The Phantasm director (he also made Beastmaster and Bubba Ho-Tep ) has a new book of short stories, Phiction , inspired by his horror franchise.
Season 2 of Fallout won't hit Prime Video for awhile, so keep those life-after-doomsday vibes alive with these similar titles.
Exciting releases are coming from Holly Black, Timothy Zahn, Brandon Sanderson, Seanan McGuire, Stephen Graham Jones, and others.
The filmmaker and comic book writer edited Greatest Hits , a new Ellison anthology arriving next year.
With Star Trek: Picard Season 2 taking Jean-Luc on a time-bending adventure, we look at how the franchise has used time-travel in the past, present, and future.
Well, you can’t say Netflix’s animated sci-fi anthology doesn’t give a fuck. It gives several. Since the second season of Love, Death, and Robots is arriving on Friday, the streaming service has unveiled a new red band trailer where Love and Robots are in comparatively short supply: While it’s tough to make out much in…
Surprisingly even with a pandemic, there are plenty of new shows and long-awaited returns on the way.
Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone is back, an occasion that made us think of another 1960s anthology series that’s been put through the remake machine: The Outer Limits. With its emphasis on sci-fi—especially aliens and uncanny tech—the original episodes of The Outer Limits excelled at preying on Cold War fears. We’ve picked 10 essential episodes you should…
The first place I fell in love with the late, beloved science fiction author Harlan Ellison was in comics. Specifically, it was in Daredevil #208, a comic I obsessively read over and over again when I was a kid. After re-reading it last night, I can definitely state that it holds up extremely well. I…
Harlan Ellison, the iconic yet controversial writer behind dozens of beloved speculative fiction and scifi works, has passed. He was 84. The news announced on social media today by Christine Valada, a close friend of Ellison and his wife Susan, at her request: Ellison’s work across multiple genres—from horror to scifi to speculative fiction, across…
Celebrity endorsements have been around for a long time, but it’s usually actors, wrestlers, or athletes who are enduring a photoshoot with a random product. That said, every now and again, it’s a science fiction author who’s promoting something. By the 1980s, some science fiction authors had become bona fide household names: Isaac Asimov, Arthur…
This 1982 roundtable discussion on science fiction is amazing. Watch Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe and Harlan Ellison talk to Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin about the randomness of genre distinctions and the difference between “science fiction” and “science fantasy.” [via SFSignal] Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All The Birds in the Sky, coming…
An incredible deal. The latest Humble Book Bundle, focusing on Subterranean Press, is just chock full of greatness. Including Connie Willis, Dan Simmons, Harlan Ellison, Cherie Priest, Jack Vance, Ted Chiang, and tons more. [h/t Reddit]
For just $12, you can get 11 science fiction books right now, by authors including Alan Dean Foster, Barbara Hambly, Harlan Ellison, Greg Bear and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. But you better move fast: the Humble Sci-Fi eBook Bundle won’t last forever. Chances are, you’ve done the Humble Bundle thing before, so you’re familiar with the…
Short stories are the lifeblood of science fiction and fantasy — novels get all the buzz and the parties, but short fiction is where the wildest ideas and coolest characters come out. And here are 15 or so anthologies that will show you just how superb science fiction and fantasy storytelling can get. Top image:…
You may have read scifi author Harlan Ellison’s original teleplay for the classic Star Trek episode “City of the Edge of Forever,” but you’ve never seen it. That changes in June, when IDW releases a 5-part comic miniseries based on the original, unedited script, supervised by Ellison himself. Regular Trek comic writers Scott and David…
One of the most influential and beloved short stories penned by the great Harlan Ellison is coming to the big screen, via Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski. But can a film do it justice? The beautiful and complex story, “‘Repent Harlequin!’ Said The Ticktockman” is set in a dystopian future where time is a…
Famed science fiction writer Harlan Ellison has written many Batman stories over the years, and he cut his Bat-teeth not in the comics, but on a treatment for the 1960s Batman TV series. Now he has released that treatment, featuring the villain Two-Face, in a new book. Ellison has released the fifth volume of his…
Horse women, walking upright, take advantage of our already beleaguered education system. It sounds like a horrifying social commentary, but in fact it’s just the plot of the new My Little Pony movie Equestria Girls. Plus Oblivion, some Disney, Swamp Thing and more, all in this week’s DVDs! • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls I…
James Cameron was recently sued yet again for Avatar, the latest in a long line of plagiarism accusations against the director stretching back to Terminator. But is Cameron a serial plagiarist, or just a popular target for copyright lawsuits? There are certainly some cases (Sally Mann’s in particular, and given the similarities between the openings…
