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We’re back, and you’re about to join the Witchfinder Army! We’re here again with Good Omens. Summary Aziraphale insists to Crowley that the area they’re driving through feels cherished, though Crowley doesn’t...

A new batch of awesome short speculative fiction coming your way! March delivered a ton of narratively innovative short stories, several of which earned a spot on this list. I also have for you tales of murder and...

Kim Bo-Young, one of South Korea’s most treasured writers, explores the driving forces of humanity—love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence—in two pairs of thematically interconnected...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have been enormously influential for millions of fans around the world for decades. Marquette University, home to the J.R.R. Tolkien archives,...

We’re excited to share an excerpt from Molly E. Lee’s Ember of Night, the start of an epic angels-and-demons YA series publishing May 4th with Entangled Teen. I am a weed. Unloved by my abusive, alcoholic dad....

“Warhead” Written by Brannon Braga and Michael Taylor & Kenneth Biller Directed by John Kretchmer Season 5, Episode 25 Production episode 219 Original air date: May 19, 1999 Stardate: unknown Captain’s log....

Movies and TV shows aimed at children are always a delicate mix of cutesy innocence and potentially weighty subject matter—kids might get bored of endless sunshine without any conflict, but go too dark and you risk...

Last week, the serial storytelling platform Serial Box became Realm, and with that change came the news that some of their series would be available as free podcasts. Now, you can listen to Orphan Black: The Next...

Spider-Man director Sam Raimi is among the producers of Every House Is Haunted, a movie adaptation of one of the stories from Ian Rogers’ collection of the same name. The specific tale, “The House on Ashley...

Recently, physicists around the world were astounded to learn that painstaking testing of the visionary EmDrive revealed that the device produces no discernable thrust. By “astounded,” I mean “not astounded” and...

When Douglas Adams died 20 years ago this year, he left behind not only a beloved series of novels, but boxes and boxes of letters and notes of his observations about the world. Those notes are the basis of a new...

Greetings and salutations, my Cosmere Chickens, and welcome to another Thursday and another installment of the Rhythm of War reread! This week we’re hitting the road with Venli and the Fused army to (::gulp::) capture...

“Don’t let her die. We are coming.” We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Prison Healer, a dark YA fantasy from author Lynette Noni—publishing April 13th with HMH Books for Young...

Another lockdown month, at home, lots of reading, not a lot of anything else. But thank goodness for books, there were a lot of great ones in March. I read twenty books in a wide variety of genres and modes, with a high...

For the first time ever, Worldcon—the annual World Science Fiction Convention—will take place not in August, but in December. DisCon III, as this year’s event is known, will be held December 15 through 19 at the...

Frozen was widely heralded for its focus on a sister relationship instead of a romantic one—the first Disney fairy tale retelling that was about a bond between sisters. But the movie was (extremely loosely) based on...

Some trailers tease an intriguing narrative or premise, or introduce fascinating characters, and some spell everything out for you. The trailer for Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy—based on the comic by Mark Millar...

When I was nine, on a weekly trip to the local Toys R Us, I glimpsed my hero in miniature: Leia Organa, in her Boushh disguise, hanging on the racks alongside the other Star Wars action figures. I hemmed and hawed over...