My recent post about Nevil Shute set me thinking about literary genres, and their rise and fall.  Shute’s own particular niche is pretty well dead— not a lot of stories about zeppelins or epic aircraft flights being written these days.  But Shute’s in good company. For example, I think we can safely say that the […]

The fine folks at Kobo are offering every ebook in the store at 50% off through January 31.  Just use the promo code JAN1650.   The best part of this is that authors still get full royalties.  CHA-CHING! Here’s the link to my own immortal works.  Or if you want someone else’s less-immortal works, you can […]

Some of you may have noticed that I contributed to a discussion of hard vs. soft science fiction over at Tor.com. One of the things I’ve noticed about so-called hard SF is that a lot of it isn’t all that hard— the science is often extremely speculative or sometimes even non-existent— but the label attaches […]

Science fiction editor David G. Hartwell suffered a fall in his home on January 19th, while carrying a bookcase up the stairs, and suffered a “massive brain bleed.”   I’ve just received the word that he’s died. I was never one of David’s authors, but I’ve known him for more than thirty years, and I […]