Contrary to popular opinion, I have enjoyed but not been a flag-waving fanatic of Ian McDonald’s recent novels.   The Dervish House ,...

I have been putting off writing this review for some time, primarily because I don’t feel that any words I put down can do the experi...

Michael Swanwick is one of the most inventive, non-conforming writers on the market.   Though starting his career with a fairly strai...

Fully in its third wave (hopefully nearing its end), its fair to say steampunk has begun to exhaust itself.   We need a break for it ...

Primus was one of the first bands I picked up as a young teenager looking to find music beyond the radio.   And I’ve stuck with them ...

Looking at Michael Swanwick’s oeuvre, one sees an interesting arc.   Opening in territory of a relatively realist nature ( In the Dri...

Though not the most common, pirates are certainly one of the more easily recognized motifs applied in books, films, and games.   From...

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...