Need a new novel? Classic adventures, satire, and dystopian science fiction top this year's round-up of reader book recommendations for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-18 22:08:27 UTC ]
Need a new novel? Classic adventures, satire, and dystopian science fiction top this year's round-up of reader book recommendations for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-18 22:08:27 UTC ]
As editor of the magazines Analog and Omni, he was a champion of a new generation of authors, including George R.R. Martin. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-12-14 19:27:29 UTC ]
Anthologies like “The Big Book of Modern Fantasy” cover a lot of ground. Illustrated books like “Flyway” offer something special. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-07 14:00:00 UTC ]
THE SKELETONS IN Ray Bradbury’s closet are out in Killer, Come Back to Me, a career-spanning collection of the science fictioneer’s crime stories. These 300 pages present a new side to readers who only know Bradbury from such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953).... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
FASCISTS LOVE Dune: Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation was highly anticipated on white nationalist sites such as Counter-Currents and the Daily Stormer. As soon as the trailer dropped, they began poring over it for signs of deviation from their pet interpretations of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-19 18:00:46 UTC ]
Dystopias, adventures and new worlds in books by Stephen Graham Jones, Zen Cho and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-19 13:30:00 UTC ]
“Wild landscapes, weird nature, science fiction — this really should be my jam. But no.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-19 10:00:06 UTC ]
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop made the famous science fiction theme tune and worked with the Beatles. Now it is preparing to make historyThe Radiophonic Workshop has always broken new sonic ground, from the Doctor Who theme to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Now they’re at it again – this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-15 10:00:31 UTC ]
Drawing on Octavia E. Butler's journals and notes, "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky" offers a glimpse inside her journey to becoming a science fiction writer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-11 15:30:06 UTC ]
Authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Malka Older discuss how storytelling can help us govern for the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-11-11 14:15:00 UTC ]
Although Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) – known as ‘Jack’ to his friends and family – is best-known for his seven children’s fantasy novels set in the land of Narnia, C. S. Lewis wrote a number of other works – fiction and non-fiction, science fiction and literary criticism – which have […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2020-10-29 15:00:09 UTC ]
These mathematical science fiction books use mathematics in world-building to advance the plot and build characters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-28 10:37:00 UTC ]
TAMSYN MUIR’S DEBUT NOVEL, Gideon the Ninth, the first in her Locked Tomb trilogy, exploded into the world to universal critical acclaim last year. The series doesn’t fit nearly into the castles-versus-spaceships division that characterizes much of mainstream science fiction and fantasy. It has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-21 17:00:28 UTC ]
If you thought the landscape of classic SFF was exclusively male, peep these science fiction and fantasy stories by women, including Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-14 10:37:00 UTC ]
Recent releases include “The Midnight Bargain,” “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” and “Piranesi.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-10-14 09:00:04 UTC ]
Mainstream economics is suffering an identity crisis, which began with The Great Recession and has reemerged during the current pandemic. In response, a growing collection of voices has advocated looking beyond the field—in particular, to science fiction—as a way to imagine it anew. Although... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-05 08:48:01 UTC ]
Are these the end times? Who knows! Settle into this current quasi-dystopian reality with recent books by American writers of color. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-02 10:35:59 UTC ]
Jo Fletcher Books, Quercus’ fantasy and science fiction imprint, will publish Derek B Miller’s first sci-fi novel, Radio Life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 03:42:44 UTC ]
Within an hour of hearing that she had won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a top honor given to science fiction published in the UK, Namwali Serpell also heard the news that the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor would not be charged for her murder. “I received these two pieces of news about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-25 18:21:12 UTC ]