2013: A Short Review
2013 was a good year to me. On the story front, the first semester wasn’t a strong one; too much work at my day job at the university (and the non-stop work translating SF [...]
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MIND MELD: The Influence of “The Princess Bride” on Today’s Writers
Today’s Mind Meld was suggested by Orbit’s publicist. [Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] The movie The Princess Bride is celebrating its [...]
MIND MELD: Science Fiction Biographies We Would Like to See Published
[Today’s Mind Meld was suggested by an SF Signal reader, Gary Farber, who is here among our guests. Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] In the [...]
MIND MELD: Non-Anglo Presence in the Hugo Awards – Is it Possible?
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This year’s Hugo award ceremony was a very interesting one, regarding gender and ethnicity. Most of the [...]
MIND MELD: Ticklish Subjects in SF
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Is there any subject science fiction hasn’t turned its eyes (or feelers, or antennae) to? Maybe not, but with [...]
INTERVIEW: Kim Stanley Robinson on 2312, Mars and Climate Change
Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy. His novels delve into ecological and [...]
MIND MELD: Ecological Science Fiction
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] The recent United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio 2012 or Rio+20, where the heads [...]
MIND MELD: Has Space Opera Lost Its Luster?
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Late last year, after John Ottinger wrote a passionate review of John C. Wright’s Count to a Trillion, he was [...]
MIND MELD: How to Write Science Fiction on a Post-Colonial World?
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] In recent years, the ascension of several former Third World countries to a better economical and geopolitical [...]
INTERVIEW: Some Thoughts on Post-Colonialism and Politics in SF with Djibril al-Ayad, Editor of “The Future Fire” Magazine
Djibril al-Ayad is general editor of The Future Fire, an online magazine of social-political speculative fiction. In the past, TFF published themed issues on Feminist SF and [...]
E-Libris: My Smartphone is More Than a Phone
I use my smartphone a lot, and not as a phone. That much is pretty obvious, isn’t it? I haven’t read any recent research about smartphones, but the last one I [...]
REVIEW: Flashback by Dan Simmons
REVIEW SUMMARY: A dark, wry “post-fall-of-the-US” novel set in the near future. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An ex-detective-turned-drug-addict gets a chance of [...]
MIND MELD: What Is Your Favorite SF/F/H Saga/Series of All Time?
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] If there is one thing fantastika has a-plenty, this thing is called the Saga. Unrestrained by the so-called [...]
E-Libris: About PDF (More Than You Probably Want to Know)
As I said in a previous installment of this column, most e-ARCs these days still come in the time-honored format of the PDF file. It’s still the easiest, fastest way to [...]
E-Libris: Shopping Fever (or, How I Almost Went Broke When I Started Buying More Than a Book a Day)
The title of this fortnight’s installment should tell you everything, isn’t that so? Let’s just start in a more formal way, then: My name is Fabio [...]
MIND MELD: Why Has Steampunk Persisted For So Long?
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Steampunk. It keeps going and going and going… So we asked this week’s panelists: Q: Why has steampunk [...]
E-Libris: The Kindle Has Landed!
As I mentioned in my previous installment, I had quite a few apps for reading e-books on my iPhone – until I went to Amazon.com to search for a book and – hey, [...]
E-Libris: My First e-Reader Was Not an e-Reader
Ok, let’s start this one with a universal truth: nobody (at least until now – from 2011 on things might be a lot different) has ever started reading e-books on an [...]
REVIEW: Little Machines by Paul McAuley
REVIEW SUMMARY: Seventeen stories ranging from time travel to alternate histories, with plenty of tributes to SF masters like Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice [...]
MIND MELD: What’s The Importance of ‘The Russ Pledge’ For Science Fiction Today?
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Recently, a poll in The Guardian created to the readers nominate their favorite SF writers revealed an appalling [...]
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