Science fiction

In September, 2021, while working at his desk in Philadelphia, Samuel R. Delany experienced a mysterious episode that he calls "the big drop." His vision faded for about three minutes, and he felt his body plunge, as if the floor had fallen away. When he came to, everything looked different, though he couldn't say exactly how.

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Both Romance & Sagas and Sci-Fi & Fantasy had banner years, with Romance's £53m its best since 2012, the year of E L James and Fifty Shades, and Sci-Fi & Fantasy's £47m its highest since 2007. Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us was the overall bestseller of the year, with four other Hoover titles in the top 10.  Read more

Since Elon Musk bought Twitter last Friday, he's changed his Twitter bio to "Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator" (cringe), haggled with renowned authors on the price of blue checks, and fired some of the social media site's top executives. As a result, celebrities have threatened to leave, with figures like Shonda Rhimes being one of the first to ditch the platform entirely.  Read more

Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom - poets, visionaries - realists of a larger reality.  Read more