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…
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New Book Roundup: Anatomy of a Sea Monster, a Fairytale Wickedly Retold, and Demons Hunting in the Night
It’s a mystery why some very successful British SF/F authors never quite seem able to make the leap to bookshelves…
With Spielberg Directing, Ready Player One Is Poised to Become the Geek Movie to Rule Them All
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is a veritable geek smorgasbord of a novel, a literary turducken stuffing homages to ’80s sci-fi and…
To Boldly Write… 6 Star Trek Actors Who Wrote for the Franchise
Since J.J. Abrams left the Star Trek universe for the Star Wars galaxy in 2013, the behind-the-scenes on the new…
6 Books for Wannabe Mars Colonists
So, you wanna live on Mars? Earth’s blue skies and swaying seas are nice and all, but humans have the…
Before Star Wars: Rogue One Takes Off, a History of the X-Wing Series
When the Walt Disney Company yesterday announced the title and date for the first standalone Star Wars film, 2016’s Rogue One, the…
Persona is a Frighteningly Plausible Near-Future Thriller
Dystopian fiction is addictive, in part, because of the comfortable distance between the world outside and the one on the page. We feel…
All About A.I., Sprawling Future Histories, and Dino-Men: An Interview With Neal Asher
If you’ve read every single book by Neal Asher, you’re in luck: he’s got a new one. If you’ve yet to…
See Chappie, Then Pick Up These 6 Stories of Artificial Intelligence
With the announcement of the new those-bad-sequels-never-happened Alien movie, it’s been forgivably easy to forget that Neill Blomkamp has a totally different sci-fi film…
5 Awesome Alternate-Earth Stories Coming in 2015
Get ready, fans of alternate Earths: 2015 is going to be an excellent year. Whether it’s a Scandinavian-inspired London, a 19th…
Dune at 50: Great Prequels and Sequels That Expand Dune’s Universe
Frank Herbert’s Dune casts a long shadow over the genre, one no author has had a more difficult time emerging from than…
The Most Human: 6 Star Trek Books to Remember Spock
Leonard Nimoy had a long, full career as an actor, director, poet, and photographer. Yet out of a lifetime of…
5 Books That Resist the Handwave with Believable Futuristic Technology
The Handwave is a powerful thing is sci-fi: the ability to fix a problem with a science-y sounding solution that isn’t…
5 New Books that Show the Future of Military Sci-Fi
Since Robert Heinlein published Starship Troopers in December 1959, military science fiction has become a major subgenre, exploring warfare in…
Throwback Thursday: Pressing Your Luck in Frederik Pohl’s Gateway
Frederik Pohl is a certified science fiction legend: A multi-award winner. A distinguished editor. The man credited with bringing Samuel R.…
Of God, Godzilla, and Galapagos: James Morrow’s Strange Fictions
Satire is a tricky thing—even done well, it can date badly. James Morrow is an author who not only manages…
And the Winners of the 2015 Science Fiction Romance Galaxy Awards Are…
One of the best things about being a reader of science fiction is knowing that whatever book you’re in the…
7 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Sequels to Catch Up with This Winter
Two months into 2015, and already our hopes dashed: The authors of the two biggest fantasy series running, George R.R.…
Your Sci-Fi Guide to Winter Travel
It’s been a rough winter in the U.S., particularly if you live in the northeast—upstate New York was buried, and no…