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Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the Science Fiction World
THE WASHINGTON POST posted a review of Robert Silverberg’s REFLECTIONS & REFRACTIONS by Michael Dirda at their site last night (and in today’s paper edition) calling Silverberg “The Philip Roth of...
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50-Year-Old SF Film Predicts the Future
THE FOLLOWING bit of dialog is from the British science fiction movie Quatermass and the Pit (1967) “If we found the Earth was doomed, say by some climatic event, what would we do about it?” “Nothing....
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Playboy Magazine & Imaginative Writers
HUGH HEFNER died this week but I’m not going to get into his role in the sex life of males post 1950s, or his debased brand of “feminism” here. One of the best things about Playboy magazine to me was...
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Science Fiction Ruminations on Book Art
A SITE we recently discovered, sciencefictionruminations, showcases many book covers from our favorite genres and artists. Check out their Jack Gaughan page – ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE FICTION COVER ART:...
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Quote of the Month: Carl Sagan
1951 High School Yearbook photo of Carl Sagan I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all...
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Harlan Ellison: R.I.P or Approaching Oblivion
MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE want to be remembered after they die for their art — not bad divorces, bad-boy tantrums, sexual harassment, or general pugnacious behavior. I think that Harlan Ellison, who died...
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Carol Emshwiller is Gone
CAROL EMSHWILLER, the author of wonderfully brilliant fantastic stories and novels, died last Saturday morning at the age of 97. She was born Agnes Carolyn Fries on April 12, 1921 in Ann Arbor,...
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Paul Di Filippo reviews The Science Fiction Fanzine Reader
This immensely valuable and entertaining volume … captures for posterity a chronologically delimited slice of the subculture of science-fiction fandom — currently dying or healthy; vanished or extant?...
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Carol Emshwiller Memorial
LAST SATURDAY I went to the memorial for Carol Emshwiller at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC. It was billed as a “gathering of celebration and remembering” and that it was. Carol died the morning...
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A Few Bookshelves
I ONCE heard a Rikers Island inmate say, “Everything good in my life came because I read a book.” Nowadays, like most of us, I have been spending a lot of time at home feeling like a prisoner. Luckily...
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