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“The Tenants” by William Tenn: An Appreciation by Nancy O. Greene 26 Apr 2007 | 04:06 am
"The Tenants" by William Tenn (Philip Klass) is laced with the kind of subtle horror and mental decline that comes with obsession. It starts out with the protagonist, Sydney Blake, going about things ...
"Small Houses" by James P. Blaylock: An Appreciation by Amy Sterling Casil 17 Jan 2007 | 06:34 am
I might have overestimated Jim's sense of humor in the past. Or, it may just be that I'm older, and I see so much more clearly how immensely touching his writing is. How the words are laden with quiet...
"Hula Ville" by James P. Blaylock: An Appreciation by Amy Sterling Casil 11 Jan 2007 | 05:37 am
Hula Ville was once a real landmark on the famous "Route 66" going to or from the High Desert in Southern California. It's not the kind of place any of my people would have been inclined to stop at wh...
"Gauging Moonlight" by E. Catherine Tobler: An Appreciation by Patrick Samphire 10 Jan 2007 | 08:33 am
Sometimes, you think that all that can be done in a sub-genre has been done. Sometimes, someone comes along and proves just how wrong you were. E. Catherine Tobler's time-travel story is a fine exam...
"The Thousand Cuts" by Ian Watson: An Appreciation by Mike Allen 9 Jan 2007 | 06:06 am
Part comedy of manners, part apocalyptic horror story, "The Thousand Cuts" presents a perfect sample of Ian Watson's darkly puckish sensibility. Fascination with the nature of consciousness and senti...
"Little Faces" by Vonda N. McIntyre: An Appreciation by Liz Henry 20 Dec 2006 | 08:37 am
"Little Faces" is about a society of women symbiotic with their living spaceships. It answers the age-old question, "How do you write an exciting romantic crime story set in a genderfucked anarchic ut...
"I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison: An Appreciation by E.C. Myers 14 Dec 2006 | 05:14 am
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" first appeared in March 1967 in IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. It won the Hugo award for best short story in 1968, subsequently was reprinted in numerous anthologi...
"Aye, And Gomorrah" by Samuel R. Delany: An Appreciation by Hal Duncan 2 Oct 2006 | 02:24 pm
And came down in DRIFTGLASS: Where I read the opening rubric of a poem that asks the simple question--Was Sodom destroyed?--and raced through the stories of the collection, "The Star Pit", "Dog In A ...
"When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman Hess: An Appreciation by F. Brett Cox 27 Sep 2006 | 02:52 am
The first sf magazine I ever bought was the November 1970 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. From front to back, it contained stories by Keith Roberts, Robert Sheckley, Christopher ...
"Ancestor Money" by Maureen McHugh: An Appreciation by Kristin Livdahl 26 Sep 2006 | 03:57 am
My favorite McHugh stories are about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, just like Rachel in "Ancestor Money." No, that's not right. My favorite McHugh stories are about clashes between cu...
