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Joan Tate, 1994)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/05/18/book-review-knut-faldbakkens-sweetwater-1976-trans-joan-tate-1994/", "published_at": "2026-05-18T15:47:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be06-541b-73cd-ba9c-7bd0fa25095f", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIX (Aldous Huxley, Joyce Thompson, John Collier, and an anthology of stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/05/03/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxlix-aldous-huxley-joyce-thompson-john-collier-and-an-anthology-of-stories-from-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction/", "published_at": "2026-05-03T18:31:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be06-541b-73cd-ba9c-7bd0fad2303e", "title": "Short Story Review: Richard Wilson’s “Strike” (1953)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/04/17/short-story-review-richard-wilsons-strike-1953/", "published_at": "2026-04-17T23:39:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be06-541b-73cd-ba9c-7bd0fb00d86b", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVIII", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/04/04/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxviii/", "published_at": "2026-04-05T01:04:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be06-541b-73cd-ba9c-7bd0fb1c1bb7", "title": "Exploration Log 13: Interview with Matthew I. 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Franke’s “Slum” (1970, trans. by Chris Herriman 1973)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/01/11/short-story-review-herbert-w-frankes-slum-1970-trans-by-chris-herriman-1973/", "published_at": "2026-01-11T20:06:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-5884-7077-8ac8-3186eff10247", "title": "My 2025 in Review (Best Science Fiction Novels and Short Fiction, Reading Initiatives, and Bonus Categories)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/01/02/my-2025-in-review-best-science-fiction-novels-and-short-fiction-reading-initiatives-and-bonus-categories/", "published_at": "2026-01-02T18:33:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-5884-7077-8ac8-3186f012e972", "title": "Short Book Reviews: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Icehenge (1984) and Peter Vansittart’s The Game and the Ground (1956)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/12/22/short-book-reviews-kim-stanley-robinsons-icehenge-1984-and-peter-vansittarts-the-game-and-the-ground-1956/", "published_at": "2025-12-22T19:45:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-5884-7077-8ac8-3186f02086ee", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/29/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxvii/", "published_at": "2025-11-29T16:53:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-5884-7077-8ac8-3186f11adc5d", "title": "Short Story Review: Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/short-story-review-izumi-suzukis-terminal-boredom-1984-trans-by-daniel-joseph-2021/", "published_at": "2025-11-15T16:29:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-5884-7077-8ac8-3186f1c341ce", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVI (Kim Stanley Robinson, Miriam Allen DeFord, Keith Laumer, and Jack Dann)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/10/25/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxlvi-kim-stanley-robinson-miriam-allen-deford-keith-laumer-and-jack-dann/", "published_at": "2025-10-26T00:46:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd4d-2467-721d-af99-9bbefe6bf469", "title": "Book Review: Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/10/18/book-review-octavia-e-butlers-clays-ark-1984/", "published_at": "2025-10-19T02:32:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd4d-2467-721d-af99-9bbeff47da32", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVI", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/10/12/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxvi/", "published_at": "2025-10-12T13:01:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd4d-2468-72a6-bbcc-98898cce5449", "title": "Short Fiction Reviews: George H. Smith’s “The Last Days of L.A.” (1959) and “In the Imagicon” (1966)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/10/04/short-fiction-reviews-george-h-smiths-the-last-days-of-l-a-1959-and-in-the-imagicon-1966/", "published_at": "2025-10-04T20:15:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd4d-2468-72a6-bbcc-98898d3094a3", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Purchases No. CCCXLV (Ursula K. 