Dune. Oppenheimer. American Fiction. These acclaimed movies all started as books. Our eyes see Oppenheimer! Congratulations to Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan and all of the other winners from the 96th Academy Awards. So how well do you know your page-to-screen adaptations — and how many have won an Oscar? In between buying snacks for […]
We all love a great villain. Plenty of stories offer us Big Bads who are much more interesting than the mealy hero we’re supposed to care about. But what’s remarkable is how often our favorite baddies aren’t even all that big—they’re actually highly competent lackeys, or what’s sometimes known as “The Dragon” character: powerful, evil beings who are often […]
As anyone who has ever been single can attest, finding love isn’t easy. In fact, sometimes it seems like finding one person out of the billions here on Earth is impossible. For sci-fi and fantasy writers, of course, the impossible is often the starting point for a story, so it’s no surprise that SFF novels […]