Charlie Jane Anders

A Brand New Kids’ Space Opera Series From Some of Your Favorite YA Authors

Voyagers aims to be a brand new Star Wars for the young generation, right while everybody is getting excited about the upcoming Force Awakens. There are six books coming out in the next year, written by people like City of Ember author Jeanne DuPrau and Skinned author Robin Wasserman. Check out an excerpt! In the…

Blood Moon over Vancouver | Here’s our favorite picture of last night’s Supermoon Eclipse, showing all the lights of Vancouver, with the red moon hanging over them. Photo by The Kaigan. Contact the author at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @Charliejane

The Secret of Writing An Action Movie in Book Form

Screw movies. A great novel can be just as exciting and thrilling as a big-budget Hollywood tentpole. A novel can contain massive, insane action, that movie-makers could never even afford to bring to life. But how do you create an action movie on the page? We talked to 10 of our favorite authors, and here’s…

Doctor Who and the Deconstruction of the Daleks

Tonight’s Doctor Who episode continues the show’s recent trend of deconstructing the Daleks, his armored “space Nazi” adversaries. And just like with the recent “Asylum of the Daleks” and “Into the Dalek,” we discover that Dalek nature is both sadder and more complicated than we’d previously thought. Spoilers ahead… At the heart of “The Witch’s…

This December’s New Star Wars Books Include Some Galactically Gorgeous Art

This December is going to be a crazy orgy of Star Wars obsession. And that’s going to include a dozen new tie-in books, besides the official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The official Star Wars site just unveiled a dozen pretty insane looking book covers. Check them out below, and there are more…

Here’s Your Handy Guide To Everything That’s Been Happening on Continuum

A brand new episode of Continuum airs tonight at 11 PM on Syfy—and this time-travel show is even more complicated than ever. So just in time for tonight’s brain-popping adventure, here’s a quick primer to get you up to speed… Continuum is a show about Kiera Cameron, a police officer (Protector) from the year 2077,…

Dying to catch a glimpse of the new X-Files relaunch? A special two-part “trailer” will air Monday night during Gotham and Minority Report on Fox. Contact the author at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @Charliejane

Bad news. We previously told you that season four of Person of Interest would be coming to Netflix on Sept. 22. Now we’re hearing it’s been delayed, and there’s no firm date when the latest season will show up. Contact the author at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @Charliejane

Hotel Transylvania 2 Uses Great Art in the Service of Weak Storytelling

There’s really only one main reason to be interested in Hotel Transylvania 2: Like the first movie, it’s directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the animator best known for Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars. And there are some utterly beautiful images in this film, in support of a dreadful story. https://gizmodo.com/theres-no-debate-necessary-heres-the-person-who-sho-453682115 I think Hotel Transylvania…

Tell Us Your Most Inspirational Stories of Heroic Comic-Book Store Clerks!

Running a comic-book store is a tough, lonely job. You have to help people find the perfect comics for their individual taste, and also deal with a certain amount of obnoxious customers. So let’s salute some of the greatest heroes in comics: Tell us your story of a heroic comic-store worker! You don’t have to…

Here’s a Stunning Look at Volume 2 of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar!

Mark Danielewski blew everybody’s minds with House of Leaves. And now he’s trying to do something really ambitious and strange with his new project, The Familiar. It’s partly a serialized narrative in the style of a TV show, partly an art book, and partly a science fiction mystery. Check out a sneak peek at part…

9 Ways to Tell if a New TV Show Is Going To Be Worth Watching

It’s the start of the fall TV season, and this week alone a ton of pilots have aired. You can’t always judge a show by its pilot—they’re usually filmed months before the rest of the show, and terrible pilots lead to great shows and vice versa. So how can you decide which show to invest…

An Amazing Deal: 11 of the All-Time Greatest Science Fiction Books For $15!

Humble Bundle-style collections of books or comics come along pretty regularly these days… but the latest Story Bundle offering is pretty amazing. There are 11 books that either won the Philip K. Dick Award or were finalists, and you can get them all for just $15. This is one of those name-your-own-price sort of deals,…

How The Hell Did They Screw Up The Muppets So Badly?

Seriously, I’m asking, because I don’t know the answer. It’s not that the jokes aren’t funny—some of them were super funny, although last night’s series premiere was definitely hit and miss. It’s more that this whole concept is just wrong for the freaking Muppets. And then there’s Miss Piggy. Sigh. Let’s back up a bit.…

Mad Max: Black & Chrome Is Fury Road The Way George Miller Intended It

One of the most striking things about Mad Max: Fury Road is the insane palette, full of rich, bright primary colors. But director George Miller said if he’d had his way, the movie would have been in black and white. Now you can see what that would look like. In a Q&A with fellow director…

Some of the Most Beautiful Astronomy Photos That Anyone Has Ever Seen

Our cosmos is freaking wonderful. And a few talented and patient photographers have managed to capture all of its glory. It’s time to celebrate them, by ogling some of their most brilliant photos. Every year, the Royal Observatory Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition picks the best photos by astrophotographers. And now, a new book…

Which Old Science Fiction Trope Has Become Part of Your Everyday Life?

One of the main ways that you know we’re Living in the Future is when you see something that used to be a huge science fiction trope, but now it’s just an ordinary part of life. Like arguing with computers—back in the day, debates with machines were a funny “what if.” And now, we argue…

Fran Krause’s Deep Dark Fears Book Is Full of Things You Didn’t Know To Be Afraid Of

We’ve celebrated Fran Krause’s Deep Dark Fears tumblr before—it’s a collection of really insane comics about truly bizarre things to be afraid of. A lot of them are very outlandish or sort of existential, or just very goofy. And now, he’s got a book of new comics, and we’ve got an exclusive first peek. Check…

One of the Creepiest Books We’ve Read in Ages Is Becoming a TV Series

We were utterly creeped out by the “insomnia epidemic” novel Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun. There have been other books and stories about a world where almost everybody suddenly can’t sleep recently—but Calhoun’s vision was especially horrific. So it’s great that this book is becoming a TV show. According to Deadline, Melissa Rosenberg (who’s working…

Which Character Did You Hate…Until They Became Your Absolute Favorite?

There really is a thin line between love and hate! Sometimes there’s a character on a TV show, or in a movie or book series, who shows all the signs of becoming annoying. Or worse yet, offensive. And then…something magic happens. Which character did you hate until they became your favorite? Please include a picture,…