In June, we're reading Lauren Beukes' intense time-traveling serial killer novel The Shining Girls. (Our review of it is here.) We'll meet July 2 to discuss it, and we hope Beukes will join us later that week for a discussion!

We loved Lauren Beukes' time traveling serial killer novel, The Shining Girls, which comes out next week. Now Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way has just acquired it to develop for television.

Lauren Beukes won critical acclaim for her first two novels, Zoo City and Moxyland, both of which were urban fantasies set in her native South Africa. Now she's set her imagination loose on a different continent, to explore the inner life of a serial killer in Chicago who figures out how to travel through time. The…

Lauren Beukes' novel Zoo City won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. And her next novel, The Shining Girls, garnered a massive deal at last year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Here's her short story "Branded," which puts a South African spin on cyberpunk. It's an except from The Apex…

This year's Arthur C. Clarke Awards had a slightly controversial shortlist, but the winner seems likely to make a lot of people happy: It's the Booker-longlisted novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers.

It's been an exciting time for anybody who wants to see Hollywood adapting some more adventurous source material. Acclaimed books by Charles Yu, Lauren Beukes and Cherie Priest have all gotten movie deals recently. Jeff VanderMeer has a great roundup of how all three authors have responded to the news — including which …

Two of the most celebrated novels of the past few years are getting movie deals, greatly increasing our chances of seeing some quality entertainment on the big screen a few years from now.

Lauren Beukes won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, a jarring urban fantasy about an alternate Johannesburg where criminals are matched with magical animals.

There'll never be a webzine to replace the late, lamented Internet Review of Science Fiction, but a new publication, Salon Futura, comes pretty darn close. The first issue includes smart essays, book reviews, and a heartfelt Satoshi Kon obituary.

Angry Robot Books is having its U.S. launch today, and we're ready to announce the three lucky souls who are each receiving a full set of a half-dozen Angry Robot titles, including Lauren Beukes' Moxyland.