The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction turns a century of neologisms (and neosemes!) into a redefintion of the genre. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2021-01-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
The new online Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction probes the speculative corners of the lexicographic universe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-26 12:01:06 UTC ]
At the London Review of Books, Colin Burrow reflects on how Ursula K. Le Guin‘s narrative prowess flourished within the constraints of science fiction and children’s literature. “Fiction needs the unruly energies of indeterminacy,” Burrow writes, “of being partly inside the mind of the reader,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-01-20 21:30:12 UTC ]
“Vellum” by Hal Duncan, “Mockingbird,” by Walter Tevis, the works of Tanith Lee and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-13 14:00:00 UTC ]
Police in Shanghai say a suspect has been detained in the death by possible poisoning of the billionaire founder of a Chinese video game company that is producing films based on popular science fiction novel “The Three-Body Problem.” Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2020-12-28 14:47:02 UTC ]
Del Rey, the SFF imprint of Cornerstone, has acquired A E Warren's four-book high-concept science fiction series, described as "Jurassic Park meets Sapiens, set within a bold new imaginative world". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-21 17:20:07 UTC ]
From talking tigers to automaton dragons and UFOs, find some of the best 2020 under the radar SFF books you may have missed, including Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-21 11:37:00 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 ]
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 ]