The Definitive Speculative Fiction Road Trip (U.S. Edition)
Summer is months away, our mornings and evenings are spent in darkness, the East Coast is buried under approximately twenty…
Science Fiction
6 Star Trek Tie-In Novels Worth the Voyage
With over 700 episodes, a dozen movies, and countless comics, you’d think I would get tired of Star Trek at some…
6 Books that Give The Walking Dead’s Zombies a Stagger for Their Money
The Walking Dead returns on February 8 with its mid-season premiere, and I, for one, have my “I <3 Daryl Dixon” wristband…
“It’s Groundhog Day!” 5 Time-Looping Tales You’ll Want to Experience More Than Once
“I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s going to be cold, it’s going to be grey, and it’s going to…
Dune at 50: Common Misconceptions About Frank Herbert’s Classic
Editor’s note: Frank Herbert’s Dune, space opera’s answer to The Lord of the Rings and possibly the most influential work…
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Less Speculative Every Day
Editor’s note: In the years since this essay was first published, The Handmaid’s Tale has risen to new prominence: adapted…
On the Challenger Anniversary, Stories to Honor Space Pioneers
On this day in 1986, the loss of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger woke us up to the…
Trapped Inside? The Snowed-In SFF Reading List
Snowmageddon 2015! wasn’t quite all it was cracked up to be here in the Northeastern U.S., but I’m still not intending…
On Republic Day, a Look at India’s Science Fiction
India is celebrating the birth of its independent constitution today, so we thought we’d take a look at representations of…
Jo Walton’s The Just City is a Clash of the Philosophical Titans
In The Just City, the gods are real—the Greek ones, at least (the jury’s still out on Jesus and Buddha).…
Beyond 12 Monkeys: 6 Books With Scary Sci-Fi Pandemics
Today, the SyFy channel debuts its new series based on the 1995 science fiction puzzler 12 Monkeys. Widely considered part of…
Throwback Thursday: 5 Non-Canon Star Wars Novels that Are Still Worth Reading
Yesterday saw the release of Marvel’s Star Wars #1, the first comic to take place in the recently rebooted Star…
5 Fantasy Epics Peter Jackson Should Tackle Now that The Hobbit is Over
After some riddles-in-the-dark, Cumberbatch-dragon-action, and a lot of meandering around, The Hobbit trilogy finally concluded with last month’s release of The…
6 Time Travel Loops, Predestination Style
Today, the Ethan Hawke-starring time travel flick Predestination hits theaters. Like many time travel movies, it pays homage to the old-school Robert A. Heinlein…
7 Books in Which Giant Monsters Reign Supreme
Although you probably couldn’t tell by looking at a film release calendar, Godzilla hasn’t made a movie appearance in over…
Genre Primer: Stellar Space Operas
The key to a good space opera is that second word: opera. It hints at the sort of epic span…