Crossing the Streams Again: Netflix and Sony Unveil New Animated Ghostbusters Series

The ghost-busting franchise is expanding its reach once more. After years of speculation, development rumors, and a brief period of confusion regarding the project’s format, Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation…

Literary Landscapes: The Obama Center’s Opening, Essential Queer Reads, and the Future of Adaptations

Welcome to Today in Books, your comprehensive daily briefing on the pulse of the literary world. As the intersection of culture, politics, and media continues to shift, we find ourselves…

The Ghostly Architecture of Loss: Exploring Sara Youngblood Gregory’s Dead Boys in Space

The acknowledgments section of Sara Youngblood Gregory’s latest poetry collection, Dead Boys in Space, concludes with a haunting, elegiac postscript: “Thank you to the ghosts that live at the heart…

The SPFBO 11 Update: Analyzing the "Third Five to Fall" in the Search for Fantasy Excellence

As the month of May draws to a close, the literary community finds itself deep in the trenches of the 11th Annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO 11). For those uninitiated,…

Celebrating New Voices: The Future Worlds Prize Crowns a New Generation of Speculative Fiction Talent

In a vibrant celebration of creativity and representation, the Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour recently gathered the literary community in London to announce the…

Celebrating Excellence in Speculative Fiction: The 2026 Eugie Foster Memorial Award Shortlist Unveiled

Introduction: Honoring a Legacy of Imagination On June 22, the literary world turned its attention toward the prestigious Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction. As the speculative fiction community…

The Speculative Soul of Vietnam: Translating Magic and Memory in "The Young Die Old"

Nine years ago, a modest Kickstarter campaign sought to bridge a cultural divide, aiming to bring the surreal, shifting landscapes of Vietnamese fiction to an Anglophone readership. Today, that project…

The Weight of Occupation: An In-Depth Analysis of Mike Shackle’s The Last War Trilogy

In the landscape of modern fantasy, where epic quests and grand prophecies often dictate the rhythm of the narrative, Mike Shackle’s The Last War trilogy emerges as a stark, uncompromising…

The Week in SFF: A Mid-June Roundup of Genre-Defining Releases (June 16–21, 2026)

As the summer reading season shifts into full gear, the third week of June 2026 brings an eclectic mix of literary innovation, dark fantasy, and hard-hitting science fiction to bookstore…

Navigating the Convention Calendar: Clarifying the Future of Fantasycon and World Fantasy Convention 2027

In the intricate, often overlapping ecosystem of global speculative fiction events, scheduling conflicts are an unfortunate but frequent reality. Recently, concerns regarding the 2027 convention calendar—specifically involving the British Fantasy…