» Slate, Kevin Bankston: Prototyping a Better Tomorrow: How science fiction can help us create a better future

» Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow: How science fiction writers’ “design fiction” is playing a greater role in policy debates

» Boing Boing, Bruce Sterling, science fiction won’t make the future better

» Guardian, Laurie Penny: In science fiction, the future is feminist

» Popular Mechanics, Tiffany Kelly: The Best Science Fiction Books ...Read More

» David Langford’s Ansible 359

» The New Yorker: Jill Lepore on A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction

» NY Times Book Review: Terrence Rafferty on horror, I Know What You’ll Read This Summer, reviewing Philip Fracassi, Bracken MacLeod, Josh Malerman, Giorgio De Maria, Kit Reed

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Kit Reed ...Read More

» The Age: James Bradley reviews Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway

» Berkeley radio station KPFA offers archive Octavia Butler 1983 conversation with Richard Wolinksy and Richard A. Lupoff

» Scott Edelman’s Eating the Fantastic eats donuts with guests and gobbles glass noodles with William F. Nolan ...Read More

» Slate: Laura Miller on What happens when literary novelists experiment with science fiction

» Slate: Cory Doctorow’s I’ve Created a Monster!, excerpted from a new annotated edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ...Read More

» NY Times Book Review: N.K. Jemisin reviews Maurice Broaddus, Gwyneth Jones, Cat Sparks, Cassandra Khaw

» Also in NYTBR: Lidia Yuknavitch reviews Neil Gaiman’s audiobook Norse Mythology ...Read More

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Robinson’s New York 2140 ...Read More

» NY Times Book Review: Wai Chee Dimock reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne

» LA Review of Books: Rob Latham reviews Norman Spinrad’s The People’s Police ...Read More

» David Langford’s Ansible 358

» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews M.R. Carey, Renee Ahdieh, and Tremontaine

» SF in SF hosts Ellen Klages, David D. Levine, and Robyn Bennis, May 7th

» Fantastic Fiction at KGB hosts E.C. Myers and Sam J. Miller, May 17th ...Read More

» LA Times: Elizabeth Hand reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, Claire North

» NYT Book Review: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Lilia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan ...Read More

» The New Yorker: Laura Miller: Jeff VanderMeer Amends the Apocalypse

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Zachary Mason’s Void Star ...Read More

» The New Yorker: Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia ...Read More

» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews John Kessel, Antonia Honeywell, Gwyneth Jones

» Barnes & Noble: Paul Di Filippo reviews Jaroslav Kalfar’s Spaceman of Bohemia

» 1843 Magazine: Tim Cross on Iain M. Banks, The novelist who inspired Elon Musk

» Mashable: Chris Taylor on Banks: If this is the future utopia Elon Musk wants, be very afraid ...Read More

» NY Times Book Review: N.K. Jemisin reviews Saga Volume 7, anthology The Djinn Falls in Love, and books by CaitlÍn R. Kiernan and Kim Stanley Robinson

» NYTBR: Hari Kunzru reviews Jaroslav Kalfar’s Spaceman of Bohemia ...Read More

» Mashable, via Yahoo News: The forgotten Trump-like terror lurking in a sci-fi classic, about Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy and the Mule

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Paul Cornell, Jen Williams, Alastair Reynolds, Tim Lebbon, James Brogden ...Read More

» NYT Book Review: Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump

» NYT Book Review: Jennifer Senior reviews Jaroslav Kalfar’s Spaceman of Bohemia

» NYT Book Review profiles V.E. Schwab, whose A Conjuring of Light ranks on this week’s published fiction hardcover bestseller list ...Read More

» The Verge: Andrew Liptak on how Science fiction would be unrecognizable without women: To grow, the genre must embrace more and different voices

» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews Kim Stanley Robinson, Emma Newman, and anthology The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

» San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews horror novel Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

» LA Review of Books: Alison Sperling reviews Weinstock & Sederholm’s ...Read More

» David Langford’s Ansible 356

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda on the evolution of science fiction, reviewing books by Brian Stableford and Lisa Yaszek & Patrick B. Sharp

» Seattle Times: On Saturday the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame

» Guardian: Adam Roberts reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 ...Read More

» NY Times: Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover, i.e., an authorized classroom edition with the dirty words toned down

» Bangladesh Daily Star: Science fiction pulls in young readers at the Ekushey book fair

» New Scientist: Lavie Tidhar, In China, this is science fiction’s golden age ...Read More

» New York Times: John Williams revisits Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, in light of the current political situation

