The magic has run out for a unique pub in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. According to a post on its website Wednesday, The Splintered Wand is shutting down after a year… Read More
Two of the authors who created the iconic Dragonlance setting for Dungeons & Dragons are taking Wizards of the Coast to court. According to the terms of their lawsuit, filed… Read More
— Geeks (and some non-geeks as well) seem to have a never-ending fascination with space. That love of the great beyond has led to an interest by entrepreneurs looking to… Read More
— Seattle online retailer Zulily is teaming up with women’s professional soccer team Seattle Reign FC for an event designed to encourage women leaders to thrive in all walks of… Read More
— “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” That statement seems eerily on point for what’s going on in the world right now, but it’s actually… Read More
A wizard-themed pub is coming to Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, but the proprietors who are busily building out the historic Flatiron Building insist they’ve been there all along, watching us and… Read More
Speculative fiction author Harlan Ellison, perhaps best known to the general public as the writer of the well-regarded original Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever,” has… Read More
Looking for a literary tie between Seattle and Pittsburgh? It may seem as hard to find as a unicorn. But it actually involves a unicorn. When the Science Fiction and… Read More
Want to be a science fiction or fantasy writer? You’d better sit down. That’s the advice from Cat Rambo, a Seattle writer with more than 200 published short stories to her… Read More
From the perspective of one of science fiction’s best-selling and longtime authors, the state of science fiction is golden. Golden age, that is. Greg Bear, whose popular works include three… Read More
Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Frankenstein are in the running to join the ranks of J.R.R. Tolkien, Stanley Kubrick, and other icons in fiction. But we aren’t talking about the epic… Read More
William Vaughn enjoyed a long career at Microsoft, as an expert in products such as Visual Basic and SQL Server, publishing twelve books on a variety of technical topics during his 14-year tenure as… Read More
SPOKANE, Wash. — “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin acknowledges that HBO could air the final episode of the show based on his books even before the last book… Read More
Sci-fi is in the spotlight. The genre has emerged from fringe to mainstream with blockbusters like Interstellar, The Hunger Games and J.J. Abrams’ Stark Trek reboot. The sci-fi community also endured a loss… Read More
After several missed starts, the Deep Space Climate Observatory launched atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Wednesday. Although the company decided to forego recovery of the rocket due to inclement weather, SpaceX… Read More
Thanksgiving and the retail bonanza that follows mark the official start of the holiday shopping season. Stores are gearing up for big sales and consumers everywhere are making their lists… Read More