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February 2026

February 03, 2026

Not So Mysterious Island

I love Science Fiction, and I have a particularly appreciation for Jules Verne. And yet,...

July 2025

July 11, 2025

Blast from the Past

In a moment of nostalgia inspired by it being free to stream on Prime (with...

February 2025

February 28, 2025

Future of Media 7: Animation

As we continue to predict what the future of media will look like in our...

June 2024

June 07, 2024

Coming of age in the Galaxy

In the middle of the 20th century, an ongoing concern of science fiction writers (and...

April 2024

April 26, 2024

The Languages of People

In what probably won't (but easily could) be a series on how Science Fiction so...

April 12, 2024

Women aren’t really from Venus…

Every so often I am reminded just how visionary science fiction authors can be. Granted,...

January 2024

January 26, 2024

1602 is a good year that falls flat

Neil Gaiman's 1602 is a clever idea, well-written (as we should expect from Gaiman), and generally faithful...

August 2023

August 11, 2023

Are we vermin?

Review of "Of Men and Monsters" by William Tenn

August 07, 2023

Two By Tepper

Review of "Gate to Women's Country" and "Plague of Angels" by Sheri Tepper

March 2023

March 24, 2023

Great Writer/Okay Book

If sometimes great writers crank out garbage, other times they crank out okayness. Project Pope is just...

March 17, 2023

Great Writer/Terrible Book

Review of Robert A Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil"

October 2022

October 21, 2022

Beyond this Heinlein

Review of "Beyond this Horizon" by Robert Heinlein

May 2022

May 27, 2022

Larry Niven’s Time Travelling Unicorns

Review of "Flight of the Horse" by Larry Niven

April 2022

April 08, 2022

A History of Spiders

Review of "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

December 2021

December 17, 2021

The day the men took over

Review of "Renaissance" by A.E. van Vogt

October 2021

October 15, 2021

And speaking of Plato…

Review of "The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn" by Algis Budrys

June 2021

June 18, 2021

Two more by Simak

Review of "A Heritage of Stars" and "A Choice of Gods" by Clifford Simak

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Wrestling with Destiny

Review of "First He Died" by Clifford Simak

August 2020

August 14, 2020

A post-apocalyptic-clone-warning-back-to-nature tale

Review of "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang."

August 07, 2020

Life in a Semi-Magical World

Review of Jo Walton's "Among Others"

March 2020

March 20, 2020

Time Travel Done Right

Review of "Lest Darkness Fall" by L. Sprague de Camp

February 2020

February 14, 2020

It’s the end of the world as you know it

Review of Connie Willis's "Doomsday Book"

November 2019

November 29, 2019

Another not-so-gentle classic

Review of Sheri Tepper's "Raising the Stones"

November 15, 2019

Return to the Ringworld

Review of Larry Niven's "Ringworld Engineers"

November 08, 2019

A not-so-gentle classic

Review of "Grass" by Sheri Tepper

August 2019

August 23, 2019

Life on a Blue Mars

Review of "Blue Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson

May 2019

May 14, 2019

The Great Green Unexplainable

Review of "Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson

April 2019

April 02, 2019

Science Fiction for the Thoughtful Christian

Why you should be reading Cordwainer Smith

March 2019

March 15, 2019

“City of Bones” still has life in it

Review of Martha Wells' "City of Bones"

January 2019

January 29, 2019

A melancholy glimpse of a hopeful future

Reflections on Clifford Simak's classic book "City"