Ken Macleod is not a writer who burst onto the scene.   But his Fall Revolution tetraology eventually opened readers’ eyes to a new ...

Documenting some of them himself (in a journal later published as an exegesis) , the issues Philip K. Dick was dealing with in his pe...

We are now somewhere in the middle of the fantasy shrapnel cloud that exploded some time around the release of the Harry Potter novel...

I very rarely re-read novels.   There are maybe a dozen I have read more than once, meaning the reviews on this blog are the product ...

I own two books titled Space Opera .   The first is Brian Aldiss’ 1974 anthology of bite-sized space drama from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.   T...

I’ve read enough Philip K. Dick to recognize the elements common to most of his fiction. Quirky ideas imposed on quotidian settings, ...

Where WWII and the related topics of fascism, genocide, and atomic warfare get far more media these days, WWI may have been, in fact,...

In spare moments the past year or two I have been thinking about many aspects of the current state of science fiction, fantasy, and f...

I remember in high school that English teachers recommended we get Strunk & White’s Elements of Style .   Not really interested i...

Regardless top three, top four, whatever, time travel is inarguably one of the most popular plot devices in science fiction.   I some...