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5 Books That Flirt with Area 51
So, you want to storm Area 51? This summer’s most anticipated event may have come and gone (despite a few stragglers), but clearly people are hungry for some answers about the rumored alien-landing...
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Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Helen Phillips’ The Need Longlisted...
Congratulations are in order for Marlon James and Helen Phillips, who were included on the National Book Award’s longlist in fiction today! Of the ten books in contention for the prize, James’ Black...
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Five Books About Surprisingly Supernatural Teens
In the world of SFF, books are positively littered with supernatural protagonists, many of them young people just coming into their power as they hit their teen years. But one thing that has always...
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Where Do Fantasy Maps Come From?
Welcome to the third installment of a series exploring the look and feel of fantasy maps. In this series, I argue for the existence of a default fantasy map style, tease out its key elements, and say...
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Sisters of the Vast Black Sweepstakes!
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather’s debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black – and we want to send you a copy! Years ago, Old...
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The New Frozen 2 Trailer Goes Full Epic Fantasy
When Frozen first burst onto the scene in 2013, it mixed all kinds of genres (musicals, dysfunctional family dramas, road-trip comedies, deconstructed fairytales, climate fiction) into the most...
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Heirs, Beware: Gideon the Ninth’s Surprising Blood Ties to The Westing Game
What do gooey haunted-castle space horror adventure Gideon the Ninth and The Westing Game, a children’s mystery set in an eccentric millionaire’s factory town, have in common? They both have “the” in...
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All the New and Returning SFF Television for Fall 2019
Well, this is a disappointment to say the least. A few years ago when I first started doing this Fall TV schedule list, I did it in part because there were so many speculative fiction shows on the air...
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All the New Fantasy Books Coming out in October!
The queen has disappeared. The empire is falling. Your magic swells inside you as you take the final stand, fighting for freedom and truth. No one can save you but yourself. This month’s fantasy titles...
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The Star Trek Community Pays Tribute to Aron Eisenberg
The Star Trek community is mourning Aron Eisenberg, the actor who played Nog in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, after he passed away on Saturday at the age of 50. “It is with extreme regret and sadness to...
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Read an Excerpt from Hex Life, an Anthology of Witches and Witchcraft!
Witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions. Even the kind hostess with the candy cottage thought of herself as the hero of her own story. After all, a...
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Supernova Era Sweepstakes!
From science fiction legend Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem, comes a vision of the future that reads like Lord of the Flies on a global...
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When Species Collide: Andre Norton’s Star Born
I actually remember reading the beginning of Star Born, with the dark-skinned, fair-haired human and the furry alien named Sssuri in a boat. I don’t remember anything at all after that, but this book...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Looking For the Truth in Robert Jordan’s The...
Welcome once more and again to Reading the Wheel of Time, and this week’s offering, part 5 of the read of The Shadow Rising. We get a lot of good info dumping this week, as Thom shares his musings with...
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Brandon Sanderson on Robert Jordan Creating a Foundational Model for Writing...
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who wrote and completed the Wheel of Time series after Robert Jordan’s passing, sat down with Tor Books recently as part of a larger recollection on Jordan’s work....
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Check Out the Cover for Artificial Intelligence Adventure Anthropocene Rag by...
If you’ve been searching for an adventure full of warped mythology, AIs, and a Willy Wonka-esque twist, look no further than Alex Irvine’s Anthropocene Rag! Follow the journey of a troupe of artificial...
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Jonah Hill and Jeffrey Wright in Talks for Matt Reeves’ The Batman
The Robert Pattinson Batman movie (hereafter referred to as Battinson) may have found its villain and Commissioner Gordon! That makes it sound like Commissioner Gordon will be the villain, but we...
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The Care and Feeding of Supervillains
Suppose you’ve decided to become a superhero. You’ve acquired the necessary abilities, whether through training, technology, magic, genetics, or the everyday method of licking random meteors until...
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More of Us Beyond This Room: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
Tess is a geologist who, under the cover of her historical research, seeks to edit the timeline to exert small positive influences against the efforts of “anti-travel activists.” Beth is a teenage punk...
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Guillermo del Toro Is Publishing His First Short Story Collection
Guillermo del Toro fans, rejoice! Amazon Publishing has announced that it will be releasing the director’s first short story collection through its imprint Amazon Original Stories. “Throughout the...
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