On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Series #1)

The only more thrilling than a well-told story of tactics, weapons, and heroic soldiers is a well-told story of tactics, weapons, heroic soldiers, and space aliens. The best military science-fiction is just that—a combination of pulse-pounding war story adventure and widescreen intergalactic scope—and can often be a gateway for non-SF fans to get into the genre. […]

You don’t have to live in a far-future dystopia to understand that corporations, those polished mechanisms of capitalism, have the capacity for evil, but it’s a lot more fun when we can imagine them committing truly outlandish sci-fi atrocities, rather than the everyday mundane bad decisions that add up to financial and environmental disaster on […]

Invariably, when the topic of galactic empires comes up, someone will reference Star Wars—the muddy details of the Empire’s economy and structure, maybe a few pointed jokes about trade disputes. Yet as cool as some of the principal officials of the Empire’s vast bureaucracy are (do we ever find out Darth Vader’s official title? Does he […]

As anyone who has ever used the Internet knows, cats are everything. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, more than 36 U.S. million households sport a feline companion. Where dogs are blindly loyal, a cat’s ambivalence speaks of alien wisdom. That’s likely why there are so many great cats in sci-fi and fantasy: if your cat […]