Throwback Thursday: Timothy Zahn’s Conquerors’ Trilogy Is Every Bit as Grand as Thrawn
If your a sci-fi fan of a certain age, when you hear the name Timothy Zahn, you tend to think of…
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Throwback Thursday: Your Animorphs Required Reading List
Decades after it was first released, Animorphs remains a sci-fi epic on a scale unequaled by any other young-adult franchise…
Throwback Thursday: Making Universes with Philip José Farmer
Given a career spanning 60 years and as many novels, Philip José Farmer’s science fiction and fantasy work covers a…
Throwback Thursday: Real World Horrors at the Heart of Warchild
The book was Warchild, by a debut author named Karin Lowachee. The place was YMCA Camp Abnaki, where I worked as…
Throwback Thursday: Saying No to Death in The Sandman
There’s a scene in Season of Mists, the fourth volume of The Sandman, when a boy who’s been murdered by…
Throwback Thursday: Writing is Magic in Fool on the Hill
Writing is magic. I’ll believe it until the day I die (and bite anyone on the nose if they say different).…
Throwback Thursday: Crazy/Sexy/Spock—Sonni Cooper on Her Vintage Star Trek Novel Black Fire
In the early ’90s, riding my bicycle to my local library in Mesa, Arizona yielded more than just good exercise.…
Throwback Thursday: To Catch a King, or the Novarian Series, by L. Sprague de Camp
Let’s harken back to a less complicated time, a time when fantasy books didn’t have to be dark and gloomy,…
Throwback Thursday: The Tartar Steppe and the Birth of Magical Realism
Dino Buzzati knew how to tell a stirring story, and to do it in a way no one had ever…
Throwback Thursday: David Eddings, Fantasy Gateway Drug
The Belgariad was my gateway drug into fantasy fiction. As a pre-teen, I was already into sci-fi, but epic fantasy wasn’t something that interested…
Throwback Thursday: Pressing Your Luck in Frederik Pohl’s Gateway
Frederik Pohl is a certified science fiction legend: A multi-award winner. A distinguished editor. The man credited with bringing Samuel R.…
Throwback Thursday: Riding the Midnight Meat Train with Clive Barker
In the mid-1980s Stephen King famously proclaimed, “I have seen the future of horror; his name is Clive Barker.” This was…
Throwback Thursday: Modern Myth-Making in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
I’m one of those unfortunate souls who didn’t discover Neil Gaiman through his reputation-making comic series The Sandman. (I think I was pretty…
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Less Speculative Every Day
Editor’s note: In the years since this essay was first published, The Handmaid’s Tale has risen to new prominence: adapted…
Pain and Pleasure in Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel Trilogy
So here’s the thing. The Fifty Shades of Grey movie is coming out next month. We’re apparently already going crazy for…
Throwback Thursday: 5 Non-Canon Star Wars Novels that Are Still Worth Reading
Yesterday saw the release of Marvel’s Star Wars #1, the first comic to take place in the recently rebooted Star…
Throwback Thursday: Guy Gavriel Kay and the Intimate Historical Epic
I was never supposed to find Guy Gavriel Kay. I was 16 or so, it was a Saturday, and I had…