Water Bringer by Mary Rosenblum

You know how westerns often start, with a stranger walking out of the desert into an isolated community. Well, this Continue reading →

When Dickens met Dostoevsky by Eric Naiman

The non-fiction I recommend here appears primarily because it is entertaining. While I say this with every non-fiction article, I Continue reading →

The Moon Moth by Jack Vance

A couple of years ago I was at the Readercon convention listening to a panel on fantasy, where one of Continue reading →

Big Game by T.C. Boyle

I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while. My favorite story by an author who seems incapable of Continue reading →

Arbeitskraft by Nick Mamatas

A steampunk story starring Friedrich Engels. Nope, I haven’t seen that one before. It’s another 1890s. Karl Marx is dead, Continue reading →

Fossils by William H. Keith, Jr

In future fiction it is common to include characters (especially protagonists) who are luddites by the standards of their contemporaries, Continue reading →

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan

There is a creature, the Shadow, call it a vampire. It lives and sleeps in a cocoon in Earth’s orbit. Continue reading →

The Adventure of the Field Theorems by Vonda N. McIntyre

There must be other stories in which Sherlock Holmes meets Arthur Conan Doyle. But I doubt there are many that Continue reading →