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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Trailer Asks Repeatedly What the Hunger Games Are For“What are the Hunger Games for?” Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis) asks young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) not once but...
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Eight Authors Who’ve Written Themselves Into StoriesCharacter names can be one of the toughest challenges for an author. How to find one imbued with meaning? One that stands out? One that feels...
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Revealing The Fireborne Blade, a New Dragon-Slaying Fantasy From Charlotte BondKill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and...
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The Tale of Clancy the ScrivenerAfter a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera from the “old world” times finds his life...
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Read an Excerpt From After WorldFaced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is...
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Give Tribute! The Hunger Games Is Heading Back to Theaters This OctoberThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film...
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An Entire World Inside Your Head: The Deep Sky by Yume KitaseiThere have been enough generation ship stories by now that readers are accustomed to humanity’s chance for the future falling into two...
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A Tale of Two Genres: Doc Sidhe by Aaron AllstonIn this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field;...
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Trailer Shows That Things Are Not So Normal When You’re a DemigodPercy Jackson (Walker Scobell) has normal problems—bad grades, bullies—and then some… not so normal problems. Like the harpy that shows...
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Ahsoka’s Fifth Episode Was a Reunion in More Ways Than OneAs if the reunion of Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) wasn’t enough to get us all up in our...
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Eugenics and the Human/Animal Divide in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3The 2011 X-Men franchise prequel, X-Men: First Class , briefly featured a mutant named Darwin who could adapt to any circumstances. For...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Too Many Women Are Bound in The Path of Daggers (Part 14)This week we are covering Chapter 26 of The Path of Daggers , the first section of which was an absolute joy to read, and the second part of...
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Where to Start With the Work of Tanith LeeSeptember 19th would have been Tanith Lee’s seventy-sixth birthday. Between her first sale in 1968 and her death in 2015, Lee published over...
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Nicolas Cage Becomes the Stuff of Nightmares in Dream ScenarioNicolas Cage of the 2020s (Superman, Dracula, himself) is not the Nicolas Cage of the 1990s ( Face/Off, Snake Eyes , Con Air) . His...
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Quantum Leap Season 2 Trailer Gives Us Witch Trials and Punching NazisThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series...
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Read an Excerpt From Cassandra Clare’s Sword CatcherTwo outcasts find themselves caught in a web of forbidden love, dangerous magic, and dark secrets that could change the world forever…...
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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Awakening”“Awakening” Written by André Bormanis Directed by Roxann Dawson Season 4, Episode 8 Production episode 084 Original air...
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Gen V Orientation Video Gives Us a Peachy-Keen, Blood-Free Godolkin UniversityThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series...
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A Haunting in Venice Is a Mystery Wrapped Inside a Gothic HorrorLet me start by throwing my cards on the table. I didn’t like Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express when I watched it...
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Exclusive: Comics Adaptation of Robin Hobb’s The Assassin’s Apprentice Gets Second Series RunWhile the first part of Robin Hobb’s The Assassin’s Apprentice has already (deservedly) been adapted into comic book form, we’re excited to...
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Disney Switches Up Loki’s Premiere Date — AgainDoes anybody else have déjà vu? No, I’m not referring to the recent shifting of Ahsoka ’s premiere date, but to the fact that for the...
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“The Long Defeat”: Reading Tolkien in the Time of Climate ChangeAllegorical readings of The Lord of the Rings vexed Tolkien. In the Foreword to the second edition of the books, he wrote of his distaste...
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Announcing the 2023 British Fantasy Awards WinnersThe winners of the 202s British Fantasy Awards were announced this weekend during FantasyCon, the British Fantasy Society’s annual gathering....
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The Triumph of the Weird: Karel Kachyna’s The Little Mermaid (1976)Thanks to commenter aethelred for pointing me toward Karel Kachyna’s 1976 Czech-language version of The Little Mermaid . It’s available on...
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Five Novels Inspired by the Old Norse Kings’ Sagas and the Sagas of the IcelandersAs I mentioned in a recent post that focused specifically on retellings of Norse mythology , the whole “Viking thing” (or “ Northern thing ,”...
