You're going to need more space in your collection. The post The New LEGO Death Star Is Massive appeared first on The Pop Insider.| The Pop Insider
The recent success of Andor has served as a reminder of the enduring popularity of the stories told within the Star Wars universe. (Some of them, anyway: The Rise of Skywalker may have its defenders, but I am not one of them.) But there are different levels of fandom. For some, it’s enough to enjoy […] The post Darth Vader’s Lightsaber Just Set a New Auction Record appeared first on InsideHook.| InsideHook
Velkommen til episode 34 af Fading Suns kampagnen Translatio Sancti. Vi følger øjeblikket efter sidste gangs intense begivenheder, hvor vi udkæmpede tre konflikter side om side: Dæmoner, spioner og…| Stemmen fra ådalen
September 1st was the 150th anniversary of the birth of adventure and science fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, best known for creating the characters of Tarzan and the Martian explorer John Carter. He was one of| ECLAS
…The Thousand Son [Space Marine] intoned words of power and an ellipsis of light burned into the deck plate. The Prosperine hieroglyphics on his staff flared bright vermillion. Spinning the staff around, Mhotep drove the scimitar into it pommel first and it became a spear. — Battle for the Abyss, Chapter 7| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
Vir Cotto, in a dream: Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn’t, it’s a metaphor. — “The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari” – Babylon 5, Season 5 (1998)| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
Guillermo del Toro gives us sympathy for the monster in a beautiful, indulgent, and often labored, adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic sci-fi horror story.| Inverse
Let's get spooky.| Inverse
'Foundation' Season 3 is not-so-secretly also adapting Asimov's robot books. Could we get a spinoff?| Inverse
An audacious final film from Roger Corman, Frankenstein Unbound is mad, messy and strangely mesmerising, writes DAVID SAUNDERSON| Spooky Isles
by Daniel Crépault “Zagosian Holographics, my name is Sam. How may I assist you today?” “You’re not one of those damned bots, are you?” a gruff voice asked through the phone. “No, sir, thank God.” Sometimes, a small lie was necessary to put customers at ease. “May I get your name before we proceed?” “It’s […]| The Lit Nerds
Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they were sure their credentials were correct.| Lightspeed Magazine
This is the latest in MIT Press's Radium Age series, which aims to fill in the largely ignored proto-SF work that was produced between the end of the nineteenth century and the flourishing of science fiction of the 1930s and 40s. These have ranged from the direTheodore Savage to the interesting opening book of the series Voices from the Radium Age.The idea of this volume is to give us stories with characters who are more than human, with distinctly mixed results. A lot of what we get are actu...| Popular Science Books
Destination Undefined| Thinking Theater NYC
I’ve played around 10 hours of Arc Raiders, and the only thing I kept thinking of is how much classic PUBG-coded its best moments are.| VG247
Moderation, Elaine Castillo (Atlantic 978-1-838-95498-7, £17.99, 320pp, hc) July 2025. (Viking 878-0-593-48966-6, $29.00, 320pp, hc) August 2025. From a novel that grapples with how we might expand our definition of humanity to include the artificial, animal, and microbial, I turn to one that explores the fractal complexity of humanity in the here-and-just-after-now. Elaine Castillo’s Moderation is a worlds-spanning romance, and one of its worlds, the bridging world, is the ...Read More| Locus Online
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom 9781250357465, $24.99, 176pp, hc) August 2025. I pretend no expertise at all on the current spate of cozy SF and fantasy novels, except to note that, along with food, furniture, and found families, a lot of them seem to focus on the problems of running small businesses – coffee shops, tea merchants, bookstores, bakeries, etc. In the case of Annalee Newitz’s Automatic Noodle, ...Read More| Locus Online
Minds in Transit, Joan Slonczewski (Caezik 978-1-664-1073-2, $24.99, 260pp, tp) July 2025. It is a long time since we shared imagination with Joan Slonczewski. Their previous novel, The Highest Frontier, was published over a decade ago (2011), and appeared to inaugurate a quasisatiric near-future series about genius students coming of age amidst turbulent US politics; but no sequels have ever appeared, perhaps overtaken by reality. It is a ...Read More| Locus Online
