“And it all goes to show just how strange Robert A. Heinlein was.
From a devoutly religious upbringing, we have a teenager who threw off religious belief and embraced atheism at a time when this would have been profoundly shocking. From the 1920s we have an enthusiastic practitioner of free love and “companionate” (read: open) marriage—in [...]
Continue reading about Through a backward telescope: Heinlein’s context – Charles Stross
SR-71 Blackbird from NASA photo archive.
Look after the uploads, robot.
3 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3690/full
Click DNA removal me.
3 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3673/full
“So the manifold delights and pleasures of that rollicking novel The High Crusade came as no surprise, back there in 1960, and those of us who were on the scene then raced through the three installments of the magazine serialization as fast as we could pry them out of John Campbell. ”
3.5 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/poul-andersons-the-high-crusade-an-appreciation-by-robert-silverberg
Continue reading about Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade: An Appreciation – Robert Silverberg
Blew it up. Woops.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3710/full
“She approached the Jaguar’s body, which was already dwindling and decaying and slumping-in on itself. She knelt, peering at the wreckage, until she spied the seed at its heart, a carving of a jaguar in black glass, about half life-sized. That had been the focus for Mutex’s spell – the foundation for the god’s body, [...]
““So what’s the Mason’s deal, exactly?” Nicolette said, retaking her seat. “She wants to exterminate all life?”
Crapsey turned his chair upright and sat back down. “Nah. Not all life. Things that aren’t sentient don’t bother her much, though she doesn’t have any particular affection for them. It’s mostly people she can’t stand, and dolphins. Practically [...]
The Curse of Capistrano – Johnston McCulleyhttp://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/markzorro.htm
Repression and oppressive taxation grows in one corner of California. Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word ‘fop’ if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it.
As one of the local military says “he is about as dangerous as a lizard basking in [...]
Continue reading about The Curse of Capistrano 01 – Johnston McMulley
Bomb choices, no diff.
3 out of 5
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1597801844/1597801844___6.htm
Continue reading about A Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions – Kim Stanley Robinson
Sleep pain.
3 out of 5
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1597801844/1597801844___3.htm
“Watts: For sure. It’s a tired cliche that science fiction is “the literature of ideas,” and a lot of science fictional ideas for all their coolness don’t have the strength to carry a whole novel. Short stories serve an essential purpose as the one-line jokes of science fiction.
They’re also a valuable proving ground for novels-in-progress. [...]
“Robinson, whose novels have won 11 major science fiction awards, also advocated for writers to rise to the challenge of depicting utopian futures.
“The truth is it’s really hard to write those kind of stories and we don’t see enough of them,” he said.
“Because of the utopian problem – the blueprint is boring whereas the disaster [...]
Continue reading about Still betting on utopia – Kim Stanley Robinson
“I was actually there to promote my first anthology, Killers. And in fact when I met Marco (Marc Gascoigne, Editorial Director of Angry Robot) in the bar, I was so preoccupied with the missing copies of the anthology – which were stuck in a warehouse seventy five miles away, with the hotel and the courier [...]
Continue reading about Angry Robot Author Interview – Colin Harvey
“What got you attracted to Carter Brown in the first place?
Carter Brown is the person about whom I talk the most because he is probably the best known of all Australian writers. It started, as most research projects do, from a very simple question – who is Australia’s most *popular* author…my colleagues at the University [...]
Wu expedition game over.
4 out of 5
http://futurismic.com/2010/09/01/new-fiction-in-pacmandu-by-lavie-tidhar/
The Dune Encyclopedia – Frank HerbertAn overview of the places, people and technology in the Dune universe. This explains a lot of the detail of things that Herbert just mentions in passing, such as the scientists that invented shields, or space travel, or things like that.
It is very useful to gain a better understanding [...]
Continue reading about The Dune Encyclopedia – Frank Herbert
“You’ve announced that you’re next releases will be a short story collection, Manhattan in Reverse, and a stand alone novel in a brand new setting, Great North Road. Can you reveal anything about these two yet and what readers can expect from them?
The collection is every short story and novella I’ve written since Second Chance [...]
Continue reading about Walker of Worlds Interview – Peter F. Hamilton
Boson rifled.
2.5 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/the-speed-of-time?j=24607638&e=john@sfsignal.com&l=15162145_HTML&u=282302383&mid=83886&jb=0
“The demon let out a blood-curdling shriek. Even though his mask muffled his voice, the cry was so sudden, so shocking, that Haakon felt like he had been struck by lightning. His muscles jumped and he couldn’t think straight enough to react to the flickering steel lunging toward his face. Instinctively Haakon took a passing [...]
