Science Fiction Archives

ESSAY: How Naomi Kritzer’s Science Fiction Strips Away Cyberspace

December 26, 2024

We have entered an era of AI slop. Periodicals are struggling with floods of submissions cooked up by ChatGPT rather than human imaginations, while readers downloading ebooks from Amazon are faced with the possibility of their latest purchase being the churned-out product of AI masquerading as ...

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REVIEW: Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory is a Space Opera for Today

December 20, 2024

Humanity has lost a war with the majoda, an interplanetary association united by an artificial intelligence called the Wisdom. Earth has been destroyed, and a space station called Gaea now houses a remnant of humanity in a rigid militaristic society. Valkyr, teenage niece of the station’s ...

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2024 Ignyte Awards: The Saint of Bright Doors & Kill Your Darlings Among Winners

November 11, 2024

Friday, 8 November saw the presentation of the fifth annual Ignyte Awards. Originally attached to the virtual convention FIYAHCON, these awards, which celebrate science fiction, fantasy, and horror by diverse creators, have continued to take place every year despite the convention being on ...

Reviews, Television and Film

TIFF 2024 Review: Can I Get a Witness? Begs Humanity to Fix Itself Before We Need to Make Extreme Sacrifices

October 15, 2024

How far will humanity go to save itself and the planet? Are we willing to make the sacrifices called for to ensure the next generation doesn’t suffer like ours? In Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness?, the audience is asked to bear witness to the extreme choices humanity must make to survive.

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2024 Dragon Awards: John Scalzi and Rebecca Yarros Are Winners While AI Art Loses

September 2, 2024

The Dragon Awards are presented annually at the Dragon Con convention in Atlanta, and the ninth iteration of the awards ceremony was held on Sunday. Eleven works of science fiction, fantasy and horror, as decided by a public online poll, were awarded with trophies.

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2024 Hugo Award Winners Explore Spacefaring Futures and Technological Doubts

August 12, 2024

This year marks the turn of Glasgow to host the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), and Sunday saw the convention’s best-known event: the presentation of the Hugo Awards.

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ESSAY: Hugos, Heavenly Kings, and Chinese Science Fiction

August 7, 2024

Last year, Flame Tree Press published Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers. In this anthology, consulting editor Patrick Parrinder and honourary editor Yao Haijun assembled a set of Chinese stories, all newly translated by Alex Woodend, and ...

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August Books to Get Excited about Now

July 16, 2024

This summer, whether you want a young adult murder mystery set at a summer job, engrossing sci-fi full of future tech, or a bad girl hell-bent on revenge, there are great options headed your way. Maureen Johnson’s Death at Morning House; Codie Crowley’s Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch; a ...

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The 2024 Hugo Awards Heralds the Clearing of Corruption

April 1, 2024

The finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards were announced on Friday, and as is typical for the Hugos, the ballot has a mixture of the familiar and the fresh. Established Hugo favourites such as John Scalzi (Starter Villain), Ann Leckie (Translation State), Martha Wells (Witch King), Nghi Vo ...