TREASURY OF GREAT SF VOL. 1 CONCLUSION
After a delay, Steve finally finishes his review of Volume 1 of Anthony Boucher’s Treasury of Great Science Fiction from 1959. Surprisingly, most of these 60-plus-year-old stories still hold up!
Review: The Ghost Club by William Meikle
The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror is a unique collection from William Meikle, as if told by some of the most classic voices in literature.
Review: Frankenstein Dreams
Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Science Fiction is a gallery of literary wonder edited by Michael Sims
Science Fiction Romance Readers Talk Favorite Series
Discussion of some of their favourite science fiction romance series by authors and fans.
Amazing Histories, December 1926: Moon-Men and Murders
Amazing Stories closes out its first year of publication with excerpts from novels by H. G. Wells and Garrett O. Serviss, and much, much more.
SHORT FILM REVIEW: Alba Garcia’s TIME/SPACE REFLECTIONS
Steve looks at a brand-new SF/F stop-motion animated short film by the talented film-maker and director Alba Garcia-Rivas.
REVIEWS: John Shirley—Between Genres (Always)
Steve considers two of John Shirley’s different genres: Fantasy Detective and Western!
Crossroads: Society, World-building, and Estrangement in Spy Fiction
Growing up in a household where the legacy of Communism loomed large (my parents had fled Communist Poland during the ’60s), poison-tipped umbrellas and double-or-triple-agents were regular mealtime conversation. And with no James Bond showing […]
Crossroads: I Spy, with My Little Eye…Espionage in Speculative Fiction
Hello and welcome to August! I was away for much of July on a “blogging vacation”, and I very much missed you and our ongoing genre mash-up conversation while I was gone. Now that I’m […]
What’s Your Type?
Does fantasy fiction feed racism? An important distinction between literature and film is often elided. Arthur Conan Doyle on the classification of peoples and my thoughts on the Boston Marathon bombing.
Crossroads: The Cores of Literary Fiction and Speculative Fiction
The relationship between speculative fiction and mainstream literary fiction is complicated by decades of group identity dynamics, mutual ignorance, and overbroad critical generalizations about both genres. However, if we try to put our long-held attitudes […]
Elementary, my dear Watson-bot 2.0!
Crime and punishment. Both words are synonymous with genre fiction. Whether it is the flashy superhero racing to stop the next crisis or the “I’m too old for this shit” beat cop who stumbles upon a global […]
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