Liberace revived, a neural net guillotine, robot brain builders, designer illnesses (like perfume!), endorphin drought, lunar Kafka—A...

Edmond Hamilton made a name for himself (at a young age) in the 1920s writing pulp science fiction and fantasy.   Captain Future and ...

“Elvis Found Working as Ski Instructor in Alps”   “Family Chat with Santa Claus on Holiday in Caribbean” “Killer Ants on the March fr...

Why can’t we all just get along?   Because it’s complicated.   Because Billy Bob slept with my girl.   Because Sally called me stupid...

As NASA’s Curiosity rover trundles about the surface of Mars today, another page turns on the glories of pulp science fiction.   Leigh Br...

Abductions in the middle of lonely fields; crop circles; strange lights hovering in the sky and disappearing at impossible speeds; be...

The mission statement of this blog is an Olaf Stapledon quote, pre-WWII.   The writing on the wall as far as he was concerned, Staple...

Edgar Rice Burroughs genre milestone A Princess of Mars ended with the hero appropriately back on Earth where he’d begun his tale.  ...

A Princess of Mars (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the most over-the-top novels ever written.   Inspired by pulp and in tur...

Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris is one of the science fiction’s landmark works.   A philosophical and psychological study of a man confronti...

Ohh, bargain bin, you lottery of surprise and displeasure, how you hold our fate in your hands.   Delight or disappointment just a pe...

The first two books in Ian McDonald’s Chaga series, the eponymous novel (called Evolution’s Shore in the US) and Kirinya , both fea...

Movements within science fiction have come and gone—New Wave, cyberpunk, the Silver Age, etc.   But one which has been there nearly s...

I am agog.   Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 A Princess of Mars is a book I’d never read, that is, until turning the last page today—...

Coming to the knowledge Earth is not the center of the universe was a major milestone in human history.   Though perhaps affecting We...

At its worst, science fiction is cheap, shallow entertainment on par with mainstream popular fiction that fails to induce anything in...

After what might be understated as active output in the 1950s, Isaac Asimov took a bit of a breather, waiting more than a decade to p...