Charlie Jane Anders

Image: Lucasfilm, Tordotcom, and 20th Century StudiosIt’s that time of year again: Chengdu Worldcon has released the full list of nominees for this year’s Hugos, the premiere science fiction and fantasy awards ceremony highlighting the best in books, film, TV, and criticism in genre material.What Drew John Boyega Back Into Sci-Fi? | io9 InterviewThis year marks the 81st WorldCon, the traditional home of the Hugo Awards winners ceremony, taking place this year in Chengdu, China between October 18 to 22. More than 25,000…

This month, we’ve got tense thrillers set aboard claustrophobic spaceships, a magical sword-maker who gets caught up in a fantastical conflict in Shakespearean London, a sci-fi twist on Pinocchio, and more—including the latest in io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders’ hit YA fantasy series. Read on!Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesImage: 47NorthHouse of Gold by C.T. RwiziOn a planetary colony ruled by “a corporate aristocracy descended from Africa,” a separatist cult works to…

Image: Will Staehle/Penguin Random HouseLike A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back’s 40th anniversaries before it, Return of the Jedi is celebrating its landmark year in style with its own From a Certain Point of View collection—and the authors include some familiar Star Wars faces, some new ones, and perhaps of most interest to us, a co-founder of io9!StarWars.com has lifted the lid on the cover and author details for Return of the Jedi: From a Certain Point of View. Like the A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back editions, the…

Screenshot: Disney+By Sabina GravesFlorida’s controversial anti-LGBTQ “Don’t Say Gay” bill has passed the state senate, heading to the desk of governor Ron DeSantis, all but guaranteeing its entry into state law—and one of the state’s biggest businesses, the Walt Disney Company, has largely chosen to stay silent.Instead of turning its attention toward supporting LGBTQ youth and their families, Disney focused its efforts on a different situation making headlines in Florida: its latest luxury vacation venture aboard the…

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi AdeyemiImage: Henry Holt and Co.We’re up to our eyeballs in genre books, folks—space capers, fantasy adventures, alt-history thrillers, short-fiction collections, and even a couple of nonfiction books thrown in for good measure. Dive in, and get ready for an amazing season of reading.SeptemberNo One’s Home by D.M. PulleyA family looking for a fresh start moves to a new town to renovate an abandoned mansion, but soon finds there’s no escaping their troubled past—or the home’s…

Photo: Gene Page/AMCWhen io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders hired me as a Senior Editor back in 2012, I never expected to still be at the site a decade later. I certainly never expected to recap The Walking Dead the entire time, and now that the show is over, I have no idea how to feel about it. But I’m pretty sure it’s not good.And when I say a decade, I mean 10 years almost exactly. Annalee and CJ made it very clear that one of my tasks upon being hired would be taking on recaps of the…

Image: TorAs io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders acted as Toastmasters during the Hugo awards ceremony at Chicon, the 80th World Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, they were also awarded with some Hugos of their very own!Other notable winners included Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace, which is the second novel in her Teixcalaan series, and the second in the series to win a Hugo. The first book, A Memory Called Empire, won in 2020. Another big winner was publisher Tor, which published…