Few names in fiction are more iconic than Frankenstein.   Story, character, and premise borrowed, bent, and twisted in the near 200 y...

Among the first, and still one of the most influential, Richard Adams’ delightful 1972 Watership Down is a highly original work of a...

Given Ursula Le Guin’s penchant for mixing real world social, political, and cultural concerns, it should come as no surprise that he...

The Stone Canal , second in Ken MacLeod’s Fall Revolution series, is a difficult book to write a review of.   The reason is the stor...

In the early part of his career, and in an indirect sense throughout it, Roger Zelazny combed Earth’s cultures, religions, and legend...

Biting wit, a well-told tale, and a spiritual truth perfectly outlaid, these are the hallmarks of Oscar Wilde’s one and only excursio...

Jules Verne is perhaps the single most important persona in the evolution of science fiction as a genre.   Seminally seminal to say t...

Based on the success of Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy , Bantam and Lucas Arts offered several contracts for additional books in the ...

The transition from child- to adulthood is perhaps one of the most trying times of life.   Questing for social acceptance, over confi...

Fifteenth Discworld novel and second to star the City Watch, Terry Pratchett’s 1993 Men at Arms is a funny romp on the streets of A...