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H. L. Gold (November 1950) (Brown, Asimov, Boucher, Leiber, Knight, Simak)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/07/02/magazine-review-galaxy-science-fiction-ed-h-l-gold-november-1950-brown-asimov-boucher-leiber-knight-simak/", "published_at": "2025-07-02T21:32:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd62-6571-7288-8e43-cffadee2826f", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIII", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/06/29/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxiii/", "published_at": "2025-06-29T16:30:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd62-6571-7288-8e43-cffadfc2e049", "title": "Exploration Log 10: Interview with Jaroslav Olša, Jr., author of Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles: Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer and the Birth of Science Fiction (2025)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/06/23/exploration-log-10-interview-with-jaroslav-olsa-jr-author-of-dreaming-of-autonomous-vehicles-miloslav-miles-j-breuer-czech-american-writer-and-the-birth-of-science-fiction-2025/", "published_at": "2025-06-23T11:22:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd62-6571-7288-8e43-cffadfe2cf7d", "title": "Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIV (Margaret St. Clair, Edgar Pangborn, Keith Laumer, and Edmund Cooper)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/06/18/recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxliv-margaret-st-clair-edgar-pangborn-keith-laumer-and-edmund-cooper/", "published_at": "2025-06-18T19:53:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8ac747c6", "title": "Magazine Review: Galaxy Science Fiction, ed. H. L. Gold (October 1950) (Simak, Sturgeon, MacLean, Matheson, Leiber, Brown, Asimov)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/06/08/magazine-review-galaxy-science-fiction-ed-h-l-gold-october-1950-simak-sturgeon-maclean-matheson-leiber-brown-asimov/", "published_at": "2025-06-08T19:55:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8b6eb03b", "title": "Short Book Reviews: Edgar Pangborn’s The Company of Glory (1974, novelized 1975) and Harold Mead’s Mary’s Country (1957)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/06/01/short-book-reviews-edgar-pangborns-the-company-of-glory-1974-novelized-1975-and-harold-meads-marys-country-1957/", "published_at": "2025-06-01T16:47:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8bbe1514", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXII", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/05/26/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxii/", "published_at": "2025-05-26T16:51:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8c3adf7a", "title": "Short Fiction Reviews: Cherry Wilder’s “The Ark of James Carlyle” (1974), “The Phobos Transcripts” (1975), and “Way Out West” (1975)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/05/19/short-fiction-reviews-cherry-wilders-the-ark-of-james-carlyle-1974-the-phobos-transcripts-1975-and-way-out-west-1975/", "published_at": "2025-05-19T20:12:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8c4eb7ff", "title": "Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIII (Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, Chuck Rothman, Philip José Farmer, and an anthology on Future Love)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/05/10/recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxliii-philip-k-dick-roger-zelazny-chuck-rothman-philip-jose-farmer-and-an-anthology-on-future-love/", "published_at": "2025-05-10T15:44:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8ca0ac53", "title": "Exploration Log 9: Three More Interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/04/27/exploration-log-9-three-more-interviews-with-clifford-d-simak-1904-1988/", "published_at": "2025-04-27T14:28:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8d7ee2f3", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXI", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/04/20/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxi/", "published_at": "2025-04-20T19:31:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8dea27f8", "title": "Short Story Reviews: E. C. Tubb’s “Without Bugles” (1952), “Home is the Hero” (1952), and “Pistol Point” (1953)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/04/13/short-story-reviews-e-c-tubbs-without-bugles-1952-home-is-the-hero-1952-and-pistol-point-1953/", "published_at": "2025-04-13T20:57:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-19ba-711d-8484-73df8e0af52d", "title": "Science Fiction in Dialogue with The Great Depression: Frank K. Kelly’s “Famine on Mars” (1934)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/03/26/science-fiction-in-dialogue-with-the-great-depression-frank-k-kellys-famine-on-mars-1934/", "published_at": "2025-03-27T00:49:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c717469d8", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLII (Robert Silverberg, C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Peter Tate, and Thomas Burnett