Vanessa Armstrong

Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.

Each of these titles will stick with you and, perhaps, make you more likely to realize when you’re not seeing the truth.

With the Apple TV+ series ‘Foundation’ in its second season, here are ten sci-fi books with similar themes or premises, including ‘The Three-Body Problem,’ ‘The Terraformers,’ ‘Cloud Atlas,’ and ‘Last and First Men.’

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ may be over, but there’s a whole literary subgenre of fungus horror to read. Here are seven sporror books, including ‘The Girl With All the Gifts,’ ‘The Wanderers,’ and Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris trilogy.

I've inadvertently read five books this year with "witch" in the title. Here's how they stack up.

I’m not quite sure what that means.

Learn everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about tomatoes, beavers, refrigeration, and more!

My husband is a professional magician. To answer your first question: No, I don’t know how he does his tricks—it’s more fun for me if I don’t know, though as a big fan of fantasy I suppose I’m more inclined to want to believe in the magical than others. To answer your second question: he […]

People love pups, so it’s not surprising when humankind’s best friend shows up in the stories we write, even if those stories take place in some fantastical realm or on an alien planet thousands of years in the future. Oftentimes these dogs (or wolves, or other dog-adjacent species) play the sidekick or the supportive friend […]

Here are five comics to read after Watchmen, just in case the new HBO series has you interested in reading more great superhero stories.

Are you wondering what to read after Game of Thrones? The show may be over, but these books will keep the spirit of the show alive.

With so many genre novels making the leap to the big and small screen, here are five great sci-fi and fantasy books that should be movies.

I interviewed them about their new book, A Wall Is Also a Road

Murderbot's Sanctuary Moon is one of the best shows-in-a-show out there. I talked with Martha Wells about her creation.

The co-showrunners and director spoke with Reactor about the upcoming series.

Victor La Valle, Christpoher Cantwell and Karyn Kusama talked to Reactor about their upcoming AMC+/Shudder series

Emily O'Malley Liu talks about sentient houses and how you really shouldn't give roses wine.

Author T.K. Rex talks about their short story collection set in a world where San Francisco is rewilded for agroforestry

Vanessa Armstrong reviews the funny, lighthearted (ish) story of a demon overlord's looking for a peaceful retirement.

In an interview with Reactor, the show’s creator explains how those two standalone episodes came to be.