BNA_Daily | February 22, 2010
Today’s news focuses on science fiction and fantasy, from the Nebula Awards to vampires to an emerging genre of paranoid fiction. Speaking of which, is that your boss looking over your shoulder?
The 2009 Nebula Award finalists have been announced, and Omnivoracious blogger Jeff VanderMeer (who also happens to be a nominated author), gives a brief [...]
BNA_Editor | January 11, 2010
The term “science fiction” has never been precisely defined and in fact there have been many spirited arguments among fans about where the boundaries should be set or whether or not some specific book should be included. There were and still are disagreements about whether the term should be viewed only as a genre label [...]
BNA_Daily | August 11, 2009
A few weeks ago we mentioned a book being promoted as “Harry Potter for grownups,” and now the wait is over! The book, The Magicians by Time book critic Lev Grossman, hits stores today and is getting encouraging reviews. Rather than pretending to write free of the influences of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, Grossman [...]
BNA_Daily | May 13, 2009
With Star Trek and Wolverine dominating box office sales, it seems natural to dedicate a post to science fiction and fantasy. Despite the recession (or perhaps because of it), thousands of Americans are spending money to escape into movies that take them out of this world. Chances are many of these movie buffs are also [...]
BNA_Editor | February 3, 2009
For many readers, it’s hard to think of British fantasy literature without the name “Terry Pratchett” immediately coming to mind. Even if you’re not a fan of Pratchett or his ever-expansive Discworld universe, you can’t deny the man’s popularity. Before Harry Potter emerged, forever changing J.K. Rowling’s life and bank draft, Pratchett was a publishing [...]
D_DAmmassa | January 22, 2009
Modern fantasy has remained fairly monolithic for the past decade, consisting primarily of High Fantasy – castles, kings and queens, dragons, and sorcerers – usually arranged in trilogies, and almost always with a medieval style setting, though not in our historical past. There have always been exceptions, of course, perhaps, most notably, writers like Jim [...]