Swann)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/03/24/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxlii-robert-silverberg-c-l-moore-henry-kuttner-peter-tate-and-thomas-burnett-swann/", "published_at": "2025-03-24T15:45:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c7198527e", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XX", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/03/17/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xx/", "published_at": "2025-03-17T22:20:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c72545d7a", "title": "Book Review: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, ed. Frederik Pohl (1955)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/03/09/book-review-star-science-fiction-stories-no-3-ed-frederik-pohl-1955/", "published_at": "2025-03-09T23:07:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c7327d8fd", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLI (Pamela Sargent, Lan Wright, Burt Cole, and an Anthology on Post-Apocalyptic Fiction)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/02/28/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxli-pamela-sargent-lan-wright-burt-cole-and-an-anthology-on-post-apocalyptic-fiction/", "published_at": "2025-02-28T23:51:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c73546220", "title": "Adventures in Science Fiction Art: Rodger B. MacGowan’s Approachable New Wave Art, Part I", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/02/23/adventures-in-science-fiction-art-rodger-b-macgowans-approachable-new-wave-art-part-i/", "published_at": "2025-02-23T21:22:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c7417be35", "title": "Exploration Log 8: Pat M. Kuras and Rob Schmieder’s “When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom” (1980)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/02/15/exploration-log-8-pat-m-kuras-and-rob-schmieders-when-it-changed-lesbians-gay-men-and-science-fiction-fandom-1980/", "published_at": "2025-02-16T03:35:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c74cfcbe8", "title": "Short Book Reviews: Margot Bennett’s The Long Way Back (1954) and Mack Reynolds’ The Earth War (1964)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/02/08/short-book-reviews-margot-bennetts-the-long-way-back-1954-and-mack-reynolds-the-earth-war-1964/", "published_at": "2025-02-09T04:03:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c75c07a96", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XIX", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/25/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xviii-2/", "published_at": "2025-01-25T20:38:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-74e7-7110-833b-af8c760f2dbd", "title": "Short Fiction Reviews: Philip K. Dick’s “Explorers We” (1959) and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “Painwise” (1972)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/18/short-fiction-reviews-philip-k-dicks-explorers-we-1959-and-james-tiptree-jr-s-painwise-1972/", "published_at": "2025-01-19T04:54:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92c-733c-923e-3119eaf531ee", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXL (Philip José Farmer, L. Sprague de Camp, George Alec Effinger, and an Anthology of SF by Women)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/11/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxl-philip-jose-farmer-l-sprague-de-camp-george-alec-effinger-and-anthology-of-sf-by-women/", "published_at": "2025-01-11T15:47:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92e-70e0-a4a1-d62ef2a2b8d3", "title": "Exploration Log 7: Interview with Jordan S. Carroll, author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (2024)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/06/exploration-log-7-interview-with-jordan-s-carroll-author-of-speculative-whiteness-science-fiction-and-the-alt-right-2024/", "published_at": "2025-01-06T22:20:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92e-70e0-a4a1-d62ef34d5e52", "title": "My 2024 in Review (Best Science Fiction Novels and Short Fiction, Articles/Podcasts, Reading Initiatives, and Bonus Categories)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/05/my-2024-in-review-best-science-fiction-novels-and-short-fiction-articles-podcasts-reading-initiatives-and-bonus-categories/", "published_at": "2025-01-05T19:47:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92e-70e0-a4a1-d62ef3e4e190", "title": "Book Review: Future Power, ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin, Damon Knight, James Tiptree, Jr., Gene Wolfe, etc.)