When I read Spin back in 2005, I was awakened to a whole new world of what science fiction could do. This guy, Robert Charles Wilson, a veteran by any standard yet new to me, balanced the grandly cosmic and the tragically human with a subtlety that’s almost sublime. But when I read his . . . → Read More: Robert Charles Wilson: Vortex
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A couple of years ago, one of Robert J. Sawyer‘s novels was turned into a prime-time television series, in the vein of 24. For fans of the science fiction writer who missed it, this may come as a surprise. Sawyer novels are interesting, perhaps even epic, but what they are not is action-packed. And . . . → Read More: Robert J. Sawyer: Triggers Robert J. Sawyer is the Hugo-, Nebula-, and John W. Campbell Award-Winning author of 20 novels and several short story collections. An Ontario native, he can frequently be found as a guest of honour at Science Fiction Conventions around the globe, or online at www.sfwriter.com. Today he talks about literary heroes, science fiction both . . . → Read More: Interview: Robert J. Sawyer and lend a hand with an update. There’s a few things in the hopper worth your time, I think. First up, a fun little book from Glen Cook. Fun? you say? From Glen Cook? Yep. Take a look at Sung in Blood to see what I mean. Ever hear of MI37? Thought not. There’s . . . → Read More: Thought I’d Pop Over Frederik Pohl is nothing if not versatile. A contemporary of Asimov and Clarke, he too started publishing during the pulp explosion of the late 1930s at Amazing Stories and John W. Campbell’s Astounding. Unlike Asimov and some other Golden Age authors, however, he didn’t slow down or stop his output with the New . . . → Read More: Frederik Pohl: Man Plus Baen Books has been releasing new editions of Robert A. Heinlein works for over a decade, at a steadily increasing pace. So far this has included about half of the famed Heinlein juveniles, originally written for Scribner between 1947 and 1958. The latest from Baen is Starman Jones, first published in 1953. Like other . . . → Read More: Robert A. Heinlein: Starman Jones Mike Resnick is one of those writers of speculative fiction who should be a household word. He really should — he’s won five Hugos, been nominated twenty-nine times, has written everything from his own offbeat version of urban fantasy (Stalking the Unicorn and Stalking the Vampire), to science fiction stories “on safari” (Dreamwish Beasts . . . → Read More: About Mike Resnick There are two ways to read Kilimanjaro, Resnick’s slow-following successor to the award-winning Kirinyaga. The first takes the novella at face value, giving the reader an Arthur C. Clarke-like read of intelligent people confronting serious issues with intelligence, conversation, and compromise in the best interests of all. There’s very little shouting, almost no violence, . . . → Read More: Mike Resnick: Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia Mike Resnick may very well be the most awarded science-fiction writer ever — the biography on the back flap of Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks is a list of awards and nominations. That’s it. There is justification for that, and it’s a matter of personal chagrin that, among those writers whom I habitually list as . . . → Read More: Mike Resnick: Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks |
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