As part of Get Pop-Cultured, this week Barnes & Noble is celebrating fangirls of all stripes. In advance of Fangirl Friday, we asked Sam Maggs, author of The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy and associate editor of The Mary Sue, to share a list of the SF/F novels that fire her inner fan flames. There’s […]
It’s almost November,which means it’s almost National Novel Writing Month, those 30 glorious, frustrating, enervating, nerve-wracking days when writers everywhere attempt to pen an entire book (or at least 50,000 words of one). Anyone who has attempted NaNoWriMo knows hitting that goal is certainly possible, but also just as certainly not easy. And it could […]
What makes a science fiction story a space opera? Well, it needs to take place in space obviously, though not necessarily all of the time. Hanging out solely in an arcology on a climate-blasted Earth, or even in a domed city on Mars, doesn’t cut it. Actually, the more space the better; though there are certainly exceptions, […]
We don’t need to tell you that Firefly has transformed from failed TV series to cultural phenomenon in the years since its 2003 cancellation after an inauspicious 12-episode run on Fox. Joss Whedon’s Western-styled space opera might be missed, but in the years since, its fans have found ways to cope with its absence, turning to other […]
