From Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future:

Van Lear was a coal town in Johnson County, Kentucky in the early part of the 20th century, belonging to the Consolidation Coal Company (now...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, preface to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818): [...] the novelty of the situations which it develops, and however ...

This is a piece I wrote for Hilson Hilson: The Poetry of Jeff Hilson (Crater, 2020), edited by Richard Parker. It is mostly about a poem in...

like I say I’m in love with our unlovesickness, with these feet never flitted out from under us. how sweet to run my fool mouth, how sweet a...

My essay ' Wages for Dreamwork ' is up on Strange Horizons  (thank you editor Gautam Bhatia). It looks at a quite specific intersect...

 "People often ask how I think of names in fantasies, and again I have to answer that I find them, that I hear them. This is an importa...

Finance and Society have published  this open access academic article about Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. Twitter thread here .