Books & Comics

It’s “Cats In Space” Week!

The blog WTF Bad Science Fiction Covers has declared Cats in Space Week, and these are just a few examples of the riches awaiting you over there. Although nothing can be better than the cat sitting in a space command chair that has a hole for its tail. Awww.

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Award-Winning Designer Picks Some of Science Fiction’s Best Book Covers

Australian book cover designer WH Chong has won numerous awards for his book designs. And speaking to Spook Magazine, he singled out some of his favorite book cover designs for classic science fiction. (Which also happen to be for some of the best books ever written.) About the book cover above, Chong writes: There is…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Ken Liu Explains Why The Social Messages In Fiction Depend on the Reader

Ken Liu’s debut novel The Grace of Kings has sparked lots of interest with its coinage of a new genre, Silkpunk. But is it a novel of social commentary? Does it comment on contemporary social issues? The New York Times asked Liu, and he delivered an interesting perspective on the ability of fiction to critique…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Exclusive Excerpt From Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Quest: Will Fitz EVER Learn?

FitzChivalry Farseer just can’t resist taking in orphans and creatures in need. And that trait will continue to get him into major trouble, judging from our exclusive excerpt from Fool’s Quest, the second book in Robin Hobb’s Fitz and the Fool trilogy. Excerpted from Fool’s Quest, book II of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Reign of Archie Continues as Adam McKay Takes the Comic to Broadway

Not content with a new TV series on the CW, a newly redesigned and shockingly excellent comic relaunch, fighting zombies, Predators and Sharknados, and all the other ways he and his Riverdale pals are conquering the entertainment world, Archie will also get a Broadway musical with help from Anchorman’s Adam McKay. From the press release:…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Our First Look At Neil Gaiman’s Remastered Miracleman

Many comics legends have worked on Miracleman, but no run on the series is as fondly remembered as Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham’s, cut short before its time. But now Marvel isn’t just remastering Gaiman and Buckingham’s original comics, but letting them finish the story they began 25 years ago. We’ve known about Gaiman and…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The Cover Art That Most Missed The Point of Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick’s classic novel The Man in the High Castle offers cover designers a few creative directions to go in. There’s Nazi imagery. Japanese flags. Images of an occupied United States. But as Atlas Obscura shows, some overseas designers went in a decidedly different direction. Apart from the three selections above—swinging travelogue, green blobby…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Absolutely Must Read in August

The summer is almost over—but the beach reads keep on coming. Including brand new series by N.K. Jemisin and David Drake. A brand new Christopher Moore book, plus tons more of your favorite authors. Here are the books you must read in August. Note: Before anybody asks, The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett isn’t on…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Victorian Hugos: 1893 Was to Books What 1977 Was to Movies

Science fiction books in 1893 are where science fiction film was in 1977. In both cases, the genre was… perhaps “in the doldrums” is too harsh a judgment. Certainly, enough significant work had appeared before 1893 and 1977 that one could, in those years, speak of the science fiction genre, in both media, as a…

Books & Comics Jess Nevins

The 10 Worst Parents in Superhero Comics

What makes a hero? Is it bravery? Sympathy for others? Uncompromising morals? Or is it just having really terrible parents? I’m not sure about the latter, but being raised by horrible people clearly doesn’t hurt. Here are 10 moms and dads that being a good guy clearly isn’t genetic. 1) Corsair, Cyclops and Havok’s Dad…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Mark Hamill Will Voice the Joker One More Time for The Killing Joke Film

Mark Hamill will always be the Joker we want and deserve. This time, he’s back for an animated direct-to-video version of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s The Killing Joke. To be honest, can anyone else really fill his shoes for that famous a story? At this point, Hamill’s career as the Joker is like a…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta

In This Week’s Comics: A Story About A Shrinking Man That’s Not Ant-Man

Sure, Hank Pym and Scott Lang make all that shrinking look fun, but as you can see in this week’s adaptation of the Richard Matheson classic The Shrinking Man, it can be pretty petrifying. But that’s not all in this week’s new comics—Bruce Timm writes Superman! Hacktivists! Zombie Soldiers! And more! Dark Horse Single Issues…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The Victorian Hugos: 1892

Welcome back to the Victorian Hugo Awards, what I hope will be a semi-regular column in which I award honorary Hugo Awards to the best novels and short stories of the Victorian era. When I wrote about the slate of nominees for the 1891 Hugo, I undoubtedly sounded underwhelmed and disappointed. If I did, it’s…

Books & Comics Jess Nevins

What Are You Reading This Summer?

