We’ve recently gotten the bad news straight from George R.R. Martin himself: winter won’t be coming, at least, not until well after Game of Thrones‘ sixth season premieres this April. Martin’s been working on The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire, since 2011, but the television adaptation charged through five books’ worth of material […]

Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the members of an industry trade organization who are the professional peers of the award nominees. For the Nebula, that is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are six […]

I’ve long referred to Ursula K. Le Guin my literary grandmother, a polestar of my understanding of fiction, fantasy, and the world itself. When I learned of her death earlier this year, I sat down and cried. Even though she passed at the respectable age of 88, I cried long, wracking tears. She is the […]