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In Search of Books in Which Nothing Bad Happens
A friend was asking the other day for books in which no bad things happen, because sometimes you want your reading to be all upbeat. But yet, there aren’t many books where nothing bad happens. Myself,...
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10 Years Later, Gravity Falls Is Still as Funny and Heartfelt as Any Show on...
Alex Hirsch’s Gravity Falls first premiered ten years ago and burned brilliantly for the two seasons it was on air before going out with a bang in 2016. The animated comedy-mystery follows twins Dipper...
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6 SFF Works to Brighten Gloomy Days
It’s difficult to do anything when one is sick or feeling down. While others might nap away a minor fever or watch Netflix, my go-to solution for when I can’t focus on any work during a sickness nor...
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What’s the First Line of the First Book You’re Reading in 2023?
New year, new books! New Years resolutions can be a pain, but tackling a reading pile feels oh-so satisfying. Do you have any goals? Number of books to read? A series you’ve been dying to tackle? An...
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Netflix Ends 1899’s Journey After One Season
The journey of the Kerberos has come to an end. Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar’s series 1899 has been canceled by Netflix after just one season. Co-creator Odar addressed the cancellation in an...
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7 Escapist Adventure Fantasy Books
It’s never a bad time for adventure fantasy, but I would posit that now is the best time for adventure fantasy. Here are some of my favourites, hand-selected for escapism, intrigue, high density of...
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Things Get Real Weird Down Under in Hulu’s Koala Man
It all seems so normal… at first. I mean, “normal” is relative, and a man in a koala mask trying to stop hoodlums is way more normal than whatever’s happening with kangaroos and aliens at the end of...
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Four Surprise Cameos in SFF Cover Art
Writers and artists have long been known to incorporate real people into their work as the basis for characters and countenances. In the SF field, this practice is known as Tuckerization, after Wilson...
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“Love Takes a Million Forms”: His Dark Materials’ Series Finale
When I wrote about the first two episodes of this final season of His Dark Materials, I said that it had a tough job ahead of it, needing to stick the book’s impeccable landing while also making up for...
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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “The Expanse”
“The Expanse” Written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga Directed by Allan Kroeker Season 2, Episode 26 Production episode 052 Original air date: May 21, 2003 Date: April 24, 2153 Captain’s star log. A...
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A Hammer Horror Classic: The Curse of the Werewolf
David, the protagonist of An American Werewolf in London, is somewhat of a Lon Chaney, Jr superfan. He cites The Wolf Man more than once, and is careful to distinguish it from a later work, “the one...
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Five Works of SFF That Draw on Greek Mythology
When I visited Athens, I was “that guy,” eagerly answering the tour guide’s questions, drawing upon my cursory knowledge of the Greek pantheon. The tour guide was impressed. The other tour-goers were...
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Pedro Pascal Is Happy to “Double Dip” With The Mandalorian and The Last of Us
Maybe, if you’ve been following the career of Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal, you’ve noticed something. Some similarity in two of his highest-profile roles. His dad-like relationships in both The...
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The Land Beyond Spacetime: Dinosaurs and Cosmic Horror
I saw The Land Before Time when I was four years old, and I don’t think I ever fully recovered. Don Bluth’s 1988 animated film created an entire generation of dinosaur fans with its potent mixture of...
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“Things start to fall apart when you stop caring” — Samaritan
From August 2017 – January 2020, Keith R.A. DeCandido took a weekly look at every live-action movie based on a superhero comic that had been made to date in the Superhero Movie Rewatch. In this latest...
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There’s a New Crisis in Apple’s Sneak Peek at Foundation’s Second Season
There’s a new crisis, and it’s that there’s not enough Lee Pace in this trailer. I kid, I kid… or do I? Apple’s Foundation is a weird show with a great cast—a cast that orbits around Pace’s tyrannical...
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Here’s Another Clue for Us All: Glass Onion Is a Multifaceted Mystery
A screaming comes across the internet, and it’s me, yelling about how much I love Glass Onion. Rian Johnson’s newest whodunnit, like Knives Out before it, follows gentleman sleuth Benoit Blanc as he...
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Mommy Doesn’t Look So Good in the Trailer for Evil Dead Rise
Zombies, as we know so very, very well, never stay dead. And so it is with the undead Evil Dead franchise, which crawls back to life in the form of Evil Dead Rise, a tale of, uh, sisterly love? Love...
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Trailer for SYFY’s The Ark Shows Things Aren’t Going So Great On This...
At long last, we have a full-fledged trailer for SYFY’s The Ark, the new space thriller from Stargate SG-1 alums Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner. The video reveals what we already knew: Things aren’t...
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Read an Excerpt From Unraveller
In a world where anyone can create a life-destroying curse, only one person has the power to unravel them. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Frances Hardinge’s Unraveller, a dark YA fantasy out...
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