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 * Original Fiction


THE DARK HOUSE

A.C. Wise
Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:00am 1 comment 18 Favorites [+]

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a
darkness that won’t be contained by frames…

[Read more]

 * Original Fiction


THE COUNTERWORLD

James Bradley
Wed Feb 1, 2023 9:00am 3 comments 10 Favorites [+]

A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased
as if he had never existed. Only in the hallway mirror is she able to see a
glimpse of the reality she remembers having lived—the reality she wants back.

[Read more]

 * Original Fiction


EVEN IF SUCH WAYS ARE BAD

Rich Larson
Wed Feb 8, 2023 9:00am 8 comments 23 Favorites [+]

A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living
wormship capable of burrowing through space. What lies on the other end is
unknown—as is what they will do once they get there.

[Read more]

 * Original Fiction


HOW TO COOK AND EAT THE RICH

Sunyi Dean
Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:00am 23 comments 57 Favorites [+]

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based
eating club for those who wish to dine on human flesh. But he may have bitten
off a little more than he can chew.

[Read more]

 * Original Fiction


TIME: MARKED AND MENDED

Carrie Vaughn
Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:00am 18 comments 44 Favorites [+]

Graff isn’t quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories
and experiences, recording their lives and passing them on. Then, one day, he
breaks: he discovers a chunk of his memory is missing. This should be
impossible—he’s never forgotten a moment in his life. Now, he has to learn to
forget, and to remember, and this has consequences for all his people, his
culture, and his whole world.

[Read more]

 * Original Fiction


BURNING BOOKS FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT

K.J. Parker
Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:00am 6 comments 26 Favorites [+]

A talented bookbinder is tasked with creating a copy of a text so inflammatory
it threatens to alter the very existence of Truth itself.

[Read more]


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 * comfort reads


COMFORT READING WITH MALKA OLDER

Malka Older
Wed Mar 22, 2023 12:00pm 45 comments 18 Favorites [+]

Sometimes I want to read like an explorer, learning something new and venturing
onto every page not knowing if it might be the page where things go wrong. But
there are many times when I read for comfort, and then I turn to books I know
well. Books I know really well. Books I’ve read over and over and over again
because they always make me feel better.

For me, this kind of comfort reading goes beyond escapism. There are lots of
books that can give me a temporary escape from reality, but comfort reads give
me sustenance. They remind me about the flow of friendship and the reassurance
of people who understand. Not only do the characters feel like friends, but
specific scenes that I like feel like friends. The jokes that I know are coming
are still funny. These books refresh me and leave me smiling at the end.

[Read more]

 * Mark as Read


WHAT DOES A DRAGON LOOK LIKE?

Molly Templeton
Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:00am 39 comments 2 Favorites [+]

Close your eyes and picture a dragon. Don’t think about it much. What do you
see?

Now, a bigger question: Where does that image come from? What unique combination
of books and movies and TV and game and stories put that particular dragon in
your head?

[Read more]

 * Jo Walton Reads


JO WALTON’S READING LIST: FEBRUARY 2023

Jo Walton
Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:00am 34 comments 8 Favorites [+]

February was a cold, snowy month in Montreal with icy sidewalks and lots of
blizzards. I was at home most of the month and didn’t go out much. I was
teaching my online history of SF course, and writing, and then at the very end
of the month I flew to Florence. I read seventeen books, a mixed lot, but some
of them were outstanding.

[Read more]


 * news


QUESTLOVE WILL BE DIRECTING DISNEY’S “LIVE-ACTION” REMAKE OF THE ARISTOCATS

Vanessa Armstrong
Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:21pm Favorite This

You might have thought we’ve moved beyond making live-action/CGI hybrid movies
about our feline friends after 2019’s Cats, but you’d be wrong! Today we found
out that the remake of Disney’s The Aristocats, which came out in 1970, has a
director on board.

[Read more]

 * Excerpts


READ AN EXCERPT FROM DIVINE RIVALS

Rebecca Ross
Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:00pm Post a comment Favorite This

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they
must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, out from
Wednesday Books on April 4th.

