Any serious reader will tell you that there are books…and there are books.
The first kind are your normal, everyday releases that are consumed voraciously one after another. They serve their purpose as entertaining diversions in which to escape the mundanity of the real world. For speculative fiction readers, this would include the latest epic fantasy or a new rip-roaring space opera. Publishers release these stories like clockwork around the calendar.
Then there's the second kind, said with a ...
April is bringing a whole new enticing batch of science fiction and fantasy books that will stretch your imagination. Here's a selection of the ones that will be generating the most buzz. You'll find fallen angels, Death's assistant, human refugees in space, a revolution against the One Percent, matriarchal lunar colonies, giant robots, genetic thrills, biotech-weird, and origin stories for Captain Future and Admiral Thrawn!
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr
In this steampunk fantasy ...
Time travel is one of my favorite science fiction sub-genres. It's a longtime mainstay of science fiction literature, but it also seems to be making a resurgence in television as well. Timeless is a TV show in which a team of travelers attempt to stop a supposed terrorist from changing history by changing the outcome of famous historical events. In Frequency (based on the film of the same name), a cop uses a radio that allows her to talk ...
You can't escape them. They're everywhere. Superheroes have infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. You'll find them in blockbuster films, several currently-running television shows, countless books, and of course comics…but you'll also find them plastered on numerous T-shirts and hats, on coworkers' desks as vinyl figures, mentioned in news segments about conventions, and even in the form of jewelry and gadgets.
This is not a slow invasion. Superheroes were around long before they pervaded pop culture ...
Filmmakers have been regularly mining the science fiction and fantasy bookshelves for film and television ideas. Now it seems as if they're once again reaching back into the bookshelves of yesteryear, as evidenced by this roundup of classic sf/f books that are being adapted to television and film…
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein's Hugo-Award-winning 1961 classic science fiction novel revolves around its messiah-like protagonist Valentine Michael Smith, a human who was ...
March is filled with fascinating and imaginative stories to satisfy your reading hunger. Just check out this hand-picked selection of science fiction and fantasy books hitting shelves this month, where you'll find stories about soul-searching astronauts, shapeshifting werewolves, alien abductions, a flooded New York City, sentient war machines, and airship pirates…
Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Millie, a cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder, is no longer part of the Arcadia Project ...
In this day and age, it's no surprise that the Internet has many outlets for finding your next great read. The trick is in finding the good ones. If you like speculative fiction – that is, science fiction, fantasy, and horror – I've got good news. I've rounded up some of the best destinations for finding your next great read online. The best part: all of them offer stories that are absolutely free.
However, rather than adopt ...
At some point, many hardcore speculative fiction readers expand their interest in genre beyond the stories themselves. For them, engaging with science fiction and fantasy literature becomes something more than just reading novels spoon-fed to them by publishers. They want to know more about what makes science fiction tick. That is, the interest switches from genre fiction to the genre itself. There is a fannish desire to read non-fiction books about the fiction they love to read.
Speculative fiction readers ...
