Like such protests as the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the violence inflicted during the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 continues to resonate, often in rather interesting ways. Which ...CONTINUE
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The idea of mixing fantasy and history is not new. Mike Mignola’s Hellboy and B.P.R.D. comics have been doing it for years, as have the Wolfenstein games, and David Mack’s Dark Arts novels did it as well. But unless ...CONTINUE
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It’s an idea that fellow science fiction (and fantasy) writer Adrian Tchaikovsky is putting to the test in his new sci-fi / ...CONTINUE
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When a writer puts together a collection of their work, they often collect their best work, their most recent work, or work that all falls within the same genre. And they usually keep their own council. But with A ...CONTINUE
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Isn’t it always the way: You finally get to retire, only to have something screw it up. I hate when that happens. But as cliché as it may be to have your dreams dashed just when they’re coming to ...CONTINUE
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Between Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem finding vocal fans in Barack Obama and the people behind Game Of Thrones, and Ken Liu being tapped to pen a Star Wars novel, The Legends Of Luke Skywalker, Chinese science ...CONTINUE
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Usually when people sing along to the “Ghostbusters” song by Ray Parker, Jr., and they get to the “Who you gonna call?” part, they don’t yell out, “MY! AGENT!” But as writer Dan Hanks explains in the following email ...CONTINUE
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It sounds like a cookbook. Maybe by some nice who lives in the suburbs of New England. But it’s not. Instead, Catherynne M. Valente’s new novella Comfort Me With Apples (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) is actually ...CONTINUE
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As anyone who’s read it will tell you, Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is a classic. But it also has a backstory that’s as interesting as the novel itself. It’s this backstory that writer Tom Roston covers in his ...CONTINUE
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