» Foreign Policy: How China Became a Sci-Fi Powerhouse

» Boing Boing’s Sci-Fi Sundays: Amazing Science Fiction, April 1958

» Bend Bulletin: Everdeen Mason’s Best science fiction, fantasy books to read in February reviews Kameron Hurley, Vic James, Matt Wallace ...Read More

» NY Times: Winston Churchill Wrote of Alien Life in a Lost Essay

» Portland 90.7 FM’s David Naimon interviews Ursula K. Le Guin

» David Langford’s Ansible 355 and Ansible 355 1/2 with Tom Shippey’s funeral tribute to Peter Weston

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology

» Boing Boing: Kameron Hurley: What Will Sink Our Generation Ships? The Death of Wonder

» Wall Street Journal: ...Read More

» New York Times: Neil Gaiman on His ‘Norse Mythology,’ in Which Odin Wants a Wall

» San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego native Greg Bear uses science fiction to explore military culture, war ...Read More

» PRI’s The World talks to David Brin and Catherine Asaro today, asking Can science fiction help prevent a nuclear war?; Brin and Asaro are hosting an AMA, ‘ask me anything’, tomorrow morning on Reddit ...Read More

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo’s Disunion: Visions of Our Fragmented Future, on SF depictions of the breakup of America

» Vox: Constance Grady reviews Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology

» Guardian: Damien Walter on 30 years of Culture: what are the top five Iain M Banks novels? ...Read More

» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews Kameron Hurley, Vic James, Matt Wallace

» Washington Post: Ron Charles reviews George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo; John Domini reviews Steve Erickson’s Shadowbahn

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Adam Nevill, Johanna Sinisalo, James Lovegrove, Alastair Reynolds, Vic James, GX Todd

» Toronto Star: Alex Good reviews Robert Charles Wilson, Ian Tregillis, Brett Savory, Michael Tolkin,

» Oregon Live: Ursula K. Le Guin’s ...Read More

Events:

» New York Review of Science Fiction Readings hosts James Morrow and Jack Womack, Feb. 7th

» Fantastic Fiction at KGB hosts Michael Cisco and Nicholas Kaufmann, Feb. 15th

» Locus Online’s Conventions page is initialized for 2017. Send updates and additions to Locus Online. ...Read More

» NY Times Book Review: N.K. Jemisin reviews Galactic Empires, a graphic novel version of Butler’s Kindred, Veronica Roth, and Bookburners

» NY Times: Michiko Kakutani on Why ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB, January 18, 2017, with Holly Black and Fran Wilde ...Read More

» Slate’s Trump Story Project presents 10 stories of dystopian futures, beginning with Héctor Tobar and Ben H. Winters

» New York Times, and many others: George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-seller; Amazon.com bestsellers [updated hourly]

» Nature: Andrew Robinson on Arthur C. Clarke’s centenary

» Publishers Weekly: ‘New York Times’ Cuts a Range of Bestseller Lists, including the mass market paperback list ...Read More

» New York Review of Books: James Gleick reviews Arrival and Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others (preview only for non-subscribers)

» Salon: interview with Junot Díaz: Remembering Octavia Butler: “This country views people like Butler and like Oscar as aliens and treats people like us like we’re from another planet” ...Read More

» New Statesman: Michael Moorcock’s “Close to tears, he left at the intermission”: how Stanley Kubrick upset Arthur C Clarke

» Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Okorafor, Klages, Cornell ...Read More

» The New Yorker: Joshua Rothman on Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction

» David Langford’s Ansible 354

» Public Books: My Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila Liming

» Wired’s Sci-Fi Issue, with stories by Jemisin, Corey, Yu, Older, others

» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews Joe M. McDermott, Katherine Arden, Ellen Klages

» LA Review of Books: Min Hyoung Song on Strange Weather: Fiction and Climate Change, about Amitav Ghosh

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» The Verge: Andrew Liptak lists The 11 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2016, by Anders, Chambers, Jemisin, Liu, Mamatas, Older, Staveley, Steele, Tieryas, Winters, and the VanderMeers ...Read More

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Atwood, Beagle, Le Guin

» PopMatters: Gregory L. Reece on Hugo Gernsback and Perversity and Optimism at the Dawn of Science Fiction, reviewing the new Gernsback collection

» Reason.com: Peter Suderman reviews Cixin Liu’s trilogy

» LA Review of Books: Graham J. Murphy reviews Ann Leckie’s trilogy

» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews Wagers, Friedman, Johansen

» Wired’s Science Fiction issue begins with a ...Read More