I generally do not go in for Arthurian legend. While I recognize it's a critical piece of England's history and lore, and therefore...

Adam Roberts is quietly the most original science fiction writer of the past two decades. From societies with headless people to salt plane...

My ears perk up when I hear that a novel I enjoyed will be adapted to the big screen. Not sure why. Fool me once, your fault. Fool me a h...

Note: this book was published under two titles: The Unsleeping Eye in the US and The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe in the UK. To keep this...

Johnny, where's that soapbox? Get it out. We've got an important message needs repeating. Seems it's not getting through. Li...

I almost didn't read Adam Roberts' novel Land of the Headless (2007). The plot's main conceit was so lacking in subtlety and so...

It wasn't so long ago that the words “critically acclaimed” meant: people with background and experience in literature, who read and rev...

2021's Termination Shock was a bit of a return for Neal Stephenson—a bit, just a bit. Where his prior two novels Seveneves and Readme a...

I think James S.A. Corey's Expanse series earned the right to be considered for top 10 space opera all time. It realizes its solar sys...

Bruce Sterling, rogue that he was (is?), once lobbied to change the moniker of 'science fiction' to 'transreal fiction'. An...