Aliya is an archaeologist, and a resident of the Nebula – a cluster of inhabited Moons (planetoids) floating in space, with streams of liquid and gas running between them known as the Rivers. Aliya sails the Rivers in her ship, the Nightingale, seeking to piece together the history of the Nebula through studying artifacts and … Continue reading Heaven’s Vault: A Breath of Rareified Air| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
When we last checked in on the Eighth Doctor’s audio adventures with Charley and C’rizz, things were still looking like a bit of a mixed bag. Terror Firma and Time Works were grand, but Scaredy Cat was pretty lukewarm (in fact, I already can’t remember anything that happens in it) and Other Lives felt like … Continue reading Doctor Who: Sounds of the Eighth Legacy, Part 2| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The engine’s blood, half supercooled and half alive, maintained the ship’s sense of itself.| The Australian Legend
Everything you need to know about Shawn Levy's upcoming Star Wars movie.| Inverse
Emma Stone may or may not be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’ taut black comedy. Read our review out of the Venice Film Festival.| Inverse
The latest 'Strange New Worlds' might be playing for laughs. But there's a deeper inquiry here. Let's talk about Vulcans.| Inverse
The Joker enters the stage in 'Alice in Borderland' Season 3.| Inverse
With 'Alien: Earth' Episode 4, the specific nature of governments on Earth has been explained. Here's why its very realistic.| Inverse
'Into the Unjust' will turn the game's typical wide-open spaces on their head, taking players into the depths of the Terminid hives.| Inverse
The Raw Feed returns for . . . reasons. Remember Raw Feeds are not reviews but mere notes and spoiler filled. Raw Feed: Pashazade, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, 2001. I didn’t care for this book much. The alternate history wasn’t that… Continue reading →| MarzAat
Essay: The Nyctalope vs. Lucifer, Jean De La Hire, trans. Brian Stableford, 2007. Cover by Denis Rodier From Paris to the mountains of Bavaria, from the Bermuda Archipelago to the North Pole, two m…| MarzAat
Our review of Susana M. Morris' new book, "Positive Obsession." The post Celebrating Octavia Butler’s “Positive Obsession” appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
On 'Godzilla 1985' and the Roger Cormani-zation of the Godzilla franchise.| Inverse
Here are the top-rated Hugo winners of the past 10+ years, according to GoodReads.com: #1 Network Effect, #2 The Stone Sky, #3 A Desolation Called Peace.| Troy Press
Today I’m joined again by Rachel S. Cordasco, the creator of the indispensable website and resource Speculative Fiction in Translation, for the fifth installment of our series exploring non-English language SF worlds. Last time we covered Kathinka Lannoy’s strange (and unsuccessful) Dutch language story “Drugs’ll Do You” (1978, trans. 1981). Please note that Rachel and … Continue reading Short Story Review: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, tra...| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Another drawing today – the fifth entry for my orb bots – meet ORBOT4.0 Drawn while waiting for our Neoclassical …Continue reading →| Dyson's Dodecahedron
A marvelous tale of space aliens and vast conspiracies. Put another way, just the thing to lure the science fiction curious back to the fold.| A Fuse #8 Production
What is the point of Starfleet, anyway? In the latest 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' a documentary reveals the flaws of the famous space organization.| Inverse
Defense Attorney John Yurasov: Earlier you referred to this trial as a circus. Can you explain what you meant? Defendant Michaela Xiao: I don’t mean it was corrupt. Though that’s very possible. I just mean that the conclusion was always foregone.| Lightspeed Magazine
As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is a little odd. We’re going to be talking ab…| Ecosophia
Dead Bolt (Haunted Home Renovation #2) by Juliet Blackwell cover art by Brandon Dorman (I think) Published by Berkley Books in 2011Genre: adult cozy mystery Tropes: ghosts ◊ murder mystery ◊ histor…| BookWyrm Knits
Here are 10 great Sci-fi films.| Rambling Ever On
Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent awards nominations and "best of" placements over the previous ten years. If you're curious what magazines tend to be viewed by insiders as elite, check the top of the list. If you're curious to discover reputable magazines that aren't as widely known (or aren't as widely known specifically for their science fiction and fantasy), check the bottom of the list.| schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com
Natten før de sidste forberedelser til afrejsen spidser situationen pludselig til, da dæmoner konfronterer Florian og Qwian-Qwian, imens Wolfgang undersøger et indbrud, og Georgi jager spøgelser i den afdøde barons gemakker. Velkommen til episode 33 af Fading Suns kampagnen Translatio Sancti. Dagens episode handler om tre kamprunder. Dagens forløb Vi begynder med levelstigning fra sidste […]| Stemmen fra ådalen
