The votes are in, the jurors have been empanelled, and we are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s British Fantasy Awards! Many congratulations to all! The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel […]
Journey to the Centre of the Earth is the kind of story that would be hard to tell today, not without sounding like a conspiracy nut. It begins in 1863 in Germany at the home […]
*PLEASE NOTE* The StoryBundle release has been delayed by one day to MIDNIGHT July 27 Eastern Time. Starting July 27, SFWA’s newest fantasy StoryBundle, “Take No Prisoners,” is available for purchase! This StoryBundle offers a […]
More than once I’ve reviewed books that have been adapted to the big or small screen, and that’s not a coincidence. I’m just as likely to watch an adaptation of a book I’ve read as […]
There is profit to be made off of violence. What if there was a way to profit off of preventing violence, as well? Author Jayne Cowie takes us into the world of her new novel, One […]
Tea is best enjoyed with friends. So is revenge! Author Kemi Ashing-Giwa brings us a tale of tea, friendship, revenge, and so much more in her new novel, The Splinter in the Sky. KEMI ASHING-GIWA: There […]
Enlarge / Most of the explanations for this phenomenon involve a neutron star, depicted above. These explanations are uniformly terrible. On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of a new astronomical enigma. The new object, GPM […]
You start with an old idea, and from this old idea, you can create something new. So Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle learned, as they looked to legends from their heritage for the new novel […]
Earlier this month, the free SciFi network Comet held its first Comet Fest Fan Festival to great success, with over 3.5 million viewers watching. Now Comet has announced that it will return in 2023. This […]
If you woke up in the body of a robot, having died years before, who are you really? You’re not the deceased, not really. At best, you’re a simulation. Yet you have their memories and […]
As a child, author Stephen Aryan wanted to see people like him in fantasy books, but rarely did. Now that he writes books himself, he made sure to represent his roots in his new novel, […]
Author Gourhav Mohanty is on a mission, one that takes on the heritage of his nation, and his own ambitions for story telling. In this Big Idea, he tells you how he’s combined both for […]
This is an exciting month for all of you Wild Cards fans out there… and for all the other readers who have not discovered Wild Cards yet. (What are you waiting for??) We’re pleased to […]
Enlarge / A light, cheap space telescope design would make it possible to put many individual units in space at once. Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. […]
Everyone knows the name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle because of Sherlock Holmes… and that annoyed him to no end. Heck, it’s part of the reason he bumped off Holmes in the first place. He […]
When I’m not writing, you can often find me reading. I’ve been a voracious reader since grade school… and I love talking about books almost as much as I love reading them. So when […]
Way back in issue #206, I reviewed Stephen King’s book On Writing. It was perhaps the best crash course on writing I’ve ever read, and the single most influential book on my journey as a […]
Credit: NANOGrav Hello, folks, and welcome back to This Week in Space. Virgin Galactic made its debut commercial flight, and the European Space Agency is prepping its Euclid Space Telescope for launch this weekend. But […]
Just because history is the most dangerous place to visit doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go. It’s also the most interesting. You just need a guide. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Photos via Wikimedia Commons under […]
Welcome to the July edition of the SFWA Market Report from the SWFA site. Please note: Inclusion of any venue in this report does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. Those included on this list […]
When a story reaches the end, the lives of the characters in it often don’t… so what then? Jason Fischer had to tackle this question for The Jawbone & The Junkman. In this Big Idea, […]
I feel like I should hand in my nerd card for not having read this before now, though I did watch the David Lynch (er… I mean, Alan Smithee) movie. I just never got around […]
Enlarge / An artist’s composition of the Milky Way seen with a neutrino lens (blue). IceCube Collaboration/NSF/ESO Scientists with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have unveiled a striking new image of our Milky Way galaxy as seen […]
How plausible do you need to be in your speculative fiction? It’s a question that interests Robin C.M. Duncan quite a bit, and this Big Idea for The Carborundum Conundrum, one well worth digging into. […]
When one is a writer, laziness can be a virtue. Skeptical? Here’s author Brenda W. Clough to explain how laziness was key to creating the story of A Door in His Head. The wise writer […]
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2022 Locus Awards on June 25, 2022, during the virtual Locus Awards Weekend. Connie Willis MCed the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events […]
I don’t often deal with sequels because, well, I only get to do this once a month. But I do visit them when I think it gives me something to say about storytelling. Here’s the […]
There’s something really strange in the center of the Milky Way. The vicinity of a supermassive black hole is a pretty weird place to start with, but in 2020 astronomers found six objects orbiting Sagittarius […]
Cosmic rays showering down on Earth’s atmosphere are the basis of a new wireless alternative to GPS navigation. 2015 Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka GPS is now a mainstay of daily life, helping us with navigation, tracking, […]
Be the change you want to see in the world. For author CJ Leede, that means creating a villainous, monstrous female character because she didn’t see enough of them in the world. Dive into her […]
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