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/01/book-review-future-power-ed-jack-dann-and-gardner-dozois-1976-ursula-k-le-guin-damon-knight-james-tiptree-jr-gene-wolfe-etc/", "published_at": "2025-01-01T18:27:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92e-70e0-a4a1-d62ef4d42036", "title": "Short Story Review: Poul Anderson’s “The Troublemakers” (1953)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/12/28/short-story-review-poul-andersons-the-troublemakers-1953/", "published_at": "2024-12-28T04:09:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92f-7057-b58b-dd85ad3855dc", "title": "Book Review: In the Drift, Michael Swanwick (1985)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/12/14/book-review-in-the-drift-michael-swanwick-1985/", "published_at": "2024-12-15T02:20:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92f-7057-b58b-dd85ad6be8cc", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XVIII", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/12/07/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xviii/", "published_at": "2024-12-07T19:34:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92f-7057-b58b-dd85ad897cf0", "title": "Exploration Log 6: Clifford D. Simak’s 1971 Worldcon Guest of Honor Speech", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/11/30/exploration-log-6-clifford-d-simaks-1971-worldcon-guest-of-honor-speech/", "published_at": "2024-11-30T19:22:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-d92f-7057-b58b-dd85ae6cd23f", "title": "Short Fiction Reviews: Leigh Kennedy’s “Salamander” (1977), “Whale Song” (1978), “Detailed Silence” (1980), and “Speaking10 to Others2; Speaking3 to Others20” (1981)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/11/17/short-fiction-reviews-leigh-kennedys-salamander-1977-whale-song-1978-detailed-science-1980-and-speaking10-to-others2-speaking3-to-others20-1981/", "published_at": "2024-11-17T23:31:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e1599d8fb", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXXXIX (Frank Herbert, Alan E. Nourse, Ann Maxwell, Craig Harrison)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/11/09/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxxxix-frank-herbert-alan-e-nourse-ann-maxwell-craig-harrison/", "published_at": "2024-11-09T16:41:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e1639b439", "title": "Short Book Reviews: Lisa Goldstein’s A Mask for the General (1987) and Philip McCutchan’s The Day of the Coastwatch (1968)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/11/06/short-book-review-lisa-goldsteins-a-mask-for-the-general-1987-and-philip-mccutchans-the-day-of-the-coastwatch-1968/", "published_at": "2024-11-06T17:11:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e16eb9215", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XVII", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/11/02/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xvii/", "published_at": "2024-11-02T17:49:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e17004908", "title": "Book Review: Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak, Clifford D. Simak (1967)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/10/26/book-review-best-science-fiction-stories-of-clifford-d-simak-clifford-d-simak-1967/", "published_at": "2024-10-27T02:33:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e174c7c03", "title": "Short Story Reviews: Philip K. Dick’s “Stand-By” (variant title: “Top Stand-By Job”) (1963), Milton Lesser’s “Do It Yourself” (1957), and H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire’s “Hunter Patrol” (1959)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/10/13/short-story-reviews-phillip-k-dicks-stand-by-variant-title-top-stand-by-job-1963-milton-lessers-do-it-yourself-1957-and-h-beam-piper-and-john-j-mcguires-hunter-patrol/", "published_at": "2024-10-13T18:54:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e17ebd86d", "title": "Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXXXVIII (Gregory Benford, Dean McLaughlin, Warren Norwood, and Aileen La Tourette)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/10/05/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxxxviii-gregory-benford-dean-mclaughlin-warren-norwood-and-aileen-la-tourette/", "published_at": "2024-10-05T20:33:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e17fcec7b", "title": "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XVI", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/09/28/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xvi/", "published_at": "2024-09-29T02:25:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e18c41cdf", "title": "Short Story Reviews: Ted White’s “Growing Up Fast in the City” (1971), “Junk Patrol” (1971), and “Things Are Tough All Over” (1971)", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/09/25/short-story-reviews-ted-whites-growing-up-fast-in-the-city-1971-junk-patrol-1971-and-things-are-tough-all-over-1971/", "published_at": "2024-09-26T01:14:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-c205-72a4-9c2b-5a7e19bbf3b3", "title": "Exploration Log 5: “We Must Start Over Again and Find Some Other Way of Life”: The Role of Organized Labor in the 1940s and ’50s Science Fiction of Clifford D. Simak", "url": "https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/09/13/exploration-log-5-we-must-start-over-again-and-find-some-other-way-of-life-the-role-of-organized-labor-in-the-1940s-and-50s-science-fiction-of-clifford-d-simak/", "published_at": "2024-09-13T20:55:16+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

