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Kat Cho Recommends Korean Dramas for YA Readers
I am a firm believer that Korean dramas are just YA books in visual format. There are so many overlapping themes and tropes: there are sometimes love triangles in both YA and K-dramas, plots where...
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Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: June 2019
Summer is officially upon us, and with it comes a whole new set of amazing short speculative fiction stories. There’s a little something for everyone in June, from a horror-filled family beach vacation...
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Chocobos Promised in Newly Announced Final Fantasy XIV Live-Action TV Adaptation
Final Fantasy is coming to TV, and yes, there will be Chocobos or we will riot. On Wednesday, news broke that the franchise’s second MMO game, Final Fantasy XIV, will be getting its own live-action...
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Men in Blah—R.I.P.D.
Peter M. Lenkov is at this point probably best known for his impressive ability to successfully reboot old TV shows. His is the impetus behind the reboots of Magnum P.I. (the second season of which...
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Read an Excerpt from Nnedi Okorafor’s New Graphic Novel LaGuardia
The Millions has just posted an excerpt from author Nnedia Okorafor’s latest graphic novel! LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor finds the Hugo award-winning author weaving extraterrestrial travel with...
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All the New Genre Bending Books Coming in July!
Are you looking for something? Look harder. Look right here. Focus on this. Right here, you will find what you need. Sometimes, we enjoy the liminal spaces, the in-betweens, stories that can’t quite be...
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A Round-Up of Every Dark Crystal-Related Thing Arriving This Year
It’s a great year for the Dark Crystal fandom. Starting late summer, we can expect not one, not two, but three more stories set in the world of Thra. Two of them are confirmed prequels, with the first...
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Announcing the 2019 Locus Award Winners
Locus Magazine announced the winners of the 2019 Locus Awards during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, WA, which took place June 28 to 30, 2019, with Connie Willis serving as MC of the awards...
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Questioning Defaults in David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself
Although I read a lot of work by queer authors, very little of it has caused me any sort of revelations with regard to my own sexuality or gender. I’ve certainly read some rollicking good yarns by...
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Multi-Dimensional Swashbuckling and Infinite IKEAs: Revealing Nino Cipri’s Finna
We are delighted to share the cover for Finna, Nino Cipri’s science fiction novella set in infinite IKEAs. Sam J. Miller describes it as “[f]unny as hell, scary as f*ck, and so full of heart I didn’t...
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A Firefighter’s Guide to Battling a Phoenix
And you thought dragons were tough. In my previous article, A Firefighter’s Guide to Fighting Dragons, I discussed how real-life smoke eaters could battle the ultimate fantasy archetype: the dragon....
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Announcing Over the Woodward Wall, a New Fantasy Series from Seanan McGuire
We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of a new fairy tale series from Seanan McGuire, writing as A. Deborah Baker. Over the Woodward Wall is a delightful tale for all ages, and tells the story of...
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Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Reportedly Gets Epic, Straight-to-Series Order from...
After a failed attempt at a movie in 2013, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman has now apparently found a home–and a giant budget–at Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Neil Gaiman’s iconic comics...
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The First Trailer for Jumanji: The Next Level Is Here
Way back, in 1997, there was a little movie called Face/Off. Starring Nick Cage and John Travolta as a terrorist and FBI agent (respectively) who swap faces, it gave us two meme-worthy performances...
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Was 1999 the Year Nerd Culture Began to Take Over the World?
In the transcendental year of 1999, it became clear to me that I was extremely cool. No, that’s a lie, please don’t take that declaration even remotely seriously. I was twelve and thirteen years old in...
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HIghlight’s from Max Gladstone’s Reddit AMA
Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence books and the recently published Empress of Forever, took to Reddit’s subreddit r/fantasy yesterday for an AMA about his process, his inspirations, and any...
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So How Many Swords Does Geralt REALLY Carry in The Witcher?
On Monday morning, Netflix released the first poster for its upcoming adaption of The Witcher, reigniting an age-old debate between warring factions of The Witcher fandom: How many damn swords does...
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Surviving an Apocalypse: Andre Norton’s Dark Piper
The more of Andre Norton’s novels I read and reread, the clearer it seems to me that she was at the peak of her powers between 1965 and 1975. She’d been a published writer for some thirty years and...
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Read a New Brooke Bolander Story: “Op-Ed From the Future” in the New York Times
The rest of the country’s brief, mawkish love of New York stretched just far enough to allow it the status of martyr, a symbolic bumper sticker for all we’ve lost and continue to lose to the rising...
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Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for July
For two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated...
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