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Review: <em>Accelerando</em> by Charles Stross

Accelerando moves like a bat out of hell and made me afraid that the future’s going to tear us all…

10 years ago

Science Fiction Summer Reading List

Sometimes you just want something fun to read while you slowly roast yourself on a beach, gentle waves constantly committing…

10 years ago

Review: <em>The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown</em> by Nicholas Ponticello

Like his earlier book Do Not Resuscitate, Ponticello’s prose reads like a less-angry Vonnegut. However, in The Maiden Voyage of…

10 years ago

27 Best First Contact Books

We're all waiting for this moment, the instant we know for sure that we're not alone in this big, cold…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Flowers for Algernon</em> by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon is a beautiful, human book, with a little science fiction thrown in. It examines morals and ethics…

10 years ago

Review: <i>The Fall of the Towers</i> by Samuel R. Delany

Despite the title, this isn't about 9/11. The three books in this collection were written in the sixties. They don’t…

10 years ago

19 Funniest Science Fiction Books

It takes a steady hand to write a science fiction story that's exciting, interesting, and funny as hell. Or maybe…

10 years ago

21 Best Mars Science Fiction Books

Even though Venus is the most Earth-like planet (despite it being hot enough to melt lead), Mars feels like a…

10 years ago

31 Best Soft Science Fiction Books

Soft science fiction tends to focus more on people and relationships than on technical details; more on humanity than technology…

10 years ago

17 Best Pulp Science Fiction Books

Pulp science fiction does not try to be literature. Pulp's lurid and ridiculous plots usually involve buxom damsels rescued by…

10 years ago