Blogs about Science fiction books

Craig Nelson’s 1988 Crime Zone poster

The AI hype in the media obscures the fact that we're clearly in another goddamn venture capital bubble right now. As the Wall Street Journal said earlier this month (article is paywalled), "... In a …

So far, my new solar trickle charger for my car battery seems to be working. I won’t really know for sure that it works unless my battery doesn’t run down again, but at least I …

Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “Time Waits for Winthrop” by William Tenn #16 of 20 (Read) Virgil Finlay usually created drawings and paintings that featured beautiful or fantastic subjects, but …

This historic Worldcon has already been very well covered by others, e.g. Nicholas Whyte and Jeremy Szal. For lots of coverage of events, guests and so on, see the con’s Facebook page. But I’ve been …

Over in Every, I wrote about how writing is more than a method for capturing ideas, it’s a way of exploring them: By externalizing your thoughts, writing puts you into conversation with yourself. It’s always …

Elena Pavlova has realized her dream of getting a story published in Asimov’s with her latest work, “Renting to Killers,” available in [May/June issue, on sale now!] Get to know the Bulgarian author in this …

by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again! With this issue of New Worlds, number 190, we now seem to be getting back to a regular monthly schedule and the new style seems to be …

If science fiction has siblings, one of them would be the labour union movement. Both are children of the industrial revolution, when technological progress was creating new types of work and new types of workers, …

Karen Lord, The Blue, Beautiful World, Del Rey, 2023.Audiobook available.The Blue, Beautiful World is a fascinating science-fiction stand-alone novel about first contact. Owen is a global music star. The crowds flock to his concerts, commune …

I have a new novel coming out in July (amazon page here): a utopian novel mashed-up with some space-opera Lovecraftian/Dennis Wheatley horror. My teenage son, when I explained the premise, suggested I call it Space …

This weekend I was looking at the books at a church sale and came upon 2001's A Century of Great Suspense Stories. There were four stories in there by writers who are associated with SF …

A selection of read volumes from my site What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read this month. Here’s March’s installment of this column. Before we get to books and birthdays and …

Paul Linebarger (aka Cordwainer Smith) was an interesting guy. Among other things he was heavily involved in developing psychological warfare techniques for the US military. He was also a close adviser to Chiang Kai-shek and …

[This review originally appeared in The Times, Sept 1st 2022] Encyclopedias are almanacs to real life, or most of them are. Diderot’s great Encyclopédie (1757-71) set out to describe all the ‘sciences, arts and crafts’. …

News Jim Henson Idea Man Trailer for Jim Henson Idea Man Documentary Gets Emotional The documentary takes a look at Henson’s life and legacy as the man behind The Muppets By Vanessa Armstrong | Published …

In Japan, riding a steam train through outer space is a melancholy symbol of the human journey. Like the gentle drift of the sakura petal, the whistle of a train means a transition in life. …

2296. Two hundred and nineteen years have passed since the world was devastated in the Great War. Tens of thousands of people in the United States survived in vaults, vast underground complexes dedicated to human …