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Tom Disch at Readercon
1 reply | 2162 views
dghartwell
Welcome to the Blogosphere
replies | 1718 views
pnh
The Singularity Problem and Non-Problem
111 replies | 29568 views
bluejo
Handicapping the Hugos
41 replies | 7513 views
Moshe
Random Acts of Senseless Violence: Why isn't it a classic of the field?
43 replies | 9529 views
bluejo
From Herring to Marmalade: the perfect plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
19 replies | 4880 views
bluejo
Total Immersion: Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy
45 replies | 7093 views
bluejo
Individual and Irreverent: Eric Frank Russell
24 replies | 6100 views
bluejo
Old News
6 replies | 2885 views
AlisonScott
At the edge of humanity: Amy Thomson's Virtual Girl
5 replies | 2932 views
bluejo
Separating SF and fantasy
36 replies | 8346 views
bluejo
The Fermi Paradox: OK, where are they, then?
55 replies | 18105 views
bluejo
The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein’s Juveniles
45 replies | 12475 views
bluejo
Aliens and Power: C. J. Cherryh’s Atevi Books
7 replies | 5055 views
bluejo
Worldcon: Conversation
12 replies | 4301 views
bluejo
The Dying Earth
219 replies | 23640 views
pnh
Clearsighted utopia: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
20 replies | 4654 views
bluejo
New SF Ideas from Rudy Rucker
7 replies | 3629 views
bluejo
My love-hate relationship with fantasy
117 replies | 13573 views
bluejo
More Cold Equations: Sylvia Engdahl’s Heritage of the Star
4 replies | 2672 views
bluejo
A Libertarian Reading List
27 replies | 5344 views
KathrynCramer
MSNBC on “Totally Fictional Doomsdays”
5 replies | 2989 views
KathrynCramer
Benjamin Rosenbaum’s Derivative Works Contest
3 replies | 3437 views
KathrynCramer
Something rich and strange: Candas Jane Dorsey’s Black Wine
5 replies | 2665 views
bluejo
Bookstore as Escape Hatch
4 replies | 2372 views
KathrynCramer
Vietnamese SF
4 replies | 2252 views
KathrynCramer
Rudy Rucker’s paintings
1 reply | 4724 views
KathrynCramer
Black and white and read a million times: Jerry Pournelle, Janissaries
20 replies | 7499 views
bluejo
Alien anthropology and a ton of fun: Eleanor Arnason’s Ring of Swords
9 replies | 5754 views
bluejo
Gloom & Wartime SF: A reponse to Damien Walter
31 replies | 8555 views
KathrynCramer
Entertaining asides and vistas of glorious revelation: Some general cool things Neal Stephenson does
20 replies | 7415 views
bluejo
Bloat: threat or menace?
47 replies | 8138 views
bluejo
SF gems from the literary ghetto
27 replies | 8414 views
rezendi
Political agency and changing the world
15 replies | 6230 views
bluejo
Making the future work: Maureen McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang
4 replies | 5041 views
bluejo
Growing up tomorrow: Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother
22 replies | 6111 views
bluejo
Centaur songs and scientific revolutions: Walter Jon Williams’ Knight Moves
13 replies | 3509 views
bluejo
Not only science fiction, but more science fictional than anything else: Rosemary Kirstein’s Steerswoman books
12 replies | 3492 views
bluejo
What to read to take your mind off the US election.
13 replies | 3033 views
bluejo
In Which I am Turning Into My Father
17 replies | 2695 views
john_klima
A happy ending depends on when you stop: Heavy Time, Hellburner and C.J. Cherryh’s Alliance-Union universe
8 replies | 3275 views
bluejo
Knights Who Say “Fuck”: Swearing in Genre Fiction
33 replies | 7628 views
bluejo
“Earth is one world”: C.J. Cherryh’s Downbelow Station
21 replies | 3549 views
bluejo
Space is wide and good friends are too few: Cherryh’s Merchanter novels
19 replies | 3749 views
bluejo
They don’t just want a bright kid, they want her back: C.J. Cherryh’s Cyteen
5 replies | 2937 views
bluejo
New News from Reseune: C.J. Cherryh's Regenesis
4 replies | 2462 views
bluejo
LotR re-read: Fellowship II.3, “The Ring Goes South”
81 replies | 4917 views
katenepveu
Why do I pick up the books I do?
