Sean Lally and me discuss Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction (ed. David Shultz) on Sean's Night White Skies podcast.

I did this  interview  with The Adjacent Possible about economics and science fiction ... PS: By the way, there's a bit at the e...

Originally published in Interzone  268 . Didn’t read much new fiction in 2016. Two bookend books, Adam Roberts’s The Thing Itself (Gollan...

Enormous material prosperity has been secured by the advent of “makers” (Doctorow 2003: 150) and “Free Energy” (ibid. 6). There is no govern...

From the Department of Caffeine & Overthinking: Cory Doctorow's "Chicken Little" is explicitly a response to Frederick Poh...

Two pieces of short SF about selling stuff. 1. David D. Levine’s short story ‘Tk’tk’tk’ (which I read in Hartwell and Hayden's big T...

Marta & the Demons -- a novelette about getting out at the top. I guess it's design fiction? Designtopic YA? Currently Kindle on...

"Every once in a while you find yourself in a lifeboat where a single stupid move can kill everyone. But a science fiction writer whos...

¡STAR! ¡STAR! ¡STAR! ¡STAR! !HALF¡STAR! Elsewhere: how to fix copyright with two easy steps (and one hard one) 1. LONDON, WHERE ...