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Ann Vandermeer

Ann VanderMeer currently serves as an acquiring fiction editor for Tor.com, Cheeky Frawg Books, and weirdfictionreview.com. She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales for five years, during which time she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award, winning one. Along with multiple nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for co-editing The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Other projects have included Best American Fantasy, three Steampunk anthologies, and a humor book, The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Her latest anthologies include The Time Traveler’s AlmanacSisters of the Revolution, an anthology of feminist speculative fiction and The Bestiary, an anthology of original fiction and art.

National Science Fiction Day

National Science Fiction Day takes place on January 2nd each year. Corresponding with the birth date of famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov, it’s a day to celebrate great science fiction of the past and present.   In honor of this unofficial holiday, we put together an infographic that takes a look at moments when science

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