Join us in singing the praises of Snuff the dog and Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October, the perfect Halloween treat for fans of classic horror, mystery, and fantasy!
While ebooks are a little easier to carry around than most books, there's something about the physical expression of a story that gets lost. Abi Walton talks manuscripts, smudged pages, and The Song of Achilles in this new essay.
Whether it's fixating on a body part, object, place, or a fictional character, each of these stories follows characters who are drawn into unhealthy obsessions. What are your favorite examples?
Science fiction often features a dead or dying Earth, but the bad behavior of puny humans isn't the worst existential threat this planet has faced by a long shot–James Davis Nicoll ponders different types of potential doomsdays...
John Carpenter's first film, released 50 years ago, is an irreverent, low-budget twist on space opera that has become a surprisingly influential cult classic, inspiring key aspects of Alien and sci-fi comedies like Red Dwarf.
A hopeful, optimistic, touching love story that is also "the least John Carpenter movie that John Carpenter ever John Carpentered": come discuss Starman with the Science Fiction Film Club!
Pull up a chair and don't look too closely at the mysterious jars behind the counter. May we offer you a nice literary, horror-themed cocktail in this trying time?
