Spotlight on Michael Kelly & Best Weird Fiction

Michael Kelly curates The Best Weird Fiction of the Year and is former Series Editor for The Year’s Best Weird Fiction. He’s a World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and British Fantasy Award winner. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Best New Horror, Black Static, Bourbon Penn, Nightmare Magazine, The Dark, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. He is the owner and editor-in-chief …Read More

Spotlight on The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio

LEIGH BARDUGOis the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Familiar, The Invisible Parade, and the Ninth House trilogy. She is also the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology– and much more. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She …Read More

AudioFile’s 2025 Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Audiobooks

From our friends at AudioFile Magazine, we have the best science fiction and fantasy audiobooks of 2025. For the full list of 2025 Best Audiobooks, visit the AudioFilewebsite.

These performances will wow you, whether you’re a longtime listener or new to trying audiobooks. Expert, dialed-in narrations bring these stories to life and reinforce the humanity that exists at the center of even the most fantastical worlds and situations. You won’t …Read More

The Conversation Continues, Even When They’re Gone

They say we have voices in our heads when we write. I have so many of these voices, from friends and beta readers, from my mentors from my MFA program. Listen, Rob Roberge said, if you work hard enough, and show up, and listen, your novel will make itself apparent to you. I have mentor Gayle Brandeis’s constant stronger without comments making me question extraneous sentences, working toward paring …Read More

AudioFile’s Top New Fantasy Picks to Listen to in October 2025

From our friends at AudioFile Magazine, we have the top new fantasy audiobooks for October 2025.

From folklore to dark academia to a Snow White retelling and more, these five fantasy audiobooks will transport you. Stellar narrations enhance all of these works, including the latest from fan-favorite authors Naomi Novik, R.F. Kuang, and T. Kingfisher. These performances set the mood, ramp up the tension, and give voice to the characters. …Read More

AudioFile’s Top New Science Fiction Picks to Listen to in August 2025

From our friends at AudioFile Magazine, we have the top new science fiction audiobooks for August 2025.

From an outstanding new recording of a Bradbury classic to robots who open a noodle shop, these audiobooks bring the best of what we love about science fiction. Skilled narrators find the humanity in dystopian futures close to home and far-flung space adventures.

 

 

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Simon & Schuster …Read More

Arrested Developments: Homo aspergerus Revisited, by Gary Westfahl

Surely, the most unanticipated result of my 2006 article Homo aspergerus: Evolution Stumbles Forward (here) was commenters asserting that despite my claim, I didn’t really have Asperger’s Syndrome. I am sure those individuals meant well; on the face of it, it is daft and needlessly self-damaging to announce to the world that one suffers from a form of mental illness, so sympathetic observers might naturally be inspired to protest that …Read More