Some moon-related books

I was too young to remember much of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. My main memory Continue reading →

The Wall Around the World (collection) by Theodore R. Cogswell

Like most readers, I have a large stack of books in my to-be-read pile. Some have sat there for an Continue reading →

Cosmonaut X by Arthur Wyatt and Laurence Campbell

Happy Yuri’s Night! It’s the fifty-sixth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin making history as the first man to travel into space Continue reading →

Baby Doll by Johanna Sinisalo

It’s a common lament that childhood is increasingly fleeting, that all too soon children become aware of the sexualized world. Continue reading →

The Muses of Shuyedan-18 by Indrapramit Das

Giant monsters are more commonly found on the big screen than in literature. Outside of fairy tale giants and arguably 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 →

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 →

Mongoose by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear

Imagine you’re a writer and you’ve just invented a race of 90ft humanoid rabbits with osmium bones. What do you Continue reading →