For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]
Had he lived an easier life, Philip K. Dick might have lived to see today—what would’ve been his 91st birthday. But a different life might’ve meant an entirely different legacy, and certainly he’s achieved a kind of immortality as one of the gods of the science fiction pantheon. For evidence, look no further than the […]
Maniac, the new love it or hate it Netflix series from writer Patrick Somerville and director Cary Joji Fukunaga, is a lot. Like, a lot. Though it recalls the style of Kebrick and the off-kilter humor of Charlie Kaufmann, there’s no other show quite like it. It’s so dense with references and internal callbacks that […]
Another season of Black Mirror has come and gone (if a perpetually streamable show can ever be said to go), leaving us astounded, unsettled, and more than a little creeped out by our phones. Creator Charlie Brooker has announced a series of at least three forthcoming books that will feature new stories from established writers […]
