Today, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2018 Nebula awards, honoring science fiction and fantasy works—novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories—published during the prior calendar year. If the Hugo Awards, voted on by fans, are the SFF version of the People’s Choice Awards, the Nebulas are the Oscars, […]
From The Time Machine to Kirk and Uhura‘s unprecedented kiss, speculative fiction has long concerned itself with breaking barriers and exploring issues of race, inequality, and injustice. The fantastical elements of genre, from alien beings to magical ones, allow writers to confront controversial issues in metaphor, granting them a subversive power that often goes unheralded. On this, the […]
As the real world grows each day stranger by leaps and bounds, the skewed secondary worlds, fantastical lands, and alternate histories that are the realms of science fiction and fantasy have only grown more vital, not only as a means of escape from blaring headlines, political turmoil, and the crescendo of climate change, but as […]
This month brought stories of horror and hope, post-apocalyptic worlds and the afterlife, the power of art and literature, and of desert dogs and Scorpion Men. In other words, it was a great time to be a reader of science fiction and fantasy short fiction. “Rapture“, by Meg Elison, in Shimmer If you need a […]
Game recognizes game: we’re pretty proud of what we’ve built in the three and a half years of the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog’s existence, but there’s no doubt we’ll always be chasing the accomplishments of Tor.com, the internet’s most beloved source for discussion of sci-fi and fantasy books, films, TV, and fandom—as […]