The brainchild of Hugo-nominated author Max Gladstone, Bookburners is a serial publishing project from Serial Box—instead of a novel, think of it like a prestige TV series, produced by a crack writing staff, a season’s worth of stories that work both individually and as a whole. To celebrate the start of Bookburner‘s fourth season, which began […]
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the professional peers of the award nominees—members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are seven nominees in the best novel category this year; every two weeks between now and […]
The Cold War was bad enough when the phrase was only a metaphor. In The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, a bind-up of Serial Box Publishing’s fantasy series, a band of intrepid authors come together to show a different side of the decades-long conflict between the Soviet Union and America. In this alternate […]
As publishing experiments go, I think it’s safe to call Serial Box a success. For around two years now, the company has been working to change the way we read, pioneering a way to publish books not unlike the way HBO delivers prestige television: a “writer’s room” of authors works together crafting short stories (“episodes”) […]
Italo Calvino wrote, “Wherever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.” […]