Are We Living in a Golden Age of Genre TV? 8 Upcoming SF/F Adaptations
With the mammoth success of Game of Thrones and Outlander, prestige TV has finally embraced epic science fiction and fantasy, and there…
Adam Rowe
Of Noble Family Is a Magically-Powered Regency-Era Thriller
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Glamourist Histories series, five books of Regency-era alt-history in which magic is a means of artistic expression, comes to…
What’s in Store for Us in Marvel’s Phase 3
One week from the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, we’re getting a clearer picture of what’s in store for…
9 Awesome SF/F Novels That Were Almost Never Published
Everyone loves an underdog, and nothing defines an underdog like success in the face of constant rejection. Philip K Dick, one of…
A War-Torn Linguistic History of Science Fiction
The realms of science fiction are fraught with war, whether from the battleships of galaxy-spanning space operas or the delete…
The Decades-Long Flame War Between Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov
Science fiction history has its share of disputes and disagreements, but there’s only one that left a plane crash, untold…
17 Epic Burns Given to Classic SF/F Authors
Time magazine, reporting on a 1989 plane crash, offhandedly mentioned that one passenger had been reading an Arthur C. Clarke…
6 SF/F Medical Thrillers that Prove Technology Is a Hell of a Drug
The medical thriller is an incredibly specific sub-genre, defined by surgical masks, drugs, and paranoia. It’s not usually about magic,…
9 Side Characters Who Took Over Their Franchises
Film franchises reign supreme in Hollywood. 2015 might be their best year yet, with massive event movies like Age of…
That Time H.P. Lovecraft Played Cupid
The name H.P. Lovecraft typically dredges up images of unspeakable horror: Fishmen. Cthulhu. Eldritch geometry. Gibbering phantasms of doom. Yes,…