EPIC IS THE WAY: "The Mandalorian" has proven to be a big hit for Disney and its streaming service, Disney+ – and a Cary company helps make the magic come to life on the screen. Epic Games is helping Lucasfilm produce what design, tech and science fiction site Gizmodo called "real-time digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-02-24 18:26:44 UTC ]
Congratulations to the finalists for the annual Nebula Awards! Presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, these awards have been celebrating writers working in the genres for the past fifty-five years. (Past recipients include N. K. Jemisin and Jeff VanderMeer.) This year’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-20 20:54:28 UTC ]
This month, science fiction fans and Solaris lovers everywhere have cause to celebrate: six newly-illustrated editions of work by the late Polish author Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) are being published by The MIT Press. Lem’s influence on science fiction has been compared to that of authors like... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-20 16:57:37 UTC ]
It’s an exciting year for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes! This will be its 40th year of celebrating the literary community. The Times announced their 2019 Book Prize finalists today; the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on April 17th. Additionally, bestselling crime... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-19 17:41:26 UTC ]
Psychologists have stigmatised science fiction fans as losers who retreat into fantasy worlds. This is unfair. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-02-18 10:26:09 UTC ]
A reader new to science fiction and fantasy embraces the genre and explores some of the great new works of SFF on shelves now. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-02-17 11:40:18 UTC ]
20 of the best audiobooks narrated by black women, including fiction, classics, science fiction and fantasy, memoir, essays, and poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-02-14 11:38:06 UTC ]
‘Do You Compute?’ investigates how technology went from being written off as science fiction to something we engage with every day. In the years following the end of World War II, computers were just starting to make their way into the public consciousness. The intimidatingly technical devices... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-01-27 09:00:47 UTC ]
WILLIAM GIBSON NOTICES THINGS others miss. While his science fiction novels are often described as prescient, what defines Gibson’s body of work is the extraordinary refinement of his focus on the present. When everyone is talking about the features of the latest Silicon Valley gadget, he might... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-01-25 13:30:33 UTC ]
Decades of science fiction assured us all that, yes, one day we'd be able to control the immensely complex gadgetry around us with just our voices. It was right, mostly. The rise of the virtual assistant, built atop still other developments in cloud... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2020-01-23 16:30:00 UTC ]
Christopher Tolkien helped edit and publish much of J.R.R. Tolkien's work after the science fiction and fantasy writer died in 1973. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-17 19:03:20 UTC ]
A young writer wrote a controversial bit of military science fiction about sexual politics. The fallout was nuclear. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2020-01-17 14:00:00 UTC ]
We're in a new golden age of science fiction, especially science fiction short stories. These are some of the best stories you can read right now online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-09 11:35:44 UTC ]
“Alternate history, in my opinion, is a more demanding game,” says the author of “Agency” and other science fiction novels, “if only because conventional historical fiction, like history, is itself highly speculative.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-09 10:00:07 UTC ]
Yes, much of it looks at how we will survive the apocalypse. But we also have the more hopeful genre of solarpunk Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-06 23:50:02 UTC ]
If you're in the mood for a ragtag spaceship crew or queer superheroes living their best lives, check out this list of the best LGBT science fiction books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-06 11:39:51 UTC ]
Get your science fiction and fantasy fix in short form with these excellent novellas -- perfect for the 2020 Read Harder challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-03 11:32:42 UTC ]
This is a big year. Not just in the symmetry of the number – 2020, the futuristic subject period for so many science fiction writers – but in what we already know will happen. A presidential election, prefaced by a likely Senate impeachment trial, will add new layers to an already murky... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-01-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
Since I did a lot of camping in the last year, I've been noticing camping in sci-fi and fantasy all over the place! Let's take a tour. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-02 11:37:49 UTC ]
The 1890s saw pioneering works of science fiction, detective fiction, and Gothic horror all published, by some of the greatest English, Scottish, and Irish writers of the age. In the United States, too, novelists addressed social issues, sometimes in comic ways, while social realism continued to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2019-12-31 15:00:10 UTC ]