All-Time Top 40

And so to the mid-70s. The New Wave had well and truly hit the beach by the time Larry Niven‘s short story “The Hole Man” appeared in Analog. Dangerous Visions (1) and Again, Dangerous Visions had been published, Tiptree’s career was at it’s height, and Le Guin, Wolfe and entire generation of writers who had been young turks in the late ’60s were producing major works that stand today as ...Read More

There are many writers who owe a debt to the late Robert A. Heinlein, and many who could legitimately be described as having been greatly influenced by his work. John Varley, who spent the ’60s in Haight–Ashbury in San Francisco, is one of them.

Varley published his first short story in 1974, and then proceeded to unleash a string of stories through the second half of the 1970s and the ...Read More

When Judith Merril’s “That Only a Mother” appeared in the pages of the June 1948 issue of John W. Campbell’s Astounding it must have stood out like nothing else. The issue contained an editorial on nuclear power from Campbell and stories from Eric Frank Russell, Asimov, and others. I’ve not read the issue in full, but I’ll bet nothing else in that issue, or most likely any other issue that ...Read More

There’s something just a little bit ADD about the age we’re living in: everything goes by quickly and we seldom seem to take the time to absorb something and consider it. That’s true of the music I fill my iPod with, the television that flickers across my television screen, and the fiction I read for my various endeavors.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, but I find it’s completely focused ...Read More