Admit it: you’ve been trapped in the world of Star Wars: The Force Awakens since December 18. You haven’t been able to stay focused on anything else; despite your best attempts, the only thing your mind can concentrate on is new plot lines for that bromantic Finn/Poe fanfic you’ve been writing. And yeah, you love it, […]
The countdown to Episode VII begins in earnest today. With 104 days to go until the Dec. 18 release of the first film in the Star Wars franchise in over a decade, Disney and Lucasfilm have finally given us our first official glimpse at the state of the galaxy far, far away in the post-Return […]
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]
Some argue that our persistent habit of linking the sci-fi and fantasy genres is unfair—that although we often speak of them in the same breath (even shorthand them as “SFF”), they are very different beasts. Science fiction is supposed to be based on actual scientific possibility, right? And fantasy is the stuff of dreams and nightmares: imagined worlds that can […]
Yes, we’re still waiting for The Force Awakens (doesn’t it feel like December 18 is never going to get here?). The new Expaanded Universe canon has given us great novels, comics, and even a TV show set during the early days of the rebel alliance, but the gang at Lucasfilm has been rather stingy with hints about what […]