Two Little Scientists Interview Ada Twist, Scientist Author Andrea Beaty
One year ago, my seven-year-old daughter, Addison, pranced into the dining room and declared that she wanted to be an architect.…
Interviews
Georgia Peaches And Other Forbidden Fruit Author Jaye Robin Brown Talks Books and Barbecue
I’ve been eagerly anticipating Jaye Robin Brown’s Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit since I first heard about it. LGBTQIA YA is…
Joseph Fink Talks New Welcome to Night Vale Books, His Favorite Characters, and When the Podcast Will End
Befitting its status as an anonymous city in the American Southwest, Night Vale can be hard to pin down. Sure, there are…
Tsutomu Nihei on Blame!, Knights of Sidonia, and Viewing Japan Like an Outsider
Tsutomu Nihei is a master of space, both the literal kind—the empty areas between solid things—and outer space, the setting…
Si Spurrier on Folklore, Sexuality, Politics, and Werewolves in Cry Havoc
We’re in a golden age for comics and graphic novels—particularly if your tastes don’t run exclusively to superheroes. The medium…
In Bera, Eric Orchard Tackles Depression Like a One-Headed Troll
Eric Orchard’s graphic novels are those rare children’s books that will please both children and adults. Both his first, Maddy Kettle…
Those People Are Me: Nicole Dennis-Benn on “Here Comes the Sun”
The author of a new novel following the lives of four Jamaican women talks about finding a way to represent…
Christopher Priest on Deathstroke: World’s Greatest Assassin, World’s Worst Dad
When Christopher Priest (no relation to the British SFF author), the comic creator behind a legendary run on Marvel’s Black Panther…
Blake Crouch Discusses Sound Science and Magic Boxes in Dark Matter
Dark Matter, the latest from Blake Crouch (Wayward Pines), is a heady standalone sci-fi thriller that gets progressively weirder as…
E. Catherine Tobler Explains the Mythology of The Kraken Sea and the Terrifying Comfort of Freak Shows
In E. Catherine Tobler’s The Kraken Sea, an orphan named Jackson learns to embrace his inner monster when he’s adopted…
Emma Cline on the Dark Side of Girl Power
The author of the bestseller “The Girls” talks with editor Kate Medina on her gripping novel and writing about “a…
Alastair Reynolds On Sentient Squids, AI, & Writing Like an SF Grandmaster in The Medusa Chronicles
Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter are two of the biggest names in splashy science fiction epics, so its no wonder…
Shiny Broken Pieces Authors Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton Talk Characters, Collaboration, and Cake
Today the sequel to Tiny Pretty Things, 2015’s dark, diverse, and dishy ballerina thriller, hits shelves. Shiny Broken Pieces picks…
Jen Williams Talks Testing Her Writing Mettle in The Copper Promise
Jen Williams is a British fantasy author whose Copper Cat series, already a buzz-generator in its native UK, is finally coming…
Victoria Schwab on Monsters, This Savage Song, and Staying Loyal to the Story
Victoria Schwab (or V.E. Schwab, if you’re reading A Darker Shade of Magic) alternates between writing young adult, middle grade,…
David Levithan and Nina LaCour talk Pride, You Know Me Well, and the Future of LGBTQ+ YA
If ever there were must-read authors in the world of LGBTQ YA, they’re David Levithan and Nina LaCour. So the idea…
How Babylon 5 Shaped Claudia Christian’s New Epic SF Novel
Babylon 5 is unquestionably one of my first true TV loves. J. Michael Straczynski’s space opera is an expansive tale of a massive…
Brian K. Vaughan Talks Saga, Paper Girls, and Why We’ll Never Get That Lying Cat Series
We can’t verifiably call Brian K. Vaughan the busiest creator in comics, but considering his name is on the covers of…