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Star Wars: Resistance Reborn Author Rebecca Roanhorse Discusses Her Journey...

It’s Force Friday, and we’re celebrating Star Wars with a journey into the Expanded Universe. If you haven’t done so already, check out our exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming novel Star Wars:...

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Rejoin General Leia and Poe Dameron in an Exclusive Excerpt from Star Wars:...

It’s Force Friday, one of the high holidays for fans of the Star Wars franchise (the others being May the 4th and whatever day the new movie is released—this year that would be December 20). To...

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Fiction Roundup: September 2019

Illustration from “A Bird, a Song, a Revolution” by Galen Dara, from Lightspeed Magazine #112 This month, we read stories of the horrors of history, impossible apparitions on the Moon, stolen free...

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All the News on the New Star Wars Books and Comics Coming Soon to a Galaxy...

The Star Wars franchise has long been more than just feature films: Every year, there arrives an armful of novels and comics to keep fans busy while they wait for the next movie to hit theaters. Today...

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The Best New Manga of October 2019

Halloween is nearly here, and the manga publishers have responded in kind, breaking out with some scary stories, including a new edition of the horror classic The Drifting Classroom, a manga version of...

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A New Book Imagines the Undead Plague of The Walking Dead Hitting China

In fiction, the apocalypse is typically a local affair, the global impact notwithstanding. In the early days, survivors might catch panicked broadcasts from places farther than a day’s walk, but once...

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This Week’s New Science Fiction & Fantasy Books: A Posthumous...

Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo The first adult novel from New York Times bestseller Leigh Bardugo—author of several Russia-inspired young adult fantasy series set in her Grisha-verse, which will soon be...

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A Reader’s Guide to Shudder’s Revival of Creepshow

In 1982, co-creators Stephen King and George Romero leaned into their love of 1950s horror comics with the anthology film Creepshow, featuring three tales of terror hand-crafted for the screen. The...

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The Fierce Women of Gothic Literature Unite One Last Time in The Sinister...

The Athena Club returns for one last adventure in Theodora Goss’s The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, the final installment of her trilogy of quirky, women-fronted metafictional Victorian...

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Gorgeous, Hypnotic Horror: John Hornor Jacob’s A Lush and Seething Hell

A Lush and Seething Hell is not a novel, but a bind-up of two horror novellas by John Hornor Jacobs, an author who has a proven affinity for surreal scares—his debut, Southern Gods, is a sinister...

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Hold on to Your Butts: Preview 4 Pages from The Adventure Zone: Petals to the...

For a long time, The Adventure Zone felt like my little secret: this podcast that I adored, in which three brothers play a rowdy, hilarious, and ultimately kind of heartwarming game of Dungeons &...

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B&N Bestsellers in Science Fiction & Fantasy: September 2019

This month in SFF, comics, and manga bestseller news at Barnes & Noble: As the fall publishing season ramps up, there has been a lot of movement on the hardcover bestseller lists, with six new...

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7 Chunky Horror Epics to Keep You Up Until All Hallow’s

October is here, and we the people demand to spend it scared out of our wits. Happily, Big Publishing is responding: how else to explain the timing of two of the biggest (literally and figuratively)...

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Two New Books Examine the Lost History of Speculative Fiction

Science fiction, fantasy, and horror are genres with a long history behind them, and historians and writers have spilled plenty of ink covering the authors, events, franchises, and works that form...

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A Fairy Tale in Space: K. Eason’s How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

It’s an age-old debate in the speculative fiction community: what separates science fiction from fantasy? It sounds simple—magic and dragons on one side, phasers and spaceships on the other—but it’s...

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7 Books That Explore the Many Worlds of Indigenous Science Fiction &...

It’s sometimes referred to as Indigenous Futurism: the recent rise in speculative literature that places Indigenous people at the center of stories involving space, time travel, robot uprisings, and...

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Why You Definitely Should be Reading Brent Weeks’ Lightbringer Series

With the October 22 release of The Burning White, Brent Weeks will close the book on Lightbringer, the latest sprawling epic from the author of The Night Angel trilogy, which means it’s time once again...

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This Week’s New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books: Alien Parasites, Giant...

Escaping Exodus, by Nicky Drayden Nicky Drayden’s novels are weird, and that is intended as the highest of compliments—her genre-blending debut The Prey of Gods landed on the scene with the subtlety of...

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Magical Accessories, Definitively Ranked

Magic is better when accomplished with style. Whether you’re serving high camp at a wizarding academy or draping cobwebs across your cauldron at home, any practitioner of the supernatural arts would do...

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Escaping Exodus Explores Environmentalism, Gender, and the Class Divide from...

Nicky Drayden’s novels are weird—and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Her genre-blending debut The Prey of Gods landed on the scene in 2017 with the self-same subtlety of a Roman candle stuck...

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