Since starting this blog a miniscule two years ago, I've struggled backstage to put in words that literary quality which separates reall...

All Tomorrow’s Parties , William Gibson’s 1999 conclusion to the Bridge trilogy, plays out more lines into the river of Virtual Ligh...

Idoru , William Gibson’s 1997 middle entry into the Bridge trilogy, takes the baton of Virtual Light ’s conclusion and runs with it....

William Gibson’s Sprawl , as seminal a trilogy of books if ever there were in modern sci-fi, is a tough act to follow, let alone by t...

Looking at the spread of colors, shapes, and lines smeared across the canvas that is J.G. Ballard’s 1979 The Unlimited Dream Company ...

The World-Thinker and Other Stories , like The Potters of Firth and Other Stories and Golden Girl and Other Stories is a collection ...

Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy is one of the grandest thought experiments in literature, let alone science fiction.   Red Mars s...

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is a landmark of science fiction.  The books visualizing the terraforming of the red planet from...

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars was a big, bold thought experiment on the environmental, political, and social aspects of colonizing...

Having just finished the second book in Stephen Donaldson’s ongoing The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant called The Illearth War , I ca...