Guest Post: Jay Posey on Writing the Warfighter and Getting it Right
Jay Posey is the author of Outriders, a new military sci-fi novel from Angry Robot Books about a special forces…
Joel Cunningham
Burning Questions from The Force Awakens Answered in Star Wars: Bloodline
The Force Awakens didn’t become the highest-grossing domestic box office success of all time by disappointing fans, but there’s no denying…
Making of a Cover: The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
This fall, acclaimed YA author Sarah Beth Durst (Ice, The Lost) will publish her first fantasy novel for adults, The…
Guest Post: 5 SF/F Books That Obliterate the Bechdel Test, by Stacey Berg
The Bechdel test first appeared in 1985 in Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. To pass the…
The Team Behind The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Tells Us How the Serial Fiction Sausage Is Made
A few weeks back, we gleefully announced that Saga Press had acquired print rights to three serial novels from Serial…
Guest Post: The Most Misunderstood Witches in Fantasy, by Angela Slatter
Last year, Angela Slatter’s novella Of Sorrow and Such revealed to us a world in which being a witch is…
Guest Post: 5 Fantastic—and Fantastical—Books You Should Be Reading, by V.E. Schwab
Victoria “V.E.” Schwab has a busy week ahead of her—her eye-pokingly anticipated new book A Gathering of Shadows comes out tomorrow—but…
Guest Post: Clifford Beal, The Guns of Ivrea, and the Mermaid’s Tail
Although my historical fiction novels have contained a hefty dollop of the fantastical (some might even say a generously liberal…
Out of the Subtext: C. S. Pacat on Why Diversity Matters in SF/F
Growing out of Tolkien, medieval fantasy is often a fantasy of nostalgia, in which the reader is invited to escape…
Award Nominations Show Much Love for Sci-Fi
The Academy Awards® have long had an arms-length relationship with genre, seemingly only recognizing the red-headed stepchild of Hollywood in public…
5 Revelations that Make The Force Awakens Novelization a Must-Read for Star Wars Fans
It’s probably easier to calculate the number of hours since Dec. 18 during which we were not watching Star Wars: The…
Guest Post: Debut Author Adrian Selby Defines the Magic of Snakewood
Next year, Orbit will publish Adrian Selby’s Snakewood, an epic fantasy debut nearly 20 years in the writing. A story…
