Strange at Ecbatan

I've been asked, a few times, to produce lists of my favorite short science fiction stories. I did that once (at least) on rec.arts.sf.w...

Today is Canadian writer Matthew Johnson's birthday. He has published a couple of dozen stories, mostly in the decade between 2005 and 2...

Donald Westlake was born July 12, 1933, and died on the last day of 2008. He was one of the great crime writers of the last half of the 20th...

Today is Karen Russell's birthday. Russell is an exceptional writer, not associated with in-genre SF/Fantasy, but a significant amount o...

Birthday Review: Capsules on some of Robert A. Heinlein's juveniles Robert Heinlein was born 112 years ago today, in my state (Missour...

Today is John Langan's 50th birthday. I don't review him enough, I think, probably because he's a horror writer -- but he's ...

I wrote this pair of essentially capsule reviews of two early short "novels" by Spanish writers a dozen or so years ago. I've ...