Trans-Siberia: An Account of a Journey by Sarah Brooks

The long-distance train journey is an excellent environment for a story. Whenever you travel long enough to require sleeping berths, Continue reading →

Clarion West Write-a-thon 2015

It feels like it was only a few months ago, but it was back in 2012 that I attended the Continue reading →

The Billiard Ball by Isaac Asimov

Recently I’ve been reading The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (and I may talk about it later, if I feel Continue reading →

The Bound Man by Ilse Aichinger

Here’s an idea I had a while ago for a series of columns: take two completely unrelated stories that happen Continue reading →

The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin

You might have noticed things have been sporadic here for a while. The truth is, this website is an outlet Continue reading →

Esther Gordon Framlingham by Anthony Mann

While I don’t deny that Google’s wholesale scanning of books is a flagrant abuse of copyright and all that, I Continue reading →

A Word Shaped Like Bones by Kris Millering

There is a recurring setting in short SF fiction – frequent enough to be noticeable, but rare enough that I Continue reading →

Touchstone by Terry Carr

The ‘be careful what you wish for’ story has been a staple of folk tales long before such classics as Continue reading →