Spar by Kij Johnson

I’m attaching a NSFW warning to this; while this may not be the first story on this website to include Continue reading →

Snatch Me Another by Mercurio D. Rivera

A venerable type of SF story is one that takes contemporary life, adds a single new invention or technology for Continue reading →

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 →

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (part 2)

If you haven’t read part one, that would be a sensible place to start. When we left, Gurgeh was on Continue reading →

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (part 1)

Today I’m going to break my own rules. You see, at the time of writing Iain Banks has recently died. Continue reading →

The Nostalginauts by S.N. Dyer

This falls into the ‘it would be fun if this existed’ category of speculative fiction. Although set in the modern 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 →

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 →