It was a brisk autumn afternoon in the grungy backstreets of Johannesburg.   Moving in fits and starts, a draft manuscript of Charles S...

Looking back through history, some of mankind’s most intriguing pseudosciences are those that draw connections between appearance and...

Ken Liu’s first published story appeared in 2002, and over the next eight years only five additional stories appeared.   A fire lit b...

(Cue eager 1950s’ advertizing voice.)   Looking for something new?   Tired of that steady diet of popular fantasy with the same dicho...

Gardner Dozois is well known for his The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies.   Roughly five-hundred stories having accumulated...

Numbers sometimes speak louder than words, so rather than open my review of editor Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fa...

Oh cosmic evil, wherefore art thou?   Ahh, a deep pit in the fields of rural Ireland, just where I thought.   At least, this is the d...

Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist is the intriguing story of a mercenary soldier living in ancient Greece befuddled by anterograde am...

Every five or ten years, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine is poring over its backlog and publishing a fresh ...

Folk music in the US is viewed as an innocent, pastoral indulgence with roots in rural life.   Its lilt between twittering energy and...

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...

Many science fiction and fantasy writers pass away each year, but few cause me personal pause.  Hearing yesterday of the passing of Terry Pr...

Lightning-cracked time portals.   Secret tombs. Slave ship mutiny. Snake men.   Buried alive.   Parlays with kings.   These are just ...

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

It was Friedrich Nietzsche who said something to the effect “nothing offends a woman’s vanity like a woman’s vanity.”   Though probab...

Before the Discworld had Tiffany Aching , there was Eric Thursley.   An ambitious teenage boy, he wants his cake and to eat it, too....

Jeff VanderMeer’s 2001collection City of Saints and Madmen was a tour de force.   Putting Ambergris on the map, it presented vignett...

I imagine it’s something of a minor surprise to readers of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea to finish the book wi...

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

Of the striking elements of Philip Jose Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go , the greatest may be the setting.   Humanity confined to...