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11 most disturbing Treehouse of Horror segments from The Simpsons
Spooky spoofs of The Twilight Zone, The Omega Man and more.
Could a sci-fi writer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury and Samuel R. Delany are worthy candidates.
Do classic science fiction stories still matter?
We still care about Jane Austen and H. P. Lovecraft—so why not Edmond Hamilton?
The Quiet War reminds us of Bruce Sterling mixed with John Varley
Paul McAuley's The Quiet War features killer clones and wired battle pilots in a posthuman future.
Review: How Cult Magazines kept us connected before there were blogs
A loving look at everything from Doc Savage to Weird Tales, from Galaxy to Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Review: Karl Schroeder continues his alien epic in The Sunless Countries
Karl Schroeder calls The Sunless Countries "the fourth book in the Virga trilogy."
Review: After 20 years, Ben Bova completes his Voyagers saga
The Return concludes a quartet of novels that crosses Lost in Space with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Review: Why Fletcher Hanks was much too weird for comic books
You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! is filled with bizarre sci-fi supermen.
Review: What can Warbreaker tell us about Wheel of Time?
Does Brandon Sanderson's newest novel offer hints as to how he'll finish Robert Jordan's massive series?
Review: Does the concluding novel in Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet deliver?
The Price of Spring completes a bittersweet fantasy series.
Review: Robert Charles Wilson turns from space to steampunk in Julian Comstock
The Hugo-award-winning author visits a post-apocalyptic U.S.
Review: Robert Silverberg looks back on a life spent in the future
Robert Silverberg's quasi-autobiography shows how a Grand Master was made.
Review: Peter F. Hamilton builds his biggest space opera yet in The Temporal Void
Peter F. Hamilton builds big. Big concepts, big characters, big events. And that's really the only way to go with...
New Wave icon J.G. Ballard dead at 78
On Sunday April 19, 2009, after a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer, James Graham Ballard succumbed to his...
Review: Last Unicorn's Peter S. Beagle turns trickster in latest collection
The now-nearly-forgotten SF writer Lloyd Biggle once asked an editor, "What kind of story do you need from me this...
Review: Walter Jon Williams warns that This Is Not a Game
If Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling and Charles Stross know what's good for them, they'll check their residences for eavesdropping devices....
Review: Death comes to Futurama as the crew heads Into the Wild Green Yonder
No, Into the Wild Green Yonder, the fourth direct-to-DVD installment of Futurama, does not suck as much as the third...
Philip K. Dick's "new" novel and 5 other posthumous collaborations
Tessa Dick, Philip K. Dick fifth wife, announced last month that she had completed the manuscript of The Owl in...
Review: Aliens apologize to Earth in Nancy Kress' Steal Across the Sky
Of all the hot-button topics that SF can address, religion surely has to be number one. Consider Robert Heinlein's Stranger...
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