Book Review: The City &...

When I was a kid, if I so much as cracked the cover of a novel I’d generally force myself through the intervening pages no matter how much it might hurt me to do so. Since then I’m much less driven. If a book can’t grab me within the first 30 pages I’ll usually put...

Is Fantasy the New Scie...

Hanging out at Orycon over the weekend I heard a number of people saddened by the fact that fantasy has overtaken science fiction in popular culture. During the last half of the 20th century sci-fi predominated our genre fiction, with a large black monolith waiting at the end of the...