Science Fiction at the End of the World
Warm Worlds and Otherwise. James Tiptree, Jr. 1975. It kind of feels like the world is spinning apart sometimes, doesn’t it? I don’t want »
Into the Woods
The Vaster Wilds. Lauren Groff. 2023. As I read this book I kept expecting something different to happen, and only the same things happened - until »
Mark and Percival and Jim and James
James. Percival Everett. 2024. I like to say about Mark Twain that he was the greatest American writer who never wrote a great novel. He could »
Stop Writing Like the Internet
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through. Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith. 2023. This »
It Deepens Like a Coastal Shelf
Starve Acre. Andrew Michael Hurley. 2018. Horror is full, of course, of terrible things happening to children. It’s frightening to be a child, as everyone »