There is so much out there to read, and until you get your turn in a time loop, you don’t have time to read it all to find the highlights.
Read more“Architects of Memory” by Karen Osborne: Don’t Let the Corporations Grind You Down
Karen Osborne’s debut is part sci-fi adventure, part love story, and 100% critical of unfettered corporate capitalism.
Read moreResistance Is Not Futile: On Jeff VanderMeer’s “Dead Astronauts” and Fighting the Good Fight
In a world on the brink of collapse, a quest to save the future, one defeat at a time.
Read more“Network Effect”: Self-Determination Is a Pain in the Ass
Volume five of The Murderbot Diaries, reviewed.
Read moreWilliam Gibson’s “Agency”: Cooperate or Die
What does it mean to have agency when we find ourselves at the mercy of events utterly beyond our control?
Read more"Mechanical Animals": An Anthology of Animal Automata, Old and New
Biomimicry abounds in this themed collection of new and classic science fiction “at the crux of creatures and tech,” from Hex Publishers.
Read more"Exit Strategy": Beware the Wrath of Murderbot
In volume 4 of The Murderbot Diaries, Murderbot’s climactic showdown with an evil corporation pushes the rogue SecUnit to its limits, and beyond.
Read more"Rogue Protocol": This Heartless Killing Machine Is All Heart
Murderbot is back. Its mission: help to bring down GrayCris, the evil corporation that has made thievery and killing a business model.
Read more“The Strange Bird”
Jeff VanderMeer’s spare, heartbreaking novella soars through the world of Borne.
Read moreBinti is back! Celebrating the new hardcover editions
We love Binti! We’re celebrating the re-release of Okorafor’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning trilogy in beautiful hardcover editions with an appreciation of the difficulties involved in coming of age, intergalactic exploration, and saving the world, all at the same time.
Read more"Scythe": Why Die? The Problems with Immortality
It’s a perfect world. Just a little bit too full of people.
Read moreThe Creative Destruction of "Annihilation"
On the page or on screen, Annihilation will test the limits of what you know about the world and yourself.
Read moreUrsula K. Le Guin: A Retrospective
Ursula K. Le Guin. 21 October 1929 – 22 January 2018. Photo by Eileen Gunn.
Le Guin dreamed whole realities that forced us to reexamine assumptions we took for granted, and to see new ways forward.
Read moreThere’s Always Time for Time Travel
From recent takes to enduring classics, we love time travel stories.
Read more"Dark Matter" [Spoiler] Review: Blake Crouch’s Science Fiction Thriller Delves into the Multiverse
Blake Crouch's Dark Matter is a light science fiction adventure about the road not traveled. Let's dive in!
Read more“Borne”: A Biotech-Apocalypse Love Story
Jeff VanderMeer's new novel is a rare science fiction treasure.
Read moreEllen Datlow Is Virgil in Your Journey to the Underworld
No one is reading more dark fiction than Ellen Datlow. Her knowledge of the horror genre is deeper than mine or yours.
Read more"Death's End": Cixin Liu's Masterpiece Trilogy, Concluded
Death's End brings Chinese science fiction luminary Cixin Liu's mind-blowing trilogy to its inevitable and spectacular end.
Read moreFour Takes on "Rogue One"
"Star Wars and the Power of Costume" at the Denver Art Museum
Queen Amidala, Throne Room Gown. Star WarsTM: The Phantom Menace. © & TM 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.
"Luminous beings are we," says Yoda. Star Wars and the Power of Costume at the Denver Art Museum celebrates the creative process that brought to life a modern myth.
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