"Inside Outer Space : Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft" – edited by Sharon Jarvis (1985)
"For decades, science fiction readers and writers had been regarded by the academic/literary nexus and the media as a bizarre group, aficionados of the subliterate obsessed by the arcane" – Sharon Jarvis
Science fiction in 1985 was a nervous adolescent: brilliant, awkward, self‑conscious, desperate to be taken seriously, and...
The history of literature is, among other things, the history of its infections.
Ideas migrate, genres mutate, borders dissolve, and what once seemed pure becomes hybrid, recombinant, gloriously contaminated.
Science fiction, long treated as a commercial ghetto of ray guns and rocket ships, has quietly infiltrated the bloodstream of world literature. Or perhaps it is literature that has infiltrated science fiction, bending its tropes into instruments...
Paul Cook’s article “When Science Fiction Is Not Science Fiction” in Amazing Stories and the prolific commentary it generated (September 4, 2013, Amazing Stories),...
I don’t watch zombie movies.
I steer away from them. I find them generally tasteless, unimaginative and lacking anything remotely connected to “story”. Most appear,...
Science Fiction is in its very nature a symbolic meditation on history itself—Frederic Jameson, critic
We call them “prawns”: bottom feeders, vermin: feared and hated...
Steven Soderbergh's stylish psychological thriller, released November 2002 in the United States by 20th Century Fox (and recently out on video), eloquently captures the...
Do you believe in the collective conscious? How about coincidence? What about fate? I find so often that events, occurrences, observations happen around me...
