Jonathan Lethem’s first published novel, Gun, with Occasional Music , was surreal science fiction painted in the colors of Philip K. ...

Gary K. Wolfe once made the statement on the Coode Street Podcast that bridge books in trilogies are useless—that it’s possible to sk...

Paul Di Filippo may be speculative fiction’s best kept secret.   As imaginative as any reader could ever hope, erudite and inventive...

I find no better analogy for the fiction of Charles Stross than the pop and fizz of a champagne bottle being opened. Bubbling with id...

As everybody knows, the middle of the 20th century was a time of great social upheaval in the US.   As the Silver Age shed its glow, ...

The following is less a review and more a response to Bradley Beaulieu’s 2015 Twelve Kings in Sharakhai . I recall encountering t...

David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet opens with a shot of an ultra-typical, American suburban home.   Slowly zooming in on the lawn, the v...

The past year has seen a Pluto flyby, a Mars landing, and an asteroid landing—all major, major successes for space exploration and ev...

From one (admittedly simple) perspective, art can be divided into two parts: the internalized (what is created or enjoyed for individ...

Kingsley Amis’s The Alteration is one of alternate history’s most notable texts.   As with many British books, its concerns are larg...