Exploration Log 17: Interview with Loïg J. F. Pascual on 1970s-1980s Feminist Science Fiction Fandoms original ↗

16 Sept 2026

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCLIII (C. J. Cherryh, Alan Burns, Brian M. Stableford, and Irene Clyde)original ↗

8 Sept 2026

Book Review: Luděk Pešek’s Trap for Perseus (1976, trans. Anthea Bell, 1980)original ↗

31 Aug 2026

Short Book Reviews: Tanith Lee’s Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977) and Edmund Cooper’s All Fool’s Day (1966)original ↗

30 Aug 2026

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCLII (Joe Haldeman, Jack C. Haldeman II, Zenna Henderson, Thomas Burnett Swann, and Edwin Corley)original ↗

23 Aug 2026

Exploration Log 16: Clifford D. Simak’s speech “The Face of Science Fiction” (1953)original ↗

17 Aug 2026

Short Book Reviews: George Alec Effinger’s The Wolves of Memory (1981) and J. J. Connington’s Nordenholt’s Million (1923)original ↗

9 Aug 2026

Updates: Podcast discussion of Philip K. Dick’s “Foster, You’re Dead” (1955)original ↗

25 Jul 2026

Short Story Reviews: Harlan Ellison’s “Night Vigil” (variant title: “Yellow Streak Hero”) (1955) and “Life Hutch” (1956)original ↗

21 Jul 2026

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCLI (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Philip K. Dick, Howard L. Cory, Ward Moore and Avram Davidson, and Muriel Jaeger)original ↗

14 Jul 2026

Short Story Reviews: David Ely’s “Court of Judgment” (1961), “The Last Friday in August” (1961), and “The Wizard of Light” (1962)original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Exploration Log 15: Clifford D. Simak’s fanzine article “The Future of Science Fiction” (1941)original ↗

6 Jul 2026

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIX original ↗

24 Jun 2026

Exploration Log 14: Anti-Racism in Chandler Davis’ “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950)original ↗

21 Jun 2026

Short Fiction Review: Clifford D. Simak’s “Madness from Mars” (1939) and “Hermit of Mars” (1939)original ↗

15 Jun 2026

Book Review: Clifford D. Simak’s The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960)original ↗

8 Jun 2026

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCL(Jack Vance, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Thom Keyes, and Kenneth Bulmer)original ↗

31 May 2026

Short Book Reviews: Polly Toynbee’s Leftovers (1966) and Lewis Gibbs’ Late Final (1951)original ↗

25 May 2026

Book Review: Knut Faldbakken’s Sweetwater (1976, trans. Joan Tate, 1994)original ↗

18 May 2026

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIX (Aldous Huxley, Joyce Thompson, John Collier, and an anthology of stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)original ↗

3 May 2026

Short Story Review: Richard Wilson’s “Strike” (1953)original ↗

17 Apr 2026

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVIII original ↗

5 Apr 2026

Exploration Log 13: Interview with Matthew I. Thompson, author of On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (2026)original ↗

2 Apr 2026

Short Fiction Review: Alan E. Nourse’s “Marley’s Chain” (1952) and Edward W. Ludwig’s “The Rocket Man” (1951)original ↗

27 Mar 2026

Short Book Reviews: Fritz Leiber, Jr.’s Gather, Darkness! (1943, novelized 1950) and Gillian Freeman’s The Leader (1965)original ↗

7 Mar 2026

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVIII (Eric Frank Russell, Ben Bova, Pat Frank, and John Collier)original ↗

2 Mar 2026

Generation Ship Short Stories: Mari Wolf’s “The First Day of Spring” (1954) and Francis G. Rayer’s “Continuity Man” (1959)original ↗

16 Feb 2026

Book Review: William Tenn’s Time in Advance (1958)original ↗

8 Feb 2026

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVII (Edgar Pangborn, Rudy Rucker, Sally Miller Gearhart, and a SF anthology)original ↗

23 Jan 2026

Exploration Log 12: Adam Rowe on the Best Retro Science Fiction Art Collections original ↗

19 Jan 2026

Short Story Review: Herbert W. Franke’s “Slum” (