Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

We all have a wishlist of things we’d do if time travel were possible. It’s a common human fantasy: who wouldn’t want the ability to wander through history, and, if you’re exceptionally careful about it, even change it? But with great temporal power comes great temporal responsibility—and the huge potential for big mistakes. Paradox-level mistakes. Massive, existence-wiping mistakes. Over the years, science fiction […]

It’s on-trend for 2017: drawing comparisons between the fictional dystopias we read and the geopolitical situation around us—no sooner does an election tip one way or the other, and someone generates a thinkpiece making comparisons to Orwell and Philip K. Dick. But while many of imagined dystopias come close to the one we all experience every day, […]

Chuck Palahniuk is a difficult writer to discuss; even among his fans, there’s great disagreement about which of his books are classics and which are less essential. A writer in possession of a unique and distinct style, a man unafraid of diving down some pretty dark rabbit holes (there have been reports of fainting spells […]

On the one hand, considering all the high-profile epic fantasy sequels we’ve been waiting for oh so patiently, the revelation of a surprise sequel—no waiting!—to one of SFF’s most revered works is exciting stuff. On the other hand, there’s the fact that Burgess abandoned the newly-unearthed book—title: A Clockwork Condition—and considered it unsuccessful, which tempers enthusiasm. […]