Reviews

Reading Time: 6 minutes This is my top six all-time scariest movies list. Watch them if you dare.

Reading Time: 5 minutes We read the top three books on Amazon’s list of best-selling sci-fi books. Today’s list includes a mysterious run-down English cottage, sea pirates, and a dystopian future.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Here are four ghost stories that will thrill and chill you as Halloween approaches.

Reading Time: 5 minutes A must-read article for anyone looking to adopt a new dragon.

Reading Time: 8 minutes Would you really want to go to magic school? Here are some magic schools you would — or would not — want to attend.

Reading Time: 7 minutes You can find a lot of free sci-fi and fantasy short stories on Amazon — but the free promotions go fast. Get these books now.

Reading Time: 2 minutes How Dude are the Jedi? Do the Jedi abide? The short answer is yes, from a certain point of view.

Reading Time: < 1 minute A new book by a features erotic stories across a number of genres, including sci-fi, cyberpunk, and fantasy.

Reading Time: 4 minutes “The Ballad of Black Tom” holds all the cosmic horror of the Lovecraft mythos, and places it deftly amid the very real horrors of life for a young black man in a racist society.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space.

Reading Time: 5 minutes There are a lot of all-you-can-read and free e-book options out there. Learn all about Kindle Unlimited, Prime Reading, OverDrive and Libby, Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Scribd, 24Symbols, and Bookmate. There’s even a service that will send print books to you by mail, BookLender.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The character has gone from initially dividing fans to becoming one of the franchise’s most beloved characters, going on to play a major role in “Star Wars: Rebels,” and to be portrayed by actor Rosario Dawson in a recent episode of “The Mandalorian.”

Reading Time: 2 minutes “The Forest Bride: A Fairy Tale with Benefits” by Jane Buehler is a cozy, sexy, fantasy romance that follows Princess Rose through a series of challenging, sometimes terrifying, events that ultimately lead her on a journey of love and self-discovery.

Reading Time: 6 minutes I learned by listening. Dad and his friends did not know it then, but they were describing their experiences with double-consciousness, living as a Black man in a white-dominated society.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Chris Miller, with The Damned Place, has written a novel that deserves to launch beyond the trappings of indie horror and into the stratosphere.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps our contemporary crises brought it back into my mind, as the events of the book take place in the wake of a devastating pandemic that has swept across America, sparing only those under the age of twelve.

Reading Time: 3 minutes I don’t consider myself a hard-core Trekkie by any means, but I sure have watched a lot of Star Trek. “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” or TNG, had its seven-season run when I was just a kid and I watched almost every episode as I was growing up, often with family.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Jenning’s debut novel stands out against her peers in a horrifying examination of family intersectionality, mental trauma, and compelling story-telling.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Update: Netflix is not picking up Away for a second season. I have to be honest. I’m not really the target audience for Netflix’ new science fiction drama, Away. Yes, it’s about humanity’s first manned mission to Mars. And yes, it stars Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank. Both of those things are great. But it’s

Reading Time: 3 minutes BBC America just released the first video previews of “The Watch,” a series based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and it’s not looking at all like what people were expecting.

Reading Time: 3 minutes What if “The Office” was staffed by vampires? Here’s the answer, folks.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Come have a laugh with Dr. Shane.

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you live for reliable magic systems that still feel otherworldly and strange, then the Dreamblood duology is for you.

Reading Time: 3 minutes The “Umbrella Academy” series is worth your while if you love wacky, unique, funny stories that stretch the boundaries of genre and convention.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Netflix’s new show “Away”, the first 10-episode season of which drops Sept. 4, takes a realistic, personal approach to the first manned trip to Mars.

Reading Time: 11 minutes As Dune continues to work its way back into the social consciousness, I believe it is worth revisiting some of the novel’s core themes, and considering them in the light of 2020.

Reading Time: < 1 minute A couple of people in this group have talked about Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars. The book won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2019 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2019 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. If you saw Hidden Figures