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 …
Lightspeed Review: Devs & Years and Years
Neither of the shows I reviewed in this month’s Lightspeed are likely to lift your spirits much …
Collection: Collected Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi is a remarkable writer. Even at his most difficult—for sometimes, indeed, he’s a …
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Collection: Lovely Little Planet by Sandra McDonald
If your Christmas season hasn’t been quite apocalyptic enough, treat your shelf to Sandra McDonald’s …
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Worldcon 2015
I have a sketchy, sporadic, and awkward history with science fiction conventions. My first was …
Collection: Antiquities and Tangibles by Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt’s collection Antiquities and Tangibles & Other Stories (2013) gathers twenty-three stories and a …
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Novel: After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn is another Futurismic contributor who’s gone on to bigger and better things. One …
Collection: 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 …
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Novel: 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 …
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Collection: Fall Into Time by Douglas Lain
After reading the quick little collection Fall Into Time (2011), I think Douglas Lain may …
Novel: Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh
When I was the fiction editor at Futurismic, I was lucky to see several excellent …
The Year in Writing 2010
Professionally, 2010 was a pretty shitty year. My second year in a row of no …
Futurismic 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 …
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Sci-Fi vs. Spy-Fi
For most of my creative life I’ve considered myself, first and foremost, a science fiction …