It’s rare to find a writer who can haunt your dreams with terrifying visions of say, for example, a shapeshifting clown, while ruminating on the battle of good and evil… while commenting on societal injustices… while exploring the very base of human nature…. while illuminating the power of friendship and love. And did we mention […]
Domed cities have been a thing in science fiction since the very beginning, a salient metaphor made almost inescapable by its obviousness: inside, outside; same, same, not the same. The domed city is such a striking image, an enclosure of humanity out there on the Martian plains, or on a ravaged, post-apocalyptic Earth, or glinting in space in […]
The aliens came to Lagos first, and now, finally, there’s a US edition. Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon, written as a response to District 9, published in the UK last year, and available stateside from Saga Press as of last week, imagines a world in which aliens arrive in Lagos, Nigeria. As in the best first contact stories, the focus isn’t on […]
Around 15 years ago, Stephen King promised the world he was ready to retire, claiming the words weren’t coming to him as quickly as they once had. Cue pause for laughter.
Game of Thrones is over for the year. True Blood is getting rather long in the, er, tooth. Under the Dome can’t hold a candle to the book. Your next summer TV obsession is something altogether new, and I want you to get in on the ground floor. The Strain, based on a best-selling trilogy […]