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  • 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…

  • On Dozois’ Year’s Best Science Fiction Anthologies

    30 Dec 2011 » 3 min read about Reading & Books

    It has become a kind of year end ritual, at least for the last 3 years or so, for me to pick up a big anthology or two and spend time reading stories. It started with David G. Hartwell’s The Hard SF Renaissance, which I read 3 years ago at this time and absolutely loved.…

  • Keeping up with short (science) fiction

    13 Dec 2010 » 3 min read about Writing & Publishing

    One area in which I have a difficult time keeping up is short science fiction. I subscribe to all of the major magazines (and a few of the smaller ones as well) and yet during the course of the year, I don’t really read many of the stories in those magazines because I simply don’t…