Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the members of an industry trade organization who are the professional peers of the award nominees. For the Nebula, that is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are six […]
Slowed only by language barriers, science fiction has flourished throughout the world, telling dazzling stories of the future, and the world we live in. But as the world grows ever more connected, something extraordinary has begun to happen: diverse strands of the science fiction literary tradition have begun to seek one another out. Magazines and major publishers are […]
We’re in the waning days of summer, and the pace of new releases in SF/F hasn’t cooled a bit. Here’s what you can find on shelves this week.
Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem was a mystery of sorts: the plot begins with a rash of unexplained, seemingly unrelated suicides, unintelligible maneuvering by secret societies, and a cult video game. At the center of these mysteries, it turns out, are the Trisolarans, an alien race whose planet is orbited by (or possibly orbits?) three suns. […]
