OPUS 100's MONTHLY 
 BEST OF THE WEB 

Earlier this month, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America handed out the annual Nebula Awards in Chicago - this year, it's big news that women have swept wins over one of science fiction's biggest awards. 

A 400-year-old story about a man who journeys to a mysterious royal wedding is apparently the first science fiction novel, long predating Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, according to writer John Crowley. 

Elizabeth Alsop takes a look at how, in pop culture, sci fi stories look more like real world than every before and why this is significant. 

Lydia Pine takes us through seven notable examples of future libraries presented in popular sci fi worlds in tv, film, and literature. 

Writer Steve Toutonghi touches on technology and the reinvention of selfhood in this example-rich analysis of how sf can help both explain and predict the human psyche.  

People, here's 120 meters of scrollable graphic goodness depicting the story of Star Wars: A New Hope, by the obviously very cool illustrator Martin Panchaud.

As part of the new creative series by tor.com, writer Mike Brooks talks about how his hobbies in punk rock and sci fi intersect. 

If you're alive and also on the internet, you've heard about how a Reddit user (_9Mother9Hourse9Eyes) had been posting elaborate stories about something called "flesh interfaces", well here's more.  

During its fraught production, Alien 3 went through dozens of drafts - Ryan Lambie looks at some of the story ideas that never made it to the screen.

Things go terribly wrong very fast when a man is offered a new body by a mysterious doctor in this strong sf short by The Brothers Lynch.