Brandon Sanderson is a dirty liar
Reading Time: 2 minutes I never should have trusted him. Sure, he’s incredible with his fans. But I feel so betrayed.
Reading Time: 2 minutes I never should have trusted him. Sure, he’s incredible with his fans. But I feel so betrayed.
Reading Time: 3 minutes An American astronaut returning to earth on a Russian spacecraft might be cause for concern as tensions heat up between Russia, the United States, and other countries opposed to the invasion of Ukraine.
NASA says Soyuz spacecraft will return American astronaut as scheduled Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute The head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, made a bizarre and wildly inaccurate statement last Thursday.
Head of Russian space agency makes bizarre mistake Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes One day, humans might be able to regrow body parts, regenerate tissue damaged due to disease, and even sprout missing limbs.
Regeneration of human limbs and organs – science fact or science fiction? Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can we create artificial gravity? It’s called centrifugal force and it can simulate gravity.
How spinning a spacecraft can create artificial gravity Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes If this year’s Super Bowl commercials are any indication, sci-fi and fantasy fans can expect an exciting year of film and television.
Big Game Ads Promise Exciting Year for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Boskone 59, New England’s longest-running science fiction convention, kicked off on Friday.
New England’s longest-running sci-fi convention kicks off Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Don’t rush out and get Elon Musk’s brain implant just yet. According to news reports, 21 percent of Neuralink’s test monkey died after the experiments.
Neuralink says monkeys died because of brain implants Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute A rocket stage that’s about to hit the moon isn’t from SpaceX after all.
Object crashing into the moon is not a SpaceX rocket booster Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Douglas Trumbull died on February 8. You may not know the name, but you have seen his work in numerous sci-fi movies, including the dazzling spaceship scene at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Hollywood lost Douglas Trumbull, a great special effects creator Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our official round of short story submissions begins March 1 and ends March 31.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new trailer for the long-anticipated Halo series, based on Microsoft’s popular line of video games, books, and comics, premiered during half time of the AFC Championship last week.
New Halo trailer to Promise Mix of Familiar and New Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Gaming industry veteran Steve Gray, former executive at Tencent Games, the world’s largest gaming studio, is getting into the metaverse business.
Games industry heavyweight launches metaverse for music and games Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blocking the sun’s rays to address climate is too risky, said a group of around 60 scientists and experts in an open letter last week.
Reading Time: 2 minutes A rocket booster launched by SpaceX in 2014 is headed on a collision course to the moon. It is unknown precisely where the rocket will crash into the lunar surface. Its orbit is slightly chaotic and perturbed by solar winds and gravity variations.
Reading Time: 3 minutes When’s the last time you asked a robot to do something for you? I can tell you I do it almost constantly. My most consulted robot lives in a mainframe somewhere in the great Google warehouse in the sky. At least, I like to think so. Artificial intelligence has been a theme in science fiction
The Robots in Our Lives: The subtle side of Artificial Intelligence Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes To celebrate her forthcoming collection, Shit Cassandra Saw — available January 11 from Penguin Books — MetaStellar’s Long Lost Friends YouTube segment hosts sat down with writer Gwen E. Kirby for an interview.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The winners for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced at DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, on December 18th, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes You can now get four months of Kindle Unlimited for $4 a month — it’s normally $10 a month. Amazon also has great deals right now on Kindle devices.
Black Friday deal: Kindle Unlimited now $4 a month Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Halo video game series is all about protecting Earth from alien invaders in the 26th century. A teaser trailer has just dropped for the Paramount+ TV series, expected to hit the streaming service sometime next year, and it seems to indicate that the show will focus on characters.
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a plan straight out of a sci-fi asteroid disaster movie, NASA will try to push an asteroid off-course by crashing a spaceship into it.
NASA to push asteroid off-course with new DART mission launching next week Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes JPL and NASA need your help to identify objects on Mars so that the future Mars land rovers will have an easier time getting around.