If an actual director and film company with a clue had the rights to the movie when a certain actress was in her prime, we might have had tie-in editions like this :-
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – What Might Have Been
““As I explained to Gail earlier, we ended up divided. Half of Black Lodge wanted to enact an old ritual that called for the sacrifice of a human infant. Summoning Leviathan and Behemoth—opening a doorway for them to enter our world, required the sacrifice of an infant. A number of our members believed that banishing [...]
““There are thirteen entities—supernatural beings—neither demon nor angel, but something far older and far more powerful, whose only goal is the complete destruction of all creation and existence. They are older than our universe and they intend to be here still when our universe is gone. Are any of you familiar with string theory or [...]
“6. You have recently embarked on a new project, an e-publishing venture called Wizard’s Tower Press and Kevin is one of your business partners in that, isn’t he? Can you explain what Wizard’s Tower Press is all about?
It is a long story, but for complicated reasons involving travel to the USA I found myself needing [...]
“Elizabeth Hand: Well, to me they never seemed all that transgressive, to tell you the truth. I was a tomboy as a kid—I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy—and up until I was about six I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed [...]
“How did you get involved with science fiction blog i09? How has becoming an influential blogger changed your relationship to the field?
Annalee Newitz and I were putting out other magazine, a print magazine whose theme was not having a theme, for five years from 2002 to 2007. We published people like Rudy Rucker and Terry [...]
“Can you remember the first time you became aware of werewolves? Tell me about that first encounter.
When I was a kid my Aunt Darlene used to tell me stories that would scare me senseless. She was only seven years older than I was, so she was more like an older sister than an aunt. One [...]
Continue reading about Interview with author of Werewolves – Paul Jessup
Old flame’s Miskatonic Jersey hillbilly transformation.
4 out of 5
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_150_Paul_Di_Filippo.mp3
Old flame’s Miskatonic Jersey hillbilly transformation.
4 out of 5
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_No_149_Adam_Troy_Castro.mp3
“Q1. As a Canadian, you has lived teaching English literature in a korean univ. over 7 years and also written Science Fiction. I heard You had been nominated in John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009 Worldcon. Would you explain briefly about your nominated title?
Yes, I’m Canadian and I’ve been in [...]
“But even without sex, swordplay isn’t the hottest thing on Mars. Outside the polar regions, everyone runs around essentially naked. The universal Martian costume is the “harness,” an arrangement of straps and belts designed for little more than supporting weapons and ornaments. While Martian women may be oviparous, Burroughs makes clear that they can easily [...]
Skills upload space rebuild.
4 out of 5
http://futurismic.com/2010/08/02/new-fiction-or-we-will-all-hang-separately-by-nancy-jane-moore/
Continue reading about Or We Will All Hang Separately – Nancy Jane Moore
Not Placid.
3 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/what-makes-a-river
“One of the things this series of posts has dealt with in the past is how hard it can be sometimes to find queer speculative fiction, especially when the big presses seem to actively avoid “outing” their books in flap copy. The endless search doesn’t have to be the default for readers seeking queer SFF, [...]
Continue reading about Queering SFF: An Interview with Editor – Steve Berman
Just a million year exploitation job.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/the-fermi-paradox-is-our-business-model
Continue reading about The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model – Charlie Jane Anders
An introduction piece – there are a whole bunch of followups :- and this ha links to them.
“On August 17, Tor Books will publish the first half of William H. Patterson Jr.’s two-volume authorized biography of Robert A. Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1, 1907-1948: Learning Curve. In commemoration of [...]
Continue reading about Robert A. Heinlein: The Tor.com Blog Symposium – Patrick Nielsen Hayden
The same average as the last issue, but this time in the form of three average and one very good. Several non-fiction pieces again, touching on time travel and airships for example – elements of the couple of the stories.
Lightspeed 2 : No Time Like the Present – Carol Emshwiller
Lightspeed 2 : Manumission – Tobias [...]
Time trip drug user.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/for-a-single-yesterday/
Continue reading about For A Single Yesterday – George R. R. Martin
Long accomodation.
3 out of 5
.http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-zeppelin-conductors-society-annual-gentlemens-ball/
Much cheaper in the past.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/no-time-like-the-present/
Continue reading about No Time Like the Present – Carol Emshwiller
A reasonable start with two 3’s and two 3.5’s and some non-fiction.
Lightspeed 1 : I’m Alive I Love You I’ll See You in Reno – Vylar Kaftan
Lightspeed 1 : The Cassandra Project – Jack McDevitt
Lightspeed 1 : Cats in Victory – David Barr Kirtley
Lightspeed 1 : Amaryllis – Carrie Vaughn
Missed connections.
