The 1990s brought us slap bracelets and grunge—plus Game of Thrones, Seinfeld, and Harry Potter. As part of our Get Pop-Cultured celebration, we’re taking a nostalgic journey every Thursday in July, reliving the most iconic moments in pop culture. On July 30, it’s #TBT 1990s. Join us for special giveaways, offers, and events—in stores only!
Editor’s note: Frank Herbert’s Dune, space opera’s answer to The Lord of the Rings and possibly the most influential work of science fiction ever published, turns 50 this year. Each month throughout 2015, we’ll be examining its literary legacy and taking a look at ways it has altered the SF landscape.
The medical thriller is an incredibly specific sub-genre, defined by surgical masks, drugs, and paranoia. It’s not usually about magic, but that’s the beauty of book genres: they can be whatever the writer wants them to be. Ferrett Steinmetz’s novel Flex is out from Angry Robot this month, and it got me thinking about what a fan of medical […]
With the new William Gibson book The Peripheral, the author’s first far-future story in two decades, arriving this month, it seems appropriate to take a look back at Neuromancer, his influential 1984 debut. Gibson, who coined the term “cyberspace” in 1981, is widely regarded as the progenitor of the cyberpunk movement, a gritty neo-noir genre […]
You may as well get a teapot enchanted with Angela Lansbury’s voice to start singing about it; it’s a tale as old as time (get it?!): book people hate it when movie people take the books they love and make unfaithfully adapted movies out of them. It’s like seeing an ex, post-breakup, who got way […]