Wizards of the Coast announces a crowd-sourced effort for developing the next iteration of its venerable tabletop RPG, but will this be enough to bring back a fractured fan community?

During my Wordstock Sneak Peek, I mentioned that I absolutely loved this book: Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier. I fully intended to write a review shortly afterward, but due to some mix-ups it took me a while to get my hands on a copy again. (Short ...

Watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy has become a holiday tradition in our home, so we spent part of Thanksgiving weekend enjoying The Fellowship of the Ring. Writer and geeky dad John Scalzi went a bit further, immersing himself in an Encore television marathon of the trilogy and Tweeting All ...

You’re familiar with this story, right? A young boy somehow finds his way into another world, filled with fantastic creatures in an epic struggle between good and evil. His coming was foretold, and the forces of good can now be certain of victory! Within this human boy lies the power ...

The very first thought I had when the wonderful dragons in James Cameron’s Avatar appeared on-screen was that Cameron must do a Pern movie. Because his dragons were Anne McCaffrey’s dragons made real. I’ve been in love with McCaffrey’s dragons and the denizens of Pern since  I was twelve years old and ...

Have you always dreamed of being a knight? Imagined you were in a Tolkien story? Wished you were armed with more than dice? If you have a killer costume on the drawing board, in the works, or in your head, listen up. Animal Planet is giving people a Fantasy Transformation. A new television ...

Ask any two fans of science fiction and/or fantasy to define the line that separates the two genres, and it’s pretty likely you’ll get two notably different answers. There are those who argue that anything that has space ships, or ray guns, or robots, is automatically science fiction no matter ...

Last week we reviewed (S)mythology, a new book from Jeramy Tarr that plays with a variety of western myths to tell the story of Sophie, the poor little girl who proves that love kills. You see, due to a curse put on her by the Gorgons (think Medusa with the snaky ...

A year ago when the third book of the Amulet series came out, I said I couldn’t wait until the next book. I think the biggest disappointment while reading it was realizing that I had to wait again before I could continue the story. Well, the wait is over! Amulet ...

We recently mentioned that NPR was running an online vote to select their readers’ top 100 science fiction and fantasy novels. Well, 60,000+ votes later, the final list has now been determined: 1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien 2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas ...