Blog Archive
June 2021
Wed Jun 30
Here Are The Nominees For The 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards
by Andrew Liptak
Extradimensional Rubber Bands: T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places (Part 9)
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Read an Excerpt From All of Us Villains
by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
Loki Peels Back the Curtain in “The Nexus Event”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Amazon’s The Wheel of Time Will Debut In 2021
by Molly Templeton
Bound by Fate: 9 Fantasy Duos Destined for Each Other
by Stubby the Rocket
Hell or Something Like It: C.S. Lewis and The Great Divorce
by Matt Mikalatos
The Fellowship of the Ring and the Memes of Middle-earth
by Austin Gilkeson
Announcing the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
by Andrew Liptak
Five Dark SFF Books To Make You Laugh Out Loud
by Anna Carey
Tue Jun 29
Apparently, Simon Pegg Is Working On A TV Version Of Galaxy Quest
by Andrew Liptak
Sleeps With Monsters: Books Visceral and Gripping
by Liz Bourke
Read an Excerpt From Small Favors by Erin A. Craig
by Erin A. Craig
Good Omens Is a Love Story, and I Will Never Recover From It
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five SFF Tales of Survival in a Strange Place (or Time)
by James Davis Nicoll
Vin Diesel Says That Riddick 4 Is Written
by Andrew Liptak
Reading The Wheel of Time: Sometimes You Have to Use (Bale)Fire in Robert Jordan’s The Fires of Heaven (Part 34)
by Sylas K Barrett
The History and Politics of Wuxia
by Jeannette Ng
Neil Gaiman, David Tennant, Michael Sheen Will Return For A Good Omens Sequel Series
by Andrew Liptak
Revealing A Swift and Savage Tide by Chloe Neill
by Tor.com
Mon Jun 28
Harper Voyager Will Publish Janelle Monáe’s Debut Short Fiction Collection
by Andrew Liptak
Understanding Horses: Chasing Cows and Other Pursuits
by Judith Tarr
You Can Back This Visual Guide to Sci-Fi Megastructures on Kickstarter
by Andrew Liptak
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Good Shepherd”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
You Can Have More Nevers Next Year
by Molly Templeton
Five SFF Homes from Hell
by James Davis Nicoll
Beyond Gears and Wires: Tabletop RPGs If You Love Books About Sentient A.I.s
by Linda H. Codega
Music-Making Mutants: Rock ‘n’ Roll in George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series
by Jason Powell
New Trailer For Apple TV’s Foundation Reveals A September 24 Premiere Date
by Andrew Liptak
Something Big Is Coming… Revealing John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society
by Tor.com
Sat Jun 26
Announcing the 2021 Locus Awards Winners
by Molly Templeton
Fri Jun 25
4 Space Podcasts With Crews You’ll Want to Join
by T.H. Ponders
A Grown-Up Neverland: Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise
by Mahvesh Murad
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Moving Pictures, Part IV
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
A Supernatural Spinoff Is Already the Source of Epic Drama
by Molly Templeton
The New Shang-Chi Trailer Teases a Dragon and the Return of Abomination
by Andrew Tejada
Five SF Travel Methods That Offer an Alternative to Starships
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu Jun 24
Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire Gets Series Order at AMC
by Andrew Liptak
Read an Excerpt From Benjamin Percy’s The Ninth Metal
by Benjamin Percy
The Battle of Four Armies: Carrie Vaughn’s Questland
by Paul Weimer
Arrowverse Recap: A Mixed Bag of Tremendous Highs and Series Lows
by Andrew Tejada
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Child’s Play”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Five Easy Steps Towards Monetizing Your Magical Practice
by T.L. Huchu
The Further Adventures of Professor Challenger by Arthur Conan Doyle
by Alan Brown
Murder Books 101: How To Survive a Slasher
by Grady Hendrix
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Forty-Two
by Alice Arneson
Wed Jun 23
Stepford Pets: Lisa Tuttle’s “Replacements”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Scarlett Johansson Is Reportedly Climbing Aboard Disney’s Tower of Terror
by Molly Templeton
Read an Excerpt From Ryan Van Loan’s The Justice in Revenge
by Ryan Van Loan
Loki Tries (and Fails) to Get Personal in “Lamentis”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Looking for Body Positivity and Fat Protagonists in YA Fantasy
by Anya Josephs
Read the First Two Chapters From Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Crack the Case With 5 SFF Detectives
by Neil Sharpson
Erewhon Books Announces Kalyna the Soothsayer, the Debut Novel From Elijah Kinch Spector
by Tor.com
The Red Mother
by Elizabeth Bear
Tue Jun 22
First Chords of a New Universe: Benjamin Percy’s The Ninth Metal
by Tobias Carroll
Elves, Murder, and Gallons of Tea: Katherine Addison’s The Witness for the Dead
by Leah Schnelbach
Read an Excerpt From Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
Listen to Brian Staveley’s Short Story “The Last Abbot of Ashk’lan”
by Andrew Liptak
8 SFF Books That Reimagine Literary Classics
by Leah Schnelbach
A24 Offers Helpful Preface on the Legend Inspiring The Green Knight
by Andrew Liptak
In Star Eater, Kerstin Hall Creates a World Like No Other
by Molly Templeton
Download a Free eBook of the First Malazan Fantasy Book–Gardens of the Moon–Before June 26!
