Speculative fiction in general:
- Cheryl Eddy shares 43 new science fiction and fantasy books coming out in May.
- Gabino Iglesias shares an overview of newly released horror novels.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five vintage works of science fiction by women writers.
- Ratika Deshpande shares nine SFF short stories that explore the meaning of love
- Lorna Wallace lists five fantasy novels with fairy tale vibes.
- Jen Williams shares her five favourite novels about hauntings.
- Molly Templeton talks about writing in the margins of books.
- Lucy Knight reports that according to a recent story, more than a quarter of YA readers are over 28.
- Annalee Newitz profiles Paul Linebarger a.k.a. Cordwainer Smith
- Aaron Hicklin remembers Lynne Reid Banks.
- Children's fantasy writer Jubilee Cho has died aged 25.
- Phil Hoad calls Witch an occultist gothic horror film that takes a swerve into the psychedelic
- Saloni Gajjar declares that season 2 of Velma raises a giant middle finger to its haters
- Lovia Gyarkye calls Humane a tense but underbaked dystopian thriller.
- Matt Schimkowitz points out that Abigail's only interesting twist was spoiled by the trailer.
- Cath Clarke calls ISS a moderately tense thriller in space and praises the performance of Ariana DeBose.
- Leah Schnelbach declares that The People's Joker remixes our modern myths with sheer trans joy.
- Matthew Jackson calls The Beast an ambitious, compelling monster of a science fiction movie
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Animal Kingdom a well-crafted apocalyptic thriller from France.
- Arturo Serrano calls The American Society of Magical Negroes a poignant exploration of racism wrapped in sarcastic, quirky, romantic comedy magic.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Beacon 23.
- Cath Clarke shares her thoughts on the animated children's film Super Wings: Maximum Speed
- Lauren Huff interviews George Miller, director of Furiosa, as well as stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth.
- Chris Heath interviews Daniel Radcliffe, best known for playing Harry Potter in the eponymous film series.
- Lindsey Bahr interviews Lee Isaac Chung, director of Twisters.
- io9 interviews Jennifer Tilly, star of Chucky and many others.
- Chris Broughton interviews director Philip Kaufman and actress Veronica Cartwright about the making of the 1978 Invasion of the Boy Snatchers.
- Fiona Moore revisits the 1969 folk horror movie The Witchmaker and the 1969 science fiction horror movie The Body Stealers.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido rerevisits the 1994 Babylon 5 episode “The Parliament of Dreams”
- Kali Wallace revisits the 1999 horror movie eXistenZ
- Andrew Pulver reports that sex scenes in Hollywood movies have declined by forty percent since 2000.
- Cheryl Eddy reports that a Mickey Mouse versus Winnie the Pooh horror movie is in the works.
- Stuart Heritage reports that one episode of the children's cartoon Bluey is banned in the US.
- Andrew Pulver reports that a recent survey has found that the ideal movie running time is 92 minutes.
- Peter Bradshaw points out that the perfect movie length depends on the movie.
- Steve Davidson declares that NBC has not made payments due to him as the holder of the Amazing Stories tardemark.
- Cooper Billingsley reports that director George Lucas owns the most expensive apartment in Chicago, Illinois.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on "Whistlespeak", the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery.
- James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Whistlespeak".
- Avery Kaplan shares her thoughts on "Whistlespeak".
- James Whitbrook finds that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was getting good well before the Dominion War.
- Avery Kaplan lists every Star Trek episode featuring the Mirror Universe.
- Erin Lynch lists questions she hopes will be answered in season 2 of Fallout.
- Meg Walters interviews Howard Cummings and Amy Westcott, production and costume designer for Fallout.
- Ana Diaz interviews Amy Westcott.
- Cheryl Eddy reports that Fallout is Amazon Prime Video's most watched series since The Rings of Power.
- William Hughes recommend which Fallout game people who just finished the series should play first.
- Jukka Issakainen and Adam McCombs share some background on the character of Strobo in Masters of the Universe.
- The Battle Ram Blog shares some quick facts about the Masters of the Universe character Zodac.
- The Battle Ram Blog shares some background on the Masters of the Universe character known as Demo-Man.
- Dad-at-Arms interviews character designer Dooz Leslie and background artist Pedro Cardoso, both of whom worked on Masters of the Universe Revelation and Revolution.
- For Eternia wonders whether King Randor was murdered in Masters of the Universe: Revolution.
- Angelique Jackson shares some news on the much delayed new Masters of the Universe live action movie.
- Watch the animated Masters of the Universe mini-comic "Rock and a Hard Place".
- William Hughes declares that X-Men '97 is the greatest X-Men adaptation of all time
- James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Tolerance Is Extinction, Part 1", the latest episode of X-Men '97.
