Review: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

The third annual Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy features many lesser-known writers and deserves praise for showcasing more diversity—specifically, more women and more people of differing racial and ethnic backgrounds—than typical genre anthologies. We are cheering hard for this series to succeed, especially with the tragic passing of Gardner Dozois recently. It’s more important than ever that quality anthologies like this one continue to highlight the tremendous work that so many talented sci-fi writers are generating today.  However, we have noticed a bit of a slide in quality.
The third annual Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy features many lesser-known writers and deserves praise for showcasing more.

Filmmaker Spotlight: A Chat with Director Nguyen-Anh Nguyen

The filmmaker behind entertaining sci-fi short films TEMPLE and HYPERLIGHT (both featured on Recursor), Nguyen-Anh Nguyen took time out of his busy schedule to chat with us about his love for sci-fi and his latest work on HYPERLIGHT. RECURSOR: What inspired you to make Hyperlight? NAN: My Director of Photography Simran Dewan and I are both huge space nerds, and we always dreamt about making a film set in space! At lunch one day, we discussed an article I had read about Lockheed Martin prototyping a fusion reactor in.
The filmmaker behind entertaining sci-fi short films TEMPLE and HYPERLIGHT (both featured on Recursor), Nguyen-Anh Nguyen took time out.