Parable of the Sower

My dad once told me the story of his brother contracting polio in the post–World War II epidemic. My grandma was pregnant, and she was forced to leave her 4-year-old child in the hospital for a month, unable to risk contracting the disease—for both herself and the unborn baby who ended up being my dad. The story of […]

School’s out for the year, the weather has broken into full blown summer, all mosquitoes and sunburn, and I’ve become intensely nostalgic for summer vacation, those long months when I was made out of nothing but time. Man, but did I get some reading done, huddled in front of a fan on those days it […]

One could argue that the global rise of science fiction across almost every entertainment medium has something to do with the way the world seems to be hurtling toward a science fiction future, from technological breakthroughs, to extended lifespans, to, less cheerily, horrific climate change. Between endless wildfires, deep droughts, and annual superstorms, it’s easy to start looking at apocalyptic as […]

Writing is often a long and difficult process, and, tragically, sometimes readers never get to see the fruits of an author’s labor. In compiling this list of a baker’s dozen SF/F books likely never to see the light of day, we’re discounting those long-overdue books that we’ve know are being written and will likely eventually be published (in other […]