Speculative fiction in general:
- Andrew Liptak shares 15 space operas fans of Firefly would enjoy.
- Maddie Crum talks about women SFF writers finding critical and commercial success in spite of prejudice.
- Kameron Hurley talks about the erasure of women writes from SFF.
- Domino Finn talks about the resurgence of tough guy urban fantasy.
- David M. Perry profiles Daniel José Older.
- Lindsay Nixon talks about visual cultures of indigenous futurism.
- Johnnie Jae shares five must-see science fiction films by indigenous filmmakers.
- Grady Hendrix shares his appreciation for Phoenix: Dark Messiah by David Alexander.
- Tor.com shares seventeen notable works of SFF non-fiction.
- Damien Walter explains why Dune deserves a new film adaptation.
- Galactic Journey share their appreciation for the 1961 movie Atlantis - The Lost Continent.
- Michael Flett shares his appreciation for Thunderbirds.
- Thomas A. Foster takes a look at science fiction television of the 1970s.
- Germain Lussier declares that X-Men Apocalypse is the biggest and emptiest X-Men movie yet.
- Tatiana Siegel reports about the hate campaign against the all-female Ghostbusters reboot.
- Juliet E. McKenna talks about pop-cultural cross contamination.
- Thomas Parker remembers the late Darwyn Cooke.
- Romance writer Jo Beverly has died.
Comments on Captain America:
- Alasdair Stuart talks about some shocking revelations regarding Captain America, DC's Rebirth and the arms race of mainstream comics for the biggest shocks.
- James Whitbrock implores people to stop freaking out about the radical changes that Marvel has made to the character of Steve Rogers a.k.a. Captain America, since they likely will not be permanent.
- Abigail Nussbaum shares her thoughts about the shokcing Captain America revelation.
- Helena Horton reports that Nick Spencer, author of the controversial Captain America comic, has received death threats.
- Alexa Grave shares her opinion about Captain America: Civil War.
Awards:
- Jo Lindsay Walton introduces the first annual Sputnik Awards. Voting is open now.
- The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for short fiction is announced as well.
- The winners of the 2015 Ursa Major Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2016 Prix Aurora/Boréal have been announced.
- The winners of the 2016 Premio Italia have been announced.
- The winners of the 2016 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award have been announced.
- The winner of the 2016 Tomorrow Prize has been announced.
- The shortlist for the 2016 Roswell Prize has been announced.
- Shaun Duke announces the winners of his informal WISB Awards.
- Jameson Quinn offers a summary of various proposals to change the Hugo voting and nominations.
- Steve Davidson declares that the Hugo Awards are not broken.
- Tom Hunter, director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, shares 14 ways he is thinking about the future of the award.
- Martin Petto has some ideas about the Arthur C. Clarke Award past, present and future.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Nancy Pearl talks about the four doors to reading.
- Theodore Krulik shares some writing advice from Roger Zelazny.
- Liz Williams talks about visibility, particularly for women writers.
- Rachel Swirsky talks about dealing with bullies as a writer and a human being.
- Daniel José Older talks about teaching writing in the prison system.
- Kate Elliott shares some tips for writing when depressed.
- Teresa Frohock talks about writing sound while deaf.
- Brenda J. Pierson talks about disability and publishing.
- Chuck Wendig demolishes some writing myths.
- Damyanti Biswas talks about the problems of writing in voices not one's own.
- Laura Miller explains what an allegory actually is.
- Chris Winkle discusses some problematic depictions of male characters and how to fix them.
- Steve Vernon talks about building a series.
- Rachel Swirsky shares some tips for coming up with short story titles.
- T.S. Paul talks about making money selling short fiction as an indie.
- Tim Pratt talks about being a hybrid author.
- David Neth shares some tips for what to send to a print formatter.
- Cory Doctorow has some opinions on e-books for libraries and direct sales.
Interviews:
- Rachel Swirsky interviews Ken Liu.
- Gwendolyn Kiste interviews E. Catherine Tobler.
- Mieneke van der Salm interviews Hallie Rubenhold.
- Locus interviews Molly Tanzer.
- Locus also interviews Guy Gavriel Kay.
- Carl Slaughter interviews Erica L. Satifka.
- Dag Rambraut interviews J.B. Rockwell.
- Dag Rambraut also interviews James Lovegrove.
- Mark Yon interviews Andrew Bannister.
- Simon Bestwick interviews Graham Masterton.
- James Whitbrook interviews Frank Barbiere.
Reviews:
- Andrew Liptak reviews Dark Run by Mike Brooks.
- Jo Niederhoff reviews Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis.
- Jonathan Thornton reviews Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.
- Rob H. Bedford reviews Hit by Delilah S. Dawson.
- Sam Reader reviews Infomocracy by Malka Older.
- Ana Grilo reviews The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North.
- Naomi Novik reviews The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas.
- Lady Business reviews A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.
- The Fantasy Book Café reviews Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis.
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews Company Town by Madeline Ashby.
- Bill Capossere reviews Zero K by Dom DeLillo.
- Kate Coe reviews The Archivist by Tom Wright.
- Bibliotropic reviews In the Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan.
- Bookworm Blues reviews The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente.
- Bookworm Blues reviews Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells.
- Adam Rowe also reviews Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells.
- Mark Chitty reviews The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross.
- Andrew Liptak reviews Cumulus by Eliot Peper.
Crowdfunding:
- Interface: inSight, a dystopian YA trilogy by Lucy Mihajlich, is looking for funding.
- Altered States of the Union, an alternate history anthology edited by Glenn Hauman, is looking for funding.
- Alexandra Erin is looking for funding, so she and her partner can attend Worldcon in Kansas City.
- Artist and writer Mia S-N and her partner, animator and webcomic creator Cy, need some help to deal with medical expenses.
Con reports:
- Chris Kaltenbach reports about the history of Balticon in Baltimore, Maryland.
- John King Tarpinian reports about Joe Hill's book tour stop at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California.
Science and technology:
- Scientists have made huge discoveries on Pluto.
- What would it be like to set foot on Pluto?
- The US flags left on the moon have probably faded to white by now.
- India has successfully tested a reusable space shuttle.
- Kim Stanley Robinson and Usman Haque discuss the architectural challenges of living in London in the year 2080.
- New images offer a theory how supermassive black holes have formed.
- Watch a video of the ISS crew inflating the BEAM module.
Free online fiction:
- "Orphan Pirates of the Spanish Main" by Dennis Danvers at Tor.com.
- "The Android's Prehistoric Menagerie" by A. Merc Rustad in Mothership Zeta.
- "The Sound of Salt and Sea" by Kat Howard in Uncanny Magazine.
- "Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands" by Seanan McGuire in Uncanny Magazine.
- "Tethered" by Haris A. Durrani in Lightspeed.
- "Wednesday's Story" by Wole Talabi in Lightspeed.
- "Fable" by Charles Yu in The New Yorker.
- "Ghosts of Utah" by Alexandra Erin.
- Chapter 3 and chapter 4 of Escape from the Free Republic by Floyd Looney.
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