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Given the amount of SF I’ve been consuming lately (“not that there’s anything wrong with that”), I’ve decided to embark on one of the many “reading challenges” that circulate in the blogosphere.
Largely because I first learned of it about the time of my post on foreign literature, I’m going to pursue The Armchair Traveler […]
As I noted upon my return from Readercon, Jim and Kathy Morrow graciously inscribed and gave me their copy of their recent anthology of European SF after I’d forgotten mine at home. I promised to send my copy to replace theirs.
I e-mailed Jim after I returned to get a mailing address. I hadn’t heard […]
It’s one of the sound bites that seems to have continuing resonance: Democrats, particularly liberals, love to “tax and spend.” Yet as reflected in Daniel Brook’s The Trap, the kernel of truth that lies in the epithet is that what liberals really advocate is fair taxation with spending tailored to needs that benefit the nation […]
There’s been a variety of talk about post-9/11 literature in the U.S. Several novels, most recently Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, have explored the territory. Still, two recent releases by British SF authors Brian Aldiss and Ken MacLeod made me realize they seem to be most directly addressing and questioning the impact of 9/11 and the […]
Although certainly the exception and not the rule, science fiction is sometimes viewed as little more than the American western set in space. It tends to stem from placing characters with an independent streak as pioneers or settlers in new frontiers. If you imagine this trope placed in the hands of a British professor of […]
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