Emily is a journalism major at Boston University and an avid fan of speculative fiction, especially fantasy and alternate history. She hopes to recruit new readers for the spec-fic ranks. Email her here.
Boston vampire fans will get a taste of the Southern Gothic on Saturday, September 5, when two True Blood stars host a vampire-themed party at Kings, a restaurant, bar, and bowling alley located at 50 Dalton Street in the...
So far in my series of vampire profiles, I’ve covered a Romantic poet, a Disney princess, and two Eastern Europe vampires from late nineteenth-century novels. But I haven’t yet profiled a fifteenth-century Romanian warlord...
Since it first became popular, Harry Potter has been accused of enticing kids down the dark paths of witchcraft and Satanism. But an article in the New York Times earlier this week accused Potter of having a...
Harry Potter may have defeated Voldemort four times before the age of seventeen, but this weekend, he was bested by a team of gerbils. According to the Associated Press, Disney’s 3-D movie G-Force...
Comic-Con 2009 is just wrapping up today, and, as always, this year’s convention has provided a wealth of new information and insights into the speculative fiction world. Although it would be virtually impossible to recap everything that...
The Museum of Science in Boston announced today that it will host Harry Potter: The Exhibition this fall, according to an article in the Boston Globe.The 10,000-square-foot exhibition premiered at Chicago's Museum of...
Last Tuesday night, I was wearing a red and yellow striped scarf, sitting on bird poop-covered cement, and staring absently at a furniture store sign for hours. Had I gone off the deep end? No, of course not. It...
By now most of you have heard the big Emmy news: 30 Rock snagged 22 nominations, Mad Men got 16, and so on. But how did the speculative fiction shows stack up against their more realistic competitors...
Half-Blood Prince is the best Potter film yet, according to many reviewers. However, it’s inevitable that there are still some aspects of the movie that won't appeal to diehard book purists. I’ve already made...
It only opened in theaters 24 hours ago, but Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has already earned glowing reviews and shattered the previous record for midnight ticket sales. It’s not hard to see why; the movie...