Cooters on the Road
Them dosh-garned cooters are spreading out, despite the best efforts of Sheriff Lindley, his deputy Sweets, them miscreants, and the other good people of Pachuco, Texas. If this keeps up, they’ll be everywhere. Not quite […]
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Michelle Yeoh returns to Star Trek for new movie – Star Trek: Section 31
Paramount+ has officially greenlit Star Trek: Section 31, an original movie event which sees the return of Michelle Yeoh (who’s just won an Academy Award for Best Actress in Everything Everywhere All At Once) as […]
A Knight and a Squire
The news is all over the internet by now. The announcement was made on the 12th, at Warner Media’s big press event for the rollout and rebranding of their new streamer, MAX, coming your way […]
Space Lawyers Advocate for Protecting Lunar Landmarks
Credit: Alexander Andrews/Unsplash When you visit a national park, monument, or another protected site, you’re bound to and harbored by laws that protect that landmark. Littering will earn you a fine, as will starting a […]
8 best sci-fi games on Android in 2023
Science fiction and video games have been a potent combination since 1962 when a bunch of MIT students put together Spacewar to flex on the rest of the computer science department. Today, classics like Arkanoid […]
Webb Telescope Captures Stunning Image of ‘Green Monster’ Supernova Remnant
The James Webb Space Telescope is coming up on its first anniversary since coming online, and already it has peered back into the earliest eons of the universe. It has also focused on objects in […]
SFWA Mentorship Program Open
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) Mentorship Committee has announced that the SFWA Career Mentorship Program is now taking applications for mentors and mentees for three-month-long mentorships, set to run June 10 – […]
2022 BSFA Awards Winners
The winners for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced. Best Novel WINNER: City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus) The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz) Stars and Bones, […]
CONTRARY BRIN: Stories by folks who know their science!
Let’s talk science fiction for a bit. But first… Sure, after finishing my duties in DC with NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC) – and giving some big-picture strategy talks, I came home […]
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
One of my personal favorite writers, Charlie Stross, wrote an excellent post about Monomyths and Space Opera a while back. An excerpt of this is below and you can click the link at the end […]
The Big Idea: Ness Brown
If you’ve ever wondered if aliens are out there, author Ness Brown is right there with you. In their new novel, The Scourge Between Stars, aliens might be a lot closer than the characters think. Follow […]
The Big Idea: J. L. Worrad
What is an urban legend without people to tell their tale, and spread fear into the hearts of others? Luckily, author J. L. Worrad is here with a new novel to keep the legend of […]
On the American nightmare of ‘Hello Tomorrow!’
See the 1950s not as they happened, but as they wish they had Welcome to postwar America, a land of ambition, opportunity, and pie-in-the-sky dreams. Everything is possible if you can affo— erm, imagine it. […]
TINY TIME MACHINE 2 Just Published
Amazing Stories has just published TINY TIME MACHINE 2: RETURN OF THE FATHER. Josh and Meg and the Tiny Time Machine are back in a brand new book! And this time it’s personal. They will […]
On writing audio – Action sequences – by Julian Simpson
Writing for audio offers a similar relationship to the listener that I imagine a novelist has with the reader: it’s a partnership; you’re not letting people sit back and passively watch something, you are asking […]
Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books
In a 1973 letter to the editor of The Horn Book Magazine, my mother, Ursula K. Le Guin, took Roald Dahl’s books to task. While acknowledging her own “feelings of unease” about Dahl’s work, she […]
Five planets will align on March 27 (tonight) and you won’t want to miss it
On Mar. 27, a planetary parade made up of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Uranus will march across the sky.(Image credit: brightstars via Getty Images) On March 27, a planetary parade made up of Mercury, […]
Three Kings, One Throne
((No, no, not the Iron Throne. An entirely different throne, on an entirely different world. There are lots of worlds, you know. Lots of books. Lots of thrones)). The queen is dead. Long live the […]
Trans Rights Readathon
As you may have seen if you frequent TikTok or Instagram, this week has been declared by many on bookish bits of the internet to be a trans rights readathon, raising awareness of trans stories […]
Shortlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2023
The Authors’ Club is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Best First Novel Award, drawn up by a panel of Club members. Lucy Popescu, chairing the judging panel, commented: ‘We are proud to […]
In Memoriam: John Jakes – SFWA
John Jakes (31 March 1932 – 11 March 2023) was a prolific, best-selling author known for detailed and character-rich historical fiction, as well as science fiction, fantasy, sword and sorcery, pulp, mystery, and nonfiction. Realizing […]
The Big Idea: Jane Hennigan
In her novel Moths, author Jane Hennigan does a table flip on the world we know to reveal some things that are truths in any world we might happen to live in. JANE HENNIGAN: Why […]
Introducing the Illustrators of the Future Winners of 2023
These winners are featured in Writers of the Future Volume 39. For over 34 years, the Illustrators of the Future Contest has been discovering and nurturing aspiring artists and providing a platform for their artistic […]
Sturgeon Symposium Announced
At CSSF, we celebrate the diverse community of students, scholars, creators, and fans who engage with speculative modes, challenging our conceptions of what is possible. As Octavia Butler writes in Parable of the Sower, “All that […]
Here’s the new spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon
NASA has revealed the new spacesuit that astronauts will wear to explore the Moon under the Artemis program. Created by Axiom Space, the new suit is designed to improve mobility for astronauts working on the […]
The Big Idea: Karen Katchur
Most people say that humor is subjective, but for author Karen Katchur, it was a craft that needed to be studied. Come along in her Big Idea to see how she studied comedy to […]
The Big Idea: J.A. Tyler
Sometimes, when you start writing a novel, the book is about one thing. As the writing and editing process goes on, however, the book will reveal itself as being about, if not something else entirely, […]
The First Woman To Draw Wonder Woman Is Alive and Well in SF
Cartoonist and author Trina Robbins—the first woman to draw Wonder Woman—began reading at the age of four. But she began drawing even earlier. “It was as soon as I could hold a crayon in my […]
CONTRARY BRIN: Science Fiction roundup – and predictive milestones! And the worst timing for a movie release ever!
Let’s start with a pair of eerily almost-exact predictions. First here’s a prophetic image from my graphic novel, Tinkerers. (published circa 2008.) The slogan was: “New for 2024: The Apple/Honda iCar!” Check the rumors about an announcement next […]
The Big Idea: Susan McDonough-Wachtman
They say good things come to those who wait. They also, however, say that waiting is the hardest part. In both cases, Susan McDonough-Wachtman has reason to understand each aphorism, and in this Big Idea […]
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