The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle are Jack Vance’s most famous novellas.   Falling short by just a hair, The Miracle Workers ...

In 1976, David Gemmell was undergoing testing for cancer, and in an effort to take his mind from the process, began putting on paper ...

Mars has been a subject of science fiction since before the genre became a fixture:   Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Philip ...

Alfred Bester’s 1951 The Demolished Man is a landmark sci-fi novel in more ways than one.   Prominent enough to have been awarded th...

I recently came across a blogger slagging a book because they didn’t understand it.   The narrative was complex and fragmented, and t...

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley were two writers who initially established themselves not only in the world of realist fiction, but a...

Given the light-hearted yet poignant nature of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, it is surprising to learn that only one of the XX...

After busting through the door with a whole new Hyperion story in Endymion , Simmons returns with The Rise of Endymion to close it. ...

The original Hyperion duology was a great success for Dan Simmons.  It won him numerous awards and accolades, not to mention rave re...

There is a famous communist image of a young Mao Zedong wearing a “flat cap” featuring a red star on its front.   As legend has it, t...