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Meet Adam Roberts: the King of High Concept
Adam Roberts is one of my favorite science fiction writers going. He is the author of ten science fiction novels and two novellas, all of them brilliant works of epic scope and scale. Adam jumps from...
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The Myriad Worlds of Chris Roberson: the Celestial Empire
Chris Roberson is the author of 12 novels and some 35 short stories, many of them awarded, nominated, or reprinted in various Year’s Bests. He’s the editor of the anthology, Adventure Vol 1., and he’s...
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The Myriad Worlds of Chris Roberson: the Bonaventure-Carmody universe
In my previous post, I introduced you to Chris Roberson’s universe of alternate history tales featuring a space-faring Chinese empire. But the Celestial Empire stories form only a part of this writer’s...
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Watching the Watchmen
I had heard enough reviews panning Watchmen that I was prepared to come out thinking it was a well-meaning misfire, an interesting failure. And I’d talked enough about it to start to turn off my...
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Batman R.I.P. – and good riddance!
So, I’ve been working on how to review Batman: R.I.P. the Deluxe Edition for a while now, and basically I’m trying to figure out how to say “underwhelming” and “a disjointed mess” in more than just...
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Morlock Ambrosius, Master of Makers
Those of us who blog at Tor.com who also happen to be publishing professionals have been encouraged to enthuse about books and authors that really excite us, and I have a book out this month that...
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The Question of Renee Montoya
One of my all-time favorite runs in comic books, perhaps my all-time favorite, is Denny O’Neil’s 1987 to 1990 series, The Question, his landmark reinterpretation of the Steve Ditko Objectivist “no...
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Revisiting Batman: Hush
I picked Batman: Hush up originally when it was published in 2003 in two hardcover volumes. I wasn’t reading a lot of comics at the time, and by a lot I mean “next to none,” so I’m not sure what lead...
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A Midwinter Night’s Dream
I first met Matthew Sturges in 2001 at the World Fantasy Convention in Montreal, the same weekend that I sold my first professional anthology, Live without a Net, to Jennifer Heddle, then at Roc. I...
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The Age of Misrule Has Arrived
Sometimes an image speaks for itself. This is John Picacio’s cover for World’s End, the first book in Mark Chadbourn’s Age of Misrule trilogy. The Age of Misrule is something speciallong overdue for...
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
Back in 1980, I saw Peter Sellers’ very last film, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, which sadly isn’t very good and was certainly an odd follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Being There (which...
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Why I am Over the Moon about Duncan Jones
While I admit to massively loving the new Star Trek film, when I look back at my favorite SF films of all time, very few of them are of the summer blockbuster variety. My faves include films like...
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Heart of Hush
Having been somewhat disappointed with the Batman: R.I.P. storyline running in Batman comics, I decided to check out the parallel run in Detective Comics (which was also published with an R.I.P. logo...
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Exciting and unsettling: Ender’s Game: Battle School
I am frequently asked “Why hasn’t science fiction produced its own Harry Potter?” and the answer is that is it already has, and over twenty-five years ago. In fact, long before Hogwarts, the world was...
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Fierce and compelling: Ender’s Shadow: Battle School
I was quite impressed with Marvel’s graphic adaptation of Ender’s Game, which actually exceeded my expectations. I am equally, possibly even more, impressed with their treatment of Ender’s Shadow....
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Peeling Back the Secrets on the Battle School: A Conversation with...
As a follow-up to my review of Ender’s Game: Battle School , I got to talk to the brilliant writer and artist team behind the graphic novel. First up is Christopher Yost, writer of such works as Killer...
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One Damn Bean: A Conversation with Mike Carey and Sebastian Fiumara
As a follow up to my review of Ender’s Shadow: Battle School, I got to talk to the writer an d illustrator team behind the graphic novel. First up is author Mike Carey, the writer of such comics as...
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The Death of a Legend (Again)
DC Comics has released two beautiful hardcover editions as a pair, the recent Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? from Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert, billed as the last Batman story, and...
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Has Anybody Seen the Bridge? George Mann’s The Affinity Bridge
Steampunk used to be just a handful of books—William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine, Paul Di Filippo’s Steampunk Trilogy, maybe Tim Powers’ The Anubis Gates if you allow for some...
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Move Over Hawkwind: Here Comes Age of Misrule!
Mark Chadbourn has a band. Or rather, a band has chosen to christen themselves “Age of Misrule” after his (just released in the US) contemporary dark fantasy trilogy of World’s End, Darkest Hour, and...
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Cog Ex Machina
China Miéville has been talking here and there lately about a new subgenre category he calls “noird,” which he defines as a combination of crime-noir and weird fiction. With the usual caveats that I’m...
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Calling Down the Storm
It’s a great privilege for me to be the US editor of Tom Lloyd’s impressive The Twilight Reign quintet, a massively epic fantasy series about a young man who is a “White-Eye,” humans blessed (or...
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The First Lady of Fantasy
Lately, I’ve been really interested in Sword and Sorcery fantasy, both in its contemporary and original expression. As regards the latter, I’ve just readand been blown away byC.L. Moore’s Black God’s...
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Sasha: Her Sword is Her Power
Joel Shepherd is one of the most interesting authors it’s ever been my privilege to publish at Pyr. His Cassandra Kresnov trilogy of Crossover, Breakaway, and Killswitch blew my socks off when I first...
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The Golden Age of Fantasy Illustration
In his foreword to The Future of Fantasy Art, from general editors Aly Fell and Duddlebug, the great William Stout says that it “takes hindsight to recognize a Golden Age, usually long after that...
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Sci Fi Songs: Android Kisses and Summer Glau
I first became aware of John Anealio when he released the parody song, “Summer Glau.” SF Signal editor John DeNardo had written the lyrics, set to the tune of Seals and Crofts’ 70s hit, “Summer...
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Devouring Moorcock
I devoured Michael Moorcock as a kid. The Elric books were hands-down my favorite fantasy series, and I launched from them into tales of Erekosë, Corum, Jerry Cornelius, Karl Glogauer, but for some...
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Painting the Multiverse: An Interview with John Picacio
Texas-based illustrator John Picacio has been nominated for the past five consecutive years for the Hugo Award in the Best Professional Artist category, and has won the World Fantasy Award, the Locus...
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We Always Knew Planets Didn’t Explode on Their Own
I heard somewhere recently that there have been fifty-two retellings of the Man of Steel’s origins. I can’t vouch for this exact number, but I can believe it. Superman: Earth One, written by J....
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Five Books with Gods as Characters
What do you eat? Who do you pray to? How do you dispose of your dead? Looking back on the three books I’ve written so far in the Thrones & Bones series (Frostborn, Nightborn, and the just-finished...
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