Reading Time: < 1 minute MetaStellar’s open submission period for fall 2021 has officially ended. This was our best cycle for submissions yet, receiving over 400 stories in 31 days.
Fall 2021 submission period closes with more than 400 submissions Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook changing its name to Meta in order to focus on the metaverse. Facebook itself will remain, but will now be just one brand in the Meta portfolio, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook changes name to Meta, embraces metaverse Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Blue Origin, Boeing and Sierra Space join forces on new commercial space station, Orbital Reef, to be operational the second half of this decade.
Blue Origin promises commercial space station by 2030, called Orbital Reef Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute The trailer for the documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time, has just been released. The documentary, follows the science fiction writer from 1982 until his death in 2007, and is based on the 25-year friendship between the author and filmmaker Robert Weide.
New Kurt Vonnegut documentary asks big questions about death, art, and friendship Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Earlier today, actor William Shatner — who played Star Trek’s iconic Captain Kirk on television and in the movies — became the oldest person to ever go to space and helped demonstrate that power of sci-fi to inspire space exploration.
William Shatner’s trip to space shows power of science fiction Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes The fall submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The votes for the annual Dragon Awards are in, and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary won for best sci-fi novel, and Jim Butcher’s Battle Ground for best fantasy novel.
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re planning to write a novel during this year’s National Novel Writing Month, you can announce it now.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dragon Con is the first week of September this year in Atlanta but whether or not you plan to attend the massive multimedia convention you can still vote in the Dragon Awards.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association’s poetry contest’s deadline is August 31, 2021.
Sci-fi and fantasy poetry contest now open to submissions Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes The finalists for the 2021 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, including Lifetime Achievement recipients Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop.
Reading Time: 3 minutes E. M. Foner tries out Amazon’s Kindle Vella, a new publishing option for episodic fiction, and tells us what he thinks about the platform.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Live Remote VEX Robotics World Championship had broken the Guinness World Record as the largest online robot championship.
Global Student Robotics Competition breaks Guinness World Record Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last Saturday, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the winners of the 56th Nebula Awards.
The Winners of the 56th Nebula Awards: a Brief Rundown Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes NavyCon, the premier science fiction and national security conference, returns for its fourth edition inviting speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including all five branches of the service, as well as civilian academia and science fiction fandom, to present on topics within the theme of national security in transition.
Reading Time: 2 minutes On May 9, Amazon pulled the Star Wars novel “Heart of the Jedi,” from sale on its online retailer. While there is no official statement from Amazon or Lucasfilm as to the matter, one can hypothesize that Disney took action against the selling of an unauthorized Star Wars book.
A Blow to the Rebels: Amazon pulls unauthorized “Star Wars” novel Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Do you want Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand? Thanks to 3D printing technology, soon you will be able to have it.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The results of MetaStellar’s first submission cycle of 2021 are in, and we at MetaStellar are thrilled to announce the success of our second original fiction submission cycle.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now in Kindle Unlimited, which means that if you’re a member, you can read this magazine at no additional cost.
Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now on Kindle Unlimited Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contrary to what sci-fi literature has been telling us for the past several decades, humans have not been able to fly on another planet until yesterday.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced by DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention today in a YouTube video.
Reading Time: 3 minutes While it is marketed to “Space Operations Professionals,” it is also a cool opportunity to get some insight into how today’s space industry works.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Smartphones touch nearly every facet of our lives. The transformative effect of smart glasses can be equally dramatic, experts say.
Smart AR glasses will change how we shop, work, and learn Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes The spring flash fiction submission cycle opens today. Stories can be submitted anytime from now until April 1, 2021.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hayley Arceneaux will become the first astronaut with a prosthetic limb when she goes into space later this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission.
Cancer survivor heading to space as part of all-civilian crew Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards yesterday, and RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships was selected as the best fantasy novel of the year.
Reading Time: 4 minutes On Feb. 11, 2021, the sixth International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new Forever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century.
New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist Read More »