We’ve been a fan of Longform.org for many months now, and decided to ask the editors there what they’ve been reading lately that gave them pause. Aaron Lammer and Max… Read more »

Below is the winning story of the 2011 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize, written and illustrated by Isabel Greenberg, a 23-year-old University of Brighton graduate who lives with her parents in North London.… Read more »

UK science fiction author Stephen Hunt is proud to call himself a ‘genre’ author. Since the launch of World Book Night last month, he has spearheaded a campaign heavily criticising… 4 / Read more »

Google UK is celebrating the 183rd birthday of the father of science fiction, Jules Verne, with a special, interactive “doodle” (what the company apparently calls its logo on its search… Read more »

Last week, the sci-fi superblog Io9 hailed our author Jean-Christophe Valtat’s wildly inventive Arctic fantasia Aurorarama as a top 10 sci-fi gift novel (“a wildly different take on the genre”). In this week’s… Read more »

  Time travel is not only possible but the most important facet, the time machine itself, already exists. Or so say Russian physicists in an article for the once mighty… 13 / Read more »

Much like tequila, Harlan Ellison is best when taken with a grain of salt. The celebrated writer of speculative fiction (he’d prefer you not call it sci-fi) has never been… Read more »

Today is the birthday of author, historian and “father of science fiction,” H.G. Wells. Born this day in Bromley, England in 1866. Wells’s many titles include: The Invisible Man, The… Read more »

Ray Bradbury, reigning King of Sci-fi, was transported via fiber optics from his home in Los Angeles to New York City yesterday. According to this post on the Wall Street… Read more »