Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and ChatGPT: How Snobbery Can Save Us From the Literary Robot Apocalypse
Readers, critics, and editors have to demand better.
Bringing Sherlock Holmes to the 21st Century (or The Adventure of Japan Having All the Fun)
The best Sherlock Holmes stories of the last two decades have come from Japan.
Someone You Can Worldbuild a Nest In: John Wiswell, Fictional Worlds, and Limitations
Worldbuilding discussions in genre fiction frequently miss the point.
Interpreting the Abyss: An Ode to Christopher Manson’s MAZE
The labyrinth inside an 80s puzzle book will never be solved, never die, and never let go of its victims.
Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop’s The Etched City
In the surreal and slipstream, ambiguity is strength.
Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun
The driving force behind nihilistic visions of the future.
Concerning Habits: Purpose In Fiction and How to Defy It
I feel a pang when I reach the end of The Lord of the Rings because it means I must wake.
Finding Space for the “Literary” in Fantasy: A Reflection on A Woman of the Sword
A trend-defying novel about the "wrong" character told the "wrong" way.