Is anyone old enough to remember when there’d be, like, one big science fiction or fantasy film in a given year? With the mainstreaming of geekiness, we’ve become spoiled for choice (eve before  including superhero stuff), and 2017 won’t be any different. Are the movies going to be good? Well, that’s a question for another […]

Carrie Fisher—writer, actress, and all-around Strong Female Protagonist (onscreen and in real life)—has a new memoir out, the latest in a series of unflinching chronicles of a life that saw her born into Hollywood royalty, and step into her own as an icon by age 19. Her books tend to be about the reality that surrounds the legend, and […]

The only problem with this list is that I had to narrow down the choices. Sticking to Marvel and DC Comics alone, I could easily come up with 20 objects that I need right this second, starting with an Infinity Stone to control time to do everything that I need to do and ending with […]

It’s already impossibly hard to remember a time when Star Wars fandom wasn’t littered with Finn/Poe memes and BB-8 love, but this time last year, The Force Awakens was still five months away, and there was only one thing keeping our ravenous appetite for the franchise at bay: the looming release date of Star Wars: Aftermath, […]

So maybe we aren’t the best awards prognosticators, but you’ll forgive us for making the wrong call on the winner of the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel: after three previous nominations, we were sure N.K. Jemisin would finally take home the trophy for the dazzlingly accomplished, apocalyptic epic fantasy The Fifth Season. Instead, the […]