- Tom Chang shares X-Men '97 showrunner and writer Beau DeMayo's comments about the inspirations for the episode "Remember It".
- James Whitbrook shares the long history behind the Sentinel program in the X-Men comics.
- Watch a trailer for X-Men '97.
- Emmet Asher-Perrin notes that Star Wars: The Bad Batch gave us an ending no one ever expected.
- James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on the series finale of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
- James Whitbrook calls Star Wars: Tales of the Empire a tale of two very different halves.
- James Whitbrook interviews Diana Lee Inosanto, who plays Morgan Elsbeth in The Mandalorian, Ahsoka and Tales of the Empire.
- Lyvie Scott reports that Billie Lourd, daughter of Carrie Fisher, would love to reprise her role as Resistance Lieutenant Kaydel Ko Connix from the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
- Justin Carter looks back on Avengers: Endgame and what came after.
- Karen Valby interviews Chris Hemsworth, best known for playing Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Emily Murray interviews Joe and Anthony Russo, director of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame and many others.
- Ben Child wonders whether Deadpool and Wolverine will introduce the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for good.
- Germain Lussier interviews Wes Ball, director of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
- Germain Lussier revisits the 2014 science fiction film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Charlotte Simmons explains how many Planet of the Apes movies there are.
- Anne Billson ranks killer apes in movies.
- Watch a trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
- Leila Latif calls Knuckles a ludicrous, hilarious and actually rather moving Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off.
- Sabina Graves shares six things she liked about Knuckles and four things she didn't.
- Rachel Leishman interviews Adam Pally who plays Wade Whipple in Knuckles.
- Sabina Graves reports that Knuckles is the most watched original series on Paramount Plus.
- The finalists for the 2024 Aurora Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2024 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards have been announced.
- The finalists for the 2024 Seiun Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2023/2024 Self-Publshed Fantasy Blog-Off has been announced.
- The finalists for the 2024 Tomorrow Prize have been announced.
- The winners of the 2024 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Achievement Awards have been announced.
- The 2024 inductees into the Filk Hall of Fame have been announced.
- The winners of the 2024 Bafta TV Craft Awards have been announced.
- Steven Pressfield talks about the writer's voice.
- Matthew Wills explains why Penguin Books chose a penguin as their logo/mascot.
- The Guardian reports that the National Library of France has quarantined antique books believed to contain arsenic.
- Lisa O'Carroll and Philip Oltermann report about a Georgian gang which stole rare books from libraries all over Europe.
- Monsters, Madness and Magic interviews Jonathan Maberry.
- Runalong the Shelves interviews Wole Talabi.
- Arley Sorg interviews Andrea Hairston.
- Arley Sorg interviews Andrea Kriz.
- Paul Weimer interviews Francesco Dimitri.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Kirsten Weiss.
- Rita Chang interviews Clare Beams.
- Runalong the Shelves interviews Daniel Carpenter.
- Camestros Felapton reviews Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- Sasha Bonkowsky reviews Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
- Liz Bourke reviews Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas
- Haley Zapal reviews Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead.
- Lis Carey reviews Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- Paul Di Filippo reviews In Universes by Emet North
- Niall Harrison reviews Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu.
- Camestros Felapton reviews The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
- Marlene Harris reviews Chaotic Aperitifs by Tao Wong
- Fantasy Faction reviews Murder at Spindle Manor by Morgan Stang
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
- Camestros Felapton reviews Starter Villain by John Scalzi
- John Mauro reviews Soul Cage by L.R. Schulz
- Alex Brown reviews Blood Justice by Terry J. Benton-Walker
- James Davis Nicoll reviews The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
- Jake Casella Brookins reviews The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Trials of Empire by Richard Swan
- John Mauro reviews The Fall Is All There Is by C.M. Caplan
- Alexandra Pierce reviews The Man Who Saw Seconds by Alexander Boldizar
- Bill Capossere reviews The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence
- Grimdark Magazine reviews The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi
- Fantasy Faction reviews Daughter of the Beast by E. C. Greaves
- Carrie Chi Lough reviews Age of the Dryad by Jacob Sannox
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom by Sangu Mandanna
- Fantasy Faction reviews Master of the Void by Wend Raven
- Julia Kitvaria Sarene reviews The Storm Beneath the World by Michael R. Fletcher
- Cassie Schulz reviews An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
- Fabienne Schwizer reviews My Throat An Open Grave by Tori Bovalino
- Rebecca Fisher reviews Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild by Philip Reeve
- Paul Di Filippo reviews A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu
- Paula Guran reviews The Proper Thing and Other Stories by Seanan McGuire
- Marlene Harris reviews Lovers at the Museum by Isabel Allende
- Maya Gittelman reviews Out There Screaming, edited by Jordan Peele
- Niall Harrison reviews Kurdistan + 100, edited by Mustafa Gündoğdu and Orsola Casagrande
- Mat Osman reviews Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Writing The Future - Essays on Crafting Science Fiction, edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst
- M. Grant Kellermeyer revisits the 1861 horror story "Ultor de Lacy" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
- M. Porcius revisits the January 1939 issue of Weird Tales.
