The title of this post is my considered response to Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End. It was my response when I first read it at twelve, and it’s still my response reading it to…

Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free. “Our authors and re…

The Hero and the Crown isn’t a title that leads you to expect anything unusual, but the novel attached to it is very different from a standard fantasy in some interesting ways. It was publish…

If the medium is indeed the message then it seems like the crossover of a prose writer into the world of screenwriting would be as extreme as a unicorn turning into a panda. And though we can conce…

Concept artist Mark Molnar has been having some fun doing some Dune speed paintings as a personal project…. Makes us wish some studio would give the movie another go.

The Daily Express is claiming today that a “mole” in the Doctor Who camp has revealed that we’re getting a female Twelfth Doctor in the form of Sherlock alum Lara Pulver after a M…

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Andre Norton Award. Needless to say, Tor.…

Blackout and All Clear are one book, conveniently bound in two volumes. Don’t read them out of order, don’t read one without the other. In 1982, Connie Willis wrote a novelette called Firewatch. It…

The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon’s daughter Iphigenia — and how does a human girl beco…

Beautiful story, but painful. Sad.

In a universe of harsh interstellar conflict, the practice of interspecies diplomacy — when possible — is important. So being a Colonial Union officer attached to an interplanetary dipl…

A contemporary tale of love in all its forms — and of one robot’s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms.