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My name is Sean Wills, and I’m here to convince you to set your next YA science fiction novel somewhere other than Earth! By the time I’m finished, you’ll see the value in choosing an extra-terrestrial planet, moon, orbital colony or generation ship as the setting for your magnum opus. I can see that you’re skeptical, [...] More »
If this is your first time dipping into the Animorphs Re-Read, I strongly suggest you head back to the beginning and start there unless you’re already familiar with the books. Alternatively, check out the Animorphs Re-Read tag page for a list of every post in the series. Wait, there are more episodes? Yes, there are more episodes. Lots more, [...] More »
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the first edition of the Intergalactic Academy’s Trend Forecast! On this dreary spring day, we’re looking toward summer–where there seems to be a heat wave of YA sci-fi thrillers bubbling on the horizon. These titles have a strong emphasis on action; they’d be right at home on a movie [...] More »
Over the weekend, I engaged in an Important Debate on goodreads.com when fantasy writer Jay Kristoff posted the following status update: Calling your book a dystopian when it’s actually just a romance with dirty windows is kinda like lying. This post isn’t meant to call out Jay in particular. But I think that the core [...] More »
Science fiction! It’s like fiction, but with more science…or that’s the idea, anyway. Now, I don’t want to get into a big stupid debate over ‘hard’ vs. ‘soft’ science fiction and which one is better and what the point of all this speculative stuff is anyway, because that’s boring and nobody wants to be bored. [...] More »
To celebrate Tor’s rerelease of Pamela Sargent’s Earthseed, we invited middle grade author Deva Fagan to tell us about her experience revisiting the Seed Series! We’re also giving away 3 copies of EARTHSEED, complete with shiny new cover, courtesy of the kind people at Tor! Comment here before 3 PM Eastern Standard Time on Friday, [...] More »
When my good friend Rachel Hartman left a comment on my post on science fantasy indicating that she considers her own novel–Seraphina, debuting in July–to be science fantasy rather than “high fantasy,” I was left itching to know more. Rachel’s been kind enough to write us the following post on why she considers herself a [...] More »
In the first part of this post, I brought up some questions you should ask yourself if you’re writing a Neo-Victorian (or Neo-Anything-Else) science fiction story. Today I’ve got a few more questions along with some pertinent examples. The response I got last time was pretty great, so feel free to leave your thoughts on [...] More »
When it comes to science fiction, I tend to like books that have slightly unusual settings. I don’t mean that I’m completely averse to futuristic cyberpunk megacities where gigantic corporations have turned life into a conformist nightmare, just that I’d be reading a book like that in spite of the setting rather than because of [...] More »
Arthur C. Clarke stated that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Larry Niven responded that “any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indistinguishable from technology.” Either quote could be used in a pinch to describe works of science fantasy. As a subgenre of both science fiction and fantasy, it occupies the overlapping center in [...] More »