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Read The First 10 Pages of Marvel's Enders Game

The first issue of Marvel's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game hits stores tomorrow - but if you can't wait that long, you're in luck. We've got an exclusive preview of the book's first ten pages to whet your palette. More »

6:30 AM on Tue Oct 7 2008
By Graeme McMillan
9,001 views, 58 comments

Latest by Spaceboy: @dagwood00: In the comic, they explain his reasoning for beating the crap out of that kid, but it happens later more »

world building

SF Authors Pick Favorite Examples of World-Building

Wonder what makes your favorite SF authors green with envy when it comes to creating strange new worlds? Now's your chance to find out, as the site SF Signal asks twelve prominent writers - including our very own Jeff VanderMeer - just what kind of world-building sets their mind-a-tingle. More »

1:00 PM on Sat Aug 2 2008
By Graeme McMillan
5,359 views, 49 comments

Latest by Purple Dave: @WMyers: C.S. Friedman is female, and she's one of my three favorite authors (about even with Greg Keyes and followed more »

comic-con 08

This Is What Ender's Game Will Look Like From Now On

If you're expecting Marvel's comic version of Ender's Game to be a faithful adaptation, then Orson Scott Card has some news for you - It's not, and it's all his fault. Card explained the changes he requested to the comic version and showed off previews of what to expect at Friday's Cup O' Joe Marvel Comics panel, and we've got 'em under the jump. More »

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12:20 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Graeme McMillan
13,673 views, 49 comments

Latest by TonyJazz: I noted muteboy's concerns over the word 'bugger'. What a timely statement, as you can see that Orson Scott Card more »

opening sentences

Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction

You can tell a lot about a science fiction book from its first sentence. Those first few words (or few dozen, in some cases) have to pull you into the story and bring you into a whole alternate world. A good first sentence "hooks" you, pulling you into the story with a quick jolt of action and mystery. But a great first sentence does way more than that — it establishes a tone, it sticks in your mind, and it's like a little otherworldly koan, confounding your expectations. And maybe freaking your shit a little. Here are our favorite science fiction opening sentences. More »

1:14 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
67,518 views, 174 comments

Latest by JeroldMus: "He opened his eyes to see the everything turn to gray, and with a flick of a button all he more »

interview

Gaiman, Zelazny and More Coming To Your iPod

When Amazon.com's SF audiobooks imprint Audible Frontiers launched earlier this year, we were interested in the potential of something new to entertain us on our morning commutes. With the line now in its third month, we checked in with Audible's director of content, Steve Feldberg, to see whether it looks like there's a future in this whole "books in your ear" thing. More »

8:00 AM on Sun Jun 29 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,819 views, 11 comments

Latest by Miranda Kali (Desperate But Not Serious): @RAHfanboy: There's a proper and improper way to be homosexual? How about bisexual? I had no idea. Is there a more »

scifi sagas

7 Reasons Why Scifi Book Series Outstay Their Welcomes

Why do so many amazing novels sprawl into so-so trilogies? Let alone blah tetralogies, or dull ten-book series? Blame "Herbert's Syndrome," in which a great writer gets tempted to keep writing about a popular universe, like Frank Herbert's Dune, long after its expiration date. (The Fantasy Review coined the term "Herbert's Syndrome" back in 1984, so Brian Herbert didn't enter into it.) Here's a handy guide to the symptoms and causes of Herbert's unfortunate ailment. More »

4:30 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
24,579 views, 142 comments

Latest by LaurenCoeus: re: Simmons. Yeah, it's not surprising that Endymion/Rise of Endymion are so different (and IMO inferior). Simmons wrote in _Prayers to Broken more »

master strategists

The Greatest Space Strategists In Military History

Everybody always gives props to space captains: they're the ones sitting in the chair and commanding a spaceship going head-to-head with their bumpy-headed counterpart on the enemy ship. But one starship doesn't always win a space battle. Sometimes it's the general (or the admiral) sitting in an even bigger chair, who figures out where to send all the dozens, or thousands, of starships into battle like chess pieces. They're the tacticians and the master strategists, and we celebrate them below. More »

4:54 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
12,059 views, 103 comments

Latest by Chatteringclass: @bassiiabc: From my readings (through "At All Costs" in case there's another one out) Harringtong has always been a great more »

audio books

SF Books: Now With Less Reading

Want to get into some SF literature but need to use your eyes for driving instead of reading? Then there are two new audible SF delights awaiting you: Amazon subsidiary Audible.com gives you Audible Frontiers, a new imprint for audio versions of SF and fantasy books by authors like Allen Steele, Neal Stephenson and Fritz Lieber, amongst others. Meanwhile, indie podcast StarShipSofa will be bringing you fiction, poetry, science, and author profiles twice a week. More on both below. More »

10:17 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,528 views, 12 comments

Latest by Mnemesis: sorry, that's librivox.org, not libervox more »

ender's game

Wolfgang Petersen Off Ender's Game

You can forget your dreams of a Das Boot/Enemy Mine-style version of Orson Scott Card's classic novel Ender's Game. Director Wolfgang Petersen, previously attached to the project, has moved on, producers tell io9. Chartoff Productions is busy meeting with a slew of potential directors for the Ender's movie, which they hope will start filming by early 2009. But who will play child prodigy Ender? More »

4:50 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Meredith Woerner
7,185 views, 35 comments

Latest by AnitaGabs: Del Toro and Cuaron are both busy. Whedon would be interesting, not so much because he's worked with kids, more »

ender's game

What's The Game In Ender's Game?

Chair Entertainment Group announced that they'll be developing a series of games based on Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game. However, it's not clear if they're developing the games from the novel, or if they'll try to tell the story of the novel in video game fashion. More »

11:10 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Kevin Kelly
2,804 views, 30 comments

Latest by arachnophilia: @Katana_Mind: speaking of weighted companion cubes, i actually found "the enemy's base is down" a good philosophy for quickly orienting more »