As with every summer, it's vacation time!  As such, there will be a two-week hiatus on the blog as I enjoy the sun (hopefully!) and fr...

For the unaware, there is small handful of magazines which have clung tight to the decades of evolving genre, sustaining their presence in r...

Like most people who play board games I assume, I sometimes look in awe at games that large swathes of people fall in love with while ignori...

If you want to get off the beaten path of speculative fiction, then get out your machete and have a crack at a Paul Di Filippo book. While h...

While its star has faded in the past decade as the middle class slowly descend into the lower and culture wars have taken center stage, ther...

I will start by saying, after four years of regular board games at my house Chabyrinthe is still the biggest surprise in our collection. C...

I recently finished reading Tom Shippey's The Oxford Book of Science Fiction (1992). One of the analogies that came to mind while tryin...

The past couple of American presidential elections have emphasized the difference between the people’s will (i.e. majority vote) and the ele...

Frederik Pohl’s Gateway is one of the all-time great science fiction novels. While the lottery luck of exploring alien artifacts forms the...

Garth Brooks may have sung it’s good to have friends in low places, but if you are a writer of more literary-minded science fiction, then it...