marvel’s The Punisher Season Two
If Netflix releases a Marvel series and it has no buzz whatsoever, did they actually release it? After taking the world by storm with a superb first season of Daredevil, followed by Jessica Jones and...
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Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy
As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child who replaced her reflection. Ten years later, she’s built herself a new life, but all that is...
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Rise Up: Reckoning of Fallen Gods by R.A. Salvatore
Last year’s Child of a Mad God was a glorious return to the world of Corona. I love the world from R.A. Salvatore’s tremendously underrated DemonWars Saga, and appreciated the way he handled the...
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Sleep Deprivation of the Gods: Jeremiah Tolbert’s “The Dreamers of Alamoi”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, we’re...
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Why The Good Place Has Television’s Most Divine Will They/Won’t They
I admit this to you, dear readers, on the privacy of the internet: I am that person who did not want Scully and Mulder to get together. (Although, for what it’s worth, I am also that person who did...
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All the Young Adult SFF Books Coming Out in February!
Here we go, Young Adult SFF fans: Get your Vikings, your duchesses, your healers, and waning teens here, as we round the corner into the second month of the year! Keep track of all the new releases...
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Excellent Fan Theory Time: Robocop is a Prequel to Starship Troopers
Not everything has to be connected, but sometimes it’s super fun to imagine that it is. Which is why this excellent fan theory caught my eye, and now I’m pretty much sold on it: RoboCop is the...
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Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Three
Hello, there, friends of the Cosmere! Welcome back to the Oathbringer reread for this week’s installment, in which Shallan has some mighty sharp adventures. Also, many-layered disguises. Come on in,...
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Deriving Life
Love has no time limits, but life does. Elizabeth Bear gives us a future where life and love and identity have so many more options than they do today. Man and animals are in reality vehicles and...
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Knife Fights, Lockpicking, and Other Things I’ve Done to Become a Better Writer
“Ah!” Next to me, Hannah screamed as she was stun-gunned by one of our captors. For a brief moment, I was relieved that he’d chosen her and not me. (Forgive me, Hannah.) But soon the prongs were...
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Is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein’s All-Time Greatest Work?
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers,...
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Hans Christian Andersen’s Apparent Obsession With Feet
Read any collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales—any—and one thing becomes immediately apparent: Dude had a really strange, unhealthy obsession with feet. Especially the feet of little...
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Five Inhospitable Planets from Science Fiction
There’s just something extra special about a backdrop of bubbling lava, snapping tentacles, poisonous forests, sinkholes, cracking ice, an unbreathable atmosphere, or the approach of a blistering...
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Strange Lands: The Kingdom of Copper By S.A. Chakraborty
We leap in to The Kingdom of Copper right where we left off with The City of Brass (if we can recall just where we left off), and then quickly jump to five years later, when Nahri and Muntadhir are...
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All the New Genre-Bending Books Coming Out in February!
From Demogorgons to the Joker to supernatural bands to Cain and Abel, this month’s round of genre-benders will take you on a journey! Whether you love Ursula K. Le Guin, Batman, or Weird Westerns, this...
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Read an Excerpt from Emmy Laybourne’s Ransacker
Carter, Montana 1886. Sissel Hemstad is the youngest sister in a family with a secret. An ancient Viking magic called the Nytte runs in their blood, and each of her siblings has inherited powers. Her...
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