7 Essential Han Solo Stories
Rogue. Scoundrel. Smuggler. Scruffy looking Nerf herder. In the often good vs. evil, black-and-white galaxy of Star Wars, Han Solo…
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The Best Comics & Graphic Novels of May 2018
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Ian McDonald’s Time Was Tells a Poignant Story of Time-Lost Lovers
From his very first book, 1988’s Desolation Road, Ian McDonald has impressed with novels exploring the impact of high technology…
10 Science Fiction Books for the Video Game Obsessed
Over the past few decades, video games have moved from fad, to kids’ stuff, to a new pillar of mainstream…
Video Games and the Singularity Collide in Bash Bash Revolution
From where we sit, here in 2018, the technological singularity feels…what, three months away? Maybe a year? Though our conception…
Space Opera: The Intergalactic Life and Times of Earth’s Glam Rock Savior
Catherynne M. Valente never fails to surprise—from timeless children’s stories to an incendiary examination of comic book tropes, her works span…
Charles Soule on the Peter Parker Problem at the Heart of The Oracle Year
Charles Soule’s debut novel, The Oracle Year, came out this week. He’s a first-time prose author, but his name is very…
We Predict Great Things for The Oracle Year, an Ingenious Sci-Fi Thriller
What if you could see the future? Even just in bits? Literature, religion, and mythology are absolutely lousy with prophecy…
Grace Ellis on the Werewolf Baristas and Proud Non-Binary Centaurs of Moonstruck
Julie just wants to be a normal girl, with a normal girlfriend, working a normal barista job at the Black…
12 Graphic Novels for Beginners
So you want to get into graphic novels. There is no question the comics medium isn’t ubiquitous in pop culture,…
8 Books That Will Make Kids Lifelong Readers of Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The new adaption of A Wrinkle in Time opened over the weekend, and while overall reviews were mixed, one particular subsection…
Intrigue and Magic Elevate the Class Conscious Fantasy Blood of the Four
A queen. A princess. Pirates. Castles. Magic. All the classic fantasy ingredients are present in Blood of the Four, the…
6 New Scenes That Make The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition Much More Than a Novelization of the Film
Film novelizations have fallen out of favor over the years, but at still very much a thing in science fiction…
Humanity Elevates the Space Opera Action of Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War
Space operas are often all about war, whether as a main subject or the source of the action. There’s an…
A Lunar Murder Mystery Propels Gunpowder Moon
Murder…on the moon! That’s the enticing, deceptively simple hook to David Pedreira’s debut novel Gunpowder Moon, but the book goes…