Isaac Asimov loved large numbers. He was born a century ago this month, and when he died, in 1992, he was both the most famous science fiction writer in the world and perhaps the most prolific author in American history.
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The TV adaptation of her dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale captured the political moment. Ahead of a new series, Atwood talks bestsellers, bonnets and the backlash against her views on #MeToo
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She's a fantastic writer, but I do wish she wouldn't pontificate about science fiction. Despite her own study of SF ('In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination'), she continues to call her own SF dystopias "speculative" fiction. As if determinedly to shy away from having her own SF fiction tarnished by association, because then it would no longer be considered literary fiction by the mainstream book review critics. And this, despite the fact of the remarkable, long-standing historical body of excellent SF and authors since the 19th century. 
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As a preteen, Octavia Butler decided she'd had enough of second-rate science fiction. "Geez," she said after watching Devil Girl from Mars, a 1954 B-movie. "I
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The books interview: Brian Aldiss on his soldiering years, vegetarianism and the amount of people who know everything in Oxford
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Jeff Noon: I have always been jealous of Jorge Luis Borges, simply because he had the idea of writing stories about imaginary novels.
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Atwood on whether her dystopian classic is meant as a “feminist” novel, as antireligion or as a prediction.
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Interviewer / Arthur Byron Cover [From: Vertex, Vol. 1, no. 6, February 1974.] "He's totally mad," said one of his fans, "but it's such a wonderful madness." Philip K. Dick has been called everythi...
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World-renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson is a world builder beyond compare. His political acumen makes his speculations feel alive in the present—as well as laying out a not-so-radiant future. He is the author of more than 20 novels and the repeat winner of most major speculative fiction prizes; his celebrated trilogies include Three Californias, Science in the Capitol, and (beloved in my household) the Mars Trilogy: Red, Green, and Blue. In an earlier life he was a PhD student of Fredric Jameson, and he wrote his dissertation on the novels of Philip K. Dick. He is also, as this interview shows, an acute taxonomist not just of SF but also of its roots in and its relation to a longer, larger realist tradition. A longer version of this interview aired recently on Recall This Book (a podcast partnered with Public Books) as part of our series on pandemic reading, Books in Dark Times. You can listen to the interview via this link: https://recallthisbook.org/2020/04/30/29-rtb-books-in-dark-times-6-kim-stanley-robinson-jp/
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We can really only handle our fictional dystopias in short-form; the world in 2018 is enough of a long-form dystopia for most of us. And the logic of a dystopian world doesn't leave much room for any other type of story, since one factor all well-drawn dystopias share is a clear-sighted acknowledgment that the citizens
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A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and…
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Chapter 4 “But they’re going to kill you,” the woman said. Harkim sighed at her silhouette. “Of course they are,” he replied. Chapter 2 The car lurched again. Harkim looked up from his agent’s face on the backseat screen, wondering what on earth was wrong with his driver. “Luketon? Have you been at the …
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N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been multiply nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award; shortlisted for the Crawford, the Gemmell Morningstar, and the Tiptree; and she has won a Locus Award for Best First Novel as well as several Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. In 2016, she became the first black person to win the Best Novel Hugo for The Fifth Season. Her short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets (mostly Escape Artists) and print anthologies.
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Each month this column will examine an unfinished work left behind by one of our greatest authors. What might have been genius, and what might have been better left locked in the drawer? How and why…
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The essayist is Kristopher Jansma, a Professor and Author of Why We Came to the City, and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards.
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August 13, 2017 5:21 PM
I don't often read speculative/science fiction but I've fallen in love with Octavia Butler's work. She's being re-examined, discovered, rediscovered by a whole new audience, which will only continue to grow.
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Science fiction writers have long resented incursions like these, especially when they come with a disavowal of the genre itself.
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In early 2016, a twitter account called “Paperback Paradise” went viral by replacing the titles of cheesy paperback books (Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, etc.) with hilariously crude substitutes. Some…
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Marge Piercy, the landmark feminist novel’s author, reflects on the aspirations for a just society that she dramatised in 1976 – and their continuing relevance
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THERE ARE A FEW PROBLEMS HERE, which may take a few minutes to sort through before we can get down to the gist of this slender volume.
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