During San Diego Comic-Con, Books Editor Christina Orlando asked 17 authors: What's your favorite trope, and what trope would you like see reimagined? From Amal El-Mohtar to Chuck Tingle to Olivie Blake and more, here's what they had to say.
If you're killing time until the Hugo Awards are announced this weekend (like the rest of us), Molly Templeton has some recommendations for reading and watching material, including Now You See Me: Now You Don't, a movie which entirely understands how to name its sequels, and the books we read when we were wayyyyyy too young.
Growing up in rural Ontario in the 1970s, how did an eager reader come across new SFF written by women? James Davis Nicoll looks back at the anthologies and magazines that helped usher in a new era.
In this month's reading list, Jo Walton ruminates on a great low-stakes, non-epic fantasy series, a bad Agatha Christie novel, and excellent (and very sexy) romance, plus some fairy tales, history, and poetry!
"If the next six episodes are as knotty and fun as these first two, Alien: Earth will become one of the highlights of my pop cultural year."
Leah Schnelbach reviews the Alien: Earth premiere, featuring Xenomorph-vision, Ice Age, Timothy Oliphant's eyebrows, and binning the whole concept of Save The Cat.
A Samurai in Time is a time travel comedy that manages to be very funny and unexpectedly moving; let's discuss the film's cult appeal, fish-out-of-water charm, and traditional Kishōtenketsu story structure.
Barber Gio Monsargo has learned to stay quiet and keep his head down, offering shaves and haircuts, not political opinions. But when a high-ranking military official of the Empire begins visiting his shop, Gio finds himself tested in ways he could never imagine.
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