There are very few “best of” sci-fi/fantasy lists that do not feature Orson Scott Card’s 1985 Ender’s Game near the top.  The story of a ...

There is space opera, and then there is Space Opera.   Dan Simmon’s 1989 Hyperion is S.P.A.C.E. O.P.E.R.A.   From grand schemes to the...

Simmons having carefully woven each strand in Hyperion , The Fall of Hyperion braids them together into a singular narrative that fan...

In an afterword that reads like an epitaph, Philip K. Dick explains the impetus behind A Scanner Darkly .  He tells the reader that, hav...

Like a mad dream of himself, some Philip K. Dick books seem more autobiographical than fictional.   One can almost see him, hunched ov...

Adhering to the nature of its title, Philip K. Dick’s 1974 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a cipher.  Events unfolding in typical Di...