Fiction, Science Fiction
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 that can be horribly…
December 17, 2022-
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Science Fiction, Television, WritingLightspeed Review: Devs & Years and Years
Neither of the shows I reviewed in this month’s Lightspeed are likely to lift your spirits much (OH, THE DARKNESS), but…
September 17, 2020 -
Life, Photos, WritingAn Epic California Journey
It’s been an inward year of going to work and staying home and not much else, really — partly…
August 28, 2018 -
Fantasy, Fiction, Science FictionCollection: Collected Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi is a remarkable writer. Even at his most difficult — for sometimes, indeed, he’s a tricky writer…
January 23, 2017 -
Fiction, Futurismic, Science FictionCollection: Lovely Little Planet by Sandra McDonald
If your Christmas season hasn’t been quite apocalyptic enough, treat your shelf to Sandra McDonald’s great little collection Lovely…
December 24, 2015 -
Life, WritingWorldcon 2015
I have a sketchy, sporadic, and awkward history with science fiction conventions. My first was in Niagara Falls, a…
August 26, 2015 -
Fiction, Film, Science FictionCollection: Antiquities and Tangibles by Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt’s collection Antiquities and Tangibles & Other Stories (2013) gathers twenty-three stories and a poem, most of them…
April 7, 2014 -
Life, WritingWisCon 2013
Last night Jenn and I got home from Madison, Wisconsin, where we attended WisCon 37 and spent time with…
May 27, 2013 -
Comics, Fantasy, FictionNovel: After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn is another Futurismic contributor who’s gone on to bigger and better things. One of the more recent…
May 18, 2013 -
Fantasy, Fiction, Science FictionCollection: The Wizard of Macatawa and Other Stories by Tom Doyle
Tom Doyle is one of the few writers whose work I first encountered not in published form, but through…
May 3, 2013 -
Fiction, Science FictionNovel: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
When I was editing the fiction section at Futurismic, I had a serious aversion to stories involving aliens and/or…
March 21, 2013 -
Fantasy, Fiction, Science FictionCollection: Fall Into Time by Douglas Lain
After reading the quick little collection Fall Into Time (2011), I think Douglas Lain may be one of my…
September 21, 2012 -
Film, Science FictionNovel: Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh
When I was the fiction editor at Futurismic, I was lucky to see several excellent submissions from Will McIntosh,…
July 6, 2012 -
WritingThe Year in Writing 2010
Professionally, 2010 was a pretty shitty year. My second year in a row of no fiction sales, which is…
December 31, 2010 -
FuturismicFuturismic Fiction for December: “World in Progress” by Lori Ann White
Well, this is a bittersweet moment: it’s time announce the last Futurismic story of the year. It’s a sad…
December 1, 2010