Tag: beyond apollo

  • When Science Fiction Forgets it is Science Fiction

    04 Nov 2026 » 9 min read about Science Fiction

    It has taken me thirty years, but I finally think I know what I like, and don’t like in science fiction stories; what, for me, creates a sense of wonder. Thirty years ago, I was deep into my science fiction education. I finished the month of October 1996 by reading Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This…

  • Why you should read Beyond Apollo

    19 Mar 2011 » 3 min read

    I have been reading and–for the most part–enjoying Jo Walton’s journey through the Hugo Nominees on TOR.com. Yesterday, however, while reading her post on Hugo Nominees 1973, I was floored. It wasn’t that she didn’t particularly like Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves. I happened to think that the whole book was terrific, but I agree…