Monthly Archives: February 2012
REVIEW: Ride the Moon ed. M.L.D. Curelas
Title: Ride the Moon Editor: M.L.D. Curelas Pub Date: February 29th, 2012 Chris’ Rating (5 possible): An Attempt at Categorization If You Like… / You Might Like… Black Swan, White Raven Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy The Way … Continue reading
Post-scarcity and Realistic Utopia: Where’s the fight?
One of the WIPs I’m working on right now is a far future SF novel inspired largely by Le Guin’s classic The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. As I’ve observed before, utopian novels are hard to pull off because an ostensibly … Continue reading
Romance as the Emotional B-Plot in Speculative Fiction
If you live in the United States, then no doubt all of the chocolate manufacturers have made damned sure that you know today is Valentine’s Day. I know plenty of people who grumble that it’s a made-up holiday, developed and … Continue reading
The Aesthetics, Structure, and Themes of Noir Speculative Fiction
Last week on Twitter, I got into an interesting discussion on whether noir fiction is inimical to science fiction. The original conversation got fairly involved, and while we reached few conclusions (substantive discussions in 140 chars are tough!) the conversation … Continue reading
