Sci-Fi

The Mysterious Code 8 Film Is An Intriguing Crowdfunding Teaser

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about Code 8, a mysterious project from Robbie and Stephen Amell. Now, the project has been unveiled, and it looks like an intriguing film project. We speculated that the project was going to be released On Demand, but it turns out that the short film was just a…

‘Red Mars’ TV Series Now On Hold After Showrunner Suddenly Departs

Soon after finding a director in Emmy winner and Children of Dune helmer Greg Yaitanes, Spike TV’s much-anticipated adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s classic Mars Trilogy has lost its executive producer and showrunner, Peter Noah. That doesn’t mean Red Mars is kaput, but it does mean a major delay. https://gizmodo.com/the-director-of-children-of-dune-will-helm-spike-tvs-re-1764810326 As Deadline reports, Spike TV…

Peter Capaldi: A New Companion For Doctor Who Has Been Cast

Speaking to a Brazilian website, Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi noted that the BBC has cast a new companion for the Doctor, and we should know very soon who that is. Jenna Coleman left the show last year, opening up the spot for a replacement. In an interview with Brazilian website Omelete, Capaldi noted that…

The Future Looks Bright For Donut Fans in This Funny George Orwell Homage

Set a century after George Orwell’s chilling portrait of a dystopian future, scifi short 2084 works perfectly thanks to the twin powers of simplicity (it was filmed in director Taz Goldstein’s living room) and hilarity (the “annoyed computer voice” has seldom been so well-executed). Also, and you’ve been warned, 2084 will really make you crave…

Ken Liu Tells Us How He Picked Out The Best Stories For His Epic Collection

It’s no secret that we love Ken Liu’s fiction – his novels and his short stories. Last week, Saga Press released his debut collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, and we decided to have a chat with him about how he went about narrowing down a decade’s worth of fiction into one volume. Liu…

We really dig translated science fiction, and fortunately, it seems as though there’s a whole bunch of new books being translated into English for the first time this year. SF Signal has a great roundup of books coming in from Russia, Cuba, Japan and China. Contact the author at [email protected].

How Many Lego Bricks Would It Take to Build Famous Sci-Fi Structures and Vehicles

It’s hard to truly grasp the size of famous science fiction megastructures like the Death Star or the Halo ring and basically impossible to understand how big the Millennium Falcon or Starship Enterprise is because they all exist in different universes, which sadly isn’t the same one we exist in. If only we could look…

Be Excited About These New Clips from Scifi Thriller Midnight Special

Sometimes, letting yourself get too feverishly excited about an upcoming film can backfire. But a letdown doesn’t seem imminent with Jeff Nichols’ upcoming scifi thriller Midnight Special, which has a fantastic cast (Michael Shannon, Adam Driver, Kirsten Dunst) and gives off major Spielberg-meets-Carpenter vibes. We’ve drooled over all the trailers and the poster thus far,…

Elizabeth Bonesteel On Building New Worlds And Blending Genres

One of the books that we’ve been most excited about this spring is Elizabeth Bonesteel’s debut, The Cold Between, the first novel in her Central Corps series. The book comes out this week, and we had a chat with Bonesteel about her inspirations for her writing and this book. Bonesteel’s maternal grandfather was one of…

Allen M. Steele On Arkwright, Science Fiction’s History And Space Travel

We really dug Allen M. Steele’s Arkwright, a novel that spans centuries, and talks exactly how science fiction can inspire scientists to change the world. After reading it, we spoke with Steele about just went into the novel. Arkwright is a sweeping story that spans centuries: tell us a little about what inspired it. I’d…

This Account of an Imaginary 9.0 Earthquake in Portland Is Beyond Terrifying

Remember that New Yorker story about a potential earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone that scared the shit out of us? Well, Motherboard just published a series of heavily reported sci-fi stories about what might actually happen to Portland during such a disaster. And they’re way, way scarier. “After the Big One” by Adam Rothstein…

‘Hairy Nose’ Ad Combats Pollution in China By Depicting a Future Dystopia

A bizarre new video produced by WildAid China depicts a dystopia where people have adapted to air pollution by growing excessive amounts of nasal hair. The ultimate message of the public service announcement is, “Change air pollution before it changes you.” Smog is a very serious issue in China right now, as evidenced by the…

Allen M. Steele’s Arkwright Is A Sweeping Epic About The Value Of Science Fiction 

Allen M. Steele has been known for his hard science fiction novels: Coyote, Orbital Decay, and others. In his latest, Arkwright, he’s assembled an epic generational novel that meditates on the value of science fiction, and where it can lead us in the universe. Steele opens his novel with a dying science fiction author. Nathan…

The White House Wants To Use Science Fiction To Settle The Solar System

Earlier this month, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology assembled a strange gathering: scientists, artists, engineers, and policy-makers, for a workshop designed to imagine how humanity could settle the solar system. The workshop, held in early February, was titled Homesteading in Space – Inspiring the Nation through Science Fiction, with the express purpose…

John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars Is a Criminally Underrated B-Movie

John Carpenter has films that are considered classics: Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China. But the films he made after his heyday don’t get nearly enough love. One big example: Ghosts of Mars, which takes The Thing and mushes it into Assault on Precinct 13, except with way more graphic mutilations.…

The Entire Run Of IF Magazine Is Now Freely Available Online!

IF Magazine was a monthly science fiction magazine that was first published in 1952, and ran through 1974, before it was merged into its sister publication, Galaxy Science Fiction. Now, you can read the entire run online over on Internet Archive. IF never quite reached the same pinnacle as that of other magazines such as…

A Scientist Fulfills a Promise To His Dead Wife In Short Film Goldilocks

In this intriguing short film, Goldilocks, Earth has been devastated by solar storms, prompting a search for another home planet for humanity. In orbit, a scientist named Kharon is working hard to adapt plants to a new world, fulfilling a promise to his long-dead wife. There’s some hints of 2001: A Space Odyssey here, and…

It’s Official: We Cannot Wait to See Science Fiction Thriller Midnight Special 

Jeff Nichols’ retro-tinged science fiction thriller Midnight Special looks like the type of film you don’t want to know too much about before you see it—which means the tidbits we’ve gotten (a poster, an early trailer, one thrilling clip) are tantalizing rather than being especially revealing. The new trailer, below, doesn’t offer many new hints…

Here’s Your Exclusive First Look Of Kameron Hurley’s Upcoming Novel The Stars Are Legion

Kameron Hurley is one of the more exciting authors to break into the science fiction publishing field in recent years. Her upcoming book, The Stars Are Legion is one of our most anticipated books this year, and we have an exclusive first look at it! Here’s what the book is about: Somewhere on the outer…

Tor.com published some fantastic stories in 2015, and they’ve collected the best of them into one volume, Some of the Best of Tor.com: 2015 Edition, which is now available as a free download!