Science fiction has always been good at finding ways to get from one point in space to another. Some methods are a bit more implausible than others: traveling faster than the speed of light breaks the laws of physics as we know them, but if you don’t mind taking your time, a ship going a bit slower […]
The end of 2015 marks the completion of this blog’s first year of existence, and what a year to start with: we can’t remember the last 12-month period that gave us such a strong run of new science fiction and fantasy books, spanning every subgenre on the shelves. Below, we’ve selected 25 of our favorites—these […]
A lot of ink, digital and otherwise, is spilled each year as writers—pressured endlessly into coming up with think-pieces—point and laugh at the generations-old predictions science fiction made about the future. Flying cars! We were promised flying cars! Sure, the genre sometimes gets things wrong when it predicts the future, but a surprising number of once science fictional technologies are now […]
We just finished rescuing Matt Damon from Mars and we’re already looking forward to our return trip: following a year of rumors, Spike TV has given a straight-to-series greenlight to the long-simmering adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s bestselling, award-laden Mars trilogy. A 10-episode season of Red Mars is projected to air in January 2017. This is fantastic news, and signals that […]
Novelist, poet, inventor, activist: Margaret Atwood is already a (Canadian) national treasure, and she’s not letting up anytime soon. She has a new book out, and her MaddAddam series is being developed for HBO, but her latest venture takes her into an entirely new medium: she’s penned an original graphic novel series for Dark Horse Comics.