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The Haunting of Tram Car 015
Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities—handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner...
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A Simple, Measured Fantasy: Dark of the West by Joanna Hathaway
Joanna Hathaway’s debut novel, Dark of the West, can classify itself as fantasy by virtue of its setting: a secondary world whose technology seems to fit an equivalent of our 1930s. With its radios and...
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Woman Creates Incredible Freehand Stitched Dune Covers
Over on Twitter, SummerRay drew attention to her mother’s phenomenal stitching skills, which have been employed over a few years making incredible artwork—they’re Dune landscapes (plus two more covers...
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SF Stories That Cut the Vastness of Space Down to Size
As previously established, three-dimensional maps present increasingly intractable problems for two-dimensional media. SF authors who want to create a coherent map for their setting (even one they...
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Space Oddity — Star Trek: Discovery’s “An Obol for Charon”
Three takeaways from the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery: 1. The hell with the Picard series and the Section 31 series, I want the adventures of Number One starring Rebecca Romijn. She’s due for...
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The LEGO Movie 2 “Grows Up,” But Did It Need To?
You can only do The Sixth Sense once. You can’t duplicate The Usual Suspects. Making a sequel to a movie with an excellent, world-recontextualizing twist necessarily means that the follow-up will lack...
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“I ruined the moment, didn’t I?”— Ant-Man
When Avengers was released in 2012, it contained most of the original founding Avengers from 1963: Thor, the Hulk, and Iron Man. Missing, however, were Ant-Man and the Wasp, who were part of that...
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Breaking In: The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
The thrilling third volume of Josiah Bancroft’s The Books of Babel continues the incredible trajectory set by Senlin Ascends and sustained in its excellent successor. The first book in the series was...
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Five Books About Nonsense
When Noam Chomsky challenged himself to write a sentence that was grammatically correct but made no sense at all, he came up with “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Chomsky overlooked the human...
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Read “Second Chances”, a Story from Megan Lindholm Featured in Unfettered III
Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting...
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How She-Ra, Steven Universe, and the World of Animation Speak to My...
When I was very little, I wanted to be a girl. This was super useful because—according to the world—that’s what I was. When I watched The Little Mermaid, when I read books about Miss Rumphius, or The...
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Here’s Your First Look at Will Smith as the Genie in the New Live-Action...
Well, they’ve done it. It was only a matter of time before Disney showed us just what Will Smith’s Genie looks like in the live-action Aladdin remake—not the Entertainment Weekly cover, but Genie in...
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Introducing the Children of Blood and Bone Reread
Children of Blood and Bone was a hit before it even made it out of edits. Tomi Adeyemi wrote the first draft in just a month. Less than a year later she sold her manuscript and earned one of the...
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Attack the Block Helped Set the Course for the Last Decade of SciFi Films
When I recently took my seven-year-old daughter to see The Kid Who Would Be King, I did so out of parental obligation, not out of personal interest. Much to my surprise, I was rewarded with an...
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Listen to an Audiobook Excerpt from Cory Doctorow’s Unauthorized Bread
From bestselling author Cory Doctorow comes a DRM-free tale of DRM-locked appliances, refugees, and resistance. Unauthorized Bread is the first of four audiobooks that together make up Doctorow’s...
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I Tell You True: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Until recently, Jamaican born writer Marlon James was known best for wining the Man Booker prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, but his latest novel, the sprawling epic fantasy Black Leopard,...
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Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cryoburn, Chapter 5
Welcome back to the Vorkosigan reread! This week’s Cryoburn cover is by Dave Seeley. This painting was used on the Baen first edition, apparently with some darker filters applied. Baen did something...
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Suggest Some Epic Instrumentals to Help Brandon Sanderson With Stormlight...
Heads up, Brandon Sanderson fans! The epic fantasy author has posted an update on the start of work on the highly-anticipated fourth book in his Stormlight Archive series (now tentatively titled The...
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The Tesla Legacy Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of The Tesla Legacy, available March 12th from Tor Teen! K. K. Pérez’s action-packed, young adult coming-of-age adventure follows a precocious young scientist named Lucy...
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At Last It’s a Girl’s World in Andre Norton’s Octagon Magic
When I read Steel Magic, I wondered rather plaintively if Norton would (or could) give her girl character a less trammeled role in the next book. It’s true that Sara gets to be a cat, which is cool,...
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