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New York: Doubleday Press, 1974, pp. 185. In M. John Harrison's The Centauri Device , a chaotic twenty-first century saw the Arab-Isra...

The great George Carlin, following his troubles with the Federal Communications Commission, offered his own official policy on inappropriate...

J. Michael Straczynski's series Jeremiah (2002-2004) is set fifteen years after a plague wiped out virtually all the adults on the plan...

Twenty-five years ago this month Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove published a massive update of Aldiss' Billion Year Spree (1973), appro...

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011, pp. 414. Jeffrey Deaver's new James Bond novel Carte Blanche makes an interesting contrast with...

New York: Doubleday, 2008, pp. 278. In 2008 Sebastian Faulks, "writing as Ian Fleming," published Devil May Care , a James Bond ...

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...