This Year’s Epic Fantasy Face-Off Had No Winners
Tuning into Amazon’s J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power this summer kind of felt like boarding a yacht, or walking into a Four Seasons.…
In a Painful Year, Romance Nerds Embraced Radical Pleasure
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a science fiction writer in possession of a convention panel must be in want of a question as to where all the genre’s…
17 Great Tech Books to Gift (or Keep for Yourself)
Technology is exerting an ever-growing influence on our world. A cast including Facebook—or Meta—Google, and Apple, with leads like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Elizabeth Holmes, looms large in the…
ChatGPT’s Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS
Out in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman named Rachel clings to the side of an oil rig. The wind whips her auburn hair into…
AI Reveals the Most Human Parts of Writing
Still, in many cases, letting a computer impact the direction of a project, rather than craft a few choice sentences, can feel like giving the computer the reins when really,…
Watch: Schoolchildren Visit Library For The First Time, Internet Calls It ”Heartwarming”
The video shows children entering a library one by oneThere is no greater joy than holding a book in your hands and flipping through its pages. We all remember the…
The Director of ‘Pentiment’ Wants You to Know How His Characters Ate
Obsidian Entertainment’s latest game, Pentiment, takes its title from the term pentimento, a change made by an artist while painting. Its origin is the Italian word pentirsi, which means to…
What the Creator of ‘Watchmen’ Gets Right About Superhero Fans
The tragedy of Alan Moore, if there is one, is that his 1980s comics work—Watchmen, V for Vendetta—has been perpetually misunderstood by an audience too eager to learn the wrong…
WIRED’s Picks for the 15 Books You Need to Read This Fall
Dear reader, we write this to you from the rapidly chilling environs of Brooklyn, where the leaves are turning to gold and our eyes are turning to all the books…
After ‘Andor,’ Read These 5 Comics
In some respects, Andor is a new frontier: a series spinning off from not only the Skywalker Saga but specifically one of the two Star Wars Story films (in this…