“… A big part of the journey with this book is realizing that people’s humanity shouldn’t be negotiable.” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars tells an explosive, unrelenting and ultimately compassionate story about a not so unbelievable future in which incarcerated people become gladiators fighting their way to freedom at any cost. Adjei-Brenyah joins […]
It’s time to talk about our collective Castle problem. The TV show Castle has been on the air for years now, and the titular character, played with great finesse by Nathan Fillion, is the problem. He’s an immensely popular writer, and the show steps hard on every possible misconception and cliché about being a writer […]
The first two weeks of July were insanely busy for manga fans—and publishers, and the press—with Anime Expo and Comic-Con International hitting back-to-back. To give you an idea of what to look forward to, here’s a roundup of the new manga announcements so far—plus some suggestions for what to read in the meantime. Let’s start with […]
The alternate history is fertile ground in science fiction, the ultimate “what if” that lies at the core of all stories writ large. Most of them go big with their premises, latching onto history’s biggest villains and biggest moments and positing a simple tweak to events, then following the infinite threads it generates to their logical conclusions. And that’s all […]
