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

One of the undercurrents of science fiction is a concern for the relationship between biotechnical advances and wealth.   Immortality...

William Gibson’s Sprawl series stands as a landmark event, not only in science fiction, but in literature as a whole.  Rather than rehashin...

There are numerous examples of writers catching a wave and riding the idea for several books to great success.  Count Zero finds William Gi...

This is the first book I have read by Banks - and it won’t be the last.  His post-human vision of the very distant future, with its closer-...

(This review has also been posted at www.fantasyliterature.com )  So chock full of the social cons...

The unique talent that is Greg Egan has written another novel that barely strains the limits of modern technology in a near-future socio-...