In 2000, writer T.C. Boyle’s A Friend Of The Earth showed how climate change might impact our future. But with the real world drawing ever closer to the timeframe of that novel, Boyle has apprently decided to pen a ...CONTINUE
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I’m afraid of bees. And wasps. And spiders. And flies give me the willies, while mosquitos get on my nerves. It’s why I may not read the new bug-based short story anthology This World Belongs To Us: An Anthology ...CONTINUE
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For some people, ancestry DNA tests have been great, a way to connect with your past, or find lost relatives. But for some, they’ve brought up terrible things from their past. And no, I don’t mean when a racist ...CONTINUE
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Of all the things people have suggested to solve England’s Brexit mistake, none have been as clever or as rife with televisual possibilities as Thomas D. Lee’s modern fantasy take on King Arthur and The Knights Of The Round ...CONTINUE
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In Philip K. Dick’s 1956 novella The Minority Report, and the Steven Spielberg movie version of it, crimes are prevented by people who can see into the future. But in his time travel thriller Myriad (paperback, ...CONTINUE
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In the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, fans of the historical action games will go on another adventures with Basim Ibn Ishaq, who was originally introduced in 2020’s Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. But if you can’t wait for the ...CONTINUE
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As the last few years have made abundantly clear, fallacies can be dangerous when enough people believe they’re true. It’s an idea at the center of Sue Burke’s new hard sci-fi novel Dual Memory (hardcover, Kindle, ...CONTINUE
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It’s funny to look back at the first Iron Man movie and think how that character got his own movie when he wasn’t as well-known as Spider-Man or Superman. But every character has to start somewhere. Which is what ...CONTINUE
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It’s been a while since we’ve seen any Jewish people in The Old West. 1974’s Blazing Saddles, to be exact. And even then, it was the regular Old West, not the horror Old West. But the latter is ...CONTINUE
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