"Science Fiction" Blogs & Blog Posts

Masque of the Red Death as an LBGTQ+ feature-length science-fiction musical animatic? Count me in! Come for Edgar Allan Poe's gothic classic, stay for 21st-century gay revenge horror. It's by Wendy Pini, co-creator of Elfquest (previously at Boing Bo...

The first model for the original Star Trek (1966-1969) spaceship, the Enterprise, had been missing since 1979, but recently appeared on an eBay listing. Fans and experts immediately noticed, and once it was authenticated as genuine, was returned to t...

Okay, so finally, more than thirty years after it was published, I got around to reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, the first book in an epic trilogy about the first attempt to colonize Mars. I've really loved several of his books, particularl...

I've always been intrigued by the power of propaganda and censorship to completely shape the average person's world view. If all you ever watched was Fox News, you'd be absolutely certain that Obama was a Kenyan Muslim anti-Christ. That's how propaga...

I like the Fallout games though they're not in my personal gaming pantheon. (Since you asked, that would include TLOU, TLOU 2, Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite, RDR2, Horizon Zero Dawn and Dark Forces.) I've always been intrigued by the world of Fallou...

Paul Di Filippo's latest science fiction novel, Vangie's Ghosts (Blackstone Publishing), is an impressively entertaining, deeply compelling speculation on the multiverse and the boundless potential of the human mind. The novel invites readers into th...

Anna Green is an 18-year-old hospitality intern just trying to keep her head down and do the job at her first hotel gig. That job is on HOTELITOR, a "luxury class defense and hospitality unit" parked inside of a "retail and leisure" space colony. ...