[Read more]

 * trailers


BIOSPHERE TRAILER SEES MARK DUPLASS AND STERLING K. BROWN LOSING IT AS THE LAST
PEOPLE ON EARTH

Vanessa Armstrong
Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:10pm Favorite This


What if it’s the end of the world and you’re stuck with your best friend in an
environmentally controlled biosphere where things get more than a little weird?
That’s the premise of Biosphere,  a movie starring Mark Duplass (The Morning
Show) and Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us, Black Panther) that features two best
buds going stir-crazy while they concoct some… surprising ways to keep humanity
going.

[Read more]

 * book reviews


CAREENING THROUGH (SUR)REALITY: WILD MASSIVE BY SCOTTO MOORE

Maura Krause
Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:00pm Post a comment Favorite This

A good half of Scotto Moore’s Wild Massive is set in technomagical amusement
parks, which aptly supply all the metaphors that spring to mind for describing
this novel. Moore’s sophomore novel is not just a roller coaster, it’s a roller
coaster that becomes a tilt-a-whirl that becomes bumper cars that become a
haunted house that becomes a drop tower. This parallel is no accident. Wild
Massive is a self-referential book fascinated by meta-narrative—of course its
structure mimics its internal landscape.

[Read more]

 * news


A MOVIE ADAPTATION OF MAGGIE STIEFVATER’S SHIVER HAS FOUND ITS DIRECTOR

Molly Templeton
Mon Mar 27, 2023 1:05pm Favorite This

We may have just about given up on the idea of there ever being a Raven Boys TV
series, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other Maggie Steifvater adaptations
in the works! Deadline reports that Andy Fickman is set to direct an adaptation
of Stiefvater’s bestselling YA novel Shiver.

[Read more]

 * Star Trek: Enterprise


STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE REWATCH: “SIMILITUDE”

Keith R.A. DeCandido
Mon Mar 27, 2023 1:00pm 10 comments 1 Favorite [+]
Screenshot: CBS

“Similtude”
Written by Manny Coto
Directed by LeVar Burton
Season 3, Episode 10
Production episode 062
Original air date: November 19, 2003
Date: unknown

Captain’s star log. We open with a funeral for Tucker, then after the credits,
we flash back to two weeks earlier. Tucker has a notion to enable the ship to
travel at high warp for longer without any ill effects. They test it, and it
seems to go swimmingly right up to the part where it doesn’t.

[It’s not that I’m scared of dying—it’s just that…I can’t imagine not being here
tomorrow.]


SERIES: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE REWATCH

 * movie reviews


JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE SERIES

Alex Brown
Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:00pm Post a comment Favorite This
Screenshot: Lionsgate

I’m a sucker for big, bombastic action movies. Put a middle-aged actor in a
stoic role, give them a bunch of weapons, toss in a few explosions, and I’m
there. Keanu Reeves has always been excellent in action movies—and in movies in
general; that man can act—and the John Wick series is no different. Only time
will tell, but John Wick: Chapter 4 may prove to be my favorite of the bunch.
It’s certainly one of the best.

[Read more]

 * SFF Bestiary


I CAN BE WHATEVER I WANT TO BE: STEPHANIE BURGIS’ THE RAVEN HEIR

Judith Tarr
Mon Mar 27, 2023 11:00am 1 comment 2 Favorites [+]

Stephanie Burgis has built a reputation for beautifully written, humane stories
and novels for adults and younger readers. She’s a trained academic historian
and she knows the deep roots of fantasy, the place where fairy tales grow. Her
Tales from the Chocolate Heart series stars a dragon magically transformed into
a human—with chocolate.

The Raven Heir is the start of a series set in the world of fairy tales (its
sequel, The Raven Throne, is coming this summer).

[Read more]

 * Science Fiction


FIVE PLOT-FRIENDLY WAYS TO ISOLATE PLANETS AND SPACE COLONIES

James Davis Nicoll
Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:00am 25 comments 1 Favorite [+]

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Having a diverse assortment of human-settled worlds is a plot-friendly aspect of
many science fiction settings. Authors may find themselves perplexed as to how
they are to provide their colonists with the means to reach distant worlds while
avoiding trade-driven homogenization (which might inhibit the development of
planetary cultures along plot-friendly lines). Not to worry! There are many,
many ways to provide sufficient space for worlds to find their own destinies.

