We should celebrate trans kids, not crack down on them (Washington Post)
America is incredibly divided. Superheroes can teach us how to come together again. (Washington Post)
The Left Hand of Darkness at Fifty (The Paris Review)
The pitfalls of inventing an alien civilization (Polygon)
On Transgender Day of Visibility, It's Time to Finally Stop Policing Trans Rage (Teen Vogue)
11 Anticipated Books By Trans/Non-Binary Authors (Teen Vogue)
Space Opera Was Dying. Then The Expanse Transformed the Genre For a New Generation. (Esquire)
What’s Better Than a Chosen One? A Chosen Family. (The Mary Sue)
There's Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World (io9)
To Survive a Year of Covid, Indie Booksellers Had To Reimagine What it Means To Be a Bookstore (Tor.com)
7 Wrong Lessons That Creators Learned From Game of Thrones (Tor.com)
The one horrifying sci-fi trope that’s probably far too accurate (Polygon)
The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes (The Atlantic)
Kamala Harris is wrong about science fiction (Washington Post)
To Write About the Future Is to Represent the Past (Tor.com)
Exploring the Genius of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle (Tor.com)
The Left Hand of Darkness at Fifty (The Paris Review)
Dear James Webb Space Telescope: How you will show us the future (National Geographic)
Why Science Fiction Authors Need to be Writing About Climate Change Right Now (Tor.com)
Putting Your Worst Foot Forward: Why You Should Play to Your Weaknesses as an Author (Tor.com)
Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot) (io9)
The Wild Magic of Karaoke (Tor.com)
Growing Up, Wonder Woman Was the Hero I Really Wanted To Be (Tor.com)
7 Trans Performers Share the Challenges They Still Face and Their Hopes for the Future (Teen Vogue)
The Jedi Shouldn’t End. They Just Need Workers' Comp (Wired)
Space Opera Isn’t Just Back, It’s Better Than Ever. (Wired)
The Expanse Isn’t Just Awesome—It’s Transforming TV (Wired)
Fun Batman or Dark Batman? Hell, Why Not Both? (Wired)
The Best Superheroes Aren’t On Screens — They’re In Books (Wired)
What If Star Trek Had Never Existed? (Wired)
Love Classic Star Trek? You Owe a Huge Debt to Gene L. Coon (Wired)
The 10 Types of Writers' Block (and How to Overcome Them) (io9)
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Making of Mork and Mindy (io9)
The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers (io9)
What are the rules of magic in Magic Mike? (io9)
The 7 Types of Short Story Opening, and How to Decide Which is Right for Your Story (io9)
A Synopsis of Tim Burton's Batman Based Only on the Prince Soundtrack (io9)
Incredibly Strange and Ridiculously Cheap: Albert Pyun's 30-Year Career in B-Movies (io9)
Bear McCreary reveals the physics behind your favorite science fiction theme tunes (io9)
The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time! (io9)
Essential Short Story Anthologies That Every Writer Should Read (io9)
What If Greedo Really Shot First? (io9)
What If Your Characters Don't Want Anything? (io9)
Book Review: ‘Gone With the Mind,’ by Mark Leyner (New York Times)
Book Review: ‘My Lives’ by Edmund White (San Francisco Chronicle)
Gender Bias In Comics Shortchanges Superwomen (Mother Jones)