The beautifully-rendered vision of San Antonio, animated by UNDONE, an Amazon Prime original, is a lush and sweeping and sublime thing, and revels in a kind of ambiguity that is upended by the very work it does creating its own… Read More ›
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BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Good morning, internet! Right now, today, I will be giving away four copies of WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES!Why do you need this anthology in your life? “The Way of the Laser is a delightful compilation of SF… Read More ›
On M. John Harrison’s Sunken Lands
I always struggle to think about what to say about books that are The… Books… Of… The… Season! This is no exception. It’s a brilliant and unsettling thing, like holding a book that slowly turns into a silvery fish in… Read More ›
Extraterrestrials by Wade Roush and Season 1 of Space Force
“Where is everybody?” the great Enrico Fermi asked, exquisitely stating the question that has vexed astronomers for centuries. If we are alone in the universe, where are the other civilizations and societies? In this MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series book,… Read More ›
Paul Jessup’s June Short Story Roundup
Here we go, here we go, a read and appreciated list for June 2020. Hold on, you might say, isn’t this a Locus style short story roundup? Are you going to go through a long list of everything published in… Read More ›
LAUNCH DAY: WAY OF THE LASER FUTURE CRIME STORIES IS HERE!
With full hearts and hopeful spirits, Eric and I are pleased to see the final version of WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES finally and completely out into the world. We began as a Kickstarter, and turned into something… Read More ›
Marie Vibbert Talks about “Sister Thrush” from The Way of the Laser and her forthcoming novel, Galactic Hellcats
In our continuing series of mini-interviews, we talk with authors who have a story in our forthcoming collection WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES, recently reviewed positively by ALA Booklist! Today, we talk to Marie Vibbert, author of “Sister Thrush” and a… Read More ›
British Propaganda Disguised as Historical Fiction: NETFLIX’S THE LAST KINGDOM
Late into the night, sipping strong alcohol, and avoiding the bad news and adult responsibilities, I sat through the male power Fantasy soap opera, on Netflix, “The Last Kingdom”, and found it fine enough while not thinking too hard. As… Read More ›
Good News and Good Books While the World is Burning
It is surreal and unsettling to try and promote a book, coming out later this month, about the future of crime and criminality when all around us law enforcement appear to be rioting in the streets for their right to… Read More ›
Icewind Distancing Finale
I stayed up far too late at night, and pushed through the final few chapters of this old, entertaining title. I brushed up against that moment that always seems to come, in a game like this, where I am suddenly… Read More ›