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Archive.org recently added a gigantic collection of the influential science fiction magazine  Galaxy Science Fiction  to its site that is f...

Writing for Aeon, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad delves into the long, rich tradition of speculative fiction in Muslim culture, including some ...

Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life" stuck with screenwriter Eric Heiserer long after he put it down. Heiserer had wr...

Award-winning Author Nnedi Okafor and science fiction magazine Clarkesworld have teamed up to bring you "Afrofuturist 419". It...

Text: Out of 2,039 stories published in 2015, 38 were written by black authors. Speculative fiction can be a gateway for aspiring author...

Description: In a still from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" a young black man in scuffed white storm trooper armor looks off scr...

Description: Technical detail readout of  the Star Trek series' starship & titular scenario, the Kobayashi Maru.  In the Star Tr...

Description: The official Hugo Award logo: a black & gray stylized shape reminiscent of a rocket ship. The Hugo Awards, nominated an...

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Lost Dimension - Playstation 3 Game Review Keep Your Friends Close, Enemies Closer To Save The World Lost Dimension starts off with the ...

Description: A wastebasket, overflowing with crumpled up pieces of paper and trash. Strange Horizon is a online speculative fiction maga...

For some reason, even though there were a fair number of Africans in England during the time of the Tudors and Elizabethan England, in popul...

Terry Pratchett in 2011. Photograph: Tom Pilston Courtesy of The Independent/REX The last book in the Discworld series completed by the ...

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Hey all, I've been a little under the weather this weekend I'll be a bit busy the next day or so assisting my Roommate To Be in gett...

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Description: A red-haired woman warrior locked in combat with a lizard monster taller than she is. She holds a shield to defend against at...

photo via BuzzFeed WisCon, first started in 1977, a sci-fiction and fantasy convention that bills itself as the leading feminist science...

Picture via twitter user @chiparoo Author & poet Alexandra Erin, who's been skewering the self-proclaimed "Sad/Rabid Puppie...