
TV: Westworld (Seasons 1-3)
As a property, Westworld had enough things going against it for me – a reboot of an iffy 1970s…
January 23, 2022As a property, Westworld had enough things going against it for me – a reboot of an iffy 1970s…
January 23, 2022Rudy Rucker’s novels of the 1980s were transformative for me, so it was exciting to see that Skyhorse recently…
July 22, 2021The original Blade Runner had a significant enough impact on my development as a science fiction writer that I…
June 8, 2021There’s something cool and interesting going on in Creative Control (2015), a modest but polished sci-fi indie that takes…
January 21, 2019My review of the first season of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, a worthy new addition to the science fiction…
April 19, 2018Well, it’s been a few months, but I’m back in Lightspeed for the April issue with a new media…
April 2, 2018Evocative, remarkable, dazzlingly surreal, spellbinding…with so many possibilities, it’s difficult to choose the superlatives to describe Karin Tidbeck’s brilliant,…
August 7, 2017Until now, I’ve never had so much difficulty writing about something I absolutely loved. But in the case of…
June 8, 2016It’s tempting to say Lydia Millet’s done it again with her novel Sweet Lamb of Heaven (2016), but that…
May 30, 2016The new USA series Mr. Robot bears surface similarities to a number of other shows, but in the end it’s…
September 8, 2015With his second novel, Darin Bradley continues to establish himself as one of SF’s most intriguing new voices. Like…
September 11, 2014There’s a reason I review more spy films than science fiction films; spy films, in my opinion, tend to be…
July 2, 2014If you haven’t read Daryl Gregory yet, maybe Afterparty (2014) will inspire you to get with the program. It’s a…
June 4, 2014Browsing the dealer’s room at WisCon, Absolute Uncertainty (2006) by Lucy Sussex jumped off the shelf at me; I…
August 5, 2013In light of the dopey previews, I was totally prepared to skip Looper (2012) until I saw that Rian…
February 4, 2013