At least five, in fact.

[Read more]

 * book recommendations


EIGHT CHILLING TAKES ON EPISTOLARY HORROR

Emily Ruth Verona
Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:00pm 3 Favorites [+]

Photo: Debby Hudson [via Unsplash]

> “I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering
> to one’s self and listening at the same time.”
> 
> —excerpt from Mina Murray’s diary, Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

The epistolary format weaves a powerful illusion of authenticity, framing
fiction as real-life, firsthand surviving documentation. In the same way the
warning “based on a true story…” sends a chill through the spine at the start of
a scary movie, the voyueristic sense of realness sets the stage for epistolary
horror to unfold. Letters, diaries, phone records, emails, police reports—these
are all dated or even time-stamped in epistolary fiction, presented in very
specific and sometimes extremely official-looking ways. It makes the story feel
real, as if the reader is discovering an old box of loose papers that they
shouldn’t be looking at—it seems excessively personal and fascinates us almost
in the same way that true crime can fascinate. The reader gets pulled into the
details, wrapped up in the cleverly crafted reflections and echoes of reality…

[Read more]

 * Terry Pratchett Book Club


TERRY PRATCHETT BOOK CLUB: THE LAST HERO, PART II

Emmet Asher-Perrin
Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:00am 13 comments 2 Favorites [+]

Sometimes you shoot for the moon and miss, but you land amongst the stars.
Sometimes you shoot for the top of a mountain and land on the moon.

Which is bad, in this case.

[Read more]


SERIES: TERRY PRATCHETT BOOK CLUB

 * Jo Walton Reads


JO WALTON’S READING LIST: FEBRUARY 2023

Jo Walton
Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:00am 34 comments 8 Favorites [+]

February was a cold, snowy month in Montreal with icy sidewalks and lots of
blizzards. I was at home most of the month and didn’t go out much. I was
teaching my online history of SF course, and writing, and then at the very end
of the month I flew to Florence. I read seventeen books, a mixed lot, but some
of them were outstanding.

[Read more]

 * news


ANOTHER DOCTOR WHO STAR WILL APPEAR ON GOOD OMENS 2, ALONG WITH TY TENNANT

Vanessa Armstrong
Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:39pm 1 Favorite [+]
Credit: Gary Moyes / HBO

We don’t know yet when Good Omens 2 will make its way to Prime Video (although
we do know it will be soon, given the streamer has promised the show’s return in
summer 2023). What we do know, however, is that the cast will include new and
familiar faces, and that two of those new faces will be House of the Dragon’s Ty
Tennant (pictured above, who is David Tennant’s son) and the Fifth Doctor, Peter
Davison (who is David Tennant’s father-in-law).

[Read more]

 * Excerpts


READ AN EXCERPT FROM THE WICKED BARGAIN

Gabe Cole Novoa
Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:00pm Post a comment 2 Favorites [+]

On Mar León de la Rosa’s sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling.

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Latinx pirate fantasy The Wicked Bargain
by Gabe Cole Novoa, available now from Random House Books for Young Readers.

[Read more]

 * book reviews


STONE STALKERS AND STOMPY BOOTS: GARTH NIX’S THE SINISTER BOOKSELLERS OF BATH

Molly Templeton
Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:30pm Post a comment 3 Favorites [+]

What a delight it can be to be wrong. In 2020, I thought that Garth Nix’s The
Left-Handed Booksellers of London was a standalone novel—which seemed a shame,
given what a deliciously complex magical world Nix created, full of Old Ones and
unusual bookshops and mythological mash-ups. And here we are: the book has a
well-deserved sequel. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath moves the action to the
titular town in part, but really sends its characters all over the English
countryside, trying to outwit a mysterious entity that has its eye on Susan
Arkshaw.

[Read more]

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