Go Phoenixes! Plenty of colleges offer the occasional course on science fiction, but now at UW Green Bay, you can actually major in science fiction studies. Including making your own movie!

Tor.com Is Closing its Doors to Unsolicited Fiction Submissions

Tor.com has been a terrific market for short fiction since it launched in 2008, and it’s been open to over-the-transom stories from new writers that whole time. But starting Jan. 7, that’s going to change. Tor.com announced today that they’re closing their doors to unsolicited submissions of fiction. This is too bad, since new and…

How MEG 9 Got William Gibson Involved In Gaming

MEG 9 is the forthcoming video video game from developer Skunkwerks Kinetic and William Gibson. Yes, the William Gibson who wrote Neuromancer, so it should be no surprise that it oozes classic scifi elements. Paste has a feature on MEG 9: Lost Echoes, a game that presented a pre-alpha walkthrough at this year’s PAX. The…

Please Stop Spreading This Nonsense that Rey From Star Wars Is a “Mary Sue”

Over the weekend, even as most of us were celebrating the fact that a new Star Wars movie did not in any way suck, some portions of the internet got sucked into a pointless, silly debate. Is Rey, the film’s hero, a “Mary Sue”? The answer is no. Next question? Some spoilers for The Force…

This Week’s TV: River Song and the Doctor Fight a Robot Crab at Christmas!

River Song returns in a new Doctor Who Christmas Special! There are 96 hours of Godzilla on El Rey! Lucy Lawless finally returns to Ash vs. Evil Dead! Happy Holidays, it’s This Week’s TV! Tonight Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Featuring the Sesame Street Muppets (9PM, PBS) Have they tried Hare Krishna? Colony (11:05PM,…

Captain America Will Celebrate His 75th Birthday With a TV Special

2016 is a special year for Marvel’s First Avenger; it’ll mark 75 years since Steven Rogers burst his way onto the comics scene by punching Hitler in the face. To celebrate, ABC will host an hour-long special dedicated to Cap, one that’s promising a big comic book reveal and potential hints for Civil War. The…

Into the Badlands Is Over and I’m Already In Martial Arts Withdrawal 

Just like that, all six episodes of AMC’s Into the Badlands have (already?!) wrapped up—and with it go some of the most mesmerizing, elegant on-screen battles ever produced on an American TV program. I’m going to fill the hiatus WITH prayers to the cable TV deities urging AMC to officially greenlight a second season. Spoilers…

We Now Know the Backstory of Greg Grunberg’s Star Wars Character

In grand Star Wars tradition, Greg Grunberg’s X-Wing pilot has a rich background that can only be found in the tie-in materials. Minor spoilers ahead. In The Force Awakens, Greg Grunberg—good friend of J.J. Abrams and constant presence in his works—shows up as a fairly prominent member of the Resistance’s Starfighter Corps. His name, according…

The Librarians Weaponizes “Happily Ever After”

In “And the Happily Ever Afters,” The Librarians ramped up to the final confrontation with Prospero (which I still don’t care about) and delivered us a look at everyone’s greatest wishes. Spoilers. We pick up right where last week left off: with something major happening and Jenkins just sort of walking it off. When Flynn…

Matt Damon Explains How Bourne 5 Links to the Previous Movies

It goes without saying that the next Bourne movie will take place after the last ones. At the end of 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne went off the grid with his enemies assuming him dead. In 2016, he’ll be back, and Matt Damon recently talked about what’s happened in between. You’ll find the character…

The Very Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of 2015

This has been a really great year for science fiction, fantasy and horror books, taking us to fabulous worlds and opening our minds to new ideas and brilliant new characters. Here’s our list of the most amazing books we read this year. The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi 2015 has been the year that a lot…

The Amazing Spider-Man Comic Will No Longer Have a Fantastic Peter Capaldi Cameo

Aww. In Marvel’s current “All-New, All-Different” comics, Peter Parker is the head of a global business that also helps Spider-Man confront threats all over the world. In an upcoming trip to London in the book, artist Alex Ross celebrated Spidey’s British adventure with a variant cover starring a familiar face… but it was not to…

The Awesome Black Widow/Captain America Battle That Nearly Made It Into Age of Ultron

Ever since Age of Ultron got its home release, we’ve heard about a lot of scenes that didn’t make it into the movie (and we’ve also desperately wanted Whedon’s fabled “Director’s Cut” to get released). But this recent animatic from the film adds another missing moment to the pile. The short pre-viz sequence was recently…

We’ve Already Got Our First Surprising Hint About Star Wars: Episode VIII

Yes, some surprising Force Awakens castmembers may be making an appearance in Episode VIII. Nicole Kidman may be out of Wonder Woman. Margaery Tyrell may have a new ally on Game of Thrones. Legends of Tomorrow will bring back an Arrow foe. Plus, a page from Deadpool’s script… sort of. Behold, Spoilers! (You know what,…

Meet The New Harry Potter, Ron Weasley And Hermione Granger

Since October, we’ve known that a new story set in the Harry Potter universe, The Cursed Child, would be coming as a stage play in the summer of 2016. Now, we know just who will be headlining the play. The Daily Mail is reporting that three actors have been cast as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley…

Ash Faces His Most Terrifying Opponent Ever on Ash vs Evil Dead

“Ashes to Ashes” brought Ash back to where it all began at last: the Evil Dead cabin in the woods. It was a not-so-sweet homecoming—as Ash’s past came back to haunt him (literally), and some of his worst fears came true. Spoilers! Ok. No Ruby in this one. But we do get a very important…

The Force Awakens Obliterated Box Office Records In Its First Weekend 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was always destined for a huge box office debut. The question has been how much of a huge opening would it have? The answer came this weekend: A staggering $238 million in North America and $517 million globally. The film is now well on its way towards the billion dollar…

Digging Deeper Makes The Case For The Lost World’s Relevance In The Jurassic Park Franchise

Digging Deeper has impressed us before with some interesting analysis on Joss Whedon’s Serenity, and now, they’ve gone and taken an in depth look at The Lost World, making us look at it in a bit of a different light. https://gizmodo.com/this-video-shows-why-joss-whedons-serenity-was-a-unique-1743966629 These guys make the case for The Lost World being a notable installment of…

In 1983, If You Wanted To Pirate A Movie, You Needed A Gun

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular culture and science fiction stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: We look at hidden comic book stores, how movies were pirated in 1983, drugs in science fiction, bookselling and radio dramas. Joseph Koch’s Comic Book Warehouse has one…

A Mission To Venus Goes Poorly In Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

For this weekend’s Weekend Matinee, we’re going back to 1965, with Curtis Harrington’s Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet. In it a crew of astronauts land on Venus and are attacked by its inhabitants. This is another example of a film that came from the Soviet Union, and which was dubbed and adapted for US audiences.…