The Warm Equations
"Aurora" and "Seveneves" break us out of our supremely well-rehearsed habit of apocalypse and let us see the option of a different future than...
"Aurora" and "Seveneves" break us out of our supremely well-rehearsed habit of apocalypse and let us see the option of a different future than...
Gerry CanavanJun 23, 2015
"The Water Knife" oscillates between nightmarish fantasy and discerning perception.
Sherryl VintJun 22, 2015
A trapdoor is most alarming when you don't see it; knowing the floor might give way at any moment allows you to brace yourself for the fall.
Marie BrennanJun 13, 2015
In The Scarlet Gospels, Barker shows us a demon who has been obsessed with the body, its pleasures and its torments, discovering that, beneath the...
Tony M. VinciJun 7, 2015
Elysium is a book about identity politics, about history and collective memory, about technology and culture, and ultimately about extermination and...
Steven ShaviroJun 3, 2015
The finalists for this year's Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback science fiction book share concerns about gender and sexuality.
Ritch CalvinMay 30, 2015
What is the EQ of an AI? The question is at the heart of veteran screenwriter Alex Garland's directorial debut "Ex Machina."
Marysia Jonsson, Aro VelmetMay 8, 2015
"Apart from the hobbits themselves, Galadriel probably represents the most supremely "good" character in The Lord of the Rings."
Robert T. Tally Jr.May 7, 2015
In Machado's stories, form is uncanny, sly, a pool of raindrops, a slightly skewed face in the mirror.
Sofia SamatarApr 26, 2015
Jerome Winter on "Sf Now," Paradoxa 26 (2014), edited by Mark Bould and Rhys Williams.
Jerome WinterApr 25, 2015
Jodorowsky’s masterpiece begins by lurching from violent episode to mystical encounter to cosmic sexual escapade — and the momentum holds through the...
Askold MelnyczukMar 27, 2015
DESPITE ITS FRENCH TITLE, Adam Robert’s fourteenth novel, Bête, is very much a condition of England novel, albeit set in the near-future. Roberts...
Nick HubbleDec 23, 2014
SINCE STARTING HIS professional career in the mid 1950s, Harlan Ellison has published hundreds of short stories, a handful of novels and novellas...
Darren Harris-Fain Dec 16, 2014
“The Peripheral is thus less interested in specifying two fully articulated hypothetical futures than in inviting us to reflect on our present-day...
Lee KonstantinouDec 12, 2014
IN THE EARLY months of 1944, half a year before the Russians liberate Auschwitz, one of the protagonists of Lavie Tidhar’s A Man Lies Dreaming...
John CluteDec 7, 2014
JONATHAN CARROLL IS a stand-alone literary magician whose closest relatives might be Mikhail Bulgakov or Gerard de Nerval. His latest book, Bathing...
David BreithauptDec 1, 2014
I MAY AS WELL state my claim in as straightforward a way as possible: H. P. Lovecraft, he of the squamous and eldritch, is wrongly derided as a bad...
Nick MamatasNov 24, 2014
IN THE SEASON FOUR finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister goes on a cold-blooded killing rampage. After escaping the dungeons with the...
Ilana TeitelbaumNov 21, 2014
SERGEI LUKYANENKO’s sci-fi novel The Genome was first published in Russia in 1999, but 15 years later, in English translation, it’s future is still...
Noah BerlatskyNov 18, 2014
DESPITE INVOLVING GLOBAL apocalypse, planetary colonization, and an evangelical mission to preach to aliens, Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New...
Nick HubbleNov 10, 2014
AROUND THE MIDDLE of the second century of the Christian Era, Lucian, a satirist from Samosata in what is now Turkey, wrote A True History, which...
Paul KincaidNov 7, 2014
"At times Dick’s letters read like outtakes of his books, with allusions to alternate realities merging with accounts of everyday life."
Jason StarrNov 3, 2014
IT PROBABLY TAKES a Canadian, even a convert like Robert Charles Wilson, to think it might be a good idea to begin a novel in Buffalo. Or, I guess...
John CluteDec 22, 2013
Pynchon’s literary career has shared more with the dehumanizing ethos of Silicon Valley than has been recognized. Siri is a Pynchon character.
Rebecca LiaoDec 22, 2013