South by Lance Charnes is a dystopic thriller set in an alternate future, one in which American policy is driving citizens across the southern border (available November 12, 2013). It’s been a long time since I’ve wanted so much for a character in a novel to kill a bad guy, or for the good guys…
In 2015, the zombie apocalypse will expand its group of survivors with a spin-off that will be executive produced by the The Walking Dead creator, Robert Kirkman. AMC announced yesterday that Kirkman will be executive producing the new show along with Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert, and the spin-off will be based in The…
We can all agree that Lori was a bit exhausting as a character on AMC's The Walking Dead. When she wasn't losing track of her only son, she was sending mixed signals as to whether or not she wanted her husband to kill his best friend. But then she died, and things got more interesting.…
Viral Nation by Shaunta Grimes is a novel for young adults about a brilliant autistic girl sent through time from a damaged, dystopian America (available July 2, 2013). Clover Donovan is born in the middle of a virus outbreak which devastates the human population. When everything seems bleakest, the Company develops a cure—a suppressant that…
In a not-so-distant future, America has come to be a peaceful place where crime is down to a nearly nonexistent level. All because one night a year all crime is legally allowed. One family inadvertently gets in the way of that in this thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Game of Thrones star, Lena Headey. Will…
Arclight by Josin L. McQuein is a young adult novel with a dystopian setting that was recently optioned for film (available April 23, 2013). Arclight is the last haven for humankind in this dystopian debut novel by Josin L. McQuein. The world has been overridden by creatures known as the Fade, and the remaining humans…
Throughout history, technology and social conditions have changed, but human nature usually doesn’t. So crime has always been part of our world and unless things change drastically it will continue to be part of society well into the future. The one thing that will change in the future though is how crime is committed and…
It is every teenager’s dream to find out that they are part of something special. They want to find out they have magical powers and can go to wizarding boarding schools. They dream of being whisked away to far-off lands through a wardrobe.But…. In some cases the dream means just being a part of a…
Electric City, Tom Hanks’s post-apocalyptic-steampunk-spy-thriller animated web series, premiered yesterday on Yahoo! Screen. In the 10-episode debut (don’t worry, each episode is only five minutes or so), Hanks voices Cleveland Carr, a “grid operative” in Electric City—a place devastated by an unknown disaster. The animation looks similar to that of FX’s spy spoof Archer, and…
As someone of the female persuasion, I have long lamented the lack of strong ladies in the horror genre. Too often are women cast as damsels in distress, empty-headed spazzes who endanger the rest of the group, or mere objects of desire that die bloodily in the traditional sex-leads-to-dismemberment moral code of the horror universe.…
