Glorious, just glorious.   Taxonomizing Robert Sheckley’s 1968 Dimension of Miracles brings me to no different term.     I can think...

Joan Slonczewski’s 1984 science fiction novel A Door into Ocean is notable for its depiction of parthenogenesis.  Likely the first book t...

For many years my mother was a care worker for autistic youth.   One older boy she worked with, as part of his condition, did not dis...

Flustered by the originality of the premise, I don’t even know where to begin reviewing Jeffrey Ford’s 2005 The Cosmology of the Wide...

A couple of years have passed since the events of Precursor , but the animosity of the Phoenix captains still burns hot toward atevi ...

There are many who would take utopia to have static meaning: society achieves a state of perfection and there exists until the end of...

Used so many times, it’s even got an abbreviation: post-ap.   Such is the dearth of near-future, civilization-destroyed, human-surviv...

Just when you thought nothing original—truly original (I am, after all, a semi-cynical bibliophile)—could be done with Hitler and his...

There are some writers who seek to be as unique as possible—and fail or succeed in trying.   And there are some who try to use as man...

Even uncle wiki says it: Roger Zelazny’s novels show a tendency for cosmology.   This Immortal… uses Greek mythology, Creatures of L...