by Tor.com
Reading The Wheel of Time: A Series of Ambushes in Robert Jordan’s The Fires of Heaven (Part 33)
by Sylas K Barrett
Amal El-Mohtar, Kelly Robson, and A.M. Dellamonica Movingly Explore Abduction Through Those Left Behind in Theatrical Triptych Dressed as People
by Natalie Zutter
Learn About the Power of Storytelling From LeVar Burton
by Molly Templeton
Five Classic SF Stories About Lost Home Worlds
by James Davis Nicoll
Mon Jun 21
Clawing Toward Hope: Andre Norton’s No Night Without Stars
by Judith Tarr
The Kyo Come to Visit: Clearing Up Some Important Questions in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series
by CD Covington
Luca Should Have Owned Its Accidental Allegory and Become Pixar’s First Queer Film
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Ashes to Ashes”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Celebrate Octavia Butler’s Birthday Tomorrow With the Carl Brandon Society
by Andrew Liptak
When We Have Come to This Place: The Aliens Series as Cosmic Horror
by Premee Mohamed
Read an Excerpt From Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
Henry Golding Faces the Three Challenges of the Warrior in the Latest Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Trailer
by Molly Templeton
MGM Is Revamping Blacula
by Andrew Liptak
Mars Is the Wild West in the First Trailer for Settlers
by Andrew Liptak
Five SFF Characters To Help You Execute the Perfect Caper
by James Davis Nicoll
Doomsday and the Old Lie: Announcing Emily Tesh’s Debut Novel, Some Desperate Glory
by Tor.com
Sat Jun 19
White Bears in Sugar Land: Juneteenth, Cages, and Afrofuturism
by Tochi Onyebuchi
Thu Jun 17
Titans Season 3 Trailer Really Wants Jason Todd to See Red
by Andrew Tejada
Arrowverse Recap: Mental Health and Family Ties Take Center Stage
by Andrew Tejada
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Spirit Folk”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Life at the End of the World: The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien
by Martin Cahill
Risky Business: Five Books About Interplanetary Trade
by James Davis Nicoll
The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 Finale: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
by Natalie Zutter
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Forty-One
by Alice Arneson and Lyndsey Luther
Wed Jun 16
Reading The Wheel of Time: Women Make Their Own Choices in Robert Jordan’s The Fires of Heaven (Part 32)
by Sylas K Barrett
Could Be Worse… We Guess: T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places (Part 8)
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Body, Books, Beauty: The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei
by Lee Mandelo
A Striking Debut: The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
by Liz Bourke
Loki Turns Up the Heat as We Meet “The Variant”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
5 Thrilling SFF Books to Pump You Up
by Aigner Loren Wilson
Celebrate Picard Day With a Teaser for the Next Season of Star Trek: Picard
by Molly Templeton
Let’s Show Some Love for the Ten Best Dads in Superhero TV and Movies
by Joe George
Read an Excerpt From Elizabeth Lim’s Six Crimson Cranes
by Elizabeth Lim
11 Modern Fantasies Based in Classic Mythology
by Carly Silver
The Far Side of the Universe
by noc
Tue Jun 15
Jennifer Lopez Will Defend Humanity From an Apocalyptic AI in Netflix’s Atlas
by Andrew Liptak
Sleeps With Monsters: The Difference Between Survival and Cruelty
by Liz Bourke
Okay, Do Superheroes Bone or Not?
