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Fitting In
For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. “Fitting In” by Max Gladstone shows how everyday people can step up...
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How to Destroy Civilization and Not Be Boring
So you’ve decided to destroy your fictional civilization and for reasons of verisimilitude, you want to draw on a historical model. Your first thought may be to rotoscope the collapse of the Western...
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Watch the First Trailer for Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Bird Box
Netflix has released the first trailer for its feature-length adaptation of Josh Malerman’s post-apocalyptic novel Bird Box. Sandra Bullock plays Malorie, a survivor of a strange force that causes its...
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Read This, Watch That: Perfect Horror SFF Books and Anime Pairings
There’s nothing like cuddling up on a dark October night with a creepy horror novel—or hunkering down to watch a scary anime. In this season of terror, we’ve got four pairs of horror books and anime to...
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Chicken Feet and Fiery Skulls: Tales of the Russian Witch Baba Yaga
Despite her appearances in numerous folktales, Baba-Yaga is one of the few creatures of fairy tale that I first encountered strictly through paintings and images, rather than through text or animated...
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Watch Out for Assassins: A Spoiler-Filled Review of John Scalzi’s The...
Everyone’s had time to read The Consuming Fire, the second book in John Scalzi’s expansive new space adventure series, The Interdependency. If not, it’s time to rock up to your nearest bookstore,...
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An Important Thing to Learn: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Friday Black is the debut collection of Syracuse-based writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, gathering twelve pieces of short fiction spanning from 2014 to now. These stories mingle the mundane and the...
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Here’s the Art Serving as Inspiration For Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio!
In his first directing deal since wrapping The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro has partnered with Netflix to create his stop-motion animated version of Pinocchio. Buy it Now According to Deadline,...
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A Grand Unified Theory of Hayao Miyazaki: MiyazakiWorld: A Life in Art by...
I love Studio Ghibli’s films. Repeated viewings of My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service were all that got me through college with my mind (more or less) intact. But more to the point, I love...
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Kentucky Bourbon and Elder Signs: Alter Reiss’s “In the Forest of the Night”
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...
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Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Fifty-Three
Today on the Oathbringer Reread we’ve got a Scholarly Sit-down with Jasnah Kholin and a few of her friends (via span-reed, of course). Suspicions start blooming over a certain Kholin boy’s spren,...
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The Fantastical Food of Fantasy: Magic Made Real
Two words for you: Turkish Delight. In a discussion of food in the fantasy genre, we may as well start with one of most well-known examples. When I read the Narnia books at age 12—an age when I...
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Science and a Thrilling Space Rescue: A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
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,...
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Five Books Featuring Women in Love with Women
There were science fiction and fantasy books with lesbian and bi women in them, back in the 1980s, when was a kid. But I didn’t know about them. They existed, but not in the stacks of paperbacks I...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Animated Series Coming From Rick and Morty Head Writer
The Star Trek universe expands further with the announcement of a new series! Star Trek: Lower Decks is a half-hour animated sitcom that will, according to Deadline, “focus on the support crew serving...
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Pull List: Life Lessons in The Nameless City and The Girl Who Married a Skull
It’s been awhile since we last looked at middle grade comics for Pull List, and what could make a more perfect return than The Nameless City and The Girl Who Married a Skull and Other African Stories?...
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How Dead is Dead, Really? Shelley Jackson’s Riddance
Shelley Jackson has long been one of gothic fabulism’s most delightful and ambitious Renaissance persons. Her 1995 hypertext Patchwork Girl is a reimagining of Frankenstein by way of L. Frank Baum’s...
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Daredevil Succeeds When Matt Murdock Gets His Catholic Mojo Back
Part of the reason Daredevil’s third season is so good is that it once again centers Matt Murdock’s spiritual journey in a way that allows for layered storytelling. I’ve found three different stories...
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Nussknacker und Mausekönig, the Original Nutcracker Tale
Centuries before a Hollywood studio thought it would be a great idea to spend millions on a film about a girl travelling to fairy lands created through CGI, and before shopping malls and ad agencies...
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Between Earth and Heaven: Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
I don’t know about you, but I’d go to the moon in a minute. Not necessarily right now, but if, in a few years, the trip was relatively inexpensive, and I could be assured of a safe launch and landing,...
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