It’s a rich time for those of us who pine for excellent science fiction and fantasy stories about women and girls. Across all the medium, you’ll find them having adventures, becoming the heroes, and saving the day. The best of them care deeply about their homes, their families (biological or families of choice), and protecting the people […]

Syfy’s upcoming television series The Expanse is the best science fiction series since Battlestar Galactica. Adapted from the bestselling novel series by James S.A. Corey, it marks the return of what fans have been looking for from the genre-focused network: hard hitting science fiction. The Expanse is that, and more. I had the opportunity to visit the set of […]

Father’s Day is almost upon us, reminding us to appreciate the great fathers in our lives, and what they do for us and everyone else. In the real world, that’s usually limited, say, to letting us borrow the car or teaching us how to tie a Windsor knot. In a sci-fi or fantasy universe, things tend get […]

When Mad Max: Fury Road opened, pretty much everyone agreed it was one of the best films of the year, and a new classic of the post-apocalyptic genre. Everyone, that is, save for a subset of dudes from one of the internet’s darkest corners, who lash out at anything that suggests that women can be just as […]

Syfy wasn’t kidding about wanting to get back into geeks’ good graces: if the pilot episode of December’s The Expanse is any indication, they’re bound and determined to give us the successor to Battlestar Galactica we’ve been clamoring for since the abrupt cancelation of Stargate Universe. The slick new space opera, based on the book series […]