Based on the overwhelming success of The Man in theHigh Castle , Philip K. Dick set about writing another alternate history/future.   ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the fictional story of a man living in WWII-era Russian labor camps. ...

Jiang Rong was a government researcher sent to live in Inner Mongolia (a portion of Mongolia belonging to China) in the time of communism...

Lin Yutang was not to know the adjective he chose to describe the most brilliant Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty would evolve in the ...

(Note: This review is for the full Book of the New Sun , no spoilers.) Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun , published in four separat...

There is a variety of contexts in which a writer’s imagination can be viewed.   The profound depth of a single idea (e.g. Orwell’s 198...

Published in 1965, Frank Herbert’s Dune is considered not only a grandfather, but by many the greatest sci-fi novel of all time.   A fu...

The first time a person sees a sample of pond water through a microscope is an eye-opening experience.  The life teeming there is mind-bog...