News Star Trek Rejoice! The Newly Found USS Enterprise Model Has Made Its Voyage Home By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 18, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Back in November, we reported on how a long-lost model of the USS Enterprise was discovered for sale on eBay. The seller didn’t know what he had, but Trekkies soon apprised him that the three-foot model was the one used in the opening credits for Star Trek: The Original Series as well as the original pilot episode, “The Cage.” Since then, the eBay seller removed the listing and brought it to Heritage Auction for authe ..read more

News Avatar: The Last Airbender The Animated Feature Aang: The Last Airbender Won’t Manipulate the Elements until 2026 Will they animate tiny glasses for Dave Bautista? By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 18, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise has gotten some new installments of late. There’s Netflix’s live-action remake of the original series, of course, which has been picked up for two more seasons. But there is also an animated spinoff in the works with a working title of Aang: The Last Airbender, the first of three feature-length p ..read more

Excerpts Epic Fantasy Read an Excerpt From James Logan’s The Silverblood Promise An epic fantasy debut set in a city of traders and thieves, monsters and murderers. By James Logan | Published on April 18, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Silverblood Promise by James Logan, an epic fantasy debut publishing with Tor Books on May 28th. Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and—thanks to a duel that ended badly—the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house. His days consist of cheap wine, rigged card games, and wondering how he mig ..read more

Movies & TV The Spiderwick Chronicles The Spiderwick Chronicles Showrunner Dishes on a New Character, Easter Eggs, & More Showrunner Aron Eli Coliette talks about the series’ new character, the inspiration for the Spiderwick estate, and more. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 18, 2024 Credit: Roku Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Roku The Spiderwick Chronicles is set to premiere on the Roku Channel in mere days, and the series based on the popular books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black makes some changes and additions to the source material while remaini ..read more

Book Recommendations Teen Horror Time Machine Fatal Fun in the Sun: Bury Me Deep and Spring Break  Everyone needs to back away from the SCUBA gear. By Alissa Burger | Published on April 18, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share If teen horror has taught us anything, it’s that when left to their own devices, teenagers find all sorts of trouble, whether realistic (hit and runs, stalking) or supernatural (ghosts, aliens, and all manner of monsters). These characters get in plenty of trouble in their daily lives close to home, but the stakes are definitely higher when they hit the ro ..read more

Movies & TV Star Trek: Discovery Here We Go ’Round Again — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Face the Strange” Burnham and Rayner are bouncing around time and space, visiting bits of the show’s past… By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on April 18, 2024 Credit: CBS / Paramount+ Comment 3 Share New Share Credit: CBS / Paramount+ In its seventh and final season, Star Trek: Voyager did an episode entitled “Shattered.” The episode, with its title reminiscent of a Rolling Stones song, had Voyager split into different timeframes, where each section of the ship was in a different time ..read more

Book Recommendations Five Superb SFF Fix-Up Novels  Fix-up novels can sometimes feel a little clunky…but sometimes they succeed beyond all measure! Here are five classic examples… By James Davis Nicoll | Published on April 18, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Suppose for the moment that you were a hard-working speculative fiction author with a lengthy backlist of short fiction. Further suppose that you wanted to package some of that short fiction into a collection that readers might buy. Imagine your consternation on discovering that collections weren’t selling well and that ..read more

News Transformers One Transformers One is the Robot Origin Story No One Asked For And it’s from the director of Toy Story 4, no less By Molly Templeton | Published on April 18, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share For years, now—years and years and years—the people have been crying out, not for more origin stories, but for them to stop. We have been origined half to death out here. And if—if!—for some reason another origin story were necessary, you know what it wouldn’t be necessary for? Robots from the last century. Robots that are more than meets the eye. Robots that are going to s ..read more

Movies & TV Reading Rainbow Butterfly in the Sky Will Make You Fall in Love With Reading, and Reading Rainbow, All Over Again You should actually take my word for it By Leah Schnelbach | Published on April 18, 2024 Image: Sidestilt Films Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Sidestilt Films The only man I’ve ever wanted to marry is LeVar Burton. And yeah, for the obvious reason: He had all the books. At least, six-year-old me assumed those were all his books that they read on the show. He was the one recommending them before his army of adorable Outer Boroughs Children gave ..read more

Excerpts Young Adult Read an Excerpt From S.K. Ali’s Fledgling The start of a new dystopian duology by S.K. Ali, set in a fractured world on the brink of either enlightenment or war. By S.K. Ali | Published on April 17, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Fledgling by S.K. Ali, the start of a new dystopian young adult duology—out from Kokila on October 8th. Would you trade love for peace? Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father’s arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown ..read more