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Reading the Wheel of Time: Climbing Adventures with Matrim Cauthon in Robert...
My dears, my lovelies, it is already Week 19 in our read of The Dragon Reborn. It’s a quick post this week, covering Chapters 45-47, which were a breeze to read through and also quite fun to boot. I...
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11 Unique Uses of Telepathy in SFF
Telepathic powers crop up everywhere in science fiction, fantasy, and even horror. But often those world-altering abilities are relegated to the occasional performance of mind-reading, or projecting...
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Listen to an Excerpt of Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light Narrated by...
What is more real? A world we are born into, or one we create for ourselves? Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light, co-created by Lee, Luke Lieberman, and Ryan Silbert, invites listeners to unleash...
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What THAT Far From Home Cameo Says About a Spider-Man Multiverse
Spider-Man: Far From Home could be a much bigger deal than we already thought, and it’s all thanks to a major cameo from an old fan-favorite who pops up halfway through the credits. Not only is it...
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Chuck Wendig’s Wanderers Is Out, and io9 Has an Excerpt
Happy pub day to Chuck Wendig, whose new book Wanderers is out today! An epic pre-apocalyptic thriller/road novel, it follows the titular group of inexplicably unwakeable sleepwalkers as they make...
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Ten Favorite Flawed Books That Are Always Worth Rereading
We all love to assemble lists of the best this and the most impressive that, the masterpieces of science fiction…but what about those books to which one returns despite flaws that are undeniable? I...
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First Trailer for Rian Johnson’s Knives Out Gives Us Serious Clue Vibes
Rian Johnson seems to be having a lot of fun, post-The Last Jedi. A trailer has just dropped for Johnson’s new whodunnit movie Knives Out, and it’s going to be a doozy. A darkly affectionate send-up...
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The Star Wars Novel Tracy Townsend Wants to Write, Plus More from Her AMA
Earlier this week, author Tracy Townsend dropped by r/Fantasy to celebrate her book The Fall, book two in the Thieves of Time trilogy. The resulting AMA is stuffed with excellent writing advice, great...
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On the Road Again: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
One morning, a teenage girl named Nessie leaves her house and walks. She doesn’t know where she’s going. She doesn’t know anything. Nessie is the first walker, but others soon join her. As Nessie’s...
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Brief Cases Sweepstakes!
The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue—and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you’ll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the...
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Five SFF Books by Puerto Rican Authors
Whenever I’m asked for recommendations of Puerto Rican literature in English, my first reaction is to lament how few of the island’s best authors are translated. When I was doing research in...
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Read an Excerpt from Marko Kloos’ New SF Novel Aftershocks
Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and...
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Greed as a Universal Constant: Trader to the Stars by Poul Anderson
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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20 Things We Loved (and 6 Things We Didn’t) About Spider-Man: Far From Home
Spider-Man: Far From Home is the first post-Endgame jaunt in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For that reason alone, it occupies a singular place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—but how is said universe...
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Sam J. Miller and Annalee Newitz Win the 2019 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards!
Congratulations are in order for the winners of the 2019 Campbell and Sturgeon awards, which were announced at the Campbell Conference Award Ceremony on June 28, 2019. For his novel Blackfish City, Sam...
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The Walking Dead Comics Just Ended Without Warning
And suddenly, with issue #193, it was over. After 16 years, almost 200 issues, and a bunch of on-screen adaptations and spin-offs, The Walking Dead has finally come to an end. On Tuesday, The Hollywood...
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4 SF Works Featuring a Far-Future U.S.A.
From the perspective of a foreigner, there’s a baffling lacuna in American science fiction. The U.S. has moats on three sides, an arctic desert to the north and a somewhat warmer desert to the South....
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Clones Are For Educating: 12 Times SFF Characters Trained Their Own Duplicates
Whether you’ve got a replica, a doppelgänger, or a straight-up clone, having a duplicate of some sort certainly helps you move through life a little bit easier, from a temporary stand-in to a more...
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Netflix Releases Trailer for New Frankenstein Spoof
Like the monster that he is, Frankenstein seems to be revived every few years or so. The latest iteration of Mary Shelley’s gothic story comes in the form of a Netflix mockumentary, starring Stranger...
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Here are the 100 Most Discussed Fantasy Books on Reddit
What fantasy books and authors are we talking about the most? Reddit User einsiboy, creator of the TopRedditBooks site, recently posted a list of the Top 100 Fantasy Books discussed on Reddit in the...
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