Penguin Worlds Science Fiction
I have written new introductions to classic Science Fiction work by Joanna Russ, John Christopher and Vernor Vinge, to be published by Penguin in the UK »
The Moonstone - Sjón (2016)
The subtitle of the Icelandic writer Sjón's jewel-like novella is 'the boy who never was'. Known to English-speaking readers for a series of beautiful short works »
The Wake (2015)
What happens after the end? Since the portrayals of world-destroying deluges in early writings (“Gilgamesh,” the Matsya Purana, Genesis, the “Timaeus”), narratives of apocalypse have structured »
Dune 50 Years on (2015)
It’s 50 years since the publication of Frank Herbert’s Dune. To celebrate the anniversary of one of the great SF novels, I wrote an »
The Beautiful Reward is Freedom: Ursula Le Guin (2014)
Last night (November 19th) Ursula Le Guin accepted the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 'I think hard times are coming', she »