4 Reasons Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager Will Make an Awesome Movie
Wesley Chu is having a moment. Earlier this year, he wrapped up his first trilogy, The Lives of Tao. He’s…
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It’s Independence Day! 8 Revolutionary Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels
It’s that time of year again: the time when ordinary Americans from across country and around the globe pause to commemorate that…
Throwback Thursday: Karen Traviss’ Wess’Har Wars Is an Essential Environmental SF Saga
I first came across Karen Traviss’s work not in a book, but in the February 2003 issue of Aismov’s Science…
Our 6 Favorite Sentient Spaceships
Artificial intelligence comes in many forms: you have your Terminator-type Skynets, formless and godlike; your Ex Machina robots, jump out…
Dune at 50: Dune Gets Real
As much as I hate to admit it, Dune isn’t real. There are no giant sandworms. There is no spice…
4 Books in Which Interstellar Travel Is Insane
Faster than light travel is a science fiction staple. Like time travel and encounters with alien life, it is one…
Take a Trip Around Planet Earth with 9 Translated Science Fiction Novels
Slowed only by language barriers, science fiction has flourished throughout the world, telling dazzling stories of the future, and the…
11 Adult SF Novels to Turn Teens into Genre Die-Hards
School’s out for the year, the weather has broken into full blown summer, all mosquitoes and sunburn, and I’ve become…
5 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books That Can Never Be Filmed
We recently took a look back at the awesome sci-fi books behind a few notorious box office flops. Then there…
5 Dystopian Societies That Might Actually Function
Dystopia is—ironically for something pretty terrible—disturbingly popular these days. While a good dystopian government has always been a fun way…
Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation Wins the Nebula
We’ve devoted a great deal of time and energy thinking about this year’s Nebula Awards, but even after reading all…
Our First Glimpse of The Martian, and a Look Back at a Thrilling, Optimistic Sci-Fi Adventure
Star Wars: The Force Awakens aside, the sci-fi film we’re most ridiculously excited for this year is Ridley Scott’s The Martian,…
Decoding the Storm: Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar, Volume 1
If dictionaries consisted of complete phrases, and if in that special dictionary you were to look up “humongously complex magnum…
From 42 to 2001: Science Fiction by the Numbers
There are plenty of eye-catching numbers in the realms of speculative fiction. J.K. Rowling has sold the most copies of…
Throwback Thursday: Timothy Zahn’s Conquerors’ Trilogy Is Every Bit as Grand as Thrawn
If your a sci-fi fan of a certain age, when you hear the name Timothy Zahn, you tend to think of…
The Fold Is a Great Science Fiction Novel and a Great Mystery Novel
Peter Clines is no stranger to blending genres and blowing minds, and he’s at it again with The Fold. In the…
The 5 Most Monstrous Child Characters in SF/F
One thing holds true no matter how much we change as a society: kids are creepy. Okay, maybe not your kid…
Nova Is a Heartbreaking Space Age Coming-of-Age Story
Margaret Fortune’s debut novel Nova is like a lot of formative science fiction: it follows a young person through an extreme situation,…
An Optimistic Apocalypse Novel: Talking with Charlie Jane Anders
I’ve long admired Charlie Jane Anders’ work—both her reviews and cultural commentary over on io9, where she is editor-in-chief, and…