J.G. Ballard’s novel The Drought featured character studies of the human reaction to a slow moving yet ultimately disastrous environ...

Dystopia is such delicate material to work with.   Done well, it quietly informs theme, emerges from the background at opportune moments ...

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

Christopher Priest’s 1981 The Affirmation is a novel that superbly outlays the all-too-human manner in which we stifle the world—rep...

Chris Beckett’s 2012 Dark Eden was a novel whose setting glowed like a Christmas tree and whose thematic import likewise glowed for ...

Not yet out of his teens, Samuel Delany had his first short stories published in science fiction magazines around 1962.   Moving on t...

The late ‘60s early ‘70s was a magnificently productive time in Ursula Le Guin’s career.   Though she continued writing award-winning,...

Orson Scott Card’s books are like shooting stars: a few flash brilliantly across the sky, but always an anonymous twinkle remains.  His ...

Like an architect seeing a cathedral they’ve designed have the steeple raised, or an engineer watching the bowsprit attached to a ship t...

The shape of Brian Aldiss’s SF Masterwork Helliconia could be said to be parabolic.  If Helliconia Spring is the slow, curving entry poi...

What if the planets orbited not only the sun, but the whole solar system orbited another, even larger ...