science fiction Archives

It's a tough call to make, one's hands-down favorite book, and you find yourself wondering about the timing: was it just because you read the book when young or at a formative juncture in life? Well, Rich Johnston has turned 42 years old as of this November 21st, and he feels he finally has the question[...]

Science fiction films are alive and well in our cinemas, but to have one come from a confident auteur attempting this level of ambition and scope… well, it's infrequent at best Interstellar is obviously trying to fry bigger fish than your "average blockbuster" and that ambition is a charming quality. The problem is though, that when[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes, One thing I like about NYCC is to walk around and stumble upon something completely new that I never heard of. That was how I was

By Troy Akridge A year had passed since Nashville's Music City Center came alive with it's first ever Wizard World Nashville Comic Con.  The show returned

By Cameron Hatheway It can sometimes feel like the alien invasion story has been done a million times. Not just in comics, but in all mediums. It’s very

By Hilton Collins Brian Keene is a prolific writer who's written more than 40 books, mostly in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres, but his fertile imagination has planted seeds in other media He's penned comic books for various publishers, including Marvel and DC, but his 25-issue series The Last Zombie for Antarctic Press symbolizes his[...]

Black Mask Studios, the folks who brought you Occupy Comics, 12 Reasons to Die and Liberator, are presenting us with a fresh from the press science fiction series called Last Born by Patrick Meaney and Eric Zawadzki And actually one of our contributors interviewed both Meaney and Zawadzki, right here on Bleeding Cool recently. But today[...]

This week, Avatar Press announced a six-issue series arriving in December fully scripted by Alan Moore, with art by Gabriel Andrade of Ferals, set in the

Central to the narrative is Future Taylor, a female archivist intrigued by science fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries, and her struggling team of reclamation workers When they encounter a small group of Crossed, they are troubled by the implications of proliferation from the violent and infected beings, and set out to uncover the[...]

This was in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. The Hugo Awards are given for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy They were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarded every year since 1955 The awards are run by and voted on by fans. Here is a list of some of[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes: While the studios have been lamenting that this box office earnings this summer have been in a slump, mostly due to most of the movies being crap and people not bothering to see them, the most interesting thing about this season is that there seems to be more Science Fiction movies this summer[...]

By Jeremy Konrad Look out Star Wars fans: the new books are going to be canon from here on out, and they are celebrating in style for the release of the

And I hadn't done science fiction for awhile, so I wanted to do a sci-fi story, but grounded in the real world And there are places you can actually visit in there So we've tied it very closely to the real world, and that's why the artwork looks so good. BC:  The promo asks, "Can he[...]

By Brandon Engel Michael Crichton published his first novel in 1966. After enjoying success in the literary world for nearly a decade, Crichton decided to

Star Mage from IDW arrives in its third issue this week, written by science fictionally-immersed prose writer turned comics crafter JC De La Torre In fact, he's so immersed in sci-fi that he runs his own sci-fi themed podcast and has a TARDIS in his living room Star Mage debuted to a warm reception and[...]

Heat is one of my favorite movies of all time. Feel free to follow me at http://thedanielcorey.tumblr.com/. MB: You've explored the mystery thriller through a Victorian England lens and now science fiction, so what's next? DC: I'm working on a new project that takes place in the American South, present day It's another mystery, but dabbles more into[...]

To explain: Clarke Lantham is a PI who has a knack for getting involved in the kind of trouble you generally only hear about in the Weekly World News–except that, whether it looks like psychic-style social engineering, aliens, secret societies, ghosts, or cryptid creatures, the bugaboos that Lantham runs into are all based in real-world[...]

The story of a female soldier, and former starship AI, on a mission of vengeance it's a sweeping, ambitious, immensely fun novel that has already won the The Kitschies Golden Tentacle prize for best first novel, the British Science Fiction Association award for best novel, and been nominated in the best novel category for this[...]

Volume 3, The Victim Hold, is released on May 7th. Alasdair Stuart is a freelance writer who hosts horror podcast Pseudopod (www.pseudopod.org), co-hosts science fiction podcast Escape Pod (www.escapepod.org) and is currently writing the 10th Doctor Sourcebook for Cubicle 7 Publishing He once successfully self-pile drivered in a Judo lesson and as a result has five[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Adam Christopher is one of the new wave of genre fiction authors currently sweeping across bookshelves, whether they’re made of print

De La Torre hosts a podcast on science fiction, "Transmissions from Atlantis" and since his comic Star Mage has been recently released by IDW, his latest podcast functions as a kind of reader's guide to the series In the interest of bringing you everything we can on a given comic, especially one that consists of[...]

Star Mage debuts from IDW on April 16th as a 6 part story, and established science fiction writer J.C De La Torre (Ancients Rising, Rise of the Ancients) is venturing into the comics medium for the first time As if those two mediums aren't enough, he's also a podcaster, with a passionate interest in all[...]

Multi-award winning science fiction author Christopher Priest (The Prestige) has two new novels coming out from Titan this month The first, The Adjacent, debuted earlier this week and Titan have been kind enough to provide you book-junkies with an excerpt from the novel Look out for his second novel this month, The Islanders, too. But first,[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Matt Wallace is a pioneer. Over the years I’ve known him I’ve seen him travel from award-winning podcaster to screenwriter, stopping

Olly MacNamee writes for Bleeding Cool: I think it’s safe to say we live in a modern world where technology is often at the heart of a lot of what we

They were, and are still, intended to honor the best science fiction novel first published in the UK during the previous year Their winners list is a Must Read of Modern SF, and they're regarded, justifiably, as one of the more versatile, interesting awards in genre fiction. As of 9pm GMT, the organizers have announced this[...]

The intricacies of the crew's personal lives, their hopes and aspirations, and their flaws all come into play to determine how they handle totally alien situations and environments, and as such it's a book based on tension, wonder, and questioning exactly what makes human beings tick. Garth Ennis speaks here with Bleeding Cool about the long[...]

Jonathon Dalton writes for Bleeding Cool: Writing a science fiction webcomic poses a unique challenge Science fiction, as you know, is never really about the future It's about the present But while a novelist or even a comic creator working just for print can revise and edit as they go and then release their creation to[...]

And there's a small amount of erotic water ballet that doesn't exactly go amiss amidst all the high tech flying robots and the explosions and whatnot. Oh and the music, by M83, is glorious. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBVkUb_TWp8[/youtube] There's always a bit of science fudging in science fiction films, otherwise most of the stories would collapse, but Oblivion's science holds up[...]

Remember the 1990 fun-fest when Arnold Schwarzenegger had his brain wiped and went to Mars? Prepare to have your memories edited...