Archive for Speculative Fiction
I was a big fan of Andre Norton’s work when I was a kid. (Yes, I do feel a little guilty that I’m writing this post when I still haven’t finished the Le Guin post that I meant to write last week. I hope to do that soon. But this post is easier to write.) […]
The excellent old tabletop roleplaying game Fringeworthy had a page of tables for quickly generating the physical appearance of an...
I’m in Santa Fe for a few days. Mary Anne is here for a Wild Cards authors gathering, and I’m...
Jon Bois's tour-de-force multimedia science fiction future-of-football extravaganza “17776” is now complete. 25 brief chapters. Well worth reading/viewing, even for...
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...
A few years ago, I nominated Jon Bois's unusual future-of-football story “Tebow in the CFL: A memoir” for a Hugo....
Another lesson for me on the difficulty of seeing outside your own cultural context: In Delany's City of a Thousand...
I've just started reading both Norman Spinrad's 1980 Songs from the Stars (first chapters set in a post-apocalypse quasi-ecotopia in...
In the past couple years, there've been about three times when I've had occasion to suggest starting points for reading...
I've somehow for years had the idea that Jack Finney's 1970 novel Time and Again (which I hadn't read) was...
In 2016, I read 172 books; an average of roughly one every two days. Well, okay, when I say “read,”...
Kam and I saw the movie Arrival on Sunday evening. It was as good as everyone's been saying. I had...