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Featured Essays

Editor's Picks: 30 More of the Most Anticipated Books of 2026

Books

Editor's Picks

30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2026

By Christina Orlando

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Featured Essays

Star Wars

From Fairy Tales to Spy Thrillers: The Many Genres of Star Wars

By AM Gelberg

July 13, 2026

Screenshot from King Kong (1976): Kong holds Dwan (Jessica Lange) in his hand

Featured Essays

King Kong

Does the First King Kong Remake Deserve a Fresh Look?

By Don Kaye

July 8, 2026

detail from the cover of CJ Cherryh's Merchant's Luck (Art by Barclay Shaw)

Books

C.J. Cherryh

A Heartfelt Appreciation of C.J. Cherryh

By Barbara Krasnoff

July 7, 2026

Featured Essays

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender and the State of Modern TV

By Emmet Asher-Perrin

July 6, 2026

Detail from "Woman Reading" by Therese Glaesener-Hartmann (1912)

Books

Mark as Read

The Way to Read More Is to Read More

By Molly Templeton

June 25, 2026

Dr. Cornelius in a human suit, hand over heart while humans smile around him in Escape From the Planet of the Apes

Featured Essays

Planet of the Apes

Why a Planet of the Apes Sequel Was Weirdly More Faithful to the Original Book

By Don Kaye

June 24, 2026

Illustration of a scene in Robert E. Howard's "Red Nails", published in Weird Tales (July 1936); Illustration by H. S. De Lay

Books

Sword and Sorcery

Bored of the Swords: The Rebirth of Sword & Sorcery and the Death of the Weird

By Cynthia Ward

June 23, 2026

La'an (Christina Chong) and Spock (Ethan Peck) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds's "Space Adventure Hour"

Featured Essays

Star Trek

Strange New Worlds, Starfleet Academy, and Nostalgia for the Future

By Val Nolan

June 22, 2026

Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson) squeezes her hand around a crucifix in Disclosure Day.

Featured Essays

Disclosure Day

Disclosure Day Puts Religion and Aliens in a Blender, With Mixed Results

By Leah Schnelbach

June 17, 2026

Laurence Mason, Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, and Matthew Lillard in Hackers (1995)

Featured Essays

techno-thrillers

Looking Back on the ’90s Films That Tackled Our Anxieties About New Technologies

By Jake Pitre

June 15, 2026

Detail from the cover art of Clive Barker's Books of Blood (art by Clive Barker)

Featured Essays

queer SFF

Poetry From the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane

By Matthew Cheney

June 11, 2026

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"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

Frank Herbert, Dune

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