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Wool (Excerpt)
We’ve got a special extended excerpt of Wool by Hugh Howey, out now from Simon & Schuster and Century Random House in the UK.What would you do if the world outside was deadly, and the air you...
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Morning Roundup: Darwin the Dolphin Gives Shatner a Moustache
Back in the lost days of the 90’s, William Shatner was on seaQuest and he needed to disguise himself quickly! Luckily, Darwin the dolphin gave him an awesome fake moustache which happened to be...
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The Great Stephen King Reread: Christine
A child of the 50’s, cars have long fascinated Stephen King. There’s Billy Nolan’s ‘61 Biscayne in Carrie, Jack Torrance’s clapped-out 1968 Volkswagen in The Shining, the sentient trucks of Maximum...
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Will Continuum Destroy the Sci-Fi Police Procedural?
Despite being a genre beset with its own trappings, clichés, and expectations, science fiction has a tendency to subsume nearly every other genre. In the annals of television, it seems that nothing is...
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Tempus Rerum Imperator: The Emperor of All Things by Paul Witcover
It is the year 1758, and England and her allies are at war with France and its confederates in a conflict that could go either way at any moment, so when evidence emerges of a weapon that could affect...
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 9, “Barrels Out of Bond”
Welcome back to the chapter-by-chapter reread of The Hobbit. You can find past posts at the reread index, or you can catch up with our previous reread of The Lord of the Rings. As always, the...
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Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 18: A Good Cloak
My obsessively detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but the speculation goes on. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things posted since last...
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SCRAM, Vermicious Knids! Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
“I must admit,” said Mr. Wonka, “that for the first time in my life I find myself at a bit of a loss.”Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator begins by swiftly catching us up with the events from the...
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Chu’s Day Poster Sweepstakes!
We had an awesome peek and at Neil Gaiman and Adam Rex's Chu's Day in December and we're back with a seriously adorable sweepstakes—it's a poster! And not only does it feature one precious panda bear,...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Sein und Zeit”/“Closure”
Season 7, Episodes 10 and 11: “Sein und Zeit”/“Closure”Original Airdates: February 6 and February 11, 2000Samantha Mulder has always been a concept. Never really a character, just a motivation, a young...
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Rebel Angels (Excerpt)
We’ve got an excerpt from Michele Lang’s Fallen Angels, out on March 12 from Tor Books:Magda Lazarus has twice come back from the dead to fight the Nazis’ devastating conquest of Poland. To prevent the...
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Adam West in Batman: Turn Off the Dark?
Taken from a bizarre live 1966 stage performance, the following brilliant clip features Adam West’s Batman singing his way through a “snappy” number about fighting off bad guys. If you ever heard of...
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Morning Roundup: Here Captain Pike, Hold this Spaceship
This super rare photo of Gene Roddenberry handing the Enterprise to Jeffrey Hunter surfaced just days after an old interview with Jeffrey Hunter popped up on the Internet, also! You’d think Captain...
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Exploring Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: Episode 10, “The Edge of Forever”
The tenth episode of Cosmos,“The Edge of Forever,” is about “the beginnings and ends of worlds, infinity and eternity.” While this may sound like one of the big-idea episodes, it is more a technical...
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot: TBS’ King of the Nerds Surprisingly FTW!
Hendrik: “You and I, everyone else on this planet, has already won King of the Nerds.”Here’s the thing about marketing: It can completely alienate an audience before a product has a chance to win them...
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2012 BSFA Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for this year’s BSFA Awards has been announced.The BSFA Awards are sponsored by the British Science Fiction Association and drawn up from the most popular titles selected by members of...
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Stirring, Gritty, Epic: The Red Knight by Miles Cameron
The eponymous hero of The Red Knight by Miles Cameron is the leader of a mercenary army that’s just returning to Alba after fighting a campaign abroad. His identity and even his real name are a mystery...
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First Trailer for Red 2
Oscar-winning actors, critically acclaimed actors, and Bruce Willis are teaming up again for a big tongue-in-cheek action flick. If you liked comic-book inspired Red, it seems like Red 2 will be more...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Return of the Crimson Guard, Book Two, Chapter...
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 14
Welcome to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 14 of A Storm of...
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