Ian Macleod’s The Light Ages and The House of Storms are core steampunk texts.   Not only do they utilize what have come to be the ...

There are many characteristics universal to the sexes, and among them is the respect confidence commands.   A person may speak utter ...

Fabulism is a term that has almost faded from the taxonomy of literature.   Rooted in the idea of ‘fairy tale,’ that is, the departur...

Brian Aldiss is one of, if not the most versatile writer in speculative fiction.   Published in a variety of forms (poetry, plays, sh...

At a time when American sci-fi was wallowing like a pig in mud on a hot summer’s day (the pulp era), what little science fiction exis...

2011 was a very solid year in short speculative fiction, and Volume 6 of Jonathan Strahan’s ongoing The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy o...

The material so similar, it is no easy task to parse Jack Vance’s short fiction into collections.   Chronologically in order of publi...

City of Saints and Madmen was a phantasmagorical mélange of (sur)reality. The past and present of Ambergris like shards of stained g...

Please note: this review is for the 1974 UK publishing, not the 1976 US publishing of the same name.  For the record, the UK version ...

The opening line of the canononical Chinese novel The Three Kingdoms reads: “A nation divided must unite, and a nation united must d...