Comic books have transcended the nerd-o-sphere and happily taken their power position among pop culture’s heavy hitters. The biggest blockbuster movies are based on comic books; almost every TV network has a comic book adaptation; and comic books are even spilling over into and inspiring traditional prose books. Which is great news for those of us […]

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Young reporters make great protagonists, see. Fiction has a long and proud tradition of producing lovable, insatiable, distinctive, and tireless journalists. Sometimes they’re young (Harriet the Spy), occasionally they’re the subject of satire (Scoop), and once in a blue moon, their jobs take them to a flat disc balanced […]

You saw Wonder Woman, right? And ever since, you’ve been running around the house crossing your wrists and trying to lasso the dogs, right? (Anyone who suggests that I’ve been doing this has no idea what she’s talking about.) Point being: you saw it, you loved it, and you want to know what’s next. Of […]

We couldn’t let 2015 out the door without stopping one last time to gush about all the great SF/F we read over the past 12 months. This was an outstanding year for genre fiction, and these are the books the bloggers and editors at the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog loved the most.

Check out the nearest movie theater, and odds are good you’ll find a superhero movie on the marquee. From Superman vs. Batman to Civil War to Deadpool, these movies have a few very specific elements in common: deadly threats, wildly high stakes, people in tight suits racing to save the world (or, in Deadpool’s case, his own […]