“If only the two of them could find some place where the prospects are better,” Stan thinks, as he tries to settle to sleep in the driver’s seat of a third-hand Honda. Stan and his wife Charmaine have bounced from parking lot to parking lot, trying to find a safe place to grab a few […]
With the mammoth success of Game of Thrones and Outlander, prestige TV has finally embraced epic science fiction and fantasy, and there is no shortage of Golden Age classics (not to mention recent blockbusters) waiting to be reimagined. The studios have taken note, and the amount of talent tied to upcoming SF/F stories is daunting. Here’s the rundown […]
Today, the SyFy channel debuts its new series based on the 1995 science fiction puzzler 12 Monkeys. Widely considered part of the genre film canon, 12 Monkeys is notable not only for innovating the concept of a time-traveling Bruce Willis character (see: Looper, The Kid), but for being one of director Terry Gilliam’s more conventionally comprehensible movies (meaning it […]
Emma Newman’s Planetfall is a devastating novel, set among a colony of pilgrims who left Earth to find God on another planet. Set 20 years after the Atlas mission landed, it details the idyllic lives of the missionaries, who while away their days at the edge of an incomprehensible alien structure. They live post-scarcity lives, with every physical need provided for by 3D […]
