Why a park ranger wrote the sci-fi western ‘Cash and Gravity’
A mind-bending sci-fi western bearing shades of The Murderbot Diaries: “Bad things are happening, BUT I don’t want to write about a hopeless world.”
Molly Tanzer on her SF / art heist mashup: “The speculative possibilities were fun to play with.”
The author talks about an intergalactic art heist by a group of underqualified misfits. What can go wrong? “At its heart, the novella is a meditation on ‘the culture of the copy.’”
Jonathan Maberry Sword & Sorcery: Complete Kagen the Damned
The award-winning author known for writing zombies, outer space epics, thrillers, and more, now turns his attention to a different kind of hero. “He’s a civilized man pushed out of every aspect of his comfort zone.”
Glen Cook: Garrett, P.I.—dealing with gods, wizards, and vampires
A private detective that has to face crooks, corruption, and—well, gods, vampires, wizards, elves, centaurs, and the like. These fantasies are totally for fans of detective fiction.
100 Supernatural Detective Series (Revising Again)
Want books that mix urban fantasy and crime fiction? Including books from Charlaine Harris, Kevin J. Anderson, plus Hellboy, Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, X-Files, Supernatural—and more.
Ellery Adams talks Invasive Species: Horror in the Neighborhood
There’s a monster in the neighborhood. And she lives next door. “Circe meets Stranger Things. Throw in a helping of Desperate Housewives and that’s my book.”
Exploring the World of Robert E. Howard
Webmaster Ståle Gismervik on his website The World of Robert E. Howard—The Father of Sword & Sorcery. (Including how REH wrote so much more than just that one genre.)
Shanora Williams: “Expect chaos, adventure, humor, and spicy chemistry.”
Dungeons & Dragons meets The Wizard of Oz in the darkly hilarious romantasy Mayhem and the Mortal when a woman hires an assassin to save her sister from an evil sorcerer. (Chaos ensues.)
Hold the Ring: Fighting Hellboy, The Hulk, The Munsters, more
Horror, SF, and fantasy characters that come out boxing and wrestling, including Hellboy, The Hulk, and Herman Munster. Plus that boxer from the man who gave us Conan the Barbarian.
Felicia Day: Greek Mythology, Women’s Power, and her new Graphic Novel
The actress shares how reading to her little girl led to The Lost Daughter Of Sparta. “The youngest sister of Helen of Troy had one line on her and that was it. I had an idea—and it was very personal to me.”
Predator: What’s the future for the sci-fi monster movie series?
The sci-fi/horror/action monster movies came back in a big way—but can they continue? “Where I’m at with Predator now, is, Oh my God, there are so many exciting things we can do.”
Q&A: Why Heroic Signatures makes “the best damn Conan comics” and more
How Heroic Signatures is bringing new life to the sword-wielding legend. “We had no other goal other than to just make the best damn Conan comics we could that would appeal to Conan fans.”
Remembering Charles R. Saunders—the father of “Sword & Soul”
The late author created a version of Sword & Sorcery steeped in African myth and history. A new biography helps us better understand the impact he left behind.
Molly Tanzer: Reviving the first heroine of Sword & Sorcery
The challenges of bringing back sword & sorcery legend Jirel of Joiry, what elements are still the same (and which are different), and how MTV got the author started. (Wait—what?)
The impact of Kolchak: Night Stalker—plus new books coming this year
Exploring the endless impact of 1970s show Kolchak: The Night Stalker, with several videos discussing the show’s triumphs. Plus info about all the new books coming out this year!
So much more than Conan: How the Robert E. Howard Foundation celebrates his work
How the REH Foundation honors the Conan creator’s legacy as a skillful writer of fantasy, horror, action and adventure stories, and more. “So much of what we do is in the background.”
Reading (most of) Robert Sheckley’s classic sci-fi series AAA online free
SF author Robert Sheckley’s only series featured an interplanetary decontamination service. “Basically Ghostbusters in space,” noted one reader. “What more could you want?”
Remembering Robert E. Howard: Creator of Sword & Sorcery and Conan the Barbarian
Celebrating the 120th birthday of one of the most influential authors of all time! Most remembered for Conan, but REH typed out more than a hundred stories for many more pulp categories.
Mothra Q&A: Translator Jeffrey Angles talks making the original kaiju fiction available in English!
Translator Jeffrey Angles talks making the original 1960s Mothra fiction available in English! “Tōhō’s monster movies are great fun, but they are also fantastically revealing windows….”
Expanding ‘Weird Tales’ with spin-off novels and collections
Interviews with the several authors from the “Weird Tales Presents” project. The legendary magazine is adding original novels, anthologies, and compilations—with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.