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One of the bigger stories of the past week (in and out of that part of the news media devoted to speculative fiction) was the sale of Lucas...

io9 has just posted a list of "Ten Science Fiction Novels That Will Definitely Never Be Movies." Robert Heinlein's novel Fri...

Science fiction writers have often displayed a propensity to downplay the extent to which the genre makes predictions about the future. (To ...

Over at his blog Through the Dark Labyrinth Paul Kincaid has posted the first part of a response to the buzz his September review of three...

At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth thinkers like Frederick Jackson Turner and Thorstein Veblen expecte...

Paul Kincaid's comments on the state of science fiction in last month's L.A. Review of Books is still sending out ripples through ...

The revival of Vin Diesel's career following his return to a starring role in the Fast and the Furious franchise in 2009 quickly led to ...

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006, pp. 287. In writing The Many Lives and Deaths of James Bond I found myself revisiting the va...

New York: Bantam Books, 2011, pp 1016. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has been widely admired for its sweep and scale, it...

Over at Locus Cory Doctorow recently published a piece on why science fiction movies "drive him nuts," in particular the big-bud...