Category Archives: science fiction

Whither Science Fiction 2022?

Posted on Friday 18 November 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

It’s been obvious for a couple decades that fantasy is outselling science fiction, and dominates the books critics speak of when compile lists of the “best science fiction and fantasy” of the year. Today’s post is about how that is … Continue reading →

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SF Links: Stories and Crashed Spaceships

Posted on Tuesday 15 November 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Two notable items today from the Tor.com website. About stories; about crashed spaceships (loosely).

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Ari Wallach, LONGPATH: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs

Posted on Saturday 5 November 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This is a modest little book with great ambitions to change the way people think. And more power to it if it does. But for anyone who reads science fiction, for example, or is familiar with big issues and long-term … Continue reading →

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One More Round of Links, with no Comments

Posted on Monday 31 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Let’s just compile them with minimal comment. Some are worth returning to. Here’s everything I haven’t already posted since the 1st of October.

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SF and Literary Topics

Posted on Wednesday 26 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, Top Horror Stories, SF for Beginners, the Storytelling Bias, latest NYTBR SF/F reviews, Mathematical fiction

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Alastair Reynolds, “Turquoise Days”

Posted on Sunday 23 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s Sunday novella is “Turquoise Days” by Alastair Reynolds. It was first published in a thin chapbook from Golden Gryphon Press (shown left in the photo above) in 2002, then in a two-novella collection, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, from … Continue reading →

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Ian R. MacLeod, “New Light on the Drake Equation”

Posted on Sunday 16 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s Sunday novella is “New Light on the Drake Equation” by Ian R. MacLeod. It was first published on the (long-gone) website Sci Fiction on May 2, 2001. (The site, edited by Ellen Datlow, won a Hugo Award in … Continue reading →

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Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, and Its Reviews

Posted on Tuesday 11 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This is what would be called a “literary science fiction” novel in that it’s clearly SF yet is written by a writer with a “literary” background rather than one in the SF genre, and so whose approach would be expected … Continue reading →

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Ian McDonald, “Tendeléo’s Story”

Posted on Sunday 9 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s Sunday novella is “Tendeléo’s Story” by Ian McDonald. It was first published as a chapbook by PS Publishing (in the UK), both in hardcover and paperback, in 2000. Subsequently it’s been published, aside from in the Dozois anthologies … Continue reading →

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Greg Egan, “Oceanic”

Posted on Sunday 2 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s Sunday novella is “Oceanic” by Greg Egan. It was first published in the August 1998 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. Subsequently it’s been published, aside from in these Dozois anthologies, in the author’s collections Dark Integers and other … Continue reading →

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