Damien Walter writes for the Guardian that short stories in science fiction are enjoying something of a golden age thanks to new means of consuming, promoting, and funding publication of… Read more »

THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE (Are they still spoilers?) The adoring critical and fan reception to HBO’s Game of Thrones has taken a hit recently, with charges that the series has… Read more »

1.  The first time I saw God He was yelling at William Shatner. Shatner was yelling back. I was twelve years old. Judging by his belly and makeup, Shatner was… Read more »

Three academics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a “wearable” book that allows readers to experience the emotions and atmosphere of the novel’s protagonist as they are reading.… Read more »

One thing that science fiction writers appear to have agreed on over the years is that the future will not be funny. Shiny? Yes. Jumpsuited? I think we can count… Read more »

It’s been a hell of a year for science fiction readers, with the death of a few greats—Iain M. Banks, Jack Vance, surely others I’m forgetting—and the release of some… Read more »

Legendary science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke is about to be sent into space on a totally awesome spaceship, it was announced Saturday. Though Clarke passed away in 2008, it… Read more »

It seems the slow-motion implosion of San Francisco based science fiction publisher Night Shade Books will continue this week unabated, and likely for weeks to come. Night Shade is known… Read more »

As great books sometimes do, Debt, the First 5,000 Years has struck a chord with an unexpected audience: science fiction readers. Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow reiterates the notions submitted… 3 / 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 »