6 SFF Restaurants and Bars We Want to Visit
There are tons of reasons to want to live inside your favorite SFF novel, but have you ever considered what restaurants and bars you would hit up? Let’s take a tour of the best ones! First stop: The...
View ArticleThor Gets to Meet Some of Loki’s Old (Pirate!) Flames in New Series From...
The God of Thunder is getting the serial fiction treatment. Serial Box and Marvel have teamed up for several original series based on Marvel characters, and the first will feature everyone’s favorite...
View ArticleGearbreakers, Zoe Hana Mikuta’s Upcoming YA Mecha Novel Debut, Will Be a Movie
Mechas? Cyborg-pilot academies? Vengeful teens named after gods of chaos? Sign us the hell up. Deadline reports that Gearbreakers, author Zoe Hana Mikuta’s upcoming YA sci-fi debut, already has a movie...
View ArticleMake Peace, Not War: Deathworld by Harry Harrison
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,...
View ArticleKevin Feige is Developing a Star Wars Film and It Better Be Rogue Squadron
Witness Disney synergy at work: The Hollywood Reporter reports that Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is developing a new Star Wars film. And because Feige has proven so adept at bringing B and C-list...
View ArticleFrench Fantasy Trilogy Ewilan’s Quest Is Being Turned Into an Animated Series
Great news for those who like their portal fiction en français. Pierre Bottero’s Ewilan’s Quest trilogy is being developed as an animated series. According to a blog post on French publisher ActuSF’s...
View Article5 Atomic War Films That Are Fun for the Whole Family
On the 26th of September in 1983, Soviet Air Defense Officer Stanislav Petrov decided that the Soviet Early Warning Systems had malfunctioned and that the US had not just launched a nuclear attack on...
View Article9 SFF Duos That Bring Out the Best (and Worst) in Each Other
“We’re not so different, you and I.” Those simple words can horrify, illuminate, even break characters when uttered in the right moment. Not all enemies are truly evil, after all, and not all heroes...
View ArticleAll the New Genre-Bending Books Coming out in October!
He’s not what you think he is. Maybe you’re not what you think you are either. The town you once knew has shifted, grown colder. The clouds overhead draw near. This month’s genre-bending releases are...
View Article“Stormlight Archive Characters as Vines” Is All You Really Need to Know About...
Brandon Sanderson’s epic Stormlight Archive fantasy series spans three gigantic novels, one novella, and a forthcoming novel; and that series in itself exists with Sanderson’s larger “Cosmere”...
View ArticleWatch the New Trailer From For All Mankind, Ron Moore’s Tale of an Alternate...
Apple has dropped a new trailer for its upcoming streaming series For All Mankind, showing off an alternate space race in which the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon. We’ve seen a couple...
View ArticleGollancz Launches BAME Prize for British SFF Writers of Color With Author Ben...
UK publisher Gollancz and Rivers of London author Ben Aaronovitch have teamed up for a brand-new writing award to champion underrepresented BAME (Black, Asian, and/or minority ethnic) voices in the...
View Article5 Books with Well-Rounded Witches
Witches come in all shapes and sizes, ages, races, abilities and skills. The thing they have in common? Whether they’re ‘white’ or ‘black’, they excite fear because they’re powerful; they’re not...
View ArticleSony Is Developing a Madame Web Movie
Sony is not wasting any time with this whole exclusive rights to the Spider-Verse thing. A mere month after Thanos-snapping Spider-Man and all the Spidey-adjacent characters right out of the MCU, the...
View ArticleMust-Read Speculative Short Fiction: September 2019
Magic as revenge, retaliation, or retribution is the theme of many of September’s best short speculative fiction stories. There are some new authors on this list alongside some very well-known names,...
View ArticleHighlights from Paul Krueger’s r/Books AMA
Fantasy writer (and noted anime enthusiast) Paul Krueger‘s new book, Steel Crow Saga, came out earlier this week. He calls it an “epic fantasy examination of colonialism through the lens of Pokémon,” a...
View ArticleHorror Movie Studio A24 Reveals Book Imprint
A24, the studio behind films like Ex Machina and The Witch, announced that it is launching a book imprint, and it’ll release its first trio of installments on September 30th. A24 has produced some...
View ArticleRead an Excerpt From Imaginary Friend
Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary friend… Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son,...
View ArticleBREAKING: Spider-Man Is Back in the MCU
Spider-Man is back in the MCU, baby! After breaking the hearts of Spideyheads the world over and sending the entirety of Tor.com into a sweaty panic, Marvel and Sony have announced that Kevin Feige...
View Article“I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!”— Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
The 2014 release of Guardians of the Galaxy pretty much solidified Kevin Feige’s Midas touch when it came to Marvel movies. He’d already taken a collection of B- and C-listers and turned them into...
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