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Our 2022 Short-Fiction Lineup — So Far

We're thrilled to announce our initial short-fiction lineup for 2022. We will be adding new material — fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art — to our schedule throughout the year, but we're very pleased to be ...

The Power, The Glory, The Marketing: Why Marvel Studios Rules the Big Screen

Yet another cinematic auteur — Francis Ford Coppola — has inveighed against Marvel Studios for using a "single prototype" to produce a generic product that is predictable, stereotypical, formulaic, and otherwise lacking in the adventurousness ...

Email newsletter restored

Just a quick note to let you know that we've resolved the service interruption with The Fabulist's email newsletter, and weekly updates of our latest publishing activities will return to your inbox. In the email ...

Open Call for Short Fiction, Fall 2020

[NOTE: This open call has been extended through Oct. 24.] Who?You, dear writer, you. We are open to submissions of all sorts from anyone; please do not feel constrained by any considerations of identity, age, ...

Ripening: August 2020

It's high summer in a season of oft-cataclysmic change. A myriad issues of culture, politics, economy and environment, are ripening right now, if not coming to fruition. This August The Fabulist marks the season with ...

The Rockets’ Red Glare: July 2020

Welcome to July 2020 issue of The Fabulist, where we're kicking things off with two Independence Day fictions that use fantastical storytelling to invert, subvert, and transform some central American myths and realities. Julieta Vitullo's ...

Reading is Revolutionary: Welcome to The Fabulist, June 2020, Vol. 14, No. 3

We had other plans for June. But so, surely, did George Floyd, and instead, on May 25, 2020, he was murdered — by power, by prejudice, by the weight of 500 years of history bearing ...

Reminder: Call for art closes tonight, 5/29

Just reminder that The Fabulist's call for fantastical visual art closes tonight, Friday, May 29, at 11:59 p.m. If you are interested in submitting work, or know an artist who you think would be interested ...

Welcome to Vol. 14, No. 2

In the latest edition of The Fabulist Words & Art, we are pleased to share with you some sweet and soft-spoken urban fantasy by New York-based writer and artist Ann Calandro — plus a wee ...

New art, new writing, our new online home, and other good hopes

It's a strange time to be announcing debuts, but we have a little bundle of them, which we offer forthwith in the hopes that they will provide some meaningful diversion in this time of pandemic ...

Everything I Know About ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ I Learned From ‘B.P.R.D.’ (Review)

You can stream this movie via Amazon or buy the fancy Blu Ray DVD. (Spoilers a-plenty in here, if that matters in a vaguely plotted stomp-a-rama.) There are three essential things you need to keep ...

Miyazaki museum show, Starfleet on Mars, new ‘Dune’ TV serial, ‘Swamp Thing’ canceled, Mothra theme song and more

This week in Flotsam & Jetsam, our weekly overview of pop-cultural driftwood and sea-glass we trawled up from the Internet, its a giant heaping net full of comics, TV and sci-fi, from Dune to Star ...

Godzilla, Bugs Bunny, anti-fascism: We read the Internet so you don’t have to

Popular Mechanics, unable to suspend its disbelief, provides an awesome illo and a few paragraphs of pure science that handily disprove the possibility of anything as huge as Godzilla ever walking the Earth. Intellectual Takeout ...

Because that Game of Thrones tapestry didn’t just embroider itself

That 70-meter-long Game of Thrones tapestry didn't just embroider itself. In fact a crew of 30 women in Belfast took to the task, producing an 11th-century style, hand-stitched cloth that represents 77 hours of video ...

NASA’s media archive is now open to the public

NASA has opened its entire media library to the public, for free. This includes photos, audio recordings and videos, with subjects ranging from earthbound crew, gear and launch operations, to concept designs, scientific observations and ...

Godzilla: The monster is the metaphor (no rly)

With "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" now stomping across big screens everywhere, The Atlantic has stepped up with a fine cinematic history of the iconic kaiju that also includes a thoroughgoing look at the magnificent ...

Gelflings, Skeksis and muppet exotica return in ‘Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’ (trailer)

The long-anticipated follow-up to Jim Henson's classic 1982 feature film "The Dark Crystal" is no longer just a glimmer of hope in the hearts of fandom: A new, serialized prequel (no, not a sequel; more ...