Guest post: Are We Ready to Live with Human/Animal Hybrids by Susan Kuchinskas
A young biotechnologist is creating “designer pigs” whose organs could be transplanted into humans. Her long-term goal is to rewrite the human genome to…
Month: August 2017
HALLS OF LAW by V.M. Escalada
In Halls of Law, V.M. Escalada brings together familiar fantasy elements of a nation being invaded, a rigid military, people with supernatural mental abilities,…
Desperate Knight by Keith W. Willis
No time… No options… No plan… No one said saving the world would be easy. Morgan McRobbie and Lady Marissa duBerry swing back into…
The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but publishers like Tor are trying very hard to reintroduce readers to novellas – you know, something about…
Interview with Jesper Schmidt, author of the Keystone Bone trilogy
Welcome to SFFWorld Jesper, many thanks for giving us some time here. First of all can you tell us a bit about your Keystone…
Guest post: Diving into Alien Worlds by Brian Burt
I’ve always had a love affair with science fiction. When I was a kid, I gobbled every SF story I could find. I especially…
Guest Post: Chekhov’s Gundark by Nate Crowley
Good worldbuilding is often less about what you choose to show your audience, and more what you choose to withhold. To see why, let’s…
Brian Aldiss
We’re just hearing of the sad death of Brian Aldiss, OBE on his 92nd birthday (19th August 2017). His impact on British SF is…
Article: What is it with the Hollywood comedy sidekicks?
In which our intrepid writer bemoans the trend that has belied many a Hollywood blockbuster… OK: this may read as a bit of a…
Article: Science Fiction and Fact – Building On Each Other and Each Having Their Own Place
In a day and age in which the element of mass communications is so prevalent in much of the world’s culture, reliable facts and…
Guest post: Unmasking the Great Fantasy/Sci-fi Villain by Suzan Battah
Let’s face it, every story has a villain including within the hero themselves. These villains come with a lot of interesting qualities. I find…
The Nebula Awards Showcase 2017
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by…
Guest post – Take Some Time. Take a Little More by Karen Heuler
A while ago, let’s say a few years ago, I was recovering from surgery and pretty much immobile. I had no choice but to…
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Must admit, I didn’t know that Martha Wells wrote SF. I do know her Fantasy books (The Cloud Roads, Books of the Raksura),…
Awards: Hugo Winners 2017 announced
From the 75th Worldcon, Helsinki, on 11th August 2017: Best Novel (2,078 nominating ballots) WINNER: The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) All the…
Guest post: Just a Spoonful of Horror Helps the Fantasy Go Down by Gareth K Pengelly
I was a teenager when I first read Graham Masterton’s ‘The Pariah.’ Young, innocent (or so some would have you believe) and very much…
AT THE TABLE OF WOLVES by Kay Kenyon
World War II, the years leading up to it, and the aftermath is [obviously] one of the most historic eras of modern human history.…
Article: 20th Century Fox Brought the World the Best Sci-fi Films and Series for Over Four Decades
20th Century Fox has produced and distributed some of the best science fiction screen entertainment ever seen. It has distributed such classic hits as…
Article: Let’s Party Like It’s… 1962!
One of the great things as a Staff Member at SFFWorld is that we get asked to do all sorts of things. Many of…
Guest post: Manufacturing a Political Future by Jay Posey
When I was a young, starry-eyed lad dreaming of becoming an author someday, an enormous amount of appeal came from the idea of creating…