3 out of 5
Alien bad [...]
Getting a banner kid.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/amaryllis/
Monkeyman, dogmen moggie incarnation.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cats-in-victory/
Alien bad news hid.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cassandra-project/
Continue reading about The Cassandra Project – Jack McDevitt
Missed connections.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/im-alive-i-love-you/
Continue reading about I’m Alive I Love You I’ll See You In Reno – Vylar Kaftan
Clearly one of the worst issues so far. Nothing of interest in any of it.
Clarkesworld 47 : Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time – Catherynne M. Valente
Clarkesworld 47 : Messenger – Julia M Sidorova
The Other Side.
2 out of 5
In the beginning was too far from the end.
2.5 out of 5
1 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_47
The Other Side.
2 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sidorova_08_10/
In the beginning was too far from the end.
2.5 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/
Continue reading about Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Space/time – Catherynne M. Valente
An interesting article on keeping a closed ecosystem going with a view to space travel.
Good to see stuff like the Kanakia, too.
Clarkesworld 46 : Beach Blanket Spaceship – Sandra McDonald
Clarkesworld 46 : The Association of the Dead – Rahul Kanakia
Vee-Real, Pops.
3 out of 5
Code Song sumith.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_07_10/
Code Song sumith.
3.5 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_07_10/
Continue reading about The Association Of The Dead – Raul Kanakia
Vee-Real, Pops.
3 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mcdonald_07_10/
Continue reading about Beach Blanket Spaceship – Sandra McDonald
Nothing makes it above ordinary here.
Apex Magazine 15 : Fair Ladies – Theodora Goss
Apex Magazine 15 : Four Is Me! With Squeeeeee! – Nick Mamatas
Apex Magazine 15 : Secret Life – Jeff VanderMeer
Back to Malo.
3 out of 5
State of ruin.
2 out of 5
Cleaning out the shadow chamber.
3 out of 5
2 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/
State of ruin.
2 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/08/short-story-four-is-me-with-squeeeeee-and-loler-by-nick-mamatas/
Continue reading about Four Is Me! With Squeeeeee! And LOLer! – Nick Mamatas
Back to Malo.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/08/short-story-fair-ladies-by-theodora-goss/
Nothing of interest here except the Sanford – apart from the fact that the last is styled as a puzzle, so may be a bit of fun.
Apex Magazine 14 : Apex Magazine 14 – Jason Sizemore
Apex Magazine 14 : Artifact – Peter Atwood
Apex Magazine 14 : Shrödinger’s Pussy – Terra LeMay
Apex Magazine 14 : Here [...]
Alien door test.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-end-of-the-line-a-puzzle-reprint-by-susannah-mandel/
Continue reading about End Of The Line: A Puzzle – Susannah Mandel
Remade girl brains.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-those-below-reprint-by-jeremy-c-shipp/
Love problem.
2 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-shrodingers-pussy-by-terra-lemay/
“I did by chance run into Jack Williamson, briefly, at the first-ever Worldcon in 1939, which was in the same summer as New York’s first World’s Fair — and which Donald Wollheim had proposed we New York fans should use as the opportunity to convene a World Science Fiction Convention in the hope that it [...]
Continue reading about Jack the Wonderful Williamson 2 – Frederik Pohl
“My dear friend Jack Williamson, who died a few years ago, was ten or eleven years older than I, and I didn’t actually meet him — in the flesh, that is, though I certainly knew and revered him through his wonderful stories — until he was an elderly 30 and I was 19, and just [...]
Continue reading about Jack the Wonderful Williamson 1 – Frederik Pohl
““Beyond the Sunrise” is the unofficial title afforded an unfinished Kull story that did not see print until over forty years after the author’s death. Its significance is due largely to the fact that it was the first of four widely differing attempts to continue the Kull series following the publication of both “The Shadow [...]
Continue reading about Robert E. Howard: Anatomy of a Creative Crisis – William Patrick Maynard
Old flame’s Miskatonic Jersey hillbilly transformation.
4 out of 5
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_No_148_Lucius_Shepard.mp3
Kid memory maker machine.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-artifact-by-peter-atwood/
A very mixed bag with one very good story by Jeff Carlson.
Apex Magazine 13 : Laika’s Dream – Holly Hight
Apex Magazine 13 : Sol Asleep – Naomi Libicki
Apex Magazine 13 : Long Eyes – Jeff Carlson
Apex Magazine 13 : The Thing in the Refrigerator That Could Stop Time – Matthew Kressel
Dead energy test.
2.5 out of [...]
