I am far from the most knowledgeable person on the subject, but in my web wandering and scattered reading it has certainly come to my...

One of life’s little pleasures, it’s always nice to encounter a writer for the first time and discover a keen sense of style.   Molli...

From cyberpunk’s focus on near-future political and technological concerns to the explosion of singularity/post-human texts which fol...

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

I think it’s fair to say the name Paul Di Filippo is known to the majority of modern science fiction and fantasy connoisseurs but by ...

I cannot think of a suitable place to begin my review of Jeff Vandermeer’s 2004 City of Saints and Madmen , my notes shooting off in ...

Ian McDonald’s 2004 River of Gods was a return to writing after a three year break.   Batteries obviously recharged, the novel won t...

Crystal Express is a 1989 collection of Bruce Sterling short stories published between 1982 and 1987.   A variety, five of the stori...

Neither prolific or close-mouthed, Jack Vance has written a few dozen short stories in his career.   And of these, “The Moon Moth” is...

Pump Six and Other Stories is a selection of short stories written between 1999 and 2008 from the up and coming Paolo Bacigalupi.   ...

The State of the Art is a collection of short fiction by Iain Banks written between’84 and ’87.   Surprisingly, it is the only such ...

In 1972 Ursula Le Guin completed The Farthest Shore and felt the Earthsea series was finished at three books.   However, in 1994 sh...