Apex Magazine
One Level Down, by Mary G. Thompson, starts with Ella, a fifty-eight-year-old woman trapped in the body of a child by a man who forces her to act like the...
Book Review: ONE LEVEL DOWN by Mary G. Thompson
One Level Down, by Mary G. Thompson, starts with Ella, a fifty-eight-year-old woman trapped in the body of a child by a man who forces her to act like the...
Solarpunk noir is not a direct critique of cyberpunk, so writing at length in opposition is counterproductive.
The City is Breathing: Solarpunk Noir. Please Don't Call it Cyberpunk
Solarpunk noir is not a direct critique of cyberpunk, so writing at length in opposition is counterproductive.
Churile (you’ll meet her later) has found her interest in me once again.
A Keening for Churile
Churile (you’ll meet her later) has found her interest in me once again.
Speaking from my own experience, neither has anyone ever discussed a book with me, nor have I ever met a single fiction writer—the works I edit are only academics and...
Pariahs
Speaking from my own experience, neither has anyone ever discussed a book with me, nor have I ever met a single fiction writer—the works I edit are only academics and...
Genre, that charged and cherished notion, is the best narrative show in town when viewed through certain lenses. These lenses aren’t hard to identify. For lovers of speculative fiction, they’re...
The Tyranny of High Concept
Genre, that charged and cherished notion, is the best narrative show in town when viewed through certain lenses. These lenses aren’t hard to identify. For lovers of speculative fiction, they’re...
Vacuums suck. That’s the joke, the entire bit. In the act of writing, we are, ourselves a vacuum. Alone, putting words in, taking words out. Putting more in, taking more...
Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Writing in Solitude
Vacuums suck. That’s the joke, the entire bit. In the act of writing, we are, ourselves a vacuum. Alone, putting words in, taking words out. Putting more in, taking more...
Isaac Asimov. Ursula K. Le Guin. Robert Heinlein. William Gibson. Philip K. Dick. If you’re in your mid-thirties and grew up in the US as an avid reader of science...
Ancient Aliens, Clones, and Growing Up as a SFF Reader in Brazil
Isaac Asimov. Ursula K. Le Guin. Robert Heinlein. William Gibson. Philip K. Dick. If you’re in your mid-thirties and grew up in the US as an avid reader of science...