5 Notable Novels That Are Adaptations of Movies and Plays
Movies are magical and wonderful of course, presenting us with eye-popping, realistically-rendered scenarios of adventure, action, romance, and intrigue. But…
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Fighting Post-Hitchhiker’s Disorder: 6 Essential Books for Douglas Adams Fans
It’s a well-known affliction in the science fiction community: Post-Hitchhiker’s Disorder. After slamming down Douglas Adams’ epic five-part trilogy (you heard me)…
6 Robots Too Smart for Their Own Good
Robots, man. You can’t live without them (unless you vacuum the old-fashioned way), and quite often, you can’t live with…
Keep This Year’s Politics in Perspective with These Insane Fictional Presidents
Election Mania ’16, otherwise known as presidential convention season, is in the rearview mirror. In Cleveland and Philadelphia, our two major political…
The Weirdest Ways of Getting Around in SF/F
For those of us who are not aliens who gain superpowers from Earth’s yellow sun, there are a limited number of options…
10 Books Even Adult Readers Will Love to Read Aloud
Growing up is a strange experience, mainly because we assume more or less arbitrarily that certain things we enjoyed as…
The Most Fiendish Torture Devices in SF/F
Science fiction and fantasy lift us up, showing us marvelous worlds fired by pure imagination, encouraging us to dream of a better…
Your Doctor Who Series 9 Reading List
Calling Doctor Who a bookish TV show is a bit obvious, mostly because the kinds of people who watch it are often…
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…
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…
5 Oddball Detective Books That Are Made of Awesome
If you’ve been conscious at any time in the last century or so, you’re familiar with private detective tropes: the…
Easy Peasy DIY Costumes for Book Lovers
Halloween is the perfect time to love up on your literary muses. You can make a sandwich board and go…
11 Classic Collections Perfect for Summer Reading
We all think of summer as a good time to dig into a frothy beach read, but it’s also the…
10 Book Titles that Would Rock as Heavy Metal Songs
Coming up with the title to a work is hard (except for New York Post headline writers), which makes for…
The 6 Most Memorable Robots in Literature
The Singularity is Near! Indeed, some computer scientists expect artificial intelligence to surpass human intelligence within our lifetimes. Revolutions in…
The 10 Best Books for Fans of The Twilight Zone
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5 Great Books Too Short for NaNoWriMo
If you’re one of the stalwart few who struggled up the 50,000-word summit during National Novel Writing Month, you likely have a new appreciation…
5 Books That Predicted The Internet
Someday I’ll be able to tell my daughter that I grew up in a time before the internet, and she’ll…
Five Great Travel Books about Places You May Never Go
Summer, as we all know, is the season for travel—unless you are a semi-agorophobic bookworm addicted to armchair travel, natch.…