Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the members of an industry trade organization who are the professional peers of the award nominees. For the Nebula, that is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are six […]
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. There are six nominees in the best novel category this year, and our own Ceridwen Christensen has reviewed all of them. With the ceremony only a day away, she’s now placing her final bets. […]
2014 offered ample pleasures for sci-fi and fantasy readers: A return to Westoros. A farewell to the land of Fillory. A sequel to one of the most acclaimed science-fiction debuts ever. A new novel from one of sci-fi’s undisputed modern masters. These books and more made our list for the year’s top reads. If one of […]
From J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise, to Stephen King’s Dark Tower, to Tolkien’s two, the genres certainly offer their fair share of sky-scraping edifices (we’ve even put together a list of our favorites), but they hardly serve as a monolithic piece of imagery—in fact, the tower so rich a symbol that one can stand for any number […]