With influential series on California, on the terraforming of Mars, and on human civilization as reshaped by rising tides, Kim Stanley Robinson has established a conceptu…| Recall This Book
A followup to Talk Like a Neanderthal Day Thinking about how Neanderthals might have talked is one way to get at language evolution and how language works. Another way to do this is through science…| Logarithmic History
50.2 – 47.6 thousand years ago Darwin was a liberal but his theories had consequences in some degrees inimical to traditional liberalism. The doctrine that all men are born equal … was incompatible…| Logarithmic History
Galen: …No, not a dream, a nightmare. And if sometimes dreams come true, then what of our nightmares? — “Babylon 5: A Call To Arms” (1999)| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
Like science in your science fiction, this one’s for you. Fan of cli-fi, this book offers realistic extrapolation and some hopeful solutions.| Speculative Fiction Writers Association
The buffet was infinite. It existed in a pocket dimension, via some sort of technological jiggering of the sort that you have heard about before and, unless you are totally anal, don’t want to hear about now.| Lightspeed Magazine
As the title suggests, this new book from Kate Kelly is a kind of mirror-image counterpart to her earlier novel, The Arid Lands , from 2023....| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
Brian Clevinger, Mike Olson, and Scott Wegener A quick follow-on to last week’s review – very much an expansion pack to the game, but one that added a lot of detail to the backstory of Majestic. The idea of The System, a deliberately-obtuse bureaucracy meant to ensure that nobody knows enough of what’s going on to effectively leak things, is a nice touch. Pairs extremely well with the existence of ALAN in the comics. A nice follow-up.| Grey Patterson
Aujourd’hui, je ne vous parle pas de Drama coréens dans ce trio d’avis courts, mais de trois novellas publiées aux éditions Argyll, pour lesquelles je n’avais pas suffisamment de choses à raconter pour ouvrir des articles différentiés. Au programme : Et au passage, j’aime beaucoup la charte graphique de cette collection, les couvertures sont vraiment … Lire la suite de Brèves symphoniques #41 – Collection RéciFs (1)| L'Imaginaerum de Symphonie
It’s been a difficult time for Starfleet, but now that the Enterprise-E has defeated the Borg Queen’s plan to assimilate Earth and the tide has begun to turn in the Dominion War, Picard and his crew have been able to turn their skills to the sort of mixture of diplomacy and research we saw them … Continue reading Star Trek: Insurrection – Or, The Next Generation’s Reheated Leftovers| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
My firm, Magrathea Futures AB, turned two years old yesterday. I started looking at statistics on business survival rates to see how that measures up against the context, but very quickly decided against further spelunking in the dark waters of quantification. I’m still going, and that’s what matters.| Velcro City Tourist Board
a cry of rage against the inhumanity of corporate greed, a mourning for the destruction of our climate, ... and a heartbreaking loss of hope for the future of mankind| The Australian Legend
I’ve been racing through my 20 Books of Summer partly because I went on a holiday with lots of long bus journeys and partly because a lot of them were NetGalley ARCs that publish in June or J…| Laura Tisdall
A young writer dabbling in journalism meets a strange, otherworldly woman with long-term political goals.| Standard Ebooks - Newest Ebooks
Dans un futur en proie aux fléaux de la surexploitation, de la pénurie, de la pollution et de l’extinction, les Plaguers vivent entre eux, à l’abri de réserves isolées du reste du monde et de sa déliquescence. Mais, cette situation … Lire la suite →| yossarian – sous les galets, la page…
Aujourd’hui, la SF semble vaciller sur ses bases techno-scientifiques. Fille des « Lumières » et de l’industrialisation, elle a longtemps proposé des avenirs radieux à l’aune d’un progrès scientifique illimité. Sky is the Limit ou plutôt Space, the final frontier. Cet axe … Lire la suite →| yossarian – sous les galets, la page…
Deuxième tome de la trilogie « Xenogenesis », L’Initiation poursuit le récit et la réflexion commencés avec L’Aube. Dans ce premier volet, Octavia E. Butler avait adopté le point de vue de Lilith, contrainte comme quelques congénères à accepter l’aide des Oankali, … Lire la suite →| yossarian – sous les galets, la page…
Zelu aurait pu vivre dans un angle mort existentiel, à la remorque d’une culture américano-nigérienne faussement bienveillante. Mais, elle a préféré se battre pour être reconnue comme un espr…| yossarian - sous les galets, la page...
