Science fiction

Fort Solis was one of the many horror games shown off during last year’s Summer Game Fest, a showcase that was filled with games that seemed inspired by Dead Space. However, with just a trailer that touted top-tier video game acting talent in Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption) and Troy Baker (The Last of Us), it was overshadowed by new gameplay from The Callisto Protocol and the announcement that Routine was still being made after more than a decade. But I’m a huge horror game fan, so when I saw that Fort Solis would…

Like her titular protagonist, when Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818, she knew not what she had wrought into the world. Her tale of science taken too far birthed what many consider the first science fiction novel… and what some don’t. As it turns out, there are several tales told before the 19th century that…Read more... Like her titular protagonist, when Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818, she knew not what she had wrought into the world. Her tale of science taken too far birthed what many consider…

Large language models like ChatGPT have been used for all sorts of applications, from writing code to cheating on exams. Now users are flooding fiction magazine submissions with fake, AI-generated content.Image: maxuser (Shutterstock)The Hugo award-winning Science Fiction-focused Clarkesworld Magazine can receive over 12,000 submissions in just one year. Of course, that was before the proliferation of free online AI models that can write a dull, monotonous, though technically legible piece of fiction.On Monday,…

Crop of the Who Fears Death 10th anniversary edition book coverImage: Courtesy of DAW BooksIt’s an especially great day to be a Nnedi Okorafor fan: the much-acclaimed author has three new adult fantasy novellas on the way. io9 is excited to reveal that DAW Books will release a prequel to Who Fears Death—itself the basis for an in-the-works HBO series being produced by George R.R. Martin.Here’s the press release with all the details:“DAW Books has acquired North American rights and audio to three adult fantasy novellas by…

N.K. Jemisin made history when her trilogy of books—The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky—each won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the year of its release. After a few delays, the world of the Broken Earth trilogy is finally coming to a roleplaying game.Fifth Season: Roleplaying in the Stillness, is heading to Backerkit on January 24. Produced by Green Ronin publishing and co-developed by Tanya DePass (I Need Diverse Games, Rivals of Waterdeep) and Joseph D. Carriker (Blue Rose, Critical Role: Tal’Dorei…

Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once.Image: A24Though it’s hard to give the Golden Globes a lot of credit after its recent internal dealings and controversy almost wiped it off the map entirely, the group just made a few excellent decisions. Tuesday night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave two of its biggest awards to io9's pick for the best film of the year, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Though it ultimately ended up losing Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) to The Banshees of Inisherin, stars…

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The newsletter Words for Worlds by Gautam Bhatia revealed a big lacuna in my bookshelf: science fiction. While I enjoy the genre, my acquaintance with it is woeful. So I tried to read more sci-fi this year. I’m glad I did because the two books I began with, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh, were my most delectable reads of 2022.The novels are similar in some ways. They have plots so electrifying, I often sacrificed my sleep to gorge on the next reveal. The worlds they built…

August brings the final book in N.K. Jemison’s Hugo-winning Broken Earth trilogy, The Stone Sky—as well as Stephen Baxter’s sequel to H.G. Wells’ classic The War of the Worlds (ominously titled The Massacre of Mankind). And those are just two of the titles on this rather long list, so you’d better start turning some pages.After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob ReidAfter a title change and a release date shift, the latest novel from Reid (Year Zero) has finally arrived. It imagines a powerful new social network called…

This month brings a deluge of new books, including the latest from genre titan John Scalzi, as well as tales involving dark magic in post-apocalyptic America, a very high-stakes intergalactic talent competition, and ex-con construction workers trying to avoid getting murdered on Mars. Read on!The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen, edited by Aaron WorthA newly-assembled and edited collection of works by the influential 19th century occult horror author and mystic, including his 1894 novella The Great…