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Five Historical Fantasy Novels That Reimagine British HistoryHistorical fantasy is a peculiar genre. Situated at the crux of fantasy—the land of the made-up, unrealistic, imaginary—and history, where...
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2023Look, we’ve had thirty-one (31!) atmospheric rivers in California since the start of winter. Every time the sun starts shining, a storm cloud...
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Read an Excerpt From Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows HeavyYou may think you know how the fairy tale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince… We’re thrilled to share an...
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The Boogeyman Trailer Will Have You Leaving the Lights On TonightSometimes the monster under your bed isn’t close relations with Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan . Sometimes the monster tracking you in...
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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Proving Ground”“Proving Ground” Written by Chris Black Directed by David Livingston Season 3, Episode 13 Production episode 065 Original...
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Five Lessons Outrigger Canoe Paddling Has Taught Me About WritingWe are from the ocean, and we are water people who will end up back in the sea sooner or later. You never know when you’re going to...
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Master of the Craft: Ilona Andrews’ Magic BitesEvery so often a book comes along that I appreciate both as a reader—great plot, great setting and worldbuilding, great characters—but also as...
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Five SF Works That Predicted a Very Different End to the Cold WarIndividual humans are ephemeral. But the institutions that people create—religions, philosophies, and most important for this essay,...
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Kids Vs Aliens Featurette Gives Us the Grisly Details of Making Fake Alien BloodA lot of slasher movies have plenty of gore, so much so that they require an official “Blood Chef” on set. For the campy film, Kids Vs...
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Gods, Monsters, and Totoros: Exploring Miyazaki’s Fantasy WorldThere’s a moment in Hayao Miyazaki’s film My Neighbor Totoro that’s stuck with me since I first watched it over a decade ago. Satsuki...
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Stargate’s Future at Amazon May Include Movies and SeriesWhen Amazon Studios bought the legendary movie studio MGM last year, they bought a huge catalog of movie and television properties. Obviously,...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Part IWe should all make sure we’ve got appropriate rat names by the end of this. Summary Traveling in a mail coach is a human boy named...
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How a Chonky Dragon Wyrmed His Way Into Our HeartsThere’s been a lot of talk about fatness in film lately. But you know who’s a great, non-problematic fat character, who didn’t require the use...
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Rachel Pollack, 1945—2023Novelist, comic book writer, trans activist, and Tarot expert Rachel Pollack has died at the age of 77. Seven years ago, the groundbreaking...
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Read an Excerpt From Star Splitter2199. Deep-space exploration is a reality and teleportation is routine. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from young adult science...
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The Muppets Mayhem Trailer Goes to 11.5The Electric Mayhem Band is the best rock band of the past 50 years! That’s the reality portrayed in the newly released trailer of the upcoming...
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Smaller Stakes YA Fantasy: Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich SmithIt may be spring, but there’s never a bad time for a haunted Halloween tale. Cynthia Leitich Smith ventures into supernatural mystery...
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Here are the 2022 British Science Fiction Association Award Winners!The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) recently announced the winners of their 2022 awards for best novel, short fiction, artwork,...
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All the Fan Service!— Star Trek: Picard’s “Vox”Whatever one might say about this season of Star Trek: Picard , it absolutely has people talking. This season has achieved quite the Q-rating...
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Bring Your Crosses and Garlic for The Last Voyage of the Demeter“Evil is on board,” a crew member intones ominously in this trailer for director André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage of the...
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The Horror of Powerlessness: Skinamarink and the RaptureSkinamarink is slow cinema masquerading as found-footage horror. The film’s inciting incident is of two children waking up to find that...
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Animated Gizmo Is Absolutely Too Cute in Gremlins: Secrets of the MogwaiThat’s how they get you, right? By being too cute—and then turning into monsters. It’s 1984 all over again with the new series...
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5 Young Adult Fantasies Told Through Dual-Point of ViewIf there’s one thing I look for in YA fantasy, it’s a side of romantic tension. More specifically, the fraught, complicated kind. Whether the...
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The Voice Cast of DC’s Creature Commandos Is Full of Familiar FolksWhen new DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran announced their first slate of projects, the first thing promised was the animated...
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11 Ways to Start Your Next AdventureRumor has it that it’s spring. The hyacinths and daffodils agree, if the endless rain does not (begone, April showers!) and so I find myself...
