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 →

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 →

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 →

Ender’s Game (novelette) by Orson Scott Card

So, Ender’s Game. I hear there’s a film out. I recall it was an enjoyable little novel, albeit nowhere near Continue reading →

Spar (The Bacon Remix) by Kij Johnson

Note: if you haven’t read the original Spar story (which I talk about here), you’re not going to understand much Continue reading →

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 →

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 →