When you’re pitching a speculative fiction story to an agent or publisher, do their eyessometimes roll back in their heads, and you hear them murmur, “What exactly does thatmean?” The term “speculative fiction” says very little about the actual story. And if youtry to narrow it to “fantasy” or “sci-fi,” ... Read more| Speculative Fiction Writers Association
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Blurb: An exhilarating dystopian YA recalling The Last of Us and Divergent—Climate Of Chaos is a hard-hitting survival story featuring a disabled protagonist that explores the chilling effects of climate change and medical debt. In dystopic Seattle, storms have devastated Earth’s population, a new virus is spreading, and the privileged live inside domes controlled by Aegis Corp. Healthcare is earned by hours accrued working in Aegis’s pharmaceutical factories. If you run short on ho...| Jonathan Pongratz
Climate fiction, often referred to as “Cli-Fi,” is a genre of literature that focuses on the impacts of climate change and environmental issues. It explores how these changes affect individuals…| Speculative Fiction Writers Association
An engaging, fun set of books—kept me interested, made me excited to read more, and so on. It spurs a bit of thought about what it means to be alive, but mostly it was fun and lighthearted entertainment. I especially enjoyed the fourth book (Heaven’s River), and liked the third book (All These Worlds) the least, but all of them kept me reading. I read them back-to-back, and they essentially felt like a single book to me, so they only get a single entry.| Ben Kettle
I’ve been exploring some overlooked sci-fi and fantasy, and Witch World by Andre Norton really blew my mind. This 1963 novel breaks genre boundaries and tackles deep themes, making it an impo…| Fear Planet
Wow, June is stacked with a LOT of author events! Here’s where you can find me this month. Swing by, say hello, and check out my scary books! Happy Pride Month, everyone! Join My ARC & Street Review Team | Subscribe Facebook | GoodReads | Bookbub | Instagram| YouTube| Jonathan Pongratz
Blurb: Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately,… Read more New Book Release: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove →| Jonathan Pongratz
Ralph Losey’s sci-fi short story follows Orion, a legendary hunter whose pride leads to a humbling encounter with a scorpion. It explores themes of ambition, humility, and humanity’s ev…| e-Discovery Team
Terrifying visitors have come to Maria and Richard’s doorstep. Can they make them go away, or will their peaceful retirement go up in flames? Check my short story out for free on Kindle Unlimited or find it at your favorite retailer at www.books2read.com/jonathanpongratz. Happy Reading! Join My ARC & Street Review Team | Subscribe Facebook | GoodReads | Bookbub | Instagram| YouTube| Jonathan Pongratz
Blurb: Stranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government for psychological warfare. October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother, the only thing on high schooler Andi’s mind is saving up enough money to return to her old stomping grounds in Silicon Valley. Her self-taught skills with all things electronic make her a perfect fit for a job at the dingy local ...| Jonathan Pongratz
New Book Spotlight A Wereshark’s Memoir I & II A mini-interview Justin T. O’Conor Sloane Tell us about your new books? There are periods of time during which I literally must…| Space Cowboy Books
The Unruly Archive weaves together Stephanie Syjuco’s research-based practice with a substantial array of visual source material. She also invited nine artists to contribute short essays abou…| Astria Suparak
Blurb: When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games,… Read more New Book Release: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games #0.5) by Suzanne Collins →| Jonathan Pongratz
No doubt about it, both scifi and any other type of movies are plagued by the curse of sequels, prequels, spinoffs and spiritual successors. However, 2023’s scifi movies seem to be a mix of both derivative stuff and fresh new scifi stories – just take a look at our roundup of the most . Our […]| TechTheLead
Sean Wren has survived an alien invasion, a haunted spaceship and his bad habit of making things worse (just to see). Now he’s on the run with his unlikely allies, determined to stop a war – …| onemore.org
Hail Santa at Terminal Velocity invented UDEL, or “Uniform Data Entry Language,” a conlang for Mothership and other sci-fi games. I’ve written this tool to help write it, and while it’s not feature-complete, I thought I’d better release something soon rather than tinker with it forever.| The Benign Brown Beast
Until tomorow (22 Dec 2020), the Mothership Discord server is hosting the 20x20 Jam. Make a piece of Mothership content (any sort) in Playscii in 20x20 format, and upload a png to the server. Winner gets a shirt?| The Benign Brown Beast
With 2023 brought to a standstill in entertainment thanks to the much-needed SAG-AFTRA strikes, you’d think 2024 would also be pretty poor when it comes to movies. Well, think again, because at least when it comes to scifi movies, 2024 will be an incredible year for original stories. Scroll on to see the new scifi […]| TechTheLead