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Gaston Prequel Series Is Real and Coming to Disney+
by Molly Templeton
Into the Woods: Hannah Whitten’s For the Wolf
by Molly Templeton
Can I Interest You in a Dark Carnival? Bo Burnham, Ray Bradbury, and Our Modern Hall of Mirrors
by Leah Schnelbach
Slow Music, Slow Motion, Slow Movie — Zack Snyder’s Justice League
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Stargirl Trailer Shines a Light on a New Green Lantern and More
by Andrew Tejada
Orbit Will Publish Two-Volume Companion to Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series
by Andrew Liptak
Is There a Queer Future Without Queerphobia?
by Emma Leff
Chris Pratt Faces Aliens and Clichés in the Final Tomorrow War Trailer
by Molly Templeton
Five Scorching Hot YA Fantasies Set in the Desert
by Natalie Mae
Meet the Young Crew From Star Trek: Prodigy
by Molly Templeton
Mon Jun 14
A Sequel to Robbie and Stephen Amell’s Code 8 Is Coming to Netflix
by Andrew Liptak
Understanding Horses: Riding as Cooperation
by Judith Tarr
Sapphic Dystopian Excellence in Zoe Hana Mikuta’s Gearbreakers
by Maya Gittelman
Read an Excerpt From The Unraveling
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Collective”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
A Witch’s Life for Me: How Kiki’s Delivery Service Mixes the Magical and the Mundane
by Nicole Glover
Tor Books Acquires Holly Black’s Debut Adult Novel, Book of Night
by Tor.com
The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2021
by Christina Orlando
Not So Fast: Five Books Featuring Sublight Space Travel
by James Davis Nicoll
Fri Jun 11
Netflix Releases First Glimpse of The Witcher Season 2
by Andrew Liptak
Saoirse Ronan and LaKeith Stanfield Will Star in Garth Davis’s Adaptation of Iain Reid’s Foe
by Molly Templeton
The Fragmented Horrors of Josh Malerman’s Goblin
by Tobias Carroll
Jo Walton’s Reading List: April and May 2021
by Jo Walton
Todd McFarlane Is Developing Sam and Twitch, a Spawn Spinoff TV Series
by Molly Templeton
Apple Has Renewed Jason Momoa’s See, Season 2 Gets Summer Release
by Andrew Liptak
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Moving Pictures, Part III
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
She-Hulk Adds The Good Place’s Jameela Jamil
by Andrew Liptak
Five SFF Books That Set Sail for Adventure
by F.T. Lukens
Thu Jun 10
Read an Excerpt From The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy
by Lucinda Roy
Arrowverse Recap: Heroes Find Problems That They Can’t Just Punch Away
by Andrew Tejada
The Trailer for Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation Is Hyperactive ’80s Mayhem
by Molly Templeton
The Cast for Zack Snyder’s Twilight of the Gods Is Out of This World
by Molly Templeton
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Tsunkatse”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
All the New Genre-Bending Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
The Pinnacle of Planetary Romance: The Reavers of Skaith by Leigh Brackett
by Alan Brown
For the Third Year in a Row, There’s a New Trailer for Free Guy
by Molly Templeton
Tolkien’s Orcs: Boldog and the Host of Tumult
by Jeff LaSala
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Forty
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
Wed Jun 9
The Party at the Beginning of the End of the World: Livia Llewellyn’s “Bright Crown of Glory”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Hex-Related Data: Future Feeling by Joss Lake
by Lee Mandelo
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
The Trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy Is Exactly What You Expect
by Molly Templeton
Dave Hutchinson’s Near-Future Spy Series Fractured Europe Is Getting a TV Adaptation
by Andrew Liptak
Loki Premieres to Poke Holes in the God of Mischief’s “Glorious Purpose”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Read an Excerpt From Kerstin Hall’s Star Eater
by Kerstin Hall
Apple TV+’s Invasion Arrives in October
by Molly Templeton
Five Young Adult SFF Books With Asexual Leads
by Linsey Miller
Bryan Fuller Is Getting Behind the Wheel of Christine
by Molly Templeton
The Story King: How The Chronicles of Narnia Shapes the Worlds We Create
by Matt Mikalatos
Revealing Pearl, a New Horror Novel From Josh Malerman
by Tor.com
Meta Meaning: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
by Leah Schnelbach
You Can Now Read Mythic Quest’s Faux Nebula Award-Winning Story, Tears of the Anaren
by Andrew Liptak
An Easy Job
by Carrie Vaughn
Tue Jun 8
Dressed as People, From Kelly Robson, A.M. Dellamonica, and Amal El-Mohtar, Will Premiere at the Ottawa Fringe Festival
by Molly Templeton
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri Is Complicated, Unapologetic, Powerful, Glorious
by Liz Bourke
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
Sisters and Sorcery: Destiny Soria’s Fire with Fire
by Molly Templeton
Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series Is Coming This Fall
by Molly Templeton
Season 2 of Netflix’s Locke & Key Debuts in October
by Andrew Liptak
Can Loki Overcome the MCU’s Comics Problem?
