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Fascinating! Daniel, would you consider doing a blog about SF and Jews? This strikes me as a very rich vein for analysis.

Snap, Mike! I was thinking of calling the imaginary spaceship the “Capricorn.” Too obvious? The hardest difference to fake of course would be the gravity. Not sure how I’m going to get around that one. Maybe […]

Thank you for this closely-reasoned comment, Morgana! I agree that fiction is a mirror of society, and not just that, an engine of society too. That’s why these things matter so much.

My own reasoning could […]

Very intriguing excerpt, Douglas! I get more of a horror than an urban fantasy vibe until we switch to Gwyn’s point of view. I like that his dog is called Gelert.

You’ve given me another great idea for a scam, er I mean a story, J. Jay! They only pretend to fly them to Mars … and actually land them in Nevada! Then they stay in their coffin condos forever in the belief […]

This is a very insightful rumination, CE. The absence of religion from science fiction is one of those constants that one almost takes for granted because it’s so universal. I think many sf societies raise […]

I dunno. Grimdark does need defending these days. I say this as one who loves to read and write it.

Apropos of which: “rainbows made out of kittens that slide into a pot of gold” … is Sykes’s formulation […]

I just wrote a blog about that! (Not scheduled yet.) I ought to go back and add a few lines about the potential for frazzled parents to sign up their offspring

I see! I’ve heard of “name a character after yourself” raffles and such, but Tuckerization is a much neater way of describing the idea.

Marmalade Atkins was the greatest creation of Andrew Davies, an otherwise […]

I love humorous science fiction (Douglas Adams, Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor, and the ultimate science fiction comedy: Marmalade Atkins In Space!) but not in-jokes or puns. So I’m on the fence about this one, but […]

Exactly! Especially Conqueror of the World. Nothing beats genre writing for living that one out.

This was indeed fascinating news but you have slightly misrepresented it. “NASA’s Kepler telescope has discovered three exoplanets that contain water and support life” should be “NASA’s Kepler telescope has […]

I knew someone else would be able to come up with some Lucifer’s Hammer is now on my TBR list.

And! Spookily, I just found a new book called The Last Policeman, by Ben Winters, that has the exact same […]

Fascinating post! I quite agree with you, Juliet: the more diversity, the merrier. But I do rather feel like I’m reading the rebuttal to an argument I haven’t heard, Who are these anti-diversity types who “see […]

Thank you, Jane! Gosh no, I wasn’t aware of “Fox Woman.” (And only vaguely aware of Merritt. That will now be remedied.) I would have loved to see AMAGOI GITSUNE. Was it this performance? […]

Thank you so much, Juliet! Is your thesis publically available? I’d love to have a look at it.