Analog, January-February 2008
Analog once again kicks off the year with a double issue. The 2008 January-February issue’s short fiction offerings include ten short stories and novelettes, as well as a “Probability Zero” piece, alternate history star Harry Turtledove’s “Worlds Enough, and Time”—a two-pager offering a quirky twist on the exogenesis hypothesis of how life began.
The first […]
Post-Cyberpunk’s Moment in History: Remembering the 1990s
Post-cyberpunk was very much a fiction of the 1990s, sharing or reacting not only to the decade’s realities, but its expectations—many of them ludicrous in retrospect, and perhaps more than many would admit, obviously ludicrous at the time as well.
My recollection of these as I read the recent post-cyberpunk anthology, Rewired (reviewed here), is especially […]
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
The title of Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology is by itself enough to invite comparison with the famed 1986 Mirrorshades cyberpunk anthology. James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel’s introduction to the volume, “Hacking Cyberpunk” (which appeared as a feature in the August 2007 issue of the New York Review of Science Fiction), only reinforces […]
Continue ReadingThe Rise and Fall of Great Powers in Science Fiction
One of the most popular games in international relations has always been “Guess the Next Global Hegemon.” Naturally, the game seems to become most popular in the superpower of the day when a higher than average proportion of its people become convinced that there will be a Next Hegemon, after them—which is to say, […]
Continue ReadingInterzone #213, December 2007
Chris Roberson’s “Metal Dragon Year” is an alternate history story in which China dominates not only Eurasia and Africa, but colonized the Americas. (Only the “Mexic Dominion” lies outside the control of the “Dragon Throne,” which leaves the two fighting a skirmish war.) It has also industrialized to the point of launching its […]
Continue ReadingScience Fiction and the Two Cultures
In 1959, the noted English scientist and novelist C.P. Snow gave a famous lecture titled “The Two Cultures” about the breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, later published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Snow wrote then that the
intellectual life of…western society is increasingly being split into […]
Hub #24-26
Ian McHugh’s poetically titled “Requiem in D-Minor (for prions, whale and burning bush)” in Hub #24 elegantly connects all these elements and more. However, long-time readers and viewers of science fiction will find most of the tropes already familiar and may not be surprised by the outcome to which their interconnections eventually lead. […]
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