Ahh, Ijon Tichy, Stanislaw Lem’s intrepid researcher, adventurer, interplanetary traveler, scientist, explorer, diplomat, and all-round sc...

Robert Silverberg calls the 1950s the real Golden Age of science fiction, not the decade prior. With the bloom of Algis Budrys, Arthur C....

Marko Kloos' Terms of Enlistment (2013) is a precise result of the formula described in How to Write Military Science Fiction —emphas...

China Mieville’s first collection Looking for Jake: Stories is an uneven selection of shorts. For as much quality writing is present, the...

An outward explosion of ideas (figuratively and literally), James Blish’s Cities in Flight sequence describes mankind’s transition from li...

In perhaps the least likely of combinations, author Adam Roberts has a PhD and teaches in the area of English classics, yet finds novels p...

I recently read Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake , a post-apocalyptic novel that toys with the subjectivity of utopian/dystopian idea...

Vampire fiction. There are a lot of ideas and opinions tucked into those two words. From perhaps the most ruminative look at the concept i...

There is much of epic fantasy that, regardless of its primary intents, glorifies war in some fashion.  Honor, courage, nobility, heroism, ...

Roll back to 1987, and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is but a blip on the reading world’s radar. With only a duology ( The Colour of Magic...