Coffin space bribe.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/06/short-fiction-sol-asleep-by-naomi-libicki/
Dead energy test.
2.5 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/06/short-fiction-laikas-dream-by-holly-hight/
“Many people who read science fiction also read comic books, but not all and that’s a shame. There are a lot of really good comics out there that are worth the time to read. To find out which ones, we asked our panelists this question:
Q: Comic books have be garnering more public attention in recent [...]
Continue reading about MIND MELD: Comics For Science Fiction Fans – J. P. Frantz
“Battles were fought and won based on the strength and keenness of blades as well as the ability to use them effectively. Bob Howard was not only interested in the various types of swords, he was also fascinated with the history they represented. In his poetry and his stories, he uses his knowledge of weapons, [...]
Continue reading about Robert E. Howard: The Sword Collector and His Poetry – Barbara Barrett
“As editor, what were you looking for in these stories?
What I wasn’t looking for, and has been done already, is an outsiders, ironic take on superheroes. I didn’t want stories that poked fun at the genre with a wink and a nudge. I wanted stories that would be recognizable and appealing to today’s sophisticated reader [...]
Continue reading about Editor of Masked Talks Superhero Fiction – Lou Anders
“Beyond such a fortunate coincidence, however, the appearance of academic characters in weird narratives seems to me to serve a couple of ends. There’s the obvious device of furthering the plot in terms of exposition of crucial information. There’s also the less obvious — I’d almost call it a symptom of the weird narrative’s vexed [...]
Continue reading about The Secret to Writing Is Writing: A Conversation with – John Langan
“My question for the author would be: The Absence is interesting, and bringing up star dams, I figured that somebody or something had managed to just put Dyson spheres around all the stars, on their way to being a Kardashev type III after having perfected type II. The fact that opening a wormhole could [...]
Continue reading about Author Fields Your Questions! – Alastair Reynolds
Werewolf trial.
3 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/07/the-cage
““You really killed one of these beasts?” She was watching him keenly now, he knew. “With that blade you carry? Now that is remarkable.”
“I suppose so. As I said, I did have help.”
“Even so. Are you not proud?”
Ringil grimaced. “If you’d seen some of the other things I’ve done [...]
Continue reading about The Cold Commands Draft Excerpt – Richard Morgan
Retrograde boy view.
3 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3595/full
“In many ways, though, it’s not just a science-fiction novel, right? Most of the technology you describe, at least in terms of non-biological technology, is older than what we have now.
Yeah, it’s more like throwback technologies. When I say science fiction, I think of classic Foundation, I think of rocket ships. But there’s this other [...]
Continue reading about Interview: talks about The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
“Jason Nahrung is the other half of an Aussie spec-fic writing duo – the other half is Kirstyn McDermott. I’d love to say that, as a duo, they dress up at night and fight crime, but it would be (a) a little too personal, and (b) untrue. Realistically, they’re more likely to be fomenting some [...]
“dead, and seven still living though wounded so severely they would not see the morrow. I stalked to the nearest, rested the point my sword in the hollow of the man’s throat. He took time to recognize my presence, to look up along the length of Toledo steel to my blood-covered face. A moan escaped [...]
“The sculpture had been mounted on a rock which, though far from the Northern Mountains of the continent, Chanter knew to be the tip of a mountain itself submerged in the underlying tricone-generated soil of the planet Masada. After studying the screen display for a moment longer, he turned to the other displays arrayed before [...]
“Were there any formative experiences that led you to become a science fiction writer?
Probably the most formative experience was reading the Foundation Trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn’t the first science fiction I had ever read but it’s something that stands out in my memory as having had a big [...]
“A few months back, we were so focused on asking people about The Best Sword & Sorcery Stories, that we overlooked a more basic question: What is it? This week, we turned to the contributors and editors of the recent publication Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword & Sorcery and asked them:
Q: How do [...]
Continue reading about MIND MELD: What ‘Sword and Sorcery’ Means to Me – John DeNardo
“Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father’s love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library. I read the covers off those flimsy paperbacks, read them to tatters. I also wrote like a fiend. I [...]
“4. Did your shared disgust for what was (and is still) known as the “Golden Age” of SF extend to the way these texts were visually translated in the covers of magazines and paperbacks? In other words, were both of you claiming for a new visual identity for SF as well as for new themes [...]
Continue reading about I think I preferred my own imagination Part I – Michael Moorcock
There’s a death trap for every type of superhuman.
3.5 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-15.mp3
Continue reading about She Blinded Me With Science 3 – Mercedes Lackey and Dennis Lee
Deathtrap time in the Golden Catacombs for Bull’s team.
