The Worlds of C.J. Cherryh
C.J. Cherryh is an author that I’ve come across quite a lot, but was never one that I really ever got into. Recently, I’ve become more interested in her books, [...]
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Over at Kirkus Reviews: The Radical Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ wasn’t an author I came across when I first came across science fiction: she was someone who I slowly became aware of more recently, when I started working [...]
The Slow Unveiling of James Tiptree Jr.
Science Fiction publishing is full of strange characters, but there’s one story that seems to really capture people’s attention consistently: James Tiptree Jr., a [...]
Joe Haldeman’s THE FOREVER WAR
When I was in high school, I devoured Ender’s Game and Starship Troopers, but it wasn’t until I’d left graduate school that someone forced me to read The Forever War. [...]
BOOK REVIEW: A Better World by Marcus Sakey
Marcus Sakey’s latest book is the second in his Brilliance saga. A quarter of a century ago, a small percentage of the population was born with special abilities: pattern [...]
Madeleine L’Engle’s A WRINKLE IN TIME
One of my favorite books is easily A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. I can’t remember when I first read it, but when I went back to it a couple of years [...]
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s ROADSIDE PICNIC
A couple of years ago, I picked up a book to review for SF Signal, looking for something different. That book was Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and it [...]
Stanislaw Lem and His Push For Deeper Thinking
Almost ten years ago now, I picked up a copy of Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris and was struck at how different it was compared to a number of the other books I was [...]
This week at Kirkus: The Left and Right Hands of Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction’s greats: her stories Left Hand of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Dispossessed rank among the genre’s best [...]
30 Years of William Gibson’s Neuromancer
I’ll have to confess that I read Neuromancer only a couple of years ago, and at the time, didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. It was a book about computers, [...]
BOOK REVIEW: Zita The Spacegirl Trilogy by Ben Hatke
I’m a sucker for graphic novels with great protagonists. A good case in point is Ben Hatke’s recently completed Zita the Spacegirl comic series—comprised of [...]
Octavia E. Butler: Expanding Science Fiction’s Horizons
For years, I’ve had friends tell me that I should be reading Octavia Butler’s works, especially Kindred. I actually own a copy, and it’s been sitting on my [...]
Larry Niven’s Ringworld and Known Space Stories
Ringworld is a novel that’s always stuck with me. I picked it up alongside authors such as Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, and other authors from that [...]
Andre Norton’s YA novels
When I worked at a bookstore (the now defunct Walden Books), I had a co-worker that loved Andre Norton. I’d never read any of her books throughout High School, although I [...]
L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Land of Oz
I defy you to find someone who doesn’t know the story of The Wizard of Oz. It’s an enormously popular story, so ingrained into our popular culture world that [...]
SFWA and the ‘Science Fiction Hall of Fame’ Anthologies
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthologies have a curious history, and never would have come about but for the creation of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and [...]
INTERVIEW: Daryl Gregory on AFTERPARTY and Smart Drugs
Daryl Gregory is an award-winning writer of genre-mixing novels, stories, and comics. His novels include The Devil’s Alphabet, Pandemonium, Raising Stony Mayhall, and [...]
Anne McCaffrey’s Dragons
I’ve had a passing fascination with McCaffrey’s books over the years, even as I never really dabbled in them. (I owned one book, Dragonflight, years ago.) I was [...]
The Transformation of George R.R. Martin
I’ve been a fan of Game of Thrones since I first caught it a couple of years ago, and I’ve been impressed with the HBO series as I’ve continued to watch. [...]
The Meteoric Rise and Fall of Gnome Press
In my day job, I work with MBA students, and in the time that I’ve been doing that (and working at my regular job), I’ve gained a certain appreciation for how [...]
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