Archive for 2015

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “12 and Tag” by Gregory Bossert Originally published in Asimov’s. I began writing fiction in 2009, at the age of 47, after artists Iain McCaig and Dermot Power dared me to write a screenplay. I wrote two, and then tried my hand at short stories, the second of which sold to […]

Coming Up… Short Fiction: Reinstalling Eden, by R. Scott Bakker and Eric Schwitzgebel Originally published in Nature magazine. R. Scott Bakker has written eight novels translated into over dozen languages, including Neuropath, a dystopic meditation on the cultural impact of cognitive science, and the nihilistic epic fantasy series, The Prince of Nothing. He lives in […]

Coming Up… Promo: Class Title: The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGIvI2TZK4 Main Fiction: “Bethlemen” by Peter Watts Peter Watts is a (former) scientist, author, and convicted felon who spent the first two decades of his adult life as a marine biologist. After fleeing academia for science fiction he became known for  the habit […]

Coming Up… Fact: Looking back in Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis. Interview with world-leading horror anthologist: Ellen Datlow, by Jeremy Szal Main Fiction: “Ticking” by Allen M. Steele Before becoming a science fiction author, Allen Steele was a journalist who’d worked for newspapers and magazines in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, and his home state […]