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
5 SFF Squads You Wish You Could Join
by Alexis Nedd
Is It a Trash Can or Is It Art? — Wonder Woman 1984
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Reading The Wheel of Time: Rand Puts a Chip On His Shoulder in Robert Jordan’s The Fires of Heaven (Part 31)
by Sylas K Barrett
Zach Galifianakis Is a Malfunctioning Robot Friend in the Trailer for Ron’s Gone Wrong
by Molly Templeton
Rob Zombie Is Directing a Munsters Movie
by Molly Templeton
5 SFF Books Featuring Makeovers and Transformations
by Sandhya Menon
The Malazan Saga Returns: Read Chapter Two of Steven Erikson’s The God Is Not Willing
by Steven Erikson
Mon Jun 7
Closing the Book on a World: Andre Norton’s The Warding of Witch World
by Judith Tarr
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
Of Course There Will Be a Second Season of Shadow and Bone
by Molly Templeton
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Memorial”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Queerness of Rand al’Thor
by Ben Gierhart
Christina Ricci Plugs In for The Matrix 4
by Molly Templeton
N. K. Jemisin Is Adapting Her Broken Earth Trilogy for Film
by Molly Templeton
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: May 2021
by Alex Brown
Issa Rae Will Swing Into the Spider-Verse as Spider Woman
by Andrew Tejada
Five SFF Characters You Should Never, Ever Date
by James Davis Nicoll
More Than Just a Mean Girl: A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow
by Alex Brown
Sat Jun 5
Here Are the Winners of the 2020 Nebula Awards
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Fri Jun 4
A Greater Gatsby: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
by Alex Brown
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Moving Pictures, Part II
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five SF Books About Living in Exile
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu Jun 3
Read an Excerpt From Destiny Soria’s Fire With Fire
by Destiny Soria
Netflix Is Replacing Jupiter’s Legacy With Supercrooks
by Andrew Liptak
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Virtuoso”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Watch the Freaky Trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s New Horror Film Demonic
by Andrew Liptak
B. Catling’s Hollow Is Abundant and Excessive
by Matthew Keeley
Would-Be Utopias: Five Books Featuring Arcologies and Domed Cities
by James Davis Nicoll
Hugh Jackman Journeys Into the Past in Lisa Joy’s Reminiscence
by Molly Templeton
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Thirty-Nine
by Alice Arneson and Lyndsey Luther
Wed Jun 2
Hugging the Taxidermy: T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places (Part 7)
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Read an Excerpt From The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
by India Holton
Bear McCreary Releasing Battlestar Galactica Live Album
by Andrew Liptak
Five SFF Novels With Trans Women Protagonists
by Alina Boyden
Announcing the Winners of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards
by Andrew Liptak
Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert’s Dune
by Kara Kennedy
Let’s Rank Every Ted Chiang Story Ever Published
by Grant Forbes
Tue Jun 1
MGM Is Adapting Norman Partridge’s 2006 Horror Novel Dark Harvest
by Andrew Liptak
Understanding Horses: The Familial Bond Between Horse and Human
by Judith Tarr
Medievalists Ask Five Questions About A24’s The Green Knight
by Elyse Martin and Sean Rubin
Read an Excerpt From Joss Lake’s Future Feeling
by Joss Lake
The Last Jedi Tried to Free Star Wars From Its Fixation on Legends
by Dan Persons
Reading The Wheel of Time: Old Friends, New Allies, and a Broken Seal in Robert Jordan’s The Fires of Heaven (Part 30)
by Sylas K Barrett
Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners
by Molly Templeton
Here’s the 2021 African Speculative Fiction Society Nommo Awards Shortlist
by Andrew Liptak
Seven Times Science Fiction Got Genetic Engineering Right
by Sue Burke
Join Becky Chambers on Tour for A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Molly Templeton
The Malazan Saga Returns: Read Chapter One of Steven Erikson’s The God Is Not Willing
by Steven Erikson