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Assassin's Creed has a chance to finally prove that movies based on video games can be quality entertainment.

Here are eight books to fill your void for violent Westerns, self-aware androids, and general epic entertainment.

You know what we don’t talk about enough? Martians. I don’t mean little green men — I’m talking about real live organisms that we know currently exist on the red planet.

Like most of us humans, Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire are pretty afraid of death.

Nothing can destroy the glory of our favorite films, and the chance to see some killer sequels and reboots is pretty tantalizing.

Rebecca Sugar’s gay sci-fi masterpiece has achieved what some thought was impossible: a show kids and their parents can enjoy together in harmony.

Werewolves, dragons, and cats are only a few of the animals taking shape in these top-notch fantasy books.

Explore maps for Minecraft that feature Middle Earth, Hogwarts, or galaxies far, far, away.

Sometimes, the option for escapism becomes a need: when my sister died, I needed it. Desperately.

Lou J. Berger re-reads "The Forever War" for the first time since he was a child, and has a very different take on the horrors of war as an adult.

Here are six of the best alien movies out there that take a fresh, intelligent look at what might happen when aliens finally visit our corner of the galaxy.

Next time you’re gazing at the sky, keep your eyes peeled for something strange…you never know what you might see.

In these fantasy books, good can be found even in the darkest of times.

In Patricia C. Wrede's Shadow Magic, dark wizards awaken the Shadow-Born and the Lithmern kidnap Princess Alethia as they make plans to invade her home.

Young adult author Kendare Blake isn’t afraid to tackle horrific themes—in fact, she’s drawn to them.

Don't sleep on these imaginative series.

You only need to step into nature to find thousands of bizarre life forms.

Here's a reminder of how wonderful, wacky, and sometimes gross the world can be.

Seasoned sci-fi and fantasy editor Betsy Mitchell dives into Clifford Simak's award winning, out-of-this-world read for the very first time.

Novik emphasizes friendship and community instead of romance in her novel, “Uprooted.”