10 Great Fantasy Series to Read While You’re Waiting for George R.R. Martin’s Next Book
George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons was everything we’d hoped it would be — but now we can’t wait to read the next book, The Winds of Winter. How can we keep from going mad with impatience to find out what happens to Tyrion and Daenerys? The good news is, fantasy literature offers tons…
Did Zombie Flash Mobs Help Pave the Way for Occupy Wall Street?
What does it mean when tons of people take to the streets dressed as the walking dead? With no political or artistic agenda, other than to shuffle around threatening to eat your brains? In this excerpt from the academic essay collection Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human — which was published…
Distrust That Particular Flavor reveals how autobiographical William Gibson’s fiction is
William Gibson is one of our finest science fiction authors, because he knows that people are the strangest products science has ever produced. And his new essay collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor, gives us insight into how he came to understand that so well, when many other SF authors struggle to see it. Distrust does…