Stop making us covertly peer over your shoulder and just tell us already: What books are you reading this summer? Gather up your recent reading list—both the books you’ve just finished as well as the ones that you have yet to crack—and tell us what they are, who wrote them, and what made you pick…

Books & Comics Ria Misra

This Fan Book Trailer For Max Gladstone’s Two Serpents Rise Is Wonderful

Max Gladstone’s novel Two Serpents Rise came out in 2013, but Glinda Chen has put together a wonderful animated book trailer for the first installment of his Craft Sequence novels. We reviewed Gladstone’s third Craft Sequence novel, Full Fathom Five last year, and this trailer perfectly captures his style and vision for the world he’s…

Books & Comics Andrew Liptak

Ursula K. Le Guin, Fyodor Dovstoevsky, and the Snuggly Comfort of Evil

Ursula K. Le Guin’s most famous short story is probably “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.” It’s a modified version of a thought experiment from Fyodor Dovstoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and in turn it’s helped inspire a raft of similar stories. But “Omelas” isn’t just an interesting idea—it’s a provocation. In Karamazov, Dovstoevsky poses…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

In Spidey, Spider-Man Is Going Back To His Teenage Years… Again

Everything old is new again—or, I guess, in the case of this new Spider-Man comic, everything young is new again. Yes, get ready to re-experience the origins and teenage life of Peter Parker for the 5 billionth time in Marvel Comics history, with a brand new series beginning later this year. As revealed by Comicbook.com…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Read The First 4 Chapters Of My New Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel

My novel All the Birds in the Sky is coming out in January, and I’ll be writing more about the process of writing this book, and what I learned from doing it, as the publication date approaches. For now, though, you can read the first four chapters at Tor.com. And yes, I meant to write…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Where’s Waldo Wallpaper Is the Best Work Distraction

We’ve all got something on our desks we like to fiddle with when work gets boring, be it a traditional Newton’s Cradle, or just the good ol’ internet. But neither can compare to the wonderful waste of time that is a giant Where’s Waldo scene filling an entire wall of your office. Even after you…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

Some Of Your Favorite Authors Are Writing James Bond Stories!

Here in the United States, we’re excited because James Bond has another big movie coming up. But in Canada, James Bond just entered the public domain. Or at least, Ian Fleming’s books did. To celebrate, ChiZine Publications is putting out a book of “unauthorized” James Bond stories. Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond is edited…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

It’s “Cats In Space” Week!

Award-Winning Designer Picks Some of Science Fiction’s Best Book Covers

Ken Liu Explains Why The Social Messages In Fiction Depend on the Reader

Exclusive Excerpt From Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Quest: Will Fitz EVER Learn?

The Reign of Archie Continues as Adam McKay Takes the Comic to Broadway

Our First Look At Neil Gaiman’s Remastered Miracleman

The Cover Art That Most Missed The Point of Man in the High Castle

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Absolutely Must Read in August

The Victorian Hugos: 1893 Was to Books What 1977 Was to Movies

The 10 Worst Parents in Superhero Comics

Mark Hamill Will Voice the Joker One More Time for The Killing Joke Film

In This Week’s Comics: A Story About A Shrinking Man That’s Not Ant-Man

The Victorian Hugos: 1892

What Are You Reading This Summer?

This Fan Book Trailer For Max Gladstone’s Two Serpents Rise Is Wonderful

Ursula K. Le Guin, Fyodor Dovstoevsky, and the Snuggly Comfort of Evil

In Spidey, Spider-Man Is Going Back To His Teenage Years… Again

Read The First 4 Chapters Of My New Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel

Where’s Waldo Wallpaper Is the Best Work Distraction

Some Of Your Favorite Authors Are Writing James Bond Stories!

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