Brian Aldiss designates Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) the first science fiction novel.   The story of human creating human and ...

Oh cosmic evil, wherefore art thou?   Ahh, a deep pit in the fields of rural Ireland, just where I thought.   At least, this is the d...

Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist is the intriguing story of a mercenary soldier living in ancient Greece befuddled by anterograde am...

Every five or ten years, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine is poring over its backlog and publishing a fresh ...

After finishing a book that has no obvious flaws I feel guilty writing something of a negative review.   Viable critiques generally f...

Folk music in the US is viewed as an innocent, pastoral indulgence with roots in rural life.   Its lilt between twittering energy and...

Regardless of preferred genre, most readers know the names Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard.   O...

One of life’s little pleasures, it’s always nice to encounter a writer for the first time and discover a keen sense of style.   Molli...

Many science fiction and fantasy writers pass away each year, but few cause me personal pause.  Hearing yesterday of the passing of Terry Pr...

From cyberpunk’s focus on near-future political and technological concerns to the explosion of singularity/post-human texts which fol...