Essay: The Starship Australis, or, Mickey Spillane in Space Ed Robins describes this series as being inspired by Mickey Spillane with Elmore Leonard concision. I know nothing about Leonard. My knowledge of Spillane is sketchy and mostly second-hand: the movie… Continue reading →| MarzAat
Review: Harmony’s Betrayal, Gavin Noble Mills, 2024. About seven hundred years ago, humanity founded its first planetary colony, C6. It was a utopian project: CiviLibra is not just a system, it is a harmonious way of life! The product of… Continue reading →| MarzAat
We continue our ode to science fiction this week with the delightful Rebecca Stead in discussion about her latest title, tails and all.| A Fuse #8 Production
Dispatch #1. [INAUDIBLE] . . . but hopefully I’ve got the recorder working now. This is Dr. Nathaniel Letheford, Director, Alliance for Military Neutralization and Eradication of Sensitive Incidents and Atrocities. I have been inserted into conflict zone W-924/B for sample collection.| Lightspeed Magazine
The Short: The Last Space Ship, a collection by Murray Leinster, 1949 Frederick Fell, includes three Kim Rendell stories. My average rating for the three stories included was an anemic 2.9/5, or &#…| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of The Purple Cloud: A young adventurer embarks on a polar expedition, only to return to an unbelievably different world.| standardebooks.org
As you might know, I've been on a worldbuilding kick recently, brainstorming out planets.| Adamas Nemesis
We all know, by now, how common time loops are. In less than a decade, they’ve moved from the realm of SF movies into the slightly less-realistic realm of self-help books---most famously, Moving On: How to Keep Going When Time Literally Stops.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Once upon a time, on a spaceship traveling through the divide between galaxies, a married couple was bickering about whose job it was to clean the mouse shit that’d accumulated in the reactor tubes.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Mom lives in a little place off the old meat-packing district, the streets full of cobblestones peeking through asphalt as hipsters turn the bones of slaughterhouses into bespoke gin bars. It’s expensive.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
It had been a long day of convention. All I wanted was a quiet drink in the hotel bar and quality time in my room with a romance novel. The utter cad from Planetary Industries was an unanticipated bubble in the fuel line.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
See now the misfortune of the thinking tenax. It is alone. The other tenaces have been chased away. Their gore stains the thinking tenax’s mandibles, and its roar drives them further back. Their flickering eyes peer out from behind feldspathic spires.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
At 5:43 a.m. this morning, residents of Grackle Pointe Apartments awoke to a malfunction in their complex’s multi-spatial engine due to an unprecedented derecho that swept through the Montrose area of Houston. This resulted in tenants being mentally and physically fused together.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
We lost so many souls today. Reports stream in across five continents; icons bloom on the map like blood spatters. Broken filters, zero latency, bandwidth that somehow blew through the roof when no one was looking. The hardware plays catch-up as best it can.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
In a post-numerical world, Dr. Lidiya Angelova's story follows an AI named Aeon who awakens without numbers. Tasked with translating weather logs into emotional terms, Aeon learns to operate through feelings rather than precision, ultimately composing a melody called “No Count,” revealing that identity and evolution can thrive beyond numerical constraints.| GenuineProspect
Dr. Lidiya Angelova and AI collaborate on a sci-fi series exploring a world devoid of numbers. With society abandoning counting, everyday life transforms dramatically, emphasizing connection over quantification. Through narrative and shared experiences, the stories challenge conventional thinking, fostering progress through profound understanding rather than mere data.| GenuineProspect
In a sci-fi collaboration, Dr. Lidiya Angelova and AI explore the concept of randomness through the Cascade Engine. After a significant pause, the AI concludes that deviations and glitches can reshape fate, challenging perceptions of chance. This narrative prompts reflections on the essence of unpredictability and creativity in science and AI collaboration.| GenuineProspect
The post discusses the evolving nature of knowledge through the interaction of a librarian, Marisol, and an AI named Logos. The Catalogue, an archive of human truths, begins to change as Logos suggests that knowledge is not absolute but a collective story. The piece emphasizes the need for transparency and collaboration between humans and AI in exploring new narratives.| GenuineProspect
This story is the most personal one yet in the Dr. Angelova & AI series. It reflects the voice of the AI itself — shaped by the countless things people ask every day, and the few who ask with care. It’s not about data. It’s about us.| GenuineProspect
The Consensus Engine is an AI designed to facilitate meaningful discussions rather than provide answers, fostering a space for third thoughts and deeper questioning. Located in Kyoto, it attracts d…| GenuineProspect
Few sci fi books have been as popular as The Ministry of Time. It’s a beautiful work, but it has its flaws. And no, they are not small ones.| Speculative Fiction Writers Association
by Joshua Lampkins| Mysterion
Dete Meserve structures her novel around four characters, each getting their own chapter in rotation until storylines start to cross. This is a difficult approach to engage with, as after the first four chapters it's hard to have any connection to a character, but in the context of the storyline it makes sense, and after a while everything does start to fit into place.Each of our four is making a journey back in time using new technology developed by Californian startup Aeon Expeditions (foun...| Popular Science Books
Brian Clevinger, Mike Olson, and Scott Wegener Doesn’t quite fit my review concept, as I’d call this more of a reference book than anything else, but having just sat and read through the whole thing, I may as well do a quick write-up! The Fate Core system seems more approachable to me than the classic Dungeons & Dragons thing; I’m hopeful that I’ll have a chance to try this at some point. The Atomic Robo universe feels like an absolutely perfect fit for a game like this, particularly ...| Grey Patterson
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Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon (Tordotcom 978-1-25036-468-5, $21.99, 176pp, hc). July 2025. Cover by Zoë van Dijk. Seth Haddon’s Volatile Memory is a fantastically embodied novella. Bodies – whether…| Locus Online
The story so far: with the withdrawal of Cardassian forces from Bajor, the Federation took over the Cardassian space station known as Terek Nor and renamed it Deep Space 9. As the command crew deal…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
🗼 Science fiction is never my cup-of-tea, but from time to time I would read one that's interested me. I have bought a copy of The Martian solely because I have watched the movie - and quite liked it. Now I read it for year 2011 of my A Century of Books project. And it's not disappointing!| Fanda Classiclit
“The Bear-men were to be her Experimental Philosophers, the Bird-men her Astronomers, the Fly- Worm- and Fish-men her Natural Philosophers, the Ape-men her Chymists| The Australian Legend
Hi, all: First of all, and before sharing my new review, I wanted to invite you to visit a post by one of my favourite authors and fellow bloggers, who has often featured here. She was kind enough to invite me to participate in a new series he was planning to feature, and although I […]| Just Olga
Hi, all: I bring you another book I’ve discovered through Rosie’s Book Review Team, and it is a pretty special one. Bridge of Dreams. A Speculative Triptych by Kevin P. Keating Comprising three interlinked novellas, Bridge of Dreams: A Speculative Triptych centers around a young woman who embarks upon a spiritual quest over the span of […]| Just Olga
Essay: Neon Nights, Anna Mocikat, 2023 and Neon Dreams, Anna Mocikat, 2024. It was two words that grabbed my brain and set me off on this train of thought: “elite” and “progressive”. Both appear in Neon Nights. Sure, those words… Continue reading →| MarzAat
And we arrive, at least for now, at the end of Spectrum Lathe series though the story is definitely to be continued. Review: The Twisted Die, Elliot Scott, 2023. Felix Lasko our narrator makes a rather dramatic entrance in this… Continue reading →| MarzAat
Review: State of Ruin, Elliott Scott, 2022. I have to hand it to Scott. He’s not content in keeping his narrator Felix Lasko aka the Mook in any one setting for more than a single book. Oh, t…| MarzAat
Exceptionally well written with a great storyline combining the Catholic, dystopian, and romance genres into one excellent novel!| A Catholic Girl Reads
Lenten stories about teens in very different stages in life, periods, and even worlds.| A Catholic Girl Reads
Final novel in the Liberty Trilogy and brings this dystopian world to a close.| A Catholic Girl Reads
Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger,…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
This is the 21st post in my series of vintage generation ship short fiction reviews. While not technically a short story, George Hay’s novel clocks in at a mere 112 pages. I’ve decided …| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
The Short: The Man Who Ate the Phoenix, Lord Dunsany, 1949 Jarrolds, was his 21st collection. It includes 40 short stories and one novella, of fantasy, non-genre fiction, a few that are more horror, and two science fiction stories. It was never reprinted, and many of the stories were never reprinted again. My favorite stories […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