I was raised in a rational family, with strong belief in science. When I got my masters degree a was pretty much convinced that we generally know everything about the world and that science is more or less a complete endeavor. By the time I got my PhD however, my confidence dropped quite significantly. Now almost 13 years after my PhD defense, my view is that science is actually a rather fragile thread we use to hold together and explain various mysteries in the world. And that is not to say ...| Piekniewski's blog
Really good. Super engaging and gave me so much to think about. At times it felt like it was drifting into fantasy with some meandering worldbuilding, which I think I am not as into, but this was infrequent and not too long. Reading Sci-fi is so fun.| Ben Kettle
The Three-Body Problem, one of the best contemporary scifi novels, will get another adaptation very soon. The Three-Body Problem anime announced back in 2019 will launch on December 3rd on the Chinese streaming platform Bilibili, coming out before the Netflix adaptation which involves Games of Thrones creator David Benioff and DB Weiss. The Three-Body Problem […]| TechTheLead
“A collage of Caucasian actors in roles as emotionally complex robots, AIs and cyborgs. [The installation] questions who is granted the privilege of humanity and emotional depth in these tech…| Astria Suparak
The Kickstarter for the next anthology by Lagrange Books, Asteroids! Stories of Space Adventure, is closing in on its final week. Backers can get all kinds of cool perks, like discounts on our previous anthologies, so definitely check it out. Also, we’ve been posting interviews with the authors and sneak peeks of their stories, soContinue reading "Sci-Fi Anthology Kickstarter in the Home Stretch!"| Lagrange Books
Create your own cosmic battlefields! Download 2 BONUS space backgrounds now included with our Shattered Sky map & pack!| 2-Minute Tabletop
Dark Star is an undeniable scifi classic and one of the movies that inspired Alien. In 2024, Dark Star turns 50 and, despite being a movie from the 70s, it still has plenty of things to offer to modern scifi. Mainly, how to do a great movie on a shoestring budget. Dark Star is John […]| TechTheLead
Matrix 4 might have received a lukewarm reception but the owners of this IP aren’t letting it go. A new report in Deadline reveals the existence of a new Matrix movie, one with a surprising director attached. No, it’s not a Wachowski. Drew Goddard will write and direct the new Matrix movie. Fortunately, he will […]| TechTheLead
Netflix’s show is available from March 21st but there’s a Tencent Three-Body Problem TV series available right now! Let’s look at how China adapted one of the best scifi books in recent years. Is Tencent’s Three-Body Problem worth watching before, after or side-by-side with Netflix’s new blockbuster show? You decide but please, as a scifi […]| TechTheLead
“This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.”| Astria Suparak
Watch me on a live play RPG stream with some hilarious people: TOMORROW at 1:30pm PT, these souls gaze into the abyss….and the abyss gazes also into them. Watch @guybranum @ifynwadiwe and @johnroycomic brave the horrors of space in MOTHERSHIP scifi role playing game with GM @jaredlogan. Link in bio! - # #comedy #rpg #criticalrole #twitch #livestream #dnd #scifi https://www.instagram.com/p/B-S2BQKAa98/?igshid=1xldsovlpoar6| John Roy
My buddy Jackson and I put together an itch.io storefront with our backlog of work. You can check it out here if you want. It has A Most Thoroughly Pernicious Pamphlet, which I wrote WAY back in the G+ days and hasn’t been available for a couple a years, plus the amazing Brushwood Lullabies and PILGRIM by Jackson. Everything is PWYW, and currently we plan to keep it that way.| hex culture
“This issue of V ART records Thai-American artist Astria Suparak’s long-term research project ‘Asian futures, without Asians.’ She uses precise language like a scalpel cutting thr…| Astria Suparak
“Suparak’s media archaeology disrupts these racialized imaginaries of AI and identifies openings for building future imaginaries otherwise.”| Astria Suparak
An amalgamated skyline of Asian futures imagined by white filmmakers. Sourced from primarily 21st century sci-fi movies and television shows, including an early example of techno-orientalism from t…| Astria Suparak
This live cinema work, presented as a taxonomy of tropes, is illustrated with images and clips from futuristic movies and television shows. Accompanied by a live musical soundtrack, Suparak deliver…| Astria Suparak
A set of backdrops containing concepts central to present-day sci-fi and fantasy, highlighting a sliver of the brilliance and beauty of Asian imagination and artistry across six centuries.| Astria Suparak
“Suparak and the writer and artist Dorothy R. Santos discuss Suparak’s ongoing scholarship, which, in addition to researching historical Asian artifacts that presage contemporary concepts of …| Astria Suparak
A short video essay that takes one of the world-building tics of white science fiction — gratuitous signage in Asian languages — to consider its utopian potential and dystopian applications.| Astria Suparak