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Sleeps With Monsters: Intrigue, Espionage, and Capers
I’ve been waiting for a follow-up to Amanda Downum’s Kingdom of Dust for years. Downum’s first three novels, The Drowning City, The Bone Palace, and Kingdom of Dust were rich, detailed works involving...
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Knowledgeable Creatures
A dog detective is hired by a female human to investigate a murder that she committed. But of course, all is not as it seems. Before I take on an investigation for someone, I first make at least a...
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Revealing Fate of the Fallen, a New Fantasy From Author Kel Kade
You know how this goes: in the face of insurmountable odds and grave, world-ending evil, the chosen one will rise up and save the world. Standard Hero’s Journey stuff, really. But what if that wasn’t...
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Why It’s Important to Consider Whether Dune Is a White Savior Narrative
Now that the cast is coming together, Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming adaptation of Dune is getting more attention than ever. And with that attention an interesting question has started cropping up with...
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The UK Pirate Radio Revolution
It’s way past midnight and I’m crammed into the back seat of a small car we’ve hotboxed with ganja smoke. Tinny, distorted music rolls out of the car’s flimsy speakers. It’s jungle. The signal, too, is...
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Latest Good Omens Trailer Shows Us Who Will Team Up to Start/Stop Armageddon
We’ve got a nice two-and-a-half minute teaser for Good Omens, here to make you midweek! Get ready to meet Adam, Dog, the four horsepeople, Anathema, Newt—all the people you’d want around in case of End...
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6 Questions I Want Answered by Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel is finally finally finally coming to theaters, and I’m seriously impressed with how much I’ve kept it together during the long, wintery wait. BUT NO MORE. Here are some of my most...
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“The Thing About Ghost Stories” and Coping With the Dementia of a Loved One
Dealing with dementia, with shifting rules of reality, can make you prone to magical thinking. If I say this word, she’ll remember. If I show her this picture, there will be a spark of recognition. You...
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Out of Place, Out of Time: Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess
A lot can happen in a century. No one knows this more than the 156 thousand Universally Displaced Persons (UDPs) that stepped through a rift in space-time to arrive in our timeline. The UDPs may have...
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The Finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been Announced
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year have been selected. We’re honored that a story published on Tor.com, Daryl Gregory ‘s “Nine Last Days on Planet...
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All the New SFF Young Adult Books Coming Out in March!
There are enough Young Adult titles in this month’s SFF offerings to keep you busy through Spring Break and beyond! Dhonielle Clayton’s The Everlasting Rose continues the Belles’ saga set in the...
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Folded Spaces: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
Haimey Dz is a salvage tug operator with a small crew—Connla the pilot, Singer the shipmind AI, and two cats—who stumbles onto astounding ancient technology and the evidence of a monstrous crime during...
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Blogging the Unbloggable: Nick Mamatas’s “That of Which We Speak When We...
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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Captain Marvel Has a Funny Star Trek Easter Egg Hiding in Plain Sight
Spider-Man: Homecoming was the first Marvel film to make it clear that Star Trek and the MCU were (cheekily) closer than we thought, after Kevin Feige pushed for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home‘s “Punk...
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Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Eight
This week’s reread is featuring Hoid, so you just know it’s going to be full of witticisms and mysteries! Our favorite world-hopper’s never straight forward about anything, and he’s certainly in rare...
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On the Origins of Modern Biology and the Fantastic: Part 9—Arthur C. Clarke...
“Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.” —Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey was science...
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Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Míriel, Historian of the Noldor (Part 1)
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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The Belles Series by Dhonielle Clayton Examines the High Cost of Beauty
When Dhonielle Clayton’s The Belles came out in 2018, the young adult fiction world was set aflame with excitement and praise. Her novel was one of only four YA fantasies written by Black women that...
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The Magic System in Foundryside Blends Fantasy with Science Fiction
I was about a third of the way through Robert Jackson Bennett’s Foundryside when I realized I was reading a fantasy novel about the future. Not in any literal sense, so far as I know; this is a...
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New Details About Amazon’s Middle-earth — Now Featuring Númenor!
Amazon has completed what I assume is just the first phase of its Middle-earth teasing, walking through the famous Ring verse on its The Lord of the Rings on Prime Facebook page. First they threw down...
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