Books

A good action scene in a book can really get your blood pumping. Sometimes, I’ve even had to put the book down to absorb the awesome factor of what I just read. There are so many amazing scenes of conflict in books. Movies and television have brought Read More

Although mainstream media and pop culture view geek/nerd society as male-dominated, there’s a long history of female involvement in fandom. Women have played an original or integral part in significant scientific and technology related discoveries and Read More

Sometimes, a character will really get under your skin. You can’t make up your mind whether you love or hate them. Your feelings can be narrowly divided by the blade of a sword. I have always had mixed feelings about this character. Every time I read Read More

Syfy proved that it hasn’t entirely abandoned spacefaring series outright when the network announced that it would be adapting James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse novels into an ongoing TV series. The Expanse trilogy opens with 2011’s Read More

We’ve known for a while that MTV was eyeing Terry Brooks’ Shannara series of fantasy novels for a TV series adaptation, and now more details have surfaced. This week the network greenlighted the series, simply titled Shannara, for a ten Read More

In Western culture, certain traits and skills are associated with those categorized as geeks/nerds: high IQ, excellence at math and sciences, devotion to and skill with technology, passion bordering on obsession for certain types of pop culture — comic Read More

The beauty of this column is when I can introduce characters that should get more attention. I will come across a series and I feel I must advertise them. The great Jacqueline Carey posted an article about sci-fi and fantasy series that should be made Read More

This Sunday’s Game of Thrones season finale and the urge to do something different inspired this week’s odd entry. I decided to combine two columns and let the audience decide where this character falls. Is she cringeworthy or crushworthy? Read More

The Fallen, the next book in Charlie Higson’s The Enemy series, is hitting bookstores on June 10, and we’re marking the release by giving away a full collection of the series, including this newest volume! One winner will receive a complete Read More

I wrote an article a few months back about my love for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. For those who have not watched it, LBD is a modern take on Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. The same talented group of folks followed it up with Emma Approved, Read More

Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments is a bestselling supernatural book series that has taken the world by storm. Its final volume, City of Heavenly Fire, releases this week, and we’re celebrating the conclusion of the series by giving Read More

It’s time to complete the Kushiel trinity of my loves. It feels like a fitting time to write about him anyway. He was the first crush I had in the series before I learned to love Phèdre more and fell in love with Imriel. I still get excited each time I Read More