Bethany
In yesterday’s post on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy I quoted Adam Roberts commenting on the...
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the asymptote of utopia
I just re-read Kim Stanley Robinson’s magnificent Mars trilogy — about which I hope to teach a class someday —...
two kinds of world-building
The builders of fictional worlds, in science fiction and fantasy, come in two chief types, the meticulous and the...
looking for climate-change fiction in all the wrong places
Amitav Ghosh asks, “Where Is the Fiction About Climate Change?” When I try to think of writers whose imaginative...
Green Earth
Another Kim Stanley Robinson novel, and another set of profoundly mixed feelings. Green Earth, which was published last...
some things about The Thing Itself
I had a really wonderful time in Cambridge the other night talking with Adam Roberts, Francis Spufford, and Rowan...
against time travel
[SPOILER ALERT, I GUESS, EVEN THOUGH I DON’T REVEAL ANY DETAILS] I just finished reading Paul McAuley’s Confluence...
on Aurora
My friend Adam Roberts, whose critical judgment is superb, loved Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel Aurora; I didn’t....
another note on the Southern Reach
Another note on the Southern Reach trilogy — or something that started as a note but then turned into a critique. A...
on the Southern Reach Trilogy
Having read Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and thought about it for a while, I’ve decided that I don’t...