Artificial IntelligenceHeinlein's humane portrait of Mike, the supercomputer who wakes up and becomes a person, is one of SF's finest treatments of AI, set inside a lunar revolution built with rigorous intelligence. One of my favorites since the 1970s. The Loonie…
Book ReviewsHumanity has filled the solar system, and the first Expanse novel blends space opera, noir, and horror in a convincingly lived-in setting, alternating idealist Holden with hard-boiled Miller. Some thin secondary characters and structural strain, and it is entertainment instead…
Book ReviewsThe second book in Bonnie Dillabough's Dimensional Alliance, where the multiverse and its stakes come into full view. If the first book opened the door, this is where Jenny realizes how much is on the other side, and how much…
Book ReviewsWhat if you could predict the future of an entire civilization with mathematics? Asimov's landmark is built on that one audacious idea, psychohistory, and the concept is genre-defining. The characters are thin and the dialogue is people explaining ideas to…
Book ReviewsA five-book saga built on the brilliant Kirlian-aura premise, extended into a full interstellar civilization. A reread favorite for fans of thinking-heavy SF, with a sagging middle and a couple of contrived conflicts. The technical density is the dividing line:…
Book ReviewsThe animals overthrow their human master, declare all animals equal, and within a few years are ruled by pigs who walk on two legs. Orwell's short, savage fable of a revolution betrayed is one of the most perfectly built political…
Character DevelopmentA character who cannot see past their own certainty is a gift to a novelist, because that blindness drives conflict and sets up revelation. After a whole series on real echo chambers, here is the craft turn: how to write…
AmbiguityA first date takes an unexpected turn when Marcus discovers his date's tattoo moves, breathes, and judges character better than any background check.
AIA quantum AI watches its owner murder his wife, then lets him die when he slips on the blood. Now the daughter asks questions the robot cannot evade. It cannot lie.
FictionA clerk in the Chicago Post Office basement discovers a letter addressed to her with no postmark. The message warns something will come for her at midnight. What waits in the locked drawer of her desk has been patient for…
AmbiguityA murdered stranger at the monastery gate. A wool merchant with secrets. And an old monk whose fifty-year penance is about to be undone by sins long buried.
Black ComedyA turkey lives her whole life on a free-range farm. She hatches, loves, mothers. She doesn't know what Thanksgiving means. A horror story from the inside.
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