Changing Up Alternate History
LAVIE TIDHAR WRITES alternate history, but his novels don’t necessarily fit all that comfortably on the shelf with most of the works published under...
LAVIE TIDHAR WRITES alternate history, but his novels don’t necessarily fit all that comfortably on the shelf with most of the works published under...
Michael LevyDec 8, 2013
SCIENCE FICTION” is in crisis. The sign “science fiction” is now referent to two related yet distinct signifieds, and the crisis only inheres in one...
Paul Graham RavenDec 1, 2013
THE FUTURE IS a foreign country. Not only do they do things differently, the things they do are often incomprehensible, wildly exciting or profoundly...
Damien BroderickNov 3, 2013
NEIL GAIMAN, who has always staged himself as both Artful and a Dodger, seems finally to have come into his full maturity as both. Every word in The...
John CluteJul 29, 2013
An interview with Arthur C. Clarke at his home in Sri Lanka.
Tod MesirowJul 24, 2013
Ben Winters marries our modern day obsession with the end of the world to noir’s inherent fatalism in the latest edition of his Last Policeman trilogy
Jake HinksonJul 24, 2013
YOU WOULD THINK, after a career of nearly thirty years, that it would be easy to attach a label to a writer. But over the course of nineteen novels...
Niall HarrisonJul 22, 2013
LIKE MANY OTHERS who comment on Walter Mosley’s work, I feel almost obliged to qualify any observations I make about his copious body of writing that...
Derek MausJul 1, 2013
Science fiction is conjured out of the past, made anew, and torn apart.
Paul KincaidMay 21, 2013
THIS IS THE tenth Culture book by the avatar of Iain Banks with Middlename burned into its forehead, and a lot has happened since, twenty-five years...
John CluteOct 16, 2012
THIS SPRING, the fantasy author Saladin Ahmed wrote a short piece at Salon.com pointing to the long tradition of racial stereotyping in fantasy...
Scott SeliskerAug 31, 2012
"The publishing industry is in a state of chaos because its entire archaic and dysfunctional business model has broken down."
Jerome WinterAug 7, 2012
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
Michael Oates PalmerJun 14, 2012
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
Gary K. Wolfe, Brian Attebery, Rob Latham, John CluteJun 12, 2012
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
F.X. FeeneyJun 11, 2012
"He transcended genre and became a genre of one; often emulated, absolutely inimitable."
William F. Touponce, Robin Anne Reid, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan R. EllerJun 11, 2012
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." — William Gibson I NEED TO BEGIN with a confession: I was a late...
Jeffrey WasserstromMay 5, 2012
"Part of this is play; part of it is deadly serious."
Paul KincaidApr 21, 2012
A hard rain is falling. The storm is here. You are flying toward Hiroshima. It’s down to you.
Sep 16, 2011
Time is always shifty in a Fowler story, one of many unstable aspects in her consistent depiction of a mutable reality.
Brooks LandonAug 29, 2011
China Miéville is in it for the monsters, and for the philosophy of language, in his latest novel.
Neil EasterbrookAug 26, 2011
Until the end of his life, Ballard insisted that science fiction was the most important form of literature to emerge during the twentieth century.
Rob LathamMay 6, 2011