Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Reread — Gateways #4: Demons of Air and Darkness...
Gateways #4: Demons of Air and Darkness Written by Keith R.A. DeCandido Publication Date: September 2001 Timeline: April & May 2376; two weeks after Section 31: Abyss “Horn and Ivory” Written by...
View ArticleFan-Made Recreation of Missing Doctor Who Episode to Premiere on the BBC
BBC Studios will be airing the lost Doctor Who episode “Mission to the Unknown” next week in its latest attempt to recover missing Doctor Who media. But the episode that’s airing is completely...
View ArticleRead an Excerpt from Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and...
View ArticleThe Shadow Right on Time: Sonia Greene’s “Four O’clock”
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...
View ArticleDark Horse Comics Is Publishing a Massive Collection of Neil Gaiman Short...
Ahead of New York Comic Con, Dark Horse Comics has announced a new collection of Neil Gaiman stories, The Neil Gaiman Library: Volume 1, which will go on sale next summer—May 27th in comic shops, and...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Ninety-Nine
Greetings, O Fans of the Cosmere! Welcome back to the Oathbringer Reread, wherein Kaladin is depressed but learns cool things anyway, Syl is in disguise, and Shallan draws. She also demonstrates her...
View ArticleAnnouncing Sorrowland, a New Work of Gothic Fiction from Rivers Solomon
Sean McDonald at MCD has acquired Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland, a genre-bending work of gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled history of racism in America and the marginalization of society’s...
View ArticleFathers and Sons and Star Trek Action Figures
The day after Aron Eisenberg died, I found myself looking at his action figure. Well, his character’s action figure, to be precise. My Nog is still trapped in his bubble, a solid, immovable plastic...
View ArticleRyan Coogler Will Produce a Movie Adaptation of the Bitter Root Comics
Ryan Coogler’s next project will take on monster-hunters in the Roaring Twenties! Deadline has reported that the Black Panther director, along with Zinzi Evans and Sev Ohanian, will be producing a...
View ArticleThe Encyclopedia Galactica and the Enlightenment Roots of Asimov’s Foundation
At the beginning of Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi novel Foundation, Hari Seldon introduces his idea for a massive project to create the ultimate set of world knowledge in the Encyclopedia Galactica....
View ArticleFive Sci-Fi Books Featuring Futuristic Technology
One of the things that first drew to me to science fiction was its exploration of technology. I was a child when we first got dial up Internet…and then Ethernet…and then wifi. I saved up for a long...
View ArticleBrian K. Vaughan Gives the Latest Update on the Y: The Last Man TV Show
It’s been nearly twenty years since Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s landmark comic book series Y: The Last Man was published—and it has taken nearly as long to develop an adaptation that fits the...
View ArticleThe Claw of the Conciliator, Part 1: Holding the Power of Life and Death
So, after three installments on the first novel, we reach the second part of The Book of the New Sun. Since I am reading it all over again after more than thirty years, I find that I can’t remember...
View ArticleChristopher Eccleston Talks at Length about Doctor Who (and His Nerdy Loves)...
Christopher Eccleston took to the stage at New York Comic Con this week to talk Doctor Who, his new book, what he loves about New York City, and what he gets nerdy for. The panel started with a...
View Article“Now Is the Right Time for It More Than Ever”: Brian K. Vaughan and Pia...
Did you know that Y: The Last Man was inspired in part by, as moderator (and former Vertigo editor) Heidi MacDonald teased Brian K. Vaughan at New York Comic-Con’s Revisiting Y: The Last Man panel, “a...
View ArticleQUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree, Jr.
James Tiptree, Jr. (also known as Alice Sheldon and Raccoona Sheldon) is primarily known for gender-bending, boundary-pushing work in short-form SFF—but Tiptree was also a poet, as well as a novelist...
View ArticleMore Than Human: Frankissstein: A Love Story By Jeanette Winterson
There are two starting points in the new Booker longlisted novel from Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein—one, the day in 1816 when Mary Shelley went for a walk along the wet shores of Lake Geneva and...
View ArticleNew Footage from The CW’s Batwoman Features Kissing, Hedge Clippers, Rabbit...
Batwoman is almost here! (Also, kissing, and hedge clippers?) The CW released more exclusive footage earlier this week ahead of the show’s premiere on Sunday, October 6. Outside of seeing Kate Kane...
View ArticleThe Full Trailer for His Dark Materials Promises a Dark Epic and an Angry...
The new trailer for HBO’s adaptation of His Dark Materials is as epic as we hoped! The action-packed clip focuses on the Magisterium’s attempts to silence Lord Asriel, gives us a fleeting glimpse of an...
View ArticleThe Rook and Rose Trilogy by M.A. Carrick Acquired by Orbit Books
Orbit Books has announced that it has acquired a new trilogy from M.A. Carrick, the nom de plume for the writing duo of “Memoirs of Lady Trent” series author Marie Brennan and “Missy Masters” series...
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