Maybe true utopias are possible, but most science fiction writers suspect that living in perfect peace and harmony will require…
We haven't figured out our morality when it comes to human clones. Should we make them or ban them? Should…
I think author David Wong has invented "trailerpunk"—intelligent, funny, but low-income and low-achieving people save the world in all his…
Sure, all kinds of weirdness and wonder may exist within our solar system, but the feeling of actually traveling out…
The Girl With All the Gifts is a wonderful book, which is odd praise for a story about zombies. But…
Some great books never get the public love we think they deserve. The books below are what I consider the…
Riddley Walker is a unique, fascinating book. It takes places a few thousand years after a nuclear Armageddon in England…
To Say Nothing of the Dog is one of the funniest science fiction books I've ever read. It isn't a…
Science fiction in China was repressed as recently as the 1980s as "spiritual pollution." Fortunately, in the past two decades,…
A while ago I had surgery. Nothing really major, but enough to put me in bed for several days. During…