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The Perfect Assassin Sweepstakes!
A novice assassin is on the hunt for someone killing their own in K. A. Doore’s The Perfect Assassin, a breakout high fantasy beginning the Chronicles of Ghadid series. The Perfect Assassin is...
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Hell of a Party: Jennifer Brozek’s “Dreams of a Thousand Young”
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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Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Six
Well, I hope you’re all prepared for Dalinar being an absolute twit, because in this chapter he’s putting his hat in the ring for the award of All Time Worst Husband Ever. He also gets highly equivocal...
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Wormholes and Carnivorous Furniture: Announcing Finna, a New SF Novella from...
I’m very pleased to announce that Tor.com Publishing has acquired Finna, a new science fiction novella from Nino Cipri. When an elderly customer at a big box furniture store slips through a portal to...
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Fun With Ancient, Squishy Complex Life Forms
SF writers frequently send their protagonists back in time. Quite often, they send their characters to a time when said characters might be stalked by a dinosaur. If sent to an even earlier time,...
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Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Nerdanel, Called the Wise
In this new biweekly series, we’ll be exploring the evolution of both major and minor figures in Tolkien’s legendarium, tracing the transformations of these characters through drafts and early...
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Jin Yong’s Fantastical Wuxia Epic–Legends of the Condor Heroes–is Finally...
One of the most celebrated and beloved literary epics in China, Jin Yong’s Legend of the Condor Heroes has been the country’s premier wuxia—a blending of history, martial arts action, and fantasy—for...
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My Favorite Moments Writing The Goblin Emperor
The Goblin Emperor was first published in 2014, but I wrote it mostly much earlier than that. In my head, it’s a ten-year-old book, not a five-year-old book; it sometimes feels very far away. Working...
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We’re Entering The Twilight Zone in a Creepy New Trailer!
Are you ready to question the nature of reality? Because we have a trailer for Jordan Peele’s reimagining of The Twilight Zone, and it is every bit as unsettling as we hoped, and when that theme music...
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The Vela: A Leisurely Extinction
In the fading light of a dying star, a soldier for hire searches for a missing refugee ship and uncovers a universe-shattering secret… Orphan, refugee, and soldier-for-hire Asala Sikou doesn’t think...
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Complex Sword-and-Sorcery: The Afterward by E.K. Johnston
Every so often, a book comes along that I fall in love with entirely. A book that hooks its fingers into my heart and soul and nests there. Last year the novel that did that to the most precise,...
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Film Adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s YA Fantasy Children of Blood and Bone in...
Fox 2000 will adapt Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi’s West African-inspired YA fantasy debut, for the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Temple Hill, the production company...
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Read a Deleted Scene From Nebula Awards Finalist Blackfish City
Please enjoy this deleted scene from Sam J. Miller‘s Blackfish City, a 2018 Nebula Awards finalist for Best Novel. A little about Blackfish City, out now from Ecco Publishing: When a strange new...
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“You brought that hope back with you”— Star Trek: Discovery’s “The Sound of...
One of the most problematic aspects of the general Star Trek oeuvre over the past 53 years has been General Order #1, a.k.a. the Prime Directive. First mentioned in “Return of the Archons” on the...
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5 Fantasy Books About Human and Dragon Friendships
Dragons. The word brings to mind a flood of images from movies, books, and art. Most of the adults I know love dragons. They would happily become one, or befriend one that appeared to them. Most of the...
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“Stupid reptiles!”— Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Despite critical drubbings and despite the huge fan controversies surrounding it, the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did very well at the box office, and so Nickelodeon and Paramount green-lighting...
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Gender-Bending Time Travel: Chronin: The Knife At Your Back by Alison Wilgus
When I heard of Chronin: The Knife At Your Back, the first in a time-travel graphic novel duology, I was intrigued. A comic set in 1864 Japan, featuring a time-travelling female college student from...
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11 Sitcoms That Embrace Their Nerdy Characters
While plenty of sitcoms have nerdy premises, there has been something of a renaissance recently in comedies that showcase geeks as characters—and not simply as cruel stereotypes. And they also offer a...
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Watch the First Teaser for the His Dark Materials TV Series
BBC One has released the first teaser trailer for His Dark Materials, the forthcoming television adaptation of Philip Pullman’s beloved book series. Joking that “we’re keeping our dæmons close,” they...
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Read “The Fire-Risen Ash”, a Story from Shawn Speakman Featured in Unfettered...
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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