Are We Living in a Golden Age of Genre TV? 8 Upcoming SF/F Adaptations
With the mammoth success of Game of Thrones and Outlander, prestige TV has finally embraced epic science fiction and fantasy, and there…
With the mammoth success of Game of Thrones and Outlander, prestige TV has finally embraced epic science fiction and fantasy, and there…
If we were to pinpoint the highest summit of literary nerdbait, it would be a simple calculation. Ready Player One, Ernest…
It’s a…girl! Yes, Anne Boleyn has birthed a daughter, and Henry is absolutely delighted. He’s so excited by the news…
“People should say whatever it takes to keep them alive.” Despite her faults, Anne Boleyn can sure hit it on…
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is a veritable geek smorgasbord of a novel, a literary turducken stuffing homages to ’80s sci-fi and…
Hitch up your doublet and gird your loins: Wolf Hall is coming. The TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s book and its…
The conventional wisdom among readers is that the book is always better than the filmed version. But lately, television adaptations…
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…
American author Stephen Amidon’s dark slice of Americana, Human Capital, caught the attention of Italian director Paolo Virzì, whose film…
The novels of Thomas Pynchon have generally been considered unfilmable. Dense, chaotic, cerebral—Pynchon’s oeuvre is composed of novels that don’t…
If the Hob still existed, everyone (read: Greasy Sae) would be gossiping about whether or not they can survive Mockingjay being chopped in…
This week, one of the best book series of all time received extremely fortunate news: A Series of Unfortunate Events,…
When you’re a child of Stephen King, it’s perfectly understandable if your mind is a little…twisted. Luckily for the world at…
Sleep, for most of us, is the perfect ally. There’s no one I’d rather see at the end of a…
If there is a universal cultural touchstone in this fractured world, it is, perhaps, The Princess Bride. Between the ever-quotable Rob…
There’s one thing every reader lives in fear of: finding out their favorite book is about to be turned into…
Did you hear the awful cry that shook the very foundations of the earth last week? That was me, uttering…
You cried when you read the book, you cried double when you saw the movie, and now you’re all cried…