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The Matter of America: On Michael Swanwick’s “The Iron Dragon’s Mother”

SF

The Matter of America: On Michael Swanwick’s “The Iron Dragon’s Mother”

Sean Guynes

Michael Swanwick’s “The Iron Dragon’s Mother” looks at the failure of those with privilege and power to address the wrongs of the world.

Tracking Reality’s “Fuckedness Quotient”: An Interview with William Gibson

SF

Tracking Reality’s “Fuckedness Quotient”: An Interview with William Gibson

Eliot Peper

Eliot Peper talks to William Gibson about his new novel, "The Agency," a sequel to "The Peripheral."

Normality Becomes Madness: Trauma in Contemporary Nordic Speculative Fiction

Around the World, Fiction, SF

Normality Becomes Madness: Trauma in Contemporary Nordic Speculative Fiction

Katie Smith

Katie Smith looks at three recent books to consider how Nordic SF writers grapple with trauma through highly experimental prose.

Promiscuous Autobiography on Facebook: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany, Part II

Science & Technology, SF, Gender & Sexuality

Promiscuous Autobiography on Facebook: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany, Part II

Alex Wermer-Colan

Alex Wermer-Colan interviews sci-fi legend Samuel R. Delany about queerness, history, literature, and identity as the author moves into his late career.

The Secret Chambers of the Heart: Robert W. Chambers and “The King in Yellow”

SF

The Secret Chambers of the Heart: Robert W. Chambers and “The King in Yellow”

Paul StJohn Mackintosh

"The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition” is the definitive edition of this legendary yet too little understood work.

An Uneven Showcase of 1960s SF

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An Uneven Showcase of 1960s SF

Rob Latham

Rob Latham reviews the new Library of America set of 1960s SF novels.

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Adam J. Fitzgerald

Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But

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Clara Mokri, one of our student correspondents, on the book and the film.                   


On Futurity and Futility: Jeff VanderMeer’s “Dead Astronauts”

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On Futurity and Futility: Jeff VanderMeer’s “Dead Astronauts”

Alison Sperling

Alison Sperling reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s latest novel, “Dead Astronauts.”

A New Simultaneous Reality: On Shane Jones’s “Vincent and Alice and Alice”

Fiction, Noir, SF

A New Simultaneous Reality: On Shane Jones’s “Vincent and Alice and Alice”

Matt E. Lewis

Matt E. Lewis reviews “Vincent and Alice and Alice” by Shane Jones.

The Impossible Future of the Futures Market

Economics and Finance, Literary Criticism, SF

The Impossible Future of the Futures Market

John Rieder

A special issue of “New Centennial Review” tackles the metastases of finance capitalism.

Apocalyptic Childhood: On Cixin Liu’s “Supernova Era”

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Apocalyptic Childhood: On Cixin Liu’s “Supernova Era”

Gerry Canavan

Cixin Liu’s “Supernova Era” offers a tantalizing glimpse into another universe where parents won’t simply let their children die without a fight.

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