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Idea Porn? A Review of Neal Stephenson’s Some Remarks
I expected to love Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson’s newest collection of essays and other writing, as a continuation of my love for his fiction. As it turns out, I did not. Some Remarks is typical of...
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Today’s Awesome Thing From Mars: Zoomable Panoramic Views of the Planet
Want to get lost in another world for real? Take a look at these panoramas available at Mars Arounder, including the above still taken from the most recent addition, a 360 degree view from the rim of...
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Gustav Gloom and the People Taker (Excerpt)
We’re super excited to give you this two chapter peek at Gustav Gloom and the People Taker by Adam-Troy Castro, just released from Penguin Young Readers!Meet Gustav Gloom.Fernie What finds herself lost...
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These Star Trek Episode Posters Are the Coolest
So that hippie episode of Star Trek the Original Series is generally derided by fandom at large, but this poster by Juan Ortiz? This poster manages to make “The Way to Eden” look way cool. (We were...
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UK Readers Can Now Purchase DRM-Free Books From Tor UK
As of today, Tor UK, Pan Macmillan’s science fiction and fantasy imprint, has made its ebooks DRM-free and available to purchase from the Tor UK Ebookstore. In a move announced earlier this year, Tor...
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Morning Roundup: Cumber-Batman & Watson
Admit it. You’re wondering what Benedict Cumberbatch would look like in the Batman mask. Sadly this wonderful fan art from sandsapphires6 doesn’t show us that, but it does give us everything else we...
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Get the First Episode of Scalzi’s The Human Division Early
You deserve early science fiction!Tor Books has debuted a web promotion that will enable fans of John Scalzi and his Old Man’s War series to get a hold of the first chapter/episode, “The B-Team” a week...
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Artists Illustrate Heroes and Villains
Artist rep Richard Solomon is showing off the wares from his stable of science fiction/fantasy artists by collecting images of heroes and villains that they’ve done elsewhere. Above is James McAvoy as...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Unusual Suspects”
Season 5, Episode 3: “Unusual Suspects”Original Airdate: November 16, 1997There shouldn’t be anything particularly vital about “Unusual Suspects.” It’s an origin story, for sure, but it’s an origin...
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What It Would Look Like If David Bowie Was In Game of Thrones
You know nothing, Ziggy Stardust.The first thing we thought after chancing upon this picture of David Bowie with wolves, after the general cloud of squeeing Muppet arms subsided, was that this is...
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Forge of Darkness, Chapter Three (Excerpt)
The latest book in Steven Erikson’s Malazan series—out on September 18—begins the Kharkanas Trilogy, a new story set millennia before the main Malazan sequence and a new jumping on point for fantasy...
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What If the Old Star Trek Movies Were Remade in the New Continuity?
Recently, IDW Star Trek comics’ writer Mike Johnson mentioned there are hints to the direction of the new film in the current comics series, which has been re-telling classic 60’s Star Trek episodes...
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Gaming Roundup: A Long Forgotten Half-Life Remake Rises from the Ashes
Earlier this week, footage from the once highly anticipated Half-Life 2 mod, Black Mesa: Source, leaked online before being quickly vacuumed back up by copyright claims. The perpetually-in-development...
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Pigs! And! Communists! Freddy and the Men from Mars
Not to be deterred by the problems with his last trip to space, in Freddy and the Men from Mars, that taciturn human inventor Uncle Ben decides to try to make another expedition with another shiny new...
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A Diminutive Delight: Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan
Margo Lanagan’s newest collection, Cracklescape, has recently been released as part of Twelfth Planet Press’s “Twelve Planets” series; it is a small, pocket-sized book containing four short stories as...
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Captain Picard and Arya Stark Team Up to Scalp Olympics Tickets
Don’t ever say that Sir Patrick Stewart ain’t out there livin’ life. His latest venture is as an Olympics ticket scalper, teamed up with Maisie “Scraggly Sue” Williams to take every unwitting mark down...
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Morning Roundup: Mulder & Scully & The Great Pumpkin (Of Love)
So if it turns out that the rumor of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny living together is true, will our lives all get way better? Further, what in the heck are we supposed to call them? We’ve tried...
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They Were a Lot Like Us: How to Think Like a Neandertal
I have a thing for Neanderthals. The idea that there were these actual Others out there once, living side by side with Homo sapiens, people but not humans… it just floors me with how crazy that is. I...
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Can We Talk About Why We Really Love Princess Leia?
When citing a slew of strong and/or important female characters in genre (or anywhere in pop culture), Princess Leia usually makes the list. It seems almost lazy, the easiest road to legitimacy because...
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“I Just Do The Science!”: The Bourne Legacy
In many ways, Jeremy Renner is not only the protagonist of the new film The Bourne Legacy, but also its analog. The action-adventure spy thriller can be summed up in comparison to his character Aaron...
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