Lilith's Brood

Science fiction and fantasy often serve as way to examine and cope with societal issues, past or present. Given how prevalent the idea of “otherness” is within genre (from monsters to aliens), it’s no surprise that writers of color would choose to use SFF as a vehicle to access their own thoughts about race and feelings of otherness […]

The dog might be a terrorist, but he’s got his reasons. Emma Ríos (Pretty Deadly) and Hwei Lim team up on Mirror: The Mountain, part of the 8House universe from Image comics. Each creator brings her unique sensibilities to bear on a lyrical, beautifully painted book about an asteroid peopled by incredible creatures who have come to […]

What qualities must a book have to be considered science fiction? Genre categories can be helpful in guiding us toward works that we might like, or just are in the mood to read, but those definitions can be slippery, and many of the very best books defy conventions and upend expectations. Perhaps we’d be better […]

Science fiction has home court advantage when it comes to robots, artificial intelligence, interstellar voyages, and distant futures. Sometimes that makes it easy to forget that, at its core, the genre is like any other mode of fictional storytelling: often best exemplified through its characters, in all their flawed, thriving, complicated humanity (well, not always their […]