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Really thoughtful piece by Dennis Lim on the relationship between ghosts and cinema. Excerpts:...

The world is full of museums that don’t exist fully in three dimensions – museums described in words or drawn on paper; museum catalogues; museums on the web. There are also many museums that are the creation of artists, novelists and poets, and so have a strong thread of imagination running through them. The latter cast an...

Gritty and heartbreaking, this 1970s collection from the master of gekiga, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, was published in English in 2006....

November is coming, and you know what that means… National Novel Generation Month!...

Chick Tracts are booklets meant to convert the reader to christianity by any means possible: guilt, doubt, threat, etc. They are often sexist, racist, homophobic, and so on. Nevertheless, they are an fascinating example of effective propaganda....

Time for a road trip......

Have fun storming the castle!...

It can't rain all the time....

Opening Statement of Mr. Harold Schoff, attorney for Mr. Coyote: My client, Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona and contiguous states, does hereby bring suit for damages against the Acme Company, manufacturer and retail distributor of assorted merchandise, incorporated in Delaware and doing business in every state,...

It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterminate gray. But then there are days when it’s like they whip aside a curtain to flash you three minutes of sunlit, suspended mountain, the trademark at the start of God’s own movie. It was like that the day her...

During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction....

One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach - all the damn vampires....

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival returns for 2023 with 135 films selected for screening October 9 through the 15th. SciFi fans from around the world are welcomed to join this one-of-a-kind event as all films will be made available online for streaming and rating through Brooklyn SciFi's Netflix style festival platform. This year...

In the depths of the mutant rain forest where the water falls each afternoon in a light filtered to vermilion, a feline stone idol stands against the opaque foliage....

At dawn he arose and stepped out onto the patio for his first look at Alexandria, the one city he had not yet seen. That year the five cities were Chang-an, Asgard, New Chicago, Timbuctoo, Alexandria: the usual mix of eras, cultures, realities. He and Gioia, making the long flight from Asgard in the distant north the night...

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"...

Sir, the truth is, I talk to God all the time, and, no offense, but He never mentioned you....

The most fascinating, and daunting, aspect of selecting material for an anthology titled The Year's Best Fantasy is that the field of fantasy is as broad and transmutable as the whole field of literature. In American publishing today we have a genre called Adult Fantasy, which evolved after J. R. R. Tolkien’s books proved so...

In spite of its ominous literary associations, 1984 proved to be a rather quiet year for SF. There were no major scandals like 1983’s infamous Great Timescape Fiasco, no SF lines driven into oblivion by corporate greed and shortsightedness, no major editorial shakeups … but if you looked closely enough, in the right places,...

The Timewave Explorer is a web-based application for exploring Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero....

The Celtic Wolf is a complex and otherworldly creature. Wolves, it would seem, have always had varied personalities as diverse as their human counterparts. Where one shapeshifting wolf could be seen as evil, for example, the next might very well turn towards a traveling priest and begin to preach the gospel....

This groundbreaking anthology inaugurates an exciting new annual tradition: a giant collection of the finest fantasy stories published in 1987. Culled from the pages of magazines and original anthologies, this year’s collection features brilliant, gripping tales by these stellar authors:...

Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already well known and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. These are writers like Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr, Vernor Vinge and Gene Wolfe....

Boy, was Spielberg ever wrong. Close Encounters my ass....

Index of Native American Indian legends, folktales, and mythology from many different tribes.