Staff Picks: The Best of Michael Marshall Smith

December 25, 2020December 21, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Paula Guran picks The Best of Michael Marshall Smith: “Smith writes stories that draw the reader in and keep them mesmerized as they worm their disquieting way permanently into the psyche. He’s a perceptive observer of human passions, weaknesses, and everything in between. His scrutiny thereof usually results in dark conclusions.”

Read Paula’s full review online or in the November 2020 issue of Locus.

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From Solaris to the Zone

July 5, 2012 admin 3

James Morrow is a Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning author. His writing includes, among many others, The Philosopher’s Apprentice and Shambling Towards Hiroshima. For the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, the world is a spiritual kindergarten. For the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the world is that which is the case. For the majority of science fiction writers, however, the phenomenon in question is first and foremost a planet. This materialist understanding