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Think of the Children! Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist is a chilling tale of adolescence and loneliness, of anxiety and celebrity, of misplaced idolatry, cultish devotion, and unmitigated obsession. The story opens as...
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Morning Roundup: Daniel Radcliffe Sprouts Horns for Horns
The Mary Sue said they wouldn’t make a joke about Daniel Radcliffe being horny, but we think we might, but later, when you don’t expect it. Daniel Radcliffe has horns now. Daniel Radcliffe. This...
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Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution Sweepstakes!
After reading Ann VanderMeer's fabulous introduction, you're probably itching to get your hands on a copy of Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. We anticipated your need, and happen to have three...
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Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution (Excerpt)
We've got the introduction to Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, edited by Ann VanderMeer, out on December 1 from Tachyon Publications:Playfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era...
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You Know What? The Casual Vacancy Is Totally Readable
I’ll never forget working at a bookstore in 1999 when the midnight release for Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire went down. At that time, I hadn’t read any of the books and was arrogantly confident...
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Make Something Wicked by Greg Manchess Your Wallpaper in Anticipation of...
Halloween is a perfect time to celebrate all of the hidden creatures and formless things that we otherwise can only touch through stories. (And if we’re particularly unlucky, those things that find us...
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As Beautiful as the Fey: Magic and Romance in Tina Connolly’s Ironskin
I was actually already through two-thirds of Tina Connolly's Ironskin, before I realized that I was reading a fantasy version of Jane Eyre. Of course, to anyone paying attention, this fact is obvious;...
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Queer Cogs: Steampunk, Gender Identity, and Sexuality
As an academic who specializes in Victorian literature and a steampunk who enjoys taking on the persona of Dorian Gray on occasion, I get a lot of questions and not a few strange looks from my...
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors Sound Off About Banned Books and Censorship
It’s Banned Books Week once again, a time to celebrate the freedom to read and to spotlight the necessity of free and open access to information. Genre fiction has naturally been the victim of...
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Steampunk Book Pack Sweepstakes!
We've got some lovely books for all of you steampunk fans! Feast your eyes on Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman by Balogun Ojetade, the Steampunk Prime anthology, edited by Mike Ashley, and...
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Magic Through Water: Edward Eager’s Magic by the Lake
Magic by the Lake, the third book in Eager’s “magic” series, takes place about three weeks after Half Magic and features the same characters. And although we had been told in the previous book that it...
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Magic, Blood, and Promises: Courtney Schafer’s The Tainted City
You know how I got talked into reading Schafer’s debut novel, last year’s The Whitefire Crossing?I heard it had rock climbing in it. (That’s my favourite sport at which to suck really badly.) Turned...
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Black Dispatches: Real-Life Superheroes in the Age of Steam(funk)
Espionage—the act or practice of spying or of using spies to obtain secret information—has been with us probably since one of our first villagers looked over the hill to see what the other village was...
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Necromancing the Stone (Excerpt)
We've got an excerpt from Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride:With the defeat of the evil Douglas behind him, Sam LaCroix is getting used to his new life. Okay, so he hadn’t exactly planned on being...
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This is the Last Thing Ray Bradbury Ever Wrote
This year’s installment of the excellent Dave Eggers edited analogy series—Best American Non-Required Reading—has a forward from none other than the late Ray Bradbury. And according to official...
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Morning Roundup: Hot Matt Smith-on-David Tennant Action
While this is not a scene from a Doctor Who multi-Doctor episode, we are okay with this being what David Tennant wears if he happens to regenerate back into the Doctor. Matt Smith looks pretty sharp,...
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Oops, Wrong Spacedrive! Poul Anderson’s The Long Way Home
Poul Anderson's The Long Way Home was originally published in 1955 in Astounding, under the title No World of Their Own. It was reprinted in 1978 withour revision but with some cuts Campbell has made...
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Four Kinks Your Great-Grandparents Didn’t Want You to Know About
The Victorians invented sex.Okay, okay, there’s biological evidence suggesting their forebears figured it out too, but our cultural understanding of sex in the western world is more steeped in the late...
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New Prometheus Material Confirms: Blade Runner and Alien Share a Universe!
Before Prometheus even hit theaters this past summer we wondered: Will it create a shared universe between the Alien movies and Blade Runner?According to a bonus feature on the new Steelbook Blu-ray...
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Stitching Time: Creating an Interactive Steampunk Narrative
I’m often asked what the interactive theatrical experience Clockwork Watch is, and the answer changes with each stage of the production. The underlying objective, though, is to create a fictional...
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