N.K. Jemisin’s science fiction novel wastes no time with preliminaries. It’s a ferocious parable of modern race relations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-03-12 21:01:56 UTC ]
N.K. Jemisin’s science fiction novel wastes no time with preliminaries. It’s a ferocious parable of modern race relations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-03-12 21:01:56 UTC ]
N.K. Jemisin’s science fiction novel wastes no time with preliminaries. It’s a ferocious parable of modern race relations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-03-12 21:01:56 UTC ]
‘The Man in the High Castle” and other alternative-history novels make us wonder. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-12 16:00:00 UTC ]
These excellent science fiction and fantasy books about ambitious women prove that ambition doesn’t have to be a bad word. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-10 10:34:33 UTC ]
OLIVER MORTON’S The Moon is a masterpiece of science journalism that throws fresh light on its eponymous subject. Morton mines fields as diverse as aerospace science, history, astrobiology, mythology, geology, and science fiction in pursuit of lessons the Moon can teach us about space... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-03-06 20:00:57 UTC ]
The book is a sumptuous scrapbook of photographs, magazine covers, artwork and hundreds of articles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-04 17:19:27 UTC ]
THE WORMWOOD PLANT is ornamental and used as an ingredient in absinthe. The plant is enticing to smell and adamantly bitter to taste. It will refuse to leave your tongue even after you try to chase it away with sweeter flavors. It will stay with you, like a curse. The science fiction Wormwood... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-29 20:00:42 UTC ]
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 ]