'In Arms,' originally written for  Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture (2019).

The word wellbeing might be familiar to many of us as a shibboleth of oppressors and lackeys. We exploit you, we subjugate you, we destroy t...

 A hopefully-growing list of creative writing type links. Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, Writing the Other Elif Batuman, 'Get a Real Degre...

By Christina B. Hanhardt and Jasbir K. Puar, with Neel Ahuja, Paul Amar, Aniruddha Dutta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Kwame Holmes, and Sherene Seikaly...

Peter F. Hamilton, Great North Road (Pan Macmillan, 2013, 1104 pp.)  This review first appeared in Foundation Vol. 43, No. 118 (Autumn 2014...

For my own future reference really, some recommended TTRPGs with strong and/or interesting collaborative worldbuilding elements: The Quiet Y...

I am going to Eastercon! To make it feel really special, I might even go and sit on the other sofa. I am going to do four things ... A shift...

Optimistic theodicy thrived briefly in the Eighteenth Century, and today is perhaps best-known as the target of Voltaire’s satire Candide (1...

I liked and highly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future (2020), a big and miscellaneous quiltwork of a book, fil...

Just a few I kind of like: Science Fiction group that isn't a dumpster fire of racism and misogny   Fantasy & Sci-Fi Salon British S...