- James Wallace Harris revisits the 1957 time travel novella “Time Waits for Winthrop” by William Tenn
- Runalong the Shelves revisits the 1967 science fiction novel City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Gideon Marcus revisits the May 1969 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
- Gideon Marcus revisits the May 1969 issue of Analog.
- Ken Lizzi revisits the 1971 science fantasy novel Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny.
- Brian Collins revisits the 1972 science fiction story “Original Sin” by Vernor Vinge
- Sandy Ferber revisits the 1976 science fiction novel Giants In The Dust by Chad Oliver
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1980 science fiction novel Players at the Game of People by John Brunner.
- Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth revisit the 1983 horror novel Pet Sematary by Stephen King.
- Brian Collins revisits the 1988 science fiction story “The Growth of the House of Usher” by Brian Stableford
- Alissa Burger revisits the 1993 YA horror novel Dream Date by Sinclair Smith.
- C.J. Tudor and Polly Stewart revisit the 1996 science fiction novel Spares by Michael Marshall Smith.
- Alan Brown revisits the 2001 collection The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge by Vernor Vinge.
- ErsatzCulture shares several videos of various events at the 2023 Worldcon in Chengdu, China.
- The winner of the 2024 GUFF race has been decided.
- ErsatzCulture reports that the Pidu district of Chengdu, China, has announced a ten year science fiction plan,
- Stuart Heritage reports that the 2008 paranormal romance movie Twilight is being rereleased in the UK with a live music accompaniment.
- Arifa Akbar calls Max Webster and David Haig's stage adaptation of Minority Report, which is currently playing in London, UK, criminally undercooked.
- Angela Yang reports that the underwhelming Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience from Glasgow, Scotland, has now been recreated in Los Angeles, California.
- Sabina Graves shares a look at the new Super Nintendo World attraction at Universal Resort in Orlando, Florida.
- Sabina Graves shares some news from the Universal Studios theme parks in Hollywood, California, and Orlando, Florida.
- Sabina Graves reports that replicas of the X-Men mansion and the house from Up will be available as Airbnb rentals.
- Michaels Summers and James Trefil wonder where everybody else in our universe is
- Passant Rabie reports that the asteroid Apophis will be coming extremely close to Earth in 2029.
- Mark Kaufman reports that the Japanese satellite ADRAS-J has snapped a close-up picutre of a piece of space junk.
- Judith Tarr takes a look at Chupacabra sightings.
- Harini Nagendra writes about Indian street magicians and their relationship with western stage magic.
- Mick
Conefrey reports about mountaineer George Mallory who vanished in 1924
while trying to climb Mount Everest and about the search for his body.
- James Whitbrook shares a look at a limited edition Star Wars Queen Armidala doll sold at the Disney Store.
- James Whitbrook shares a look at upcoming Star Wars Lego sets.
- Cora Buhlert reports about the ongoing controversy between Spector Creative and The Figure in Question regarding toy photos used without permission and attribution.
- Watch a video celebrating twenty-five years of Lego Star Wars.
- Watch a video about how Justin and Shel Rasch of Stunt Puppet Pictures make their toy stop motion animations.
- Watch "Turtle Trap", a Turtles of Grayskull stop-motion toy video.
- Watch "Trap Jaw's Trickery", a Masters of the Universe Cartoon Collection stop motion toy video.
- "A Series of Accounts Surrounding the Risen Lady of the Orun-Alai and Other Alleged Miracles in the Final Days of the Riverlands War" by Aimee Ogden in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places" by Marissa Lingen in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "The Cursed Woods" by Matthew Ilseman in Swords and Sorcery Magazine.
- "The Garden of Time" by J.G. Ballard in Literary Hub.
- "The Oldest Fun" by Natalia Theodoridou in Clarkesworld.
- "The First Five People You Meet In Hell" by Tom Leins in Punk Noir Magazine
- "The Feeding of Closed Mouths" by Eden Royce in Apex Magazine.
- "Bread Water" by Jorja Osha in The Dark.
- "doorbell dot mov" by Jennifer R. Donohue in The Deadlands.
- "The Two Musics" by Michael Cisco in Reactor.
- "Thousand Petal Song" by Caroline Hung in Strange Horizons.
- "Second Fiddle" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.