Novel: The City Inside by Samit Basu
Sometimes it’s impossible to turn off your internal editor/writer brain when you’re reading, and while …
Sometimes it’s impossible to turn off your internal editor/writer brain when you’re reading, and while …
Neither of the shows I reviewed in this month’s Lightspeed are likely to lift your spirits much …
It’s been an inward year of going to work and staying home and not much …
Hannu Rajaniemi is a remarkable writer. Even at his most difficult—for sometimes, indeed, he’s a …
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If your Christmas season hasn’t been quite apocalyptic enough, treat your shelf to Sandra McDonald’s …
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I have a sketchy, sporadic, and awkward history with science fiction conventions. My first was …
Tim Pratt’s collection Antiquities and Tangibles & Other Stories (2013) gathers twenty-three stories and a …
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Last night Jenn and I got home from Madison, Wisconsin, where we attended WisCon 37 …
Carrie Vaughn is another Futurismic contributor who’s gone on to bigger and better things. One …
Tom Doyle is one of the few writers whose work I first encountered not in …
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When I was editing the fiction section at Futurismic, I had a serious aversion to …
Novel: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress Read More »
After reading the quick little collection Fall Into Time (2011), I think Douglas Lain may …
When I was the fiction editor at Futurismic, I was lucky to see several excellent …
Professionally, 2010 was a pretty shitty year. My second year in a row of no …
Well, this is a bittersweet moment: it’s time announce the last Futurismic story of the …
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For most of my creative life I’ve considered myself, first and foremost, a science fiction …