Raritania

In March 1993 mathematician Vernor Vinge famously presented a conference paper, "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive i...

New York: Bantam, 1991, pp. 567. Twenty years ago science fiction legend Norman Spinrad published Russian Spring , a saga of space explora...

Robert Ludlum's writing has drawn a great many critical barbs over the years – many of them deserved. His books are bloated and often po...

In this age of endless reboots, remakes and retreads of every conceivable brand name and IP, in every conceivable medium, reminders of the d...

Austin, TX: Monkeybrain Books, 2006, pp. 264. I am generally not inclined to the biographical approach to literary analysis, or toward rea...

At Ruthless Culture , Jonathan McCalmont has offered a review of Red State , the latest film from Kevin Smith. The title, "Nothing to ...

Reading Julian Symons' classic study of the detective novel, Mortal Consequences (which has also appeared under the title Bloody Murder...

As is the case with the vast majority of those who picked up their first Ian Fleming after the 1960s, my expectations were formed by the fil...

Westport, CN: Praeger, 2001, pp. 227. I initially became familiar with Jeremy Black through his historical writings, which include a numbe...

With Labor Day behind us, the summer movie season is over. Once more, the published statistics present a contrast between rising revenues...

By Nader Elhefnawy Originally published in the New York Review of Science Fiction 23.9 (May 2011), pp. 19-20. Science fiction reader...

The term "Mary Sue" (and its male counterpart, "Gary Stu") typically refers to idealized characters that seem to functio...

Reviewed By Nader Elhefnawy Originally published at The Future Fire Reviews , March 24, 2011 M-Brane Press, the publisher of M-Brane SF sci...