Time Travel is high on our Wish List of Impossible Things. Granted, we’re thinking of the sort of time travel you see on Doctor Who: the ability to freely travel to just about any point in time (or space), as the spirit wills us. Pull a lever, visit the end of the universe. Push a button, pop into […]
Today, the Ethan Hawke-starring time travel flick Predestination hits theaters. Like many time travel movies, it pays homage to the old-school Robert A. Heinlein short story “—All You Zombies,” which established many of the tropes of the genre, but in this case at least, it’s justified: it’s actually a loose adaptation of Heinlein’s award-winning tale. Without ruining too much of […]
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the professional peers of the award nominees—members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are five nominees in the best novel category this year; every two weeks between now […]
Earlier this week, a VIP at Marvel comics earned the ire of about 82 percent of the internet when he tried to blame the publisher’s flagging sales on a recent strategy to push comics with “diverse” heroes, claiming readers just aren’t interested in buying those kinds of books. Plenty of folks have offered cogent rebuttals of […]