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The MCU’s Spidey Is a Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man that Looks Like His...
Spider-Man has always been inextricably linked with New York City. From his very first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15, he’s been a city kid, though that he was actually in the Big Apple wasn’t...
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3 Possible Star Trek: Picard Storylines that Are too Depressing to Contemplate
One of the hallmarks of Star Trek: The Next Generation is its meditative quality; unlike like the excellent, nail-biting action in Star Trek: Discovery, the vast majority of TNG’s best episodes are...
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Drop What You’re Doing and Watch DefunctTV’s Jim Henson Special
We have just under three weeks left until The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance hits Netflix, and what better way to prepare for the long-awaited sequel than a six-part ode to its creator? On Sunday,...
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5 Questions About the New 007 and the Future of the Bond Franchise
The news has been keeping a weather eye on the latest James Bond film (currently only known as Bond 25), leading to a sizable leak and subsequent announcement over the weekend that could shake the...
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Read an Excerpt from The Gossamer Mage
Only in Tananen do people worship a single deity: the Deathless Goddess. Only in this small, forbidden realm are there those haunted by words of no language known to woman or man. The words are Her...
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Gods of Jade and Shadow Sweepstakes!
The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in a dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is...
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Heartless: Andre Norton’s Dread Companion
It’s been a while since I remembered any elements of a Norton novel in this reread, but Dread Companion definitely rang some bells. I remembered the names of the children, Oomark and Bartare, and the...
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io9 Reveals the First Look at the New Star Wars Book Thrawn: Treason
Publishing this month, Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn: Treason is the third installment in the Star Wars: Thrawn series, and takes place before the battle for Lothal’s liberation, as depicted in the series...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Hammers, Balefire and Persuasion in Robert...
Hello dear readers and welcome back to week 21 of the read of The Dragon Reborn. This week the strands of the wheel are drawing our protagonists ever closer to the Heart of the Stone and the climax of...
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Download a Free eBook of The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley Before July...
The emperor of Annur is dead, slain by enemies unknown. His daughter and two sons, scattered across the world, do what they must to stay alive and unmask the assassins. But each of them also has a...
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Read Joe Abercrombie’s Introduction to The Folio Society Edition of A Game of...
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die… A publishing phenomenon; the biggest TV series in the world; a book that revolutionised a genre. A Game of Thrones is also, above and beyond all...
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The Story of Dune’s Bene Gesserit Needs the Perspective of Women Writers
Last month the news broke that the powers behind the new Dune film (coming to theaters, they say, in November 2020) were also planning a television series focusing on the Bene Gesserit. Title: Dune:...
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Here’s Your First Look at Roach Obeying the Laws of Physics in Netflix’s The...
Well, uh, that’s a horse if I’ve ever seen one. On Tuesday, Netflix released a first look at Roach, Geralt of Rivia’s hooven companion, in its upcoming adaptation of The Witcher, and she looks exactly...
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Culture or Madness? How Jack Vance’s Worldbuilding Redefined “Adventure”
Author Jack Vance was such a driven world-creator that I’m beginning to suspect it was less of a talent and more of a compulsion. For a timely example of Vance’s relentless societal construction, take...
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To Encourage Reach Exceeding Grasp: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal...
Two far-flung future societies—called Garden and the Agency, respectively—toe through timelines seeding potential, nudging some lives forward and decimating others, with the ultimate goal of preserving...
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Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 48 and 49
Sooooo the intro to my previous post is now a tad ironic. In related news, getting floodwater out of your car stinks. Literally. But fear not! No mere water-logged weekend could keep me from your eyes,...
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Why Haven’t You Played Final Fantasy XII Yet?
Although I would very much like to barrel forward with my assertion that Final Fantasy XII is the best Final Fantasy ever made, I am obliged to begin with caveats. I have not played any of the games in...
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The Making of Alien Sweepstakes!
Want to know the complete story of how Alien was made, featuring new interviews with Ridley Scott and other production crew, and including many rarely-seen photos and illustrations from the Fox...
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Unexpected Connections and Strange Experiments: Paul Tremblay’s Growing Things
Paul Tremblay’s fiction gets inside your head—sometimes literally: his novel A Head Full of Ghosts is about what may or may not be a demonic possession, and The Cabin at the End of the World centers...
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Five SFF Works Reminiscent of Andre Norton
What other authors wrote books with thematic similarities to the books of Andre Norton? Too bad that no one has ever asked me that question. Let’s pretend that someone has asked. Here are five...
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