Novel: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway (2017) is a perfect fictional complement to his incisive blog Pluralistic, which I have been inhaling recently with a mixture of rage and awe: rage for the …
Novel: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Hope is in short supply in science fiction these days, which makes novels like Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020) all the more refreshing and necessary. While …
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Novel : Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
These days, everything is political. And when I say that, what I mean is that everything has always been political, but now people with the privilege to live an apolitical …
Novel: New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
One of the aspects of Kim Stanley Robinson’s work I’ve always admired is its inherent optimism: the fact that his characters, despite the many intractable problems facing them, ultimately apply …
Novella: Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine
‘Tis the season for deep-space voyages fraught with peril and calamity! In the wake of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora and Alastair Reynolds’ Slow Bullets comes Dream Houses (2014) by the …
Novel: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
In Aurora (2015), the ever-impressive Kim Stanley Robinson tackles the generation ship story. His spin on this common trope begins in expected ways, rife with Robinson’s familiar characteristics—epic scope, detailed …
Novel: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson’s prolific track record includes three excellent science fiction trilogies: Three Californias, the Mars trilogy, and the Science in the Capitol series.Those works alone probably make him a …