Childhood's End: A Novel

Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the members of an industry trade organization who are the professional peers of the award nominees. For the Nebula, that is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are six […]

When I first encountered it, Childhood’s End completely blew my mind. I was in college, taking what I’d assumed would be a laugher course on science fiction (taught by the extraordinary Terrence Holt, though I didn’t know anything about his writing at the time). Instead of reading for pleasure, I was examining it with an eye toward writing a […]

Most people assume that once a novel is published, that’s it: there’s a permanent record, and it’s too late for do-overs, take-backs, or Orwellian revisions to history. Even in the modern age of digital text that can be revised on a daily basis, most people assume that once you sign off on the proofs of a novel, it’s finished. […]