Last year, I was honoured to interview the Queen of Cyberpunk herself, Pat Cadigan, at FantasyCon. During the course of the interview, she recounted an anecdote about a reader who told her she wanted to read Synners. While the book ...
Read More »The end of the world as we know it: The apocalypse in SFF fiction
Dystopia and other post-apocalyptic tales have long been popular in the SFF world. From YA dysfic to scifi horror (robots! aliens! WMDs!), writers have great fun imagining all the weird and wonderful ways society, the world, even the universe, as ...
Read More »Pet Peeve: Planets in science fiction with one major environmental feature
With the release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer, we can see that – yet again – some of the action will take place on Tatooine. After I let out an exasperated sigh – I mean come ...
Read More »The new rock stars are high on science
Several years ago now, I made a new friend at work. We appeared to have a lot of things in common and she had an inquisitive mind. This mind of hers included a fascination with science and a man named ...
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