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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Reread — Section 31: Abyss
Section 31: Abyss Written by David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang Publication Date: July 2001 Timeline: April 2376, three months after “What You Leave Behind”; two weeks after Avatar, Book One and Two...
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QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: A, A′ [A, A Prime] by Moto Hagio, Translated...
Sometimes I start reading an older book, and it turns out to have QUILTBAG+ themes that no one mentioned. Over a year into doing the QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics reviews column—a lot of...
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Redemption, Remaking, and Revolution: Natalie C. Parker’s Steel Tide
Caledonia Styx returns knife-quick and bright as ever in Steel Tide, the thrilling, propulsive second installment of the Seafire trilogy. The novel picks up right where the first left off, Caledonia’s...
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Turning the Cyclopean Up to 11: Fiona Maeve Geist’s “Red Stars / White Snow /...
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 Ninety-Seven
Our heroes in Shadesmar have made it to the lighthouse, seeking a means of travel across the ocean of beads. But what will they find there? Giant toads with strangely good comedic timing? Fashionable...
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Hou Yi and Red Riding Hood Experience a Lifetime of Adventure in Burning...
Tor.com Publishing is excited to announce Burning Roses, a new novella from S.L. Huang, coming in 2020. When Rosa (aka Red Riding Hood) and Hou Yi the Archer join forces to stop the deadly sunbirds...
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Michael B. Jordan Is Adapting Rena Barron’s Kingdom of Souls
Rena Barron’s YA fantasy Kingdom of Souls is going to be a movie! Deadline has reported that Michael B. Jordan and his Warner Bros. production company, Outlier Society, will be adapting. Here’s the...
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Five Wheel of Time Fan Podcasts to Plug Into
It’s pretty safe to say there’s no shortage of fandom content for Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time. Trust us, we’ve seen it all—art, fanfic, games, t-shirts, jewelry, cosplay, and...
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Will Play the Lead in an Adaptation of James Herbert’s...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whom you might know as Negan from The Walking Dead, the dad of the Winchester boys on Supernatural, or the guy who is not Javier Bardem, is taking on yet another horror project —...
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The People of Middle-earth: One Ring to Rule Them All
In this biweekly series, we’re exploring the evolution of both major and minor figures in Tolkien’s legendarium, tracing the transformations of these characters through drafts and early manuscripts...
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Stories Within Stories: 8 Instances of SFF Hyper-Worldbuilding
Authors build elaborate worlds through everything from carefully-chosen foods to amateur map-making to breathtakingly detailed wikis, their attention to detail a signal that these are worlds worthy of...
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Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer: Part 3
The previous installment of this particular rereading took us only so far as the Botanic Gardens—but Severian and Agia hadn’t entered the Gardens yet. So, after unwittingly destroying the altar of the...
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The Deconstruction of Falling Action: Alexandra Rowland’s A Choir of Lies
In A Choir of Lies, Alexandra Rowland brings us back the world of Chants, but in the process completely calls into question what we learned about them in A Conspiracy of Truths I think it is futile for...
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New Knives Out Trailer Sharpens the Stakes
The second trailer for Rian Johnson’s Agatha Christie mystery-inspired whodunnit, Knives Out, was released earlier this week, teasing more of Detective Benoit Blanc’s (Daniel Craig) deduction skills....
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How Do Robots in Science Fiction Talk to Each Other?
Technology-based lifeforms have to communicate, just like any other living beings. And just like living beings, science fiction has come up with a variety of ways for them to do so. Keeping tabs on the...
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Smallville’s Tom Welling to Play Superman Again in the Arrowverse Crossover
A third Superman has been added to the mix for the CW’s massive Arrowverse crossover event, Crisis on Infinite Earths! This time, he’ll be played by Tom Welling. Deadline has reported that the actor...
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Find Your Necromancy Family Among the Houses of Gideon the Ninth
There’s no shortage of things to love about Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, but if we had to pick just two: (1) it is full of necromancers, and (2) there are nine separate Houses dedicated to their...
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Ad Astra is an Extended Parable About Absentee Fathers, But What For?
The near-future of James Gray’s beautiful but empty Ad Astra is, according to a helpful-but-still-frustratingly-vague title card, “a time of both hope and conflict.” Space travel is commercial (though...
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Higher, Further, Faster — Captain Marvel
Carol Danvers has had a tumultuous history over her five decades in Marvel Comics, starting as a supporting character to Captain Marvel, becoming Marvel’s first attempt at a feminist icon, the subject...
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Some Writing Advice (Plus a Porridge Recipe!) from Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman—author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films—took to Reddit for an AMA, answering questions on his writing process, his many varied...
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