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Every novelist has a debut, and some only a debut. With Bruce Sterling's 1977 Involution Ocean , one wonders how he ever got a second c...

I hope I'll never be forced to sit down and write a desert island list of books. There are simply too many choices. But a novel I woul...

One of the devices in China Mieville's Iron Council is the “neverending train”. Rails placed just in front of the train as it moves ac...