Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

For a while there, it seemed the “mashup” novel was ascendant. A mashup results when a classic (and often public domain) work of literature is used as the basis for an alternative version that includes modern speculative tropes, like monsters. For a prime example, look at Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which reimagines not only our 16th President […]

Here’s my idea of a book-themed party: everybody brings a novel. We read in front of a roaring fire while it’s raining outside. Nobody talks. Nobody dog-ears any pages. There’s food, maybe. What else do people like? Dancing? We can have that, but silently. Everyone’s gone by 9:15. I assume they had a blast. But since that […]

There’s no shortage of science fiction and fantasy movies to look forward to this year, many of them based on some of our favorite books and graphic novels. In fact, we won’t have to go much more than a month between adaptations, and these movies are not, as a rule, being done on the cheap. The directors […]

It’s exhilarating (and a little scary) when our favorite books are made into motion pictures. The idea of seeing a novel that we’ve loved on the big screen is incredibly appealing, but us book nerds always wonder whether the adaptation will live up to their imaginations…which is all part of the fun. A number of books are making […]