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Only one character in Alien has the wits and wherewithal to survive to the end of the movie at Ripley's side: Jones the cat. While everyone else on Nostromo was screaming like chickens with their chests ripped open, Jones exhibited the cool becoming a cat. Now Jones finally gets to tell his side of the story, one filled with naps, food, and yes, the occasional alien. More »
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Let Me In and Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is adapting Ray Nelson's short story 8 O'Clock in the Morning for film, read it now! More »
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An unknown filmmaker is attempting to bring his eerie vision of Neil Gaiman's short story "The Price" to life, with Gaiman's blessing. But this project needs your help — here's how. More »
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The author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe shares a surprising zombie story for Halloween. A pair of big box store employees find a zombie in their midst, but the encounter doesn't go as expected. More »
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Isaac Marion's zombie love story is set to be made into a film by The Wackness director Jonathan Levine. Check out the short melodramtic love story that sparked Marion's novel, along with the original book trailer. More »
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Rarely does the Great Old One Cthulhu get to speak on his own behalf, but in Neil Gaiman's story I, Cthulhu, the cosmic horror gives us a unusual peek into his life, straight from his own tentacled mouth. [Tor] More »
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If you've grown bored of watching It's a Wonderful Life for the hundredth time, then perhaps it's time to read Robert Reed's twist on the classic film. In "A Woman's Best Friend," Clarence isn't an angel but a dimension-hopping hoaxster. More »
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Rob Davis' illustrated short "How I Built My Father (And Where I Went Wrong)" is a beautiful and sad bit of magical realism, set in a world where children build their parents from scratch, but still can't always fix them. More »
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James Cameron's Avatar has been championed as an attempt at original science fiction storytelling in film amongst a sea of remakes and adaptations. But Cameron may have borrowed some of the key aspects of his tale from author Poul Anderson. More »
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Ever dreamed of collaborating on a story with Neil Gaiman? Today, you'll get your chance as Gaiman launches an experiment to create an original story using the collaborative power of Twitter. More »
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The aspiring SF writer goes through many crises of confidence. Even Robert Heinlein asked himself "Am I good enough?" and "Is a tesseract just goofy stoner bullshit?" After he began publishing in the journal Astounding Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell about what his rules for writing were, and under what terms he'd continue writing for the publication. This amazing epistle will either make you wonder when the transition "howsomever" went out of style, or stand up John Galt-style and trace a dollar sign in the air. We've got the full letter from the king of entertaining correspondence. More »
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Want to read an awesome alternate history, space-colony spy story from Doctor Who scribe and comic book writer Paul Cornell? Pyr Books publisher Lou Anders posted a free preview of Cornell's story "Catherine Drewe" online last week — the tale serves as the opener to short story collection Fast Forward 2, which Anders calls "all original science fiction stories — no fantasy or slipstream." Cornell has a great introduction to the story's main character, whom he describes as somewhat similar to Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond. More »
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Ever since the 1950s, when business environments were slowly being populated by giant, mainframe computers and their minicomputer progeny (which were not so mini in size), science fiction writers have toyed with the idea that computers are about to become gods. You see this in David Gerrold's 1970s novel When HARLIE Was One, as well as in the Terminator franchise, where a computer unleashes Armageddon. But if you trace this theme back, there remains one classic of the computer-as-god genre, and it's a 1950s short story by Isaac Asimov that's available for free online. More »
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Director David Fincher has a movie coming out in November called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald (you know the guy who wrote The Great Gatsby, that book you read in AP English). It's about a man who is born in his 80s and ages backward. If you think this sounds familiar, then you're probably remembering Mork From Ork's son Mearth from Mork & Mindy. Come on, admit it. You know you are. We compare and contrast the two below. Nanu Nanu! More »
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