
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, 2022Sometimes it’s impossible to turn off your internal editor/writer brain when you’re reading, and while that can be horribly…
December 17, 2022Neither of the shows I reviewed in this month’s Lightspeed are likely to lift your spirits much (OH, THE DARKNESS), but…
September 17, 2020It’s been an inward year of going to work and staying home and not much else, really — partly…
August 28, 2018Hannu Rajaniemi is a remarkable writer. Even at his most difficult — for sometimes, indeed, he’s a tricky writer…
January 23, 2017If your Christmas season hasn’t been quite apocalyptic enough, treat your shelf to Sandra McDonald’s great little collection Lovely…
December 24, 2015I have a sketchy, sporadic, and awkward history with science fiction conventions. My first was in Niagara Falls, a…
August 26, 2015Tim Pratt’s collection Antiquities and Tangibles & Other Stories (2013) gathers twenty-three stories and a poem, most of them…
April 7, 2014Last night Jenn and I got home from Madison, Wisconsin, where we attended WisCon 37 and spent time with…
May 27, 2013Carrie Vaughn is another Futurismic contributor who’s gone on to bigger and better things. One of the more recent…
May 18, 2013Tom Doyle is one of the few writers whose work I first encountered not in published form, but through…
May 3, 2013When I was editing the fiction section at Futurismic, I had a serious aversion to stories involving aliens and/or…
March 21, 2013After reading the quick little collection Fall Into Time (2011), I think Douglas Lain may be one of my…
September 21, 2012When I was the fiction editor at Futurismic, I was lucky to see several excellent submissions from Will McIntosh,…
July 6, 2012Professionally, 2010 was a pretty shitty year. My second year in a row of no fiction sales, which is…
December 31, 2010Well, this is a bittersweet moment: it’s time announce the last Futurismic story of the year. It’s a sad…
December 1, 2010