For most authors, seeing your novel optioned by a film studio offers nothing but upside: you get paid money for no extra effort, and if they actually make a film you get even more money, plus all that free promotion of your work. Hooray! Unless, as happened with these seven terrific sci-fi novels, your book is completely eclipsed […]
Here’s a trope that pops up in sci-fi and fantasy stories more than you might realize: societies broken down by color coding. Sometimes it is handled subtly, but sometimes, authors put it front-and-center in different ways, making the subtext into text. The 14 books and series below make no secret of their use of color to […]