AdaptationA bounty hunter tracks androids distinguishable from humans only by an empathy test, then watches that distinction dissolve. Dick's 1968 landmark, the basis for Blade Runner, is a philosophically profound meditation on what makes us human, rough in prose and…
Book ReviewsA desert planet where water is currency, giant worms guard a drug that bends space, and a betrayed heir becomes something more. The gold standard of integrated world-building, where ecology, religion, and politics interlock. The first hundred pages punish, and…
Book ReviewsA lifetime of brilliant short science fiction, the idea-driven puzzles, the wonder, the quietly devastating endings of stories like The Nine Billion Names of God and The Sentinel, in one enormous volume. Clarke was one of the first authors I…
Book ReviewsA foundational 1897 short story from one of science fiction's inventors, imagining a celestial body hurtling toward Earth and holding a vast, cosmic idea through compression and a detached perspective. A genuinely effective early classic, held to that level by…
Grief and LossA reader's honest tribute to Robert Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land found me at twelve, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the one I've reread a dozen times.
Grief and LossA reader's tribute to Isaac Asimov, author of I, Robot and Foundation, who shaped my love of science fiction from age eight. Nearly 500 books, one doorway in.
Book ReviewsBuilt on one of SF's great high-concept premises: every human who ever lived resurrected along an endless river, with real figures like Burton and Twain interacting across the ages. Strong openers despite slow spots and a protagonist who never quite…
Book ReviewsA vividly realized alien artifact carries the whole book on pure wonder, with great pacing and, strikingly, no antagonist at all, just the adventure into the unknown. The founding Big Dumb Object novel, and a model of how mystery and…
Book ReviewsThe first of Brackett's Skaith trilogy, and one of my very favorite books, read well over a dozen times. Awesome storytelling, phenomenal characterization, world-building among the best in the genre, and genuinely great prose, with a perfect balance of action…
Book ReviewsA masterful slow burn that builds empire, politics, and world before delivering one of the genre's finest first-contact stories: the chilling recognition that the alien Moties may not be good for humanity. I loved its patient structure so much I…
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 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…
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