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Marvel at the Gorgeously Dark Fairy-Tale Visions of Artist Jay Bendt
Jay Bendt is a Minnesota-based illustrator who has been making art and telling stories her entire life. In addition to colorful-yet-spooky works like these four—created for the Month of Fear challenge...
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This Stunning Single Image Blurs the Line Between Earth and Space
Set 7,900 ft above sea level, on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert, the La Silla Observatory has an amazing view of the night sky. So good, in fact, that it’s possible to capture other-worldly photos...
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There's Something Surprising Lurking in Ceres' Mysterious Bright Spots
Dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots are perhaps the strangest of all its features. Now we’re finally in a low-enough altitude to get an unprecedented close-up look—and what we’re seeing may only have...
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Heroes Reborn Has Officially Stopped Being Reborn
In case you were worried that Heroes Reborn would continue after its January 21 finale—and lord knows I was—you may now breathe a sigh of relief that Tommy the Teleporting Boy, Chuck on Fire, Rejected...
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How Kurt Vonnegut's Famous Older Brother Inspired Him To Write Science Fiction
When Kurt Vonnegut was working as a PR flak at General Electric, his older brother Bernard was a famous scientist. And Kurt was there when Bernard demonstrated his incredible new invention: a way to...
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The CW Really Wants to Make a Live-Action Vixen Show
It looks like Megalyn Echikunwoke’s appearance on Arrow next week is only the first step for Vixen. According to CW president Mark Pedowitz, the hope is to use a series of small appearances by the...
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The Aquaman Movie Wants to Crown Amber Heard as Queen of Atlantis
Amber Heard is in talks to join the DC cinematic universe as Mera, the aquatic love interest of Aquaman. THR says her character would first appear in the Justice League movie before starring in Aquaman...
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iZombie Spent a Whole Episode Critiquing Itself
This was one of the two greatest moments in “Method Head.” We usually see Liv’s visions from her perspective, and they’re usually dramatic or funny or plot-related. But this time we see how it looks...
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The Rejected Fantastic Four Concept Posters Are About 4,000 Percent Better...
Fantastic Four was a huge mess in every way. Even its marketing wasn’t exactly dynamic and exciting, its posters full of a sullen Fantastic Four glaring out at you. But oh, what might have been, if we...
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The Shannara Chronicles Is Like Watching Level One D&D Characters Start a...
While watching the latest episode of The Shannara Chronicles, I realized what this show reminded me of: the first time a Dungeons and Dragons campaign sets out, with everyone starting at their first...
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Learn How American Horror Story: Hotel Created its Scariest Monster
As you count down the minutes to tonight’s American Horror Story: Hotel finale, feast your peepers on this clip highlighting the work of the show’s talented makeup crew. You’ll get your longest look...
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There's Something Enormous Buried Beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Every week, we’re bombarded with images of dazzling terrains on Mars and Pluto, but there are still geologic wonders to be discovered right here on Earth. Case in point: a new study suggests there...
View ArticleWhat Was the Darkest Moment on Last Night's Expanse?
“Rock Bottom,” true to its title, basically spent an hour trying to one-up itself in how dark and bad things could get for its characters. The remaining Canterbury survivors get off the lightest. The...
View ArticleThings Get Super Ominous in the Orphan Black Season 4 Trailer
I know the third season of Orphan Black ended on a down note for the members of Clone Club in a lot of ways, but it was positively cheery compared to this first season 4 trailer.It’s clear all the...
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Eight Cool Things In Diablo III's New Patch
Diablo III’s long awaited patch 2.4 is now live both in the US and in the EU. It’s quite a big update with new zones, items, game mechanics and small tweaks. The game feels a lot different if you...
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Shadowhunters Has the Best Fashion Ever (and It's Totally Ridiculous Fun)
Cassandra Clare’s YA book series begat the 2013 film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones—a box-office disappointment that didn’t capture why so many people loved the books. Round two: TV adaptation...
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How could The Winds of Winter get published just three months after George R.R.
How could The Winds of Winter get published just three months after George R.R. Martin finishes it? Over at Tor.com, there’s a great breakdown of why book production generally takes a year, and how...
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''Reality Is Unknowable to Us': The Dreamlike Fiction of Leena Krohn
Most U.S. readers probably haven’t heard of Leena Krohn, but among connoisseurs of weird fiction like Jeff VanderMeer, she’s a beloved icon. She’s also the winner of the Finlandia Prize, the most...
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How James Patterson Helped Reinvent Publishing
James Patterson hasn’t always written science fantasy or fantasy, apart from his recent young-adult series. But he’s radically changed the whole publishing industry, and especially the way that genre...
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What's Going On With Firefly Online?
We may never get another live-action Firefly movie or TV show. So every bit of Firefly media that we do get is precious—and that explains why Browncoats became so excited about Firefly Online, the...
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