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30 SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2023
I’m calling it First Sentence Euphoria. It’s that feeling you get when you read the first sentence of a novel and you know, you just know, that you’re in for something incredible. It’s the...
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We Need a Little Hopepunk: Why Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers Would Make for...
Welcome, everyone, to a new year of Please Adapt, the column in which I pine for adaptations of my favorite sci-fi and fantasy books. I wrapped 2022 with an update on eight in-progress adaptations, but...
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Something Old Yet New: Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
I’ve been happily reading and reviewing Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series since the beginning, but once the pandemic hit, my reading habits took a major hit. Authors and premises I once loved...
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A Film Adaptation of Hunter’s Run — Co-Authored by George R. R. Martin,...
Add another one to the list of works by George R. R. Martin (and, for that matter, Expanse co-author Daniel Abraham) that’s set to get the adaptation treatment. Variety reports that Exile Content...
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Hello Tomorrow! Trailer Gives Us a Retro Future Where Selling Lunar...
Apple TV+ has a ‘50s futuristic series in the works called Hello Tomorrow!, and we’ve got a trailer for the Billy Crudup-starring project that lets us know that selling folks lunar timeshares might not...
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Read an Excerpt From Wild Massive
Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world… We’re thrilled...
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Mind-Reading Doesn’t Always Help: Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black (Part 1)
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we begin...
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M3GAN 2.0 Will Menace 2025
Just ask Chucky—you can’t keep a good killer doll down. Though technically ME3GAN is an android; her unwieldy name stands for Model 3 Generative Android. And of course one movie would never be enough...
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Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter One Hundred Five
Good day and happy reread-Thursday to you, Cosmere Chickens! I hope you all had a restful, relaxing week because we’re diving back into the thick of it here in Rhythm of War-land. Our dear, grizzled,...
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Africa Risen Receives NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Literary Work
The anthology Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of...
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Every Book in Its Right Time
If you had told me, twelve years ago, that I would be just now getting around to The Night Circus, I definitely would have laughed. Maybe even snorted. It’s one of those books everyone was reading at...
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There Are Too Many Ghostfaces on the Subway in the Trailer for Scream VI
A self-aware horror franchise like Scream always has to find some way to one-up itself, and there are several on display in the trailer for Scream VI. This is a new kind of Ghostface—or so he says....
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: 12 Works You May Have Missed in 2022
Every month I read a couple dozen or so short speculative fiction stories from 60+ publications in order to put together my monthly short SFF/H column. That’s a lot of reading! It’s always impossibly...
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Read an Excerpt from TJ Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots… We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune, a new standalone fantasy adventure...
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The Big Door Prize Trailer Wants You to Work Up to Your Potential
What if you could find out your life’s potential for two dollars in quarters? That’s the premise of The Big Door Prize, a show from Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read and adapted from the eponymous...
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Frances Hardinge’s Unraveller Unties a Complex Knot of History, Anger, and...
There is nothing quite like entering a Frances Hardinge world, and the country in which she sets her latest novel, Unraveller, is no exception. “If you must travel to the country of Raddith, then be...
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Mr. Breakfast Serves a Banquet to Jonathan Carroll’s Fans
The conventional wisdom is that Jonathan Carroll is a writer’s writer. That means that other writers heap praises on him, publishers don’t know what to do with his books, and too few readers discover...
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Outlander Will End With Its Eighth Season — But a Prequel Series Is...
Even time travel has an ending. Outlander, which is currently between its sixth and seventh seasons, will come to its end with a ten-episode eighth season. But it’s not the end of the Outlander...
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Five Stories About Accepting Help From Supernatural Sources
We sometimes face challenges that appear insurmountable by mundane means. One possible solution: whip out some chalk, inscribe a summoning circle, appeal to the powerful entity that appears, then sit...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Truth, Part II
I will now do my impression of a vampire taking an iconograph… *screams and turns to dust* Summary William’s office has two desks in it now, and people are coming to see him about jobs, news stories,...
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