(Originally posted September 7, 2021 by Isaac Payne) I didn’t know anything about Prospect, merely stumbling across it via the suggested for you feature on Netflix. I took a chance and fired it up. Originally, I was a bit skeptical, because I’d never heard of the film companies that worked on the film, and thought it might be a low-budget, B-rate sci fi movie. But then, 20 minutes in, I spotted Pedro Pascal, and my fears were assuaged. I’m not saying Prospect is the best sci fi movie on Netflix, but it was pretty darn good. The Details Prospect is a 2018 film written and directed by Zeek Earl ..read more

(Originally posted February 17, 2022 by Isaac Payne) In Galaxy’s Edge magazine Issue 54, January 2022, Jean Marie Ward chatted with John Scalzi, best-selling SF author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. From Rock Stars to Redshirts and Kaiju At any moment in time, the number of cultural figures immediately recognizable by a single name can be numbered on a single hand. For over ten years, John Scalzi has been one of those rare few. His last name alone not only conjures images of fast-paced, witty, pop culture–infused science fiction, but also the attitu ..read more

(Originally posted August 9, 2023 by Isaac Payne) I’m a big fan of Arthurian fantasy books and movies. I’ve been fascinated with the genre ever since I was a kid. But now that I’m older, my interest has shifted from the big sword-fights and knights on horseback to the intricacies of storytelling, and how current writers are bending the genre. Arthurian legend is such a rich bank of subject matter, because a lot of the stories already vary in how they’re told. Some people take Le Mort d’Arthur by Thomas Mallory as gospel, and others are fans of T.H. White’s The Once and Future Ki ..read more

(Originally posted August 9, 2022 by Alicia Cay) An award-winning author, and a regular to the pages of Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, writer and editor Mica Scotti Kole gave us the chance to peal back the pages and get a glimpse inside the life of a dreamer, artist, and someone who has followed her dreams straight into a reality … Mica is a published science fiction writer, developmental editor, and Writers of the Future winner. She’s currently pursuing traditional publication with a virtual-reality novel about a kid stuck inside a video game boss—all while making an Actual Living as a fantasy ghost ..read more

(Originally posted on September 23, 2021 by Isaac Payne) In the September 2021 issue of Galaxy’s Edge, Jean Marie Ward interviewed Jonathan Maberry, prolific writer and editor of Weird Tales magazine. Check out the full interview below … # About Jean Marie Ward Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction and everything in between. Her credits include a multi-award nominated novel, numerous short stories and two popular art books. The former editor of CrescentBlues.com, she is a frequent contributor to Galaxy’s Edge and ConTinual, the convention that never ends. Learn more at  ..read more

(originally published July 06, 2021 by Isaac Payne) I wasn’t sure what I was expecting when I sat down to watch Oxygen, a new sci-fi movie on Netflix. The description was fairly simple; a woman wakes up in a stasis pod and is rapidly losing oxygen (hence the title) and must remember her past to find a way to fix the problem before she perishes. It seemed like a premise I’d seen done before, but I couldn’t pinpoint from where. Regardless, I grabbed my bowl of ice cream and settled in. Little did I know I was about to watch one of the best sci-fi movies on Netflix. It was: Riveting Artistic And ..read more

(originally published July 2022 by Isaac Payne) In general, science fiction movies tend to err on the weirder side of media, and that’s just a fact of their nature. But, there are some weird movies on Netflix that fit too nicely in the sci-fi genre, and Bigbug is at the forefront of those films. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has developed a reputation as a science fiction writer and director. Over the course of his career, he’s imagined many futuristic worlds, some bleak, some optimistic. His first feature film, Delicatessen (1991) takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where famine has ravaged much of ..read more

A year ago, one of Arc Manor’s featured novels was released: Hot Moon: Apollo Rising, Book I. In celebration of this hot novel’s one-year anniversary, we’re revisiting an interview with the author Alan Smale by Isaac E. Payne. This is part 2 of that interview, if you missed part 1, find it HERE. ~~~ ABOUT HOT MOON – FROM THE PUBLISHER: “A nail-biting thriller.” −Publishers Weekly “I loved it. Great ‘hard’ science fiction with convincing space battles. “−Larry Niven From the Sidewise Award-winning author of the acclaimed Clash of Eagles trilogy comes an alternate 1979 whe ..read more

A year ago, one of Arc Manor’s featured novels was released: Hot Moon: Apollo Rising, Book I. In celebration of this hot novel’s one-year anniversary, we’re revisiting an interview with the author Alan Smale by Isaac E. Payne. ~~~ ABOUT HOT MOON – FROM THE PUBLISHER: “A nail-biting thriller.” −Publishers Weekly “I loved it. Great ‘hard’ science fiction with convincing space battles. “−Larry Niven From the Sidewise Award-winning author of the acclaimed Clash of Eagles trilogy comes an alternate 1979 where the US and the Soviets have permanent Moon bases, orbiting space st ..read more

The Bride of Frankenstein by Mike Resnick Mike Resnick, along with editing the first seven years of Galaxy’s Edge magazine, was the winner of five Hugo Awards from a record thirty-seven nominations and was, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He was the author of over eighty novels, around 300 stories, three screenplays, and the editor of over forty anthologies. He was Guest of Honor at the 2012 Worldcon. *** April 4: What am I doing here? We have no servants, we never go out, we never have company. The furniture is all ..read more