16 replies | 2523 views
bluejo
Near future and far future: Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin
23 replies | 3223 views
bluejo
Who’s human anyway? Who’s free? Octavia Butler’s Pattern series
14 replies | 3154 views
bluejo
A wish for something different at the frontier
32 replies | 2783 views
bluejo
Like pop rocks for the brain: Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
18 replies | 2973 views
bluejo
Seeing Patterns Everywhere: Elizabeth Moon’s The Speed of Dark
14 replies | 2751 views
bluejo
Is there any such thing as the Great World Novel?
17 replies | 2464 views
bluejo
Over the hump: Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
37 replies | 3583 views
bluejo
Now cheer me up again: Paolo Bacigalupi’s Pump Six and Other Stories
2 replies | 1340 views
bluejo
These things are there: A.S. Byatt’s Possession
11 replies | 2324 views
bluejo
A brilliant standalone book: John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors
15 replies | 2332 views
bluejo
A fun kind of chaos: Connie Willis’s Bellwether
15 replies | 2389 views
bluejo
Better to have loved and lost? Series that go downhill.
70 replies | 5898 views
bluejo
Mythic Delirium, Mansquito and Mike Allen
2 replies | 1412 views
mattstaggs
The interesting question of thalience: Karl Schroeder’s Ventus
7 replies | 1971 views
bluejo
Weeping for her enemies: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Shards of Honor
38 replies | 4728 views
bluejo
Quest for Ovaries: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Ethan of Athos
12 replies | 3030 views
bluejo
Buyout...in 60 Seconds
replies | 1036 views
johnjosephadams
What have you done with your baby brother? Lois McMaster Bujold’s Brothers in Arms
13 replies | 2920 views
bluejo
So, what sort of series do you like?
53 replies | 4865 views
bluejo
Hard on his superiors: Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Vor Game
39 replies | 3358 views
bluejo
One birth, one death, and all the acts of pain and will between: Lois Mcmaster Bujold’s Barrayar
46 replies | 3935 views
bluejo
Prophets...in 60 Seconds
replies | 984 views
johnjosephadams
Luck is something you make for yourself: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Cetaganda
25 replies | 3188 views
bluejo
This is my old identity, actually: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Memory
44 replies | 3791 views
bluejo
But I’m Vor: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Komarr
14 replies | 2985 views
bluejo
She’s getting away! Lois McMaster Bujold’s A Civil Campaign
49 replies | 4076 views
bluejo
Just my job: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Diplomatic Immunity
31 replies | 3628 views
bluejo
Choose again, and change: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga
30 replies | 3943 views
bluejo
Time travel and slavery: Octavia Butler’s Kindred
7 replies | 2397 views
bluejo
Every day is a gift: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Winterfair Gifts
22 replies | 3103 views
bluejo
Susan Palwick’s Shelter
12 replies | 1946 views
bluejo
The upspoken and the unspeakable: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
19 replies | 3328 views
bluejo
A different kind of alternative: John Brunner’s The Infinitive of Go
2 replies | 1779 views
bluejo
Alien immersion course: M.A. Foster’s The Gameplayers of Zan
15 replies | 2187 views
bluejo
Is Alternate History SF?
62 replies | 3719 views
bluejo
A new Atevi book: C.J. Cherryh’s Conspirator
3 replies | 1457 views
bluejo
Daily life and no Europeans: Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt
26 replies | 3270 views
bluejo
Aliens, spaceships, and fun: Walter Jon Williams’s Dread Empire’s Fall
25 replies | 2958 views
bluejo
Better to travel hopefully: Dan Simmons’s Hyperion
36 replies | 3581 views
bluejo
Scintillations of a sensory syrynx: Samuel Delany’s Nova
10 replies | 1991 views
bluejo
Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants
14 replies | 2894 views
bluejo
Gender and glaciers: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
37 replies | 3188 views
bluejo
The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep
28 replies | 3796 views
bluejo
The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein’s Friday
54 replies | 4616 views
bluejo
“I’m thirteen, I’m a girl, and I like fantasy and some science fiction. What should I be reading?”
194 replies | 5776 views
masinger
More dimensions than you’d expect; Samuel Delany’s Babel 17
13 replies | 1976 views
bluejo
Characters and cryptography: Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon
33 replies | 2713 views
bluejo
The future of the Third World: Geoff Ryman’s Air
6 replies | 1575 views
bluejo
The Empress of Mars...in 60 Seconds
replies | 1118 views
johnjosephadams
Bad, but good: David Feintuch’s Midshipman’s Hope
27 replies | 2588 views
bluejo
Helen Wright’s A Matter of Oaths available for free download
13 replies | 2017 views
bluejo
What do you hope for in a book?
31 replies | 1944 views
bluejo
Rogue in the ambient: C.J. Cherryh’s Rider books
5 replies | 1163 views
bluejo
Growing Up for Real: Alexei Panshin’s Rite of Passage
19 replies | 1499 views
bluejo
Bridging the divide between hard and soft SF: Karl Schroeder’s Permanence
13 replies | 1401 views
bluejo
Planet, colony, home: Maureen McHugh’s Mission Child
6 replies | 1299 views
bluejo
Sea battles and grand emotion: David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef
18 replies | 1866 views
bluejo
Beautiful, poetic, and experimental: Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand
14 replies | 1954 views
bluejo
Hollywood and science fiction: Terry Bisson’s Voyage to the Red Planet
2 replies | 764 views
bluejo
“Like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway”: Lloyd Biggle Jr.’s The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets
8 replies | 956 views
bluejo
The wisdom of the apes: Peter Dickinson’s Eva
10 replies | 1165 views
bluejo
No one left to speak when they came for me: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
28 replies | 2298 views
bluejo
Self-naming and death-hastening: Joan Slonczewski’s A Door Into Ocean
1 reply | 1228 views
bluejo
Face or vase? Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
9 replies | 1317 views
bluejo
Effective dreaming: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven
15 replies | 1374 views
bluejo
Invisible man and organ banks: Larry Niven’s A Gift From Earth
40 replies | 2537 views
bluejo
Spaceships and starshards and workaday life: Samuel Delany’s short fiction
3 replies | 1015 views
bluejo
The best aliens ever: C.J. Cherryh’s The Pride of Chanur
19 replies | 1290 views
bluejo
Sleeping With the Enemy: Octavia Butler's Dawn
3 replies | 1023 views
Odessa_3
Treachery to species: C.J. Cherryh’s Chanur Trilogy
18 replies | 1262 views
bluejo
Materializing for the first time
8 replies | 661 views
EdwardMLerner
No Pitching of the Preciousness: C.J. Cherryh’s Chanur’s Legacy
9 replies | 900 views
bluejo
Lonely and special: Zenna Henderson’s Ingathering
21 replies | 1593 views
bluejo
Negotiating Difference in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites
2 replies | 817 views
Odessa_3
Tropes and Mundanity
7 replies | 1057 views
EdwardMLerner
Intelligence, algorithms, and anthropomorphism
18 replies | 870 views
EdwardMLerner
Aunts in Space: Elizabeth Moon’s Serrano series
12 replies | 1179 views
bluejo
Just slightly ahead of our time
7 replies | 736 views
EdwardMLerner
The Identical Twin Paradox: Robert A. Heinlein’s Time For the Stars
23 replies | 1267 views
bluejo
Playing Human in Octavia Butler’s Imago
5 replies | 674 views
Odessa_3
Alien aliens
22 replies | 1108 views
EdwardMLerner
When enough is(n’t) enough
7 replies | 823 views
EdwardMLerner
Of sequels and series
14 replies | 938 views
EdwardMLerner
Back to the future
replies | 535 views
EdwardMLerner
No catastrophes here: William Tenn’s Of Men and Monsters
11 replies | 1105 views
bluejo
Fantasy disguised as science fiction disguised as fantasy: Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light
27 replies | 1419 views
bluejo
A charming history of Science Fiction and Fandom: Frederik Pohl’s The Way the Future Was
8 replies | 1186 views
bluejo
Playing the angles on a world: Steven Brust’s Dragaera
22 replies | 992 views
bluejo
What is it with coffee?
59 replies | 1866 views
bluejo
“Jhereg feeds on others’ kills”: Steven Brust’s Jhereg
23 replies | 952 views
bluejo
Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid when making up fantasy names
40 replies | 953 views
bluejo
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In the Courts Of the Crimson Kings
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BlueTyson
New Tor release review: Sly Mongoose, Tobias S. Buckell
1 reply | 1731 views
SFReviews.net
Uneasy about Watchmen trailer
6 replies | 4370 views
joshkidd
Yahoo! users rank all-time SF movies:
4 replies | 2849 views
neutronjockey
The Chaos of John C. Wright
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Eithin
YA and Middlegrade SF&F
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supertailz
Is Mad Men SF?
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Thoughtcrime Experiments: New paid CC-licensed online anthology
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WoT - The Gathering Storm release party?
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Short Story: Drake's Quest
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