The show that pushed Star Trek (and 1993 television) to the structural limits.

From The Box to Scanners, here are some truly underrated sci-fi masterpieces. Genre fans owe it to themselves to check them out.

From The Box to Scanners, here are some truly underrated sci-fi masterpieces. Genre fans owe it to themselves to check them out.

Note: I write a monthly column for the Czech SF/F magazine XB-1. The magazine's October 2016 issue is a special horror-themed edition and I was asked to write about the problematic heritage of H. P. Lovecraft. Which I did. The column caused a bit of controversy when it was published, with a

In 1982, E.T. found himself stranded on Earth, Flynn was transported to the world of Tron, and Dekkard discovered he, too, was a Replicant. But, nothing that happened in this pivotal year for genre movies was as wild as a moment from the highly anticipated second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Kahn. 

New space operas, apocalypses, and alien encounters

It’s summer! Or at least, it feels like summer here in the US’s Northeast Corridor. The sun is finally shining, the temperatures have warmed up, the chill of late winter and early spring has finally passed. I love this time of year because it feels like it’s full of possibility.

The future is arriving sooner than most of us expected, and speculative fiction needs to do far more to help us prepare. The warning signs of catastrophic climate change are getting harder to ignor…

The Year 1999. When I was a kid, 1999 was a year of a far-off future where we’d have flying cars, robots in every home, and of course, moonbases. It was a year that seemed poised on the cusp of gre…

The science fiction and fantasy community has lost a beloved icon. We are extremely sad to report that author and SFWA Grand Master Gene Wolfe passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2019 after his long b…

From 1957 until around 1964, Hanna-Barbera was an animation company defined by its stable of animal stars: Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quickgraw McGraw, Ruff and Reddy, and Top Cat. Each of these characters were of a theme, one that would change drastically by 1967.

The recent discovery of a heretofore unknown sequel to Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange is both exciting and dreadful.

On the one hand, considering all the high-profile epic fantasy sequels we’ve been waiting for oh so patiently, the revelation of a surprise sequel—no waiting!—to one of SFF's