Planetary magnetic fields shape atmospheric escape, mediate interactions with stellar winds, and encode information about planetary interiors, yet they have not been directly measured for planets beyo...

Worldcon San Antonio 2013: I am on the floor, on a panel about poetry and fiction, unable to join my fellow panelists up on stage, because I am using a wheelchair, and the stage does not have a ram…

Ai Jiang’s 2023 Ai Jiang’s1 Smol Tales From Between Worlds is a collection of short speculative fiction and essays. The title is a marvel: what is on the tin is what is in the tin.

James Nicoll Reviews is an Aurora and Hugo Award-adjacent random walk through l’anglospheric speculative fiction. You can be part of this by funding James Nicoll Reviews. Options include Donations via...

Eric H. Cline’s 2021 book, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated1, is a popular history text. The subject? The apparently abrupt collapse of complex societies in the Eastern ...

2022’s A Witch’s Life in Mongol, Volume 1 is the first tankōbon in Tomato Soup’s historical manga, A Witch’s Life in Mongol (Tenmaku no Jādūgaru in the original Japanese). Witch began serialization on...

September seemed very, very long this year so why didn’t I get more done? Even preparing this seemed to take forever.22 works reviewed. 13 by women (59%), 9 by men (41%), 0 by non-binary authors (0%),...

Walter Jon Williams’ 2008 Implied Spaces is a stand-alone space opera. One slight brush with dystopia aside1, the carefully managed Singularity has provided humanity with everything it could want… pro...

Adventurer! We've resurrected our February 2024 KNOCK! Magazine Bundle featuring three digital .PDF issues of KNOCK!, the Merry Mushmen magazine for old-school tabletop fantasy roleplaying games. Dubb...

The Fortunate Fall - Kindle edition by Reed, Cameron, Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Fortunate Fall.

Anthony Burgess’ 1962 A Clockwork Orange is a stand-alone near-future dystopia. Fifteen-year-old Alex and chums Dim, Georgie, and Pete amuse themselves as teens do, quaffing drug-laced milk and commit...

Why let the big cities have all the murder-y, post-apocalyptic fun?

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s 2025 The Mean Ones is a stand-alone horror novel. Sadie has a good job as an assistant physical therapist. She does weight-lifting, which helps build self-confidence, and has a...

Premee Mohamed’s 2026 Wickhills is a stand-alone fantasy novel. Seaborne is a counter-terrorist organization that protects the city of Wickhills. As the book opens, Seaborne agents Vycol Ferec and Tan...

2023’s Insomniacs After School, Vol. 12 is the twelfth tankōbon in Makoto Ojiro’s contemporary manga series. Serialized in Shogakukan’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits, Insomniacs After...

Saskatchewan's premier has described Belarusian potash as "blood potash," because its proceeds would be used to support "Russian aggression."

VICTORIA – B.C. Conservative Party leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has resigned in order to spend more time kicking members of her family out of the house. “I have been honoured to be the second longest se...

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1956’s Operation Afreet is the first novelette in Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos modern fantasy series. In a world where magic is as common as mundane technology, the Saracen Caliphate still holds th...

Pilot! This all-new Heavy Gear 4E Bundle presents the current (2023) Fourth Edition of Heavy Gear, Dream Pod 9's tabletop roleplaying game of mecha combat in the 62nd Century. The distant world of Ter...

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LOS ANGELES—Calling the effort the purest distillation to date of where she is as a dungeon master, pop star Olivia Rodrigo released her long-awaited tabletop roleplaying game The High Winter Elves Of...