At the current state of science fiction’s evolution, the grab bag of familiar science fiction tropes is as large as it ever has been....

Storms, carnivorous plants, earthquakes, and all manner of teeth, fangs, and claws hungry for flesh on a planet whose two cultures ar...

Michael Swanwick’s Griffin’s Egg tries as much to be retro sci-fi as it does to push the limits of the genre—or at least the limits ...

Things have changed in the genre.   It used to be that writers cut their teeth and honed their style in the short fiction world of ma...

It’s difficult to get much more classic than H.G. Wells 1898 The War of the Worlds .   The first novel to Martian aliens, a significa...

Featuring a bright, confident girl caught up in a nightmare only a child could have, Neil Gaiman’s playfully frightening Coraline is...

There is no doubting Greg Egan’s views.   All of his short fiction and novels incorporating detailed scientific theories and concepts...

Though I have read both The Windup Girl and Pump Six and Other Stories , I’m still holding my breath on Paolo Bacigalupi.   Relative...

I’ve long been in debate with myself about the woman warrior. On one hand I can understand that it may be proper to present women in ...

The biography of James Tiptree Jr., known as Alice Sheldon in reality, makes for interesting reading.   Having had anything but a pre...