Elysium Fire is a solid, interesting mystery with Reynold’s typical fantastic worldbuilding and strong characters. However, several issues made this…
As a straight white middle-aged male, I’ve often felt like science fiction’s target demographic. Most SF feels like it’s aimed…
Author Alastair Reynolds isn’t afraid of big, strange ideas, and he puts on a parade of them in House of…
Nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in 1975, The Mote in God’s Eye has not aged particularly well.…
A ship, powered by a tame black hole, is on a multi-million year mission to place wormholes throughout the galaxy,…
Like his earlier book Do Not Resuscitate, Ponticello’s prose reads like a less-angry Vonnegut. However, in The Maiden Voyage of…
Far future science fiction (usually meaning about 10,000 years from now) is the most optimistic SF subgenre because it assumes…
Written almost 50 years ago, Dune is the world’s best-selling science fiction novel. As recently as 2012, the readers…