One of the best fiction books of 2015, V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic spawned a string of bestselling fantasy novels and now includes a comic book prequel series and a sequel series that was ...

Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Pulling Pushing Dragging, 2024, mineral colour, calligraphy ink on silk, 110 x 159 cm. Photo: Damian Griffiths. © the artist. Courtesy the ...

It can feel like there’s a certain amount of voodoo involved in picking the best choke for duck hunting. This is because there are so many variables at work. Starting with the gear, there’s your gun ...

Aftermarket chokes have proven to increase shotgun pattern density at the target. But it’s not that common to see pheasant hunters using these specialized steel tubes that are engineered to take ...

The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances varying ...

If we're talking must-read authors like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, the one-and-only Octavia Butler needs be a part of the conversation. The groundbreaking sci-fi and speculative ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video is developing Wild Seed, a drama series based on the first book in Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed Patternist sci-fi series, from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee ...

Today marks what would have been the 71st birthday of American science fiction novelist Octavia E Butler (1947-2006). The author of Bloodchild (1984), the Xenogenesis trilogy (1984-89) and the Parable ...

Octavia Butler might have passed away a decade ago, but she’s still a major influence in the science fiction world. A new interview with Butler has surfaced, covering a whole range of topics, from ...

In the 1980s, science fiction ruled over everything. Most of the biggest movies and books of the decade were scifi, and cyberpunk became the era’s pop aesthetic ...