The Ramshackle Vampire

While the archetypal fantasy plot is probably the quest, the archetypal fantasy gaming plot is almost certainly the dungeon crawl, a searc...

The characters in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), which my better half and I watched again recently, come across as a rather affectl...

Science fiction, if we date its birth to Mary Shelley's work, emerged in the same era as Hutton, Agassiz, and Darwin's elucidation o...

Margaret Atwood, the much-lauded author of several dozen books, including several famous works of dystopian speculative fiction, got ...

My consumption of science fiction, both in print and in other media, has been declining steadily for the past fifteen years, even as my over...

When someone (one of my college TAs, as I recall) introduced me to the most popular fan theory about Blade Runner (1982), namely that Rick...

Margaret Atwood‘s ecological-collapse novel Oryx and Crake , which I have just gotten around to reading, contains a concept that one migh...