Raritania

I was one of those who saw the TV adaptation of Robert J. Sawyer's Flashforward before I read the book. But I did get to it not long ...

No, probably not. But I do. I remember it because back in the '90s the terms of the publication of Steve Alten's Meg was the kind...

New York: Putnam, 2003, pp. 496. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Clive Cussler's Trojan Odyssey marks the end of an era in many ways. Not ...

Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 1957, pp. 319. It is a commonplace that the literary genre of the novel is distinguished...

Back in tenth grade I was first introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald, by way of The Great Gatsby . I wasn't all that impressed with the boo...

Back when I wrote the first edition of The Many Lives and Deaths of James Bond I included in the appendix a brief essay discussing Britain...

Recently I ran across Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home again--the bit where Kirk and Spock walk around twentieth century San Francisco and the...

Starhunter appeared at the tail end of the '90s-era science fiction television boom , and came into that long-crowded field quietly, at...

Some years ago the philosopher Terence Blake raised the question of "philo-fiction," fiction which uses philosophy the way science...

NOTE: I penned this piece last summer but have only got around to publishing it now. While some of the details have since dated, it still se...