Archive for Speculative Fiction
It continues to frustrate me that I don't have time to read everything I want to read. Here are a...
A call for newness in worldbuilding.
Annalee Newitz, Charlie Anders, and a cast of several have been running a blog called io9 for the past few...
I'm still reading the Tiptree bio. Getting close to the end; I'm becoming more and more aware of what I...
I'm sometimes surprised by how often sf stories are all about the evils of technology, and how much better unmodified...
For the past couple months, Tia Nevitt has been blogging about debut fantasy novels, including reviews of some of the...
"[St Paul's Church in Grangetown, Cardiff] is to host a Doctor Who-themed communion service aimed at young people. [The church]...
As most of you know by now, Madeleine L'Engle has died at age 88. I liked the original Wrinkle in...
For decades now, sf writers have been writing stories that go like this: Pick some big change (to a person...
I realized recently that I had never finished reading last year's Year's Best science fiction and fantasy anthologies, and that...
This happened all the time in sf stories in the 1940s: the protagonist would see something strange happen, and his...
I've just updated the Year's Best SF Info page to link to the newly posted table of contents for Best...