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Realm Makers Christian Fantasy Conference Leaders Open Up About Defamation Against Them And Their Organization
Realm Makers has spent over a decade building something genuinely rare: a writers’ conference built specifically for Christians who write science fiction and fantasy, a corner of publishing that historically didn’t have a home in either mainstream genre fandom or traditional Christian publishing circles. They’re under attack by someone creating serious…
Jared Leto Faces New Sexual Misconduct Allegations From Ten Women, As His Box Office Track Record Keeps Getting Worse
A new BBC documentary, “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret,” aired this week with ten women coming forward against the actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman, nine of them sharing their accounts publicly for the first time. Four of the women describe conduct the BBC characterizes as criminal sexual conduct, occurring when they were teenagers between 2002 and 2016, when Leto was in his 30s and 40s.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is Tracking For The Second-Biggest Holland Opening Ever, By Selling Audiences On Something Simple
Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters this Friday, and early tracking has it logging the strongest pre-sales of any release since 2021’s No Way Home. Conservative studio estimates start around $180-190 million for the domestic weekend, with analyst models pushing as high as $230-274 million. If the top end holds, it slots in as the second-biggest open…
Two Coasts With The Same Afrofuturism Theme: What’s Actually Funding These Library Events
Isis Asare, SFWA’s former executive director who exited the organization earlier this summer after barely a year in the role, just resurfaced at the West Oakland Public Library. On July 18, she and author Angela Dalton headlined “A Is For Afrofuturism,” a free event hosted by Sistah Scifi, explicitly billed on the flyer as “made possible through a micro…
The Bay Area Viking: A Poul Anderson Retrospective
For fifty years, from 1948 until his death in 2001, Poul Anderson was the working writer other working writers pointed to when they wanted to explain what serious science fiction looked like. He wrote seven Hugo-winning stories, three Nebula winners, four Prometheus winners, and enough novels, novellas, and shorter work to fill a small library. He was t…
Young Chesterton Chronicles Author John McNichol Launches Superhero Comic EXTRAordinary Heroes
John McNichol, author of the steampunk series Young Chesterton Chronicles, is moving into comic book writing and production. The announcement came on the heels of finishing the trilogy’s final volume.n
Emily Wilson Says She’d Be “Ashamed” To Have Written Nolan’s Odyssey, And Her Full Review Doesn’t Let Up From There
Christopher Nolan built his entire Odyssey around Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation, crediting her famous opening line, “Tell me about a complicated man,” as one of his biggest points of inspiration going into the project. Wilson has now seen the finished film. Her review, a 4,000-word essay published this week in the London Review of Books under the titl…
The Firefly Comeback Is Proving To Be A Bait And Switch
Firefly fans have spent months building toward a moment that keeps not quite arriving. The latest update, straight from Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk themselves, confirms the project everyone’s been tracking is still very much alive. It also confirms it’s nowhere close to actually happening.
Brandon Sanderson Calls Out J.K. Rowling’s Fantasy Snobbery: With a Terry Pratchett Assist
At Oxford’s 2026 Tolkien Lecture, Brandon Sanderson didn’t just talk theory. He named names, and one name in particular: J.K. Rowling.
Solomon Kane: The Lion’s Errant #1: Solid Art Carries a Thin Opening Chapter
Titan Comics put out Solomon Kane: The Lion’s Errant #1 this week, the second solo outing from writer and artist Patrick Zircher after his prior series carried Robert E. Howard’s puritan wanderer from the Barbary Coast to the canals of Venice. This time Kane lands in India, a land split among rival powers, tracking a ring of slavers through a plot that …