Who Tends to Captain Picard’s Bromeliads?
Differences in the way Lem, Roddenberry, and Banks address humanity’s drives raise the question of whether liberal humanism can be effective.
Differences in the way Lem, Roddenberry, and Banks address humanity’s drives raise the question of whether liberal humanism can be effective.
Michael MilesNov 22, 2015
There is a long tradition of readers who pore over erotic fiction for the "good bits," savoring the sex scenes and skimming the rest.
Mica HilsonNov 16, 2015
For Tolkien criticism to succeed, it must develop sophisticated, compelling arguments in serious academic publication venues.
Norbert SchürerNov 13, 2015
Reading "Europe at Midnight" is a little like unlocking an insane Matryoshka doll.
Helen MarshallNov 4, 2015
David Mitchell's "Slade House" demonstrates once again that no genre, no narrative device, is ever allowed to stand unchallenged.
Paul KincaidOct 28, 2015
In celebration of Halloween, Brian Cremins writes about Roger Zelazny's "A Night in the Lonesome October."
Brian CreminsOct 20, 2015
"After the Saucers Landed" is a work of metafictional science fiction that plays with the postmodern themes of identity, nostalgia, and commodity-cult...
D. Harlan WilsonOct 11, 2015
How might the Weird respond to the anxieties of the 21st century? Jeff VanderMeer's hallucinatory "Southern Reach" trilogy provides one possible...
Siobhan CarrollOct 5, 2015
"The Country of Ice Cream Star" shares an interest in tearing down modern civilization so that the cornerstone of that civilization might be...
Jason EmbryOct 1, 2015
"Past Futures" is an exercise in remembering an exuberant, experimental current of artistic production that had a deep engagement with a global...
De Witt Douglas KilgoreSep 24, 2015
"Three Moments of an Explosion" is not a manifesto, and it is in no way overtly politically didactic.
Rhys WilliamsSep 6, 2015
Jama-Everett upends the cultural assumptions common to many familiar superhero stories.
Michael BerrySep 5, 2015
How much technology should we be willing to use to stay alive? Will robots inherit the earth?
Temma EhrenfeldAug 26, 2015
Author John Scalzi talks about gender ambiguity in his latest book 'Lock In', along with shifting politics and technology in the world of science...
Michele Botwin RaphaelAug 25, 2015
Neal Stephenson combines the earthly and the ideal to create a nerdish homebrew 21st-century Platonism.
Peter BerardAug 18, 2015
The stories within "The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7," edited by Ellen Datlow, feature the usual assortment of terrors.
Rhonda Brock-ServaisAug 15, 2015
"Sing Me Your Scars" is not always a pleasant read. It's hard not to squirm as the women in these stories are crucified, stabbed, beaten, bruised...
Helen MarshallAug 11, 2015
Two new collections of African SF by Dilman Dila show us life in the postcolony.
Mark BouldAug 5, 2015
Humanities scholars are getting used to talking about reality again — only it’s not your granddaddy’s reality.
Timothy MortonJul 28, 2015
Samuel Delany’s novel Hogg is an affectively disgusting book that lends itself to politically charged and urgent kinds of reading.
Liz JanssenJul 18, 2015
Carroll is interested in an endemic and unavoidable failure of cartography.
John RiederJul 13, 2015
Alice Sheldon wrote under the names James Tiptree, Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon. Novelist Nicola Griffith sends her an open letter.
Nicola GriffithJul 9, 2015
Slow Bullets is a story of revenge and redemption, high-tech problems and low-tech solutions, and the preservation of memory through surrendering the...
Stan Hunter KrancJul 6, 2015
This storyline alone could bring new readers into the trilogy, as King adeptly prompts his reader to want to know what happens next.
Patrick McAleerJul 3, 2015