In the library of the mind, shelve Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix between The X-Men and Frankenstein. A companion to Okorafor’s Who Fears Death, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2011, The Book of Phoenix tells the story of Phoenix, one of the mutant “speciMen” a future government has created for nefarious purposes. SpeciMen—invariably of African descent— […]
It’s been almost 12 years since a science fiction or fantasy film got any major love at Oscar time (and prior to that, it had been…uhm, basically never). Peter Jackson’s butt-busting adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien’s equally epic The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King went home with the Best Picture prize, and grabbed […]
From Ali Baba to Danny Ocean, we’ve always loved a good thief. But at some point, George Clooney got tired of making heist movies (or Hollywood ran out of heavyweights willing to sign on to Ocean’s 14). Either way, I think it’s possible to reboot the series once again, only this time, instead of fancypants actors, […]
