Open Channel: Who Would Direct An Adaptation Of Your Favorite SF Novel?

Here’s your open channel challenge of the weekend. Take favored science fiction or fantasy novel, and imagine that it’s been picked up for a film. Who would be the best director (living or dead) to helm the project? For my money, I’d love to see Linda Nagata’s Red trilogy (The Red: First Light, The Trials…

Zombies have been all the rage for a while now: there’s television shows, movies, books, and so forth, but how did we get to this point of zombie overload? The Barnes and Noble SciFi and Fantasy Blog looks back at some of the history.

Check Out The Expanse With An Early Screening Hosted by James S.A. Corey 

Want to check out SyFy’s upcoming show a bit early? James S.A. Corey (equal parts Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) will be hosting a screening of the pilot on December 3rd at the Jean Cocteau theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The pair will be holding a signing at the theater for George R.R. Martin,…

There’s Even More New Force Awakens Footage In This Featurette

A new featurette for the Disney Channel’s On The Set has dropped, this time focusing on The Force Awakens. It’s a quickie, just a minute long, but there’s quite a bit of new glimpses from the main characters. Edit: there’s even more new footage in the UK version:

This Cosplay Music Video Highlights BlizzCon’s Extraordinary Cosplayers

If you missed BlizzCon last weekend, Sneaky Zebra has put together one of their fantastic cosplay music videos, highlighting some of the really awesome costumes that they spotted throughout the weekend.

As dystopias have proliferated throughout science fiction, more optimistic authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson have tackled a brighter future for humanity. The New Republic has a fascinating article on the subject that’s well worth reading.

War Stories From The Future Is A Fantastic Military Science Fiction Anthology From The Atlantic Council

We’ve highlighted the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare project a several times this year, and we’re big fans of their work. Now, they’ve got a new project that they’ve just released: an anthology titled War Stories From The Future. Best of all? It’s a free book! War Stories from the Future is a new…

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus Sequel Gets Another Name Change

First it was Prometheus 2, and then Alien: Paradise Lost. Now, Ridley Scott’s followup to Prometheus apparently has a new name: Alien: Covenant. Cinema Blend speculates a bit on what the name change means for the story of the film: Prometheus is, of course, a reference to the legend of how a man “stole” fire…

Orbit Books Will Publish An Astonishing 90 Books A Year Starting In 2016

Who says that science fiction publishing is dead? Not Orbit Books. The Hachette company announced yesterday that they were expanding their SF/F line by 50% next year to publish a whopping 90 books starting in 2016. Tim Holman, Orbit Publisher and Hachette Book Group SVP, said: “There is a huge and diverse audience for SF…

No Mystery is More Intriguing than Morland Holmes on Elementary

In this week’s Elementary, Joan is the protective big sister Sherlock never had, the FBI are disruptively controlling, and the looming presence of Sherlock’s father Morland Holmes dominates everything. Bail out now before the spoilers take control! Need to catch up first? Here’s our recap of last week’s season premiere. Surely this time they’ll convince…

In an Upside Down City, Bat-Winged Ships Fly

It’s a world folded in on itself, where skyscrapers climb likes stalagmites and dangle like stalactites. This is “Reverse II” by Jean-François Liesenborghs. See more at deviantArt. Contact the author at [email protected].

This New Space Colonization Novel Will Mess With Your Head In The Best Possible Way

Planetfall by Emma Newman isn’t what you’re expecting from a book about humans colonizing another planet. It’s much weirder, and in the end, a fair bit darker. This is a story about human failings—and the fact that we expect to understand alien beings, when we can’t even understand each other. Some spoilers ahead… In Planetfall,…

Star Wars Ice Sculptures Include Han Solo Frozen in Just Plain Water

You knew Darth Vader could be cold, but have you seen him like this? The Sith Lord popsicle is one of dozens of Star Wars characters featured at the annual ice sculpture festival in Liege, Belgium. The festival’s theme this year is Ice Star Wars—not Star Wars on Ice, but I wouldn’t put it past…

In Moonwalkers, The Government Hires Kubrick To Fake The Moon Landings. Then Shit Gets CRAZY.

You might think a movie about faking the Moon landings would be mad enough—and especially once you throw in the idea of hiring Stanley Kubrick, director of 2001, to spearhead the project. But Moonwalkers looks much weirder than that. Judging from the brand new trailer above, Moonwalkers is just some next-level crazy. Ron Perlman gets…

Midnight Special Could Be the Steven Spielberg-Influenced Sci-Fi Film We’ve Been Waiting For

Starman, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind. They’re all films that director Jeff Nichols cites as influences for his upcoming sci-fi film Midnight Special. And you can see that Eighties/Steven Spielberg influence both in the first image and poster released from the film. Midnight Special stars Michael Shannon and Kirsten Dunst as the parents…

This New Gundam Anime Series Is Basically Cowboy Bebop

The first footage for the newest Gundam series Thunderbolt has arrived, and it’s exciting for a couple of reasons: 1) it’s based on a hit manga that takes place during the events of the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime series, and 2) it looks and sounds just like a Cowboy Bebop sequel. Um, a…

The Odd Saga of BB-8’s Gender Identity Continues

Should Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ beloved little droid BB-8 be referred to as a “he” or a “she”? It’s not a question with an answer you’d expect to change, but it has—several times . The droid has been referred to as both male and female these past few months, and now things have gotten…

How Gotham City Evolved Into the Worst Fictional City in America

This is neat. The Nerdwriter has chronicled the 75-year history of Batman’s hometown, from its humble beginnings as New York City (really!) to the crime-ridden, neo-gothic nightmare town we know today in the movies, comics and video games. The 7-miunte video is overwrought in places, but it is cool to witness Gotham change over time.…

Why Justice League Unlimited Was, and Still Is, the Best Superhero TV Show

We live in a golden age of superhero television. Hits like The Flash, Agent Carter, Arrow, and Agents of SHIELD dominate our TV screens. We champion them for their ability to bring some of the most mind-melting comic book sagas to TV—but one show did it all before them, nearly a decade ago: Justice League…

Go Behind the Scenes of the Gory and Gorgeous Crimson Peak Titles 

Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak isn’t the movie most people expected. It’s not a scary, haunted house movie. It’s a saturated, world-building gothic romance that just happens to have supernatural elements. To compliment such a beautiful, rich looking film, the teams at IAMSTATIC and Topix created an equally evocative title sequence. Built entirely in a…