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Have you wondered how Captain America survived being in a state of suspended animation, if apes could grow as large as King Kong and why so many of the aliens in “Star Trek” look humanoid? It’s those kinds of questions that Mohamed Noor, a biology pr

Popular Science

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In the hands of a science fiction writer, each discovery of a physical phenomenon, planetary body, or biological quirk offers inspiration for imaginary worlds of strange beauty. These four exceptional graphic novels show us alternate realities and gi

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 275 pages | Hardback/ebook Editor Desirina Boskovich Publisher Abrams Image As is often the case with such things, the subtitle to this eccentric collection – The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy – is arguably a little

Writing Magazine

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US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

NPR

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Bishakh Som's new comics collection is uncanny and hard to categorize — science-fictiony, mythic and humanistic, without making any particular assumptions about where humans as a species are going.

Chicago Tribune

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FLOSSMOOR, Ill. - Not long after Nnedi Okorafor finished her freshman year at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1993, she came home to Flossmoor and played tennis. She played daily, she played for hours. That had always been the plan. She ha

The Atlantic

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Herman Melville, born 200 years ago next month, had some timeless advice: If the sweltering heat of July is giving you a damp, drizzly November in your soul, it is high time to get to sea, even if it’s just within the pages of a book. As Lena Lenček

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics/Young Animal Writer NK Jemisin Artist Jamal Campbell ISSUES 1-3 For a series largely set in the furthest reaches of space, Green Lantern rarely dabbles in the harder side of science fiction – which is what makes

Writing Magazine

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Tiny Fox Press like to publish ‘engaging stories needing a great home’, usually commercial fiction, SF/fantasy, MG/YA in all genres, military and ‘the bizarre’. Currently open to submissions of novels, over 20,000 words but full length preferred, the

Writing Magazine

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Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

The Christian Science Monitor

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Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work.

Guernica Magazine

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The award-winning writer on editing his first anthology, horror versus sci-fi, and the American tradition of voter suppression. The post Victor LaValle: Imagine Downton Abbey, but with Smells appeared first on Guernica.

Writing Magazine

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The winner of the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award is The Principles of Moments, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (pictured left), with The Reeves’ Guild, Kyla Jardine, in second. The award was launched last year by Gollancz and Ben Aaronovitch in p

The Writer

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All fiction is speculative to some extent, posing a “what-if” question, which serves as the premise and drives the plot. But for fantasy author Kij Johnson, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award, the specific genre of speculative fiction adds its

NPR

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Literary pun purveyor Tom Gauld turns his pen to the foibles of science (and science fiction) in his new comic collection Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, inspired by his scientist grandfather.

Writing Magazine

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Cloaked Press is a small press specialising in fantasy and science fiction, which needs submissions of novels, novellas, and short stories for an anthology, ‘engaging, thought provoking, imaginative, and/or uproariously funny stories in just about an

Apple Magazine

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Have you wondered how Captain America survived being in a state of suspended animation, if apes could grow as large as King Kong and why so many of the aliens in “Star Trek” look humanoid? It’s those kinds of questions that Mohamed Noor, a biology pr

Literary Hub

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Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling) dough that will never become bread. Each “rise” is celebrated but ephemeral, exi

Literary Hub

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It’s turning out to be a great year for speculative fiction in translation (SFT). And though as of this writing (June), I’ve already catalogued 51 speculative novels or collections and 30 short stories. Compare this to the end of 2017, when we had a

Writing Magazine

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For many of us, 2020 is not a year that we’re going to recall with a great deal of fondness – in fact, I’ll bet that most people will be pretty glad to see this one vanish in the rear-view mirror. But as one year ends another begins, and with that co

Nautilus

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This essay first appeared in our “Home” issue way back in 2013. But somehow feels so timely today. Halfway through director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, Sandra Bullock suffers the most cosmic case of homesick blues since Keir Dullea was hurled toward th

Writing Magazine

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Currently up to its fifth issue, Infinite Worlds magazine describes itself as a science fiction fan’s dream – filled with ‘page after page of vibrant art, mind-bending fiction, original comics, and exclusive interviews with… legends of the science fi

Literary Hub

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For part one of Samuel Delany’s conversation with Adam Fitzgerald, head here. * Adam Fitzgerald: Looking at The Journals, it’s very clear to me that there’s a lot of architectural planning of novel writing in these books. Not just drafting of names,

The Christian Science Monitor

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Literature informs people's understanding of the world. That holds true even when the setting is a world unlike our own. Taking inspiration from places other than Europe, a diverse group of writers is finding mainstream success bringing fresh voices

Beijing Review

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Fortunately, November 1 was not a working day, meaning Yu Meng’en could attend the China Science Fiction Convention 2020 on its opening date. The convention, featuring both online and offline events, took place in Beijing. “As a super fan, how could

Writing Magazine

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Win $500 and publication in the biannual Black River Chapbook Competition for unpublished chapbooks, 16-36 pages. Chapbooks may be poems or prose of any kind or combination. Individual pieces within the chapbook may be previously published, but not t

Literary Hub

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In 2019, climate change continues to wreak devastating havoc on the planet. Cyclone Idai—a storm of exceptional power that was intensified by climate change—has to-date left more than 700 people dead in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. And across the

The Atlantic

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Two ambitious new novels build techno-futures in which surveillance offers disturbing new threats.

Literary Hub

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In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a prophetic inquiry, one that questioned a society in which Black people continually faced racial injustice, even though the nation’s ideals were supposedly predi

SFX

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Get sci-fi news and features at gamesradar.com/sfx The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to the first Clarke winner The Handmaid’s Tale, will be published in September The Clarke Award, says its director Tom Hunter, is in rude health. This year th