Fiction, Science Fiction
Novella: Sea Change by Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress is one of genre fiction’s most accomplished storytellers, so I was excited to get my hands on…
January 30, 2020-
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Fantasy, Non-Fiction, WritingNew Review in the May 2019 Lightspeed
At the risk of this blog starting to sound a little like the Lightspeed channel — well, I seem…
May 2, 2019 -
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, Science FictionNovella: Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress is a consistent source of satisfying core science fiction, and her recent novella Yesterday’s Kin (2014) is…
November 18, 2014 -
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: Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress makes the short fiction thing look easy. Her latest collection is Fountain of Age (2012), an attractive…
December 11, 2012 -
Life, WritingTaos Toolbox 2012
Well, it’s over, I’m back, and what an experience. Taos Toolbox was fantastic. Two weeks off in a row…
June 27, 2012 -
WritingTaos Toolbox and Other Writing Updates
I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned this yet, but I’m going to Taos Toolbox this year! (I’ve been meaning…
April 9, 2012 -
Fiction, Science FictionCollection: Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories by Nancy Kress
One of the publishers-of-choice for high-quality genre fiction collections has got to be Golden Gryphon, and Nano Comes to…
October 30, 2009 -
Fiction, Science FictionAnthology: The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 26th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
I used to follow the year’s best anthology series edited by Gardner Dozois — arguably the annual standard-bearer for…
August 19, 2009 -
Fiction, Science Fiction, ThrillerNovel: Dogs by Nancy Kress
I’ve been a big fan of Nancy Kress’s work for years, particularly her near-future short fiction, and also her…
January 25, 2009