John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and is the editor of more than forty anthologies, such as Wastelands, The Living Dead, and A People’s Future of the…
Season’s Readings everyone! As is generally true, there have been some marvelous books published in 2023, and I’m thrilled to share my favorites with you. As I’ve done the last few years, I’ve listed…
Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling writer of Star Wars: Phasma, Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, The Disney Mirrorverse: Pure of Heart, Bloom, The…
Daniel Sweren-Becker is an author, television writer, and playwright living in Los Angeles. His play Stress Positions premiered in New York City at the SoHo Playhouse. He grew up in Manhattan. He is…
Connie Willis is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She has received seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards for…
Lina Rather is a speculative fiction author and graduate student living in Central New York. Her short fiction has appeared in venues including Lightspeed, Podcastle, and Shimmer. Her Tordotcom…
Hajar Yazdiha's an Assistant Professor of Sociology, a faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute, and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2023-2025). Dr. Yazdiha received her Ph.D. in Sociology…
Dr. Kathryn Harkup is a former chemist and author. She completed a doctorate on her favourite chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research before realising that talking, writing…
S. L. Coney obtained a master's degree in clinical psychology before abandoning academia to pursue a writing career. The author has ties to South Carolina and roots in St. Louis. Coney’s work has…
Fulton Ross is a writer and journalist from the Scottish Highlands. A graduate of Scottish literature and history from Glasgow University, he has worked on national newspapers for more than a decade…
پانزده سال پیش، جرمی و رالف در پایان سال تحصیلی در اردوی تفریحی به جنگل ایالتی رد کرو در ویرجینیای غربی ناپدید شدند. یک لحظه، آنها آنجا بودند و سپس ناپدید شدند. جنگل بارها و بارها جستجو شد، اما هیچ نشانه‌ای از پسرها پیدا نشد. و...
آرتور ادواردز تمام عمرش را در شهر کوچک نورث‌بریج در شمال انگلستان گذرانده است. او در آنجا بزرگ شد. و با همسرش، مادلین، در نورث‌بریج آشنا شد و ازدواج کرد. نورث‌بریج جایی است که مادلین و او دو فرزندشان، الیزابت و پاتریک، را بزرگ کردند. مانند اکثر شهرهای کوچک، صرف نظر از...
وحشت. بعضی‌ها عاشقش هستند! بعضی‌ها نه! و به طور کلی، مردم تمایل دارند احساسات قوی نسبت به این ژانر داشته باشند و در یکی از این دو دسته قرار بگیرند. از قضا، افرادی هستند که از ژانر وحشت به عنوان یک ژانر «می‌ترسند». بله، آنها از خود ژانر می‌ترسند...
وقتی خوانندگان در پایان نسخه نهایی مارجوری مک‌کاون، جوی جساپ را ترک کردند، او هویت قاتلی را که دستیار کارگردان کورتنی لیسل را سر صحنه یک فیلم ابرقهرمانی پرهزینه کشته بود، کشف کرده بود. او از سوءقصدی به جان خودش جان سالم به در برده بود، زمانی که قاتل...
ایوِن یک قاتل حرفه‌ای است. تأکید روی این جمله باید روی کلمه «حرفه‌ای» باشد. او یک قاتل احیا شده است که خاطراتش پاک شده و در خدمت سرپرست آدمکش‌ها است که شانس دوباره‌ای برای «زندگی» به او داده است. او کارآمد، محتاط و آماده برای کشتن است (اصطلاح...)
Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
