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Hobbit news: Smaug will be unlike any dragon you've seen
Director Guillermo del Toro has new ideas for the dragon at the heart of The Hobbit.
Was the new Hitchhiker's Guide novel really necessary?
Eoin Colfer takes Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and the rest on yet another romp through the galaxy, but for all the laughs he generates, they all could have stayed home.
Inside the Hitchhiker book Douglas Adams didn't write
Six ways Eoin Colfer carries on the tradition of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
12 awesome sci-fi Halloween moments, real and fake
Revisit the original Halloween, the Great Pumpkin and Orson Welles' alien invasion.
The 10 most truly, utterly evil things in sci-fi
No question, sci-fi is full of badasses. But there's bad, and then there's evil—so for the 27th of our 31...
Oh no! The end is (kinda, sorta) near for Sookie Stackhouse
If you like the books from A Southern Vampire Mystery -- which HBO turned into the fang-banging show True Blood...
Mysterious 'Jane Doe' tied to fantasy novel
The only things this young girl remembers are snippets from a fantasy novel.
Was The Vampire's Assistant necessary? Probably not.
If the number one rule of moviemaking is "show, not tell," then the filmmakers have failed to do their job correctly.
Richard Kelly explains his weird film The Box to us
Director Richard Kelly talks with us exclusively about adapting Richard Matheson's short story.
Kid bites mom after seeing Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze's adaptation of the beloved children's book bores and scares kids and drives one wild.
14 things we're glad aren't in the Dracula book sequel
A sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula is due; here's some things we hope aren't in it.
Giving the Tolkienian epic an extreme makeover
David Anthony Durham, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for the best new science fiction or fantasy writer, is back with The Other Lands.
Hard to believe: People hated Where the Wild Things Are once
Maurice Sendak's illustrated book has been trashed by critics, chastised by psychologists and even banned.
98 stories! 1,216 pages! Is the complete J.G. Ballard worth it?
Columnist John Clute wrestles with The Complete Stories of J G Ballard.
Neil Gaiman wants you to help him write a story on Twitter
The fantasy author needs 1,000 collaborators to help him finish his newest short story.
Rumors and denials about the 4th Twilight movie
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn has been given the green light. Or has it?
Could a sci-fi writer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury and Samuel R. Delany are worthy candidates.
Watch David Duchovny call Twilight "bullsh*t"
The former X-Files star rips into Stephenie Meyer in his Californication role as sex-addicted writer Hank Moody.
7 good things Spike Jonze added to "Where the Wild Things Are"
Director Spike Jonze had to add a bunch of stuff to Maurice Sendak's book: Here's a guide.
Do classic science fiction stories still matter?
We still care about Jane Austen and H. P. Lovecraft—so why not Edmond Hamilton?
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