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To quote Rod Serling: “Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.” Literature that deals with science and technology, usually (but not always) set in a future setting. Or, at least, a future as imagined by somebody in the recent past. Sub-genres include Hard SF and Soft SF, along with cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, alternate history, and space opera (with its sub-genres science fantasy, planetary romance, and swords & planets).

In Memoriam – Gene Wolfe

2019-04-22

Science fiction grandmaster Gene Wolfe passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Obituaries and other articles are quick to point …

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Unholy Land – Lavie Tidhar

2018-11-05

Mystery writer Lior Tirosh is sucked into a mystery rivaling one of his own creations when he returns to his homeland Palestina, a Jewish homeland in East Africa.

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Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1

2018-10-22

Do you ever read something and go “I don’t know what the hell that was, but I liked it?” That …

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Through Darkest America – Neal Barrett Jr.

2018-10-02

Howie Ryder’s pastoral childhood is torn from him as a brutal civil war comes home, sending him on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wilderness of Darkest America.

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In Memoriam – Harlan Ellison

2018-07-05

A week ago today, Harlan Ellison passed away at the age of 84. The author had suffered a stroke and …

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Copperhead, Vol. 2

2018-06-19

Space western with a new sheriff in town! After the interesting if uneventful first volume introduces the main characters, things …

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Copperhead, Vol. 1

2018-06-11

After seeing the high praise from Robert Kirkman and Brian K. Vaughn, I was really expecting this one to wow …

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Cryptozoic! – Brian Aldiss

2017-12-26

Pulled from the forests of the Jurassic as an artist, called back to a totalitarian dystopia, trained to kill, and sent back into the past—Eddie Bush has become an unlikely assassin with an unpredictable future.

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Bitch Planet, Vol. 1

2017-09-07

“In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman’s failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy.”

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Bring the Jubilee – Ward Moore

2017-07-02

An alternate history that posits a Southern victory in the American Civil War, leading to a reconstructed North living in the shadow of a Southern empire.

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“Lot” and “Lot’s Daughter” – Ward Moore

2017-06-20

In the aftermath of nuclear war, a man named Jimmon sees all his built-up middle-class resentment explode in civilization’s twilight. Yet Jimmon reaps what he sows…

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