The latest, super dramatic Game of Thrones trailer looks like someone set up a Glamour Shots booth at the local mall in King’s Landing. And it is FABULOUS. Go on with your bad self, Tyrion Lannister. Aaaah we can’t wait until March! More » Read More…

Karen Lord’s new novel starts out with a horrific act of genocide. Sadira, the homeworld of the Sadiri race, is completely wiped out, with countless Sadiri dead. The remaining Sadiri, living on other planets, struggle with preserving their culture and keeping their race alive in some form. With that sort of set-up, you’d expect a terribly grim book. More » Read More…

In January, the io9 book club read Gun Machine, comic book writer Warren Ellis’ second novel. On Monday, February 11, Ellis will be joining us to answer any of your questions about the book. He may be willing to talk about his other work, too, but let’s try to stay focused on Gun Machine. More » Read More…

HBO is making a show about those who didn’t get spirited away after God’s Rapture? Awesome. Damon Lindelof is behind it? Ehhhhhhh. More » Read More…

Since December, you haven’t been able to buy M.C.A. Hogarth’s book Spots the Space Marine: Defense of the Fiddler on Amazon, because Games Workshop claimed it owned the trademark on the phrase “space marine” due to its popular Warhammer 40K games. As far as we know, Games Workshop’s lawyers haven’t stopped making absurd claims about having a “common law trademark” to a phrase that goes back to the 1930s. But   Read More ...

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CL Moore was one of the only women who ever wrote for famous pulp fiction magazines Weird Tales and Astounding Science Fiction during the 1930s. Now Andrew Liptak has a great article about her life over at Kirkus, including links to never-before-seen short stories by the woman who was both a fantasy and SF pioneer. I love this bit about where she composed her stories, and how she met her   Read More ...

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We tend to think science fiction magazines started when Hugo Gernsback introduced the concept of “scientificion.” But for the quarter-century leading up to the Russian Revolution, the Russians were massive consumers of “scientific fantasy,” and they had a popular magazine called Nature and People, full of science-fictional speculations. More » Read More…

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