Sci-Fi

Image: Daniel Warren Johnson/Image ComicsFighting for humanity’s survival against a monstrous, existential threat is often a noble cause in apocalyptic fiction—heroes raging against the dying of the light to ensure some facet of our civilization lives on in the face of doom. But what happens when it’s just a contract job that pays like shit?That’s where Muhammed Cho and his friends come in in Terrorwar, a new Image Comics series from Magnificent Ms. Marvel and Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Saladin Ahmed, and Elvira’s Dave…

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…

The environment was something of a shift for Drake, who had spent the previous seven years as the medical response director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Though it was the longtime leader in cryonics, Alcor was still a small nonprofit. It had been freezing the bodies and brains of its members, with the idea of one day bringing them back to life, since 1976.  The foundation, and cryonics in general, had long survived outside of mainstream acceptance. Typically shunned by the scientific community, cryonics is…

Image: Penguin TeenAiming to be the next Hunger Games by way of Pacific Rim—which admittedly does sound rather awesome—best-selling YA sci-fi fantasy The Iron Widow has been acquired by Erik Feig’s Picturestart. Variety reports that the production company has gotten the rights to adapt and plan a potential franchise for Xiran Jay Zhao’s novel. Writer J.C. Lee, who worked on Hulu’s Love, Victor and penned the script for the upcoming Bad Genius remake,is on board as the screenwriter for the Penguin Teen hit.The book’s…