It has been thirty years since the passing of Philip K. Dick, one of the most influential authors of science fiction. Philip gave us works such as, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? and Total Recall, both of which have been adapted into wildly successful films. In fact, the remake of Total Recall was just…
Philip K. Dick is viewed by many as the father of modern science fiction. His book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of the reasons for that title. Originally published in 1968, the story follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is charged by the police to eliminate rogue androids. However, this story…
SeventhSanctum.com is a website that hosts contests and contains many different random generators for establishing characters, setting, and more, mostly with a fantasy angle to it. Pictured above is the homepage. It contains the blog, which gives information on contests coming up, as well as the results of finished contests. In the middle of the…
The Wheel of Time is a high fantasy tale of epic proportions. Written by Robert Jordan, the first book, The Eye Of The World was originally published in 1990. Jordan continued to write the series until his death in late 2007. Beginning with the 12th book in the series and using Robert Jordan’s highly detailed…
Ray Bradbury was, and still is, a legend of science fiction and fantasy. Sadly in this world even legends may pass, as Bradbury did on June 5 at the age of 91. But he will never be forgotten, and his visions of the future and altered reality will be remembered by all who read some…
Zach Pasons’ My Tank Is Fight was published in 2006. It details some of the inventions and ideas that didn’t actually make it to the battlefield. Many of these are of German origin, fueled by the need for some kind of new weapon to turn the war around. The picture above, which is in the…
Is genre writing, particularly science fiction and fantasy literature? Recently it has become a topic of hot debate among the creative writing big wigs. One side believes that no, fantasy and science fiction are not literature, period. The other side thinks that they can be. What is literature? Literature is defined as: “writings in which…
Vampire Knight is a manga written and drawn by Matsuri Hino. It originally premiered in 2005 and is currently on-going. It is a fantastical piece of shojo manga, although a two season 26 episode anime version has been made as well. First off, Matsuri Hino’s art is fantastic. Her style is very pretty to look…
Revolving around an alien race called Souls, these particular extraterrestrial parasites inhibit Earth and assimilate its inhabitants. The central focus of the novel, however, is on a particular human host named Melanie Stryder, a young girl who refuses to cooperate with Wanderer – the particular parasitic alien soul inserted into her – essentially illustrating a…
Written in 1926 by H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu was first published in 1928. Since that time, it has become a cult classic, its popularity leading it to spread across all forms of entertainment. There are now boardgames, videogames, songs, roleplaying games, and much, much more associated with the Cthulhu mythos. The story itself…
Most known for horror stories, Stephen King’s The Gunslinger departs from his typical writings and is the first book in the Dark Tower series. Originally published in 1978, the story follows a gunslinger shrouded in mystery who becomes known as Roland. Not much is known about him other than that the fact that he’s been wandering…
Set in the far distant future, Surface Detail features vast, elaborate hells in the virtual environment (also referred to as a “Virtuality”) controlled by advanced civilizations. Do hells even have the right to exist? Civs were split on the issue: “some faiths insisted on them,” writes Iain M. Banks, the author; others “objected profoundly to…