4 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-14.mp3
Continue reading about She Blinded Me With Science 2 – Mercedes Lackey and Dennis Lee
“”Don’t be stupid!” the old man scolded. “Sentient creatures that’ve been on this planet maybe longer than we have. What might they know? Trees too. Thousand-year-old sequoias — centuries to process the hormonal messages in their cells! And creosote bushes — there’s a budding hive mind for you! Ravens and crows. Even coyotes. We don’t [...]
“”And you have to live it to write about it. Not a pleasant experience. One slightly odd reviewer seemed to think I was condoning torture simply because I included it in the story. Very bizarre. If you’re writing about spying in this era, it would be a betrayal of the history not to look at [...]
Continue reading about Mark Chadbourn Draws The Sword of Albion To Defend England – Sandy Auden
“”And what is Manilishi?”
“Isn’t that the big question–”
“I’m not asking for the full answer,” snaps Control. “You don’t know. I realize that. That makes two of us. Just tell me what you do know.”
“I’m a biocomputer able to perform hacks faster than the speed of light.”
“And how do you do that?”
“I don’t know.”
Control says nothing.
“I [...]
Continue reading about The Machinery of Light – David J. Williams
Collecting fantasy.
2.5 out of 5
http://www.rofmag.com/rare-firsts-by-paul-di-filippo/
Lack of fat history.
3 out of 5
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7301/full/4651110a.html
Continue reading about A science-fiction fantasy – Paul Di Filippo
Reconstruction bugs me.
3 out of 5
http://shareable.net/blog/the-exterminators-want-ad
Continue reading about The Exterminators Want-Ad – Bruce Sterlin
“Now Chiang is working with boutique presses that are willing to offer him creative control such as Subterranean Press, which is allowing the author to control the full packaging of Lifestyle. Asked about his bold move to risk mainstream appeal for artistic vision, Chiang is clear that he considers the move a no-brainer.
“When you’ve been [...]
Continue reading about Ted Chiang vs Tor Publishing – Mark Baumgartner
“She thought of her father, frustrated because decades of SETI had revealed no messages. It was weird to believe this old man knew something no one else did. But something had happened to Sam Ferenzi in space, and though he looked a hundred years old, she knew from the biography she’d read he couldn’t be [...]
“Skye’s skin suit was a royal blue so hot it glowed. It covered every inch of her body, from the toes up, snugging around her like the smooth, thick hide of some water creature. The hood dangled in neat pleats behind her neck. With gloved hands, she reached back and grabbed it, [...]
“At SF Signal, we loves us some space opera, so we asked this week’s panelists:
Q: What are some of the best space opera books? What makes them so good?
Is your favorite listed below? ”
5 out of 5
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/06/mind-meld-the-best-space-operas-in-science-fiction/
Continue reading about MIND MELD: The Best Space Operas in Science Fiction – John DeNardo
“Was I an easy escape hatch? The assassins in the church had been primed to take out Father Cristobel. A surgical strike against an Architect. Cristobel had expected them to show up—eventually—but he couldn’t have anticipated my arrival. Nor the opportunity I presented him.
What about the assassins? They had been unwitting pawns, unaware of the [...]
“Your writing technique has certainly been evolving over the years and yet horror has been the topic of your stories. What makes you keep on going back to horror?
I could write a hundred years and not have the opportunity to try my hand at the entire spectrum that comprises the dark genres. But the real [...]
Continue reading about Shirley Jackson Awards Interview – Laird Barron
““Jaguar!” she shouted. “This is the Mason! Call off your goons, unless you want me to chop them all into bone meal!” She kicked and spun, slashing with her dagger to drive back the other skeletons. The vast shape in the gathered shadows beneath the dome shifted. After a moment the remaining skeletal guards drew [...]
“Androgeos had the irritating habit of replying to questions with variations of “Don’t worry about that,” shrugging off detailed explanation. The team was not to worry about interchange of disease, the problem had been solved millennia before. They were not to be curious about other alien beings. The alien humans’ ship moved; Victoria must not [...]
““The assistant manager of the bookstore,” Clara told her. “He calmed down once we got him out of the sewer. As far as we can tell he’s the only one in the entire town who made it.” She frowned in anger. “He says he doesn’t remember how he got down in that sewer. The deputies [...]
“Over the course of many years, Mike visited Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Egypt, and Zambia. I suspect that is more African countries than most Americans have visited or can even name.
Now, to Mike’s writings. Mike has published eight novels that heavily rely on African history and culture for their themes: Adventures, [...]
Continue reading about Mike Resnick and Africa – Michael A. Burstein