Before I start, let me be clear about one thing: this is not a list of the best SF movies of all time—although if I were to compile my top picks, some of the titles below would definitely be on that list as well. This is a list of mind-blowing [...]

Editor’s note: Joel is reading his way through the finalists for the 2012 Nebula Award for best sci-fi/fantasy novel. Read his introduction here. The mainstream success of Game of Thrones aside, it’s easy to see why many readers might find reading fantasy embarrassing and/or intimidating: not only do the books [...]

For the past 25 years, millions of fantasy fans worldwide have followed R.A. Salvatore—and his signature character, the introspective dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden—through countless adventures and existential and spiritual awakenings in the sprawling realm of Abeir-Toril. This saga—two dozen novels long and counting—is easily one of the very best adventure [...]

Thanks to Charlie Kaufman, we all know what the process of adapting a book is like for the screenwriter—it starts with a depressive funk and ends with your imaginary twin brother getting eaten by an alligator—but what’s the experience for the writer whose work is being adapted? What does it [...]

I wasted an hour of my life last Monday evening watching the premiere episode of a reality television show called Splash, in which a group of has-been actors and other assorted “celebrities”—like comedian Louie Anderson, Baywatch’s Nicole Eggert, and retired basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—compete in platform and springboard diving.

We are in the midst of a glorious Golden Age of paranormal fantasy—the last ten years, specifically, in genre fiction have been nothing short of landscape-changing. The days of rigidly defined categories (romance, fantasy, horror, etc.) are long gone. Today, genre-blending novels reign supreme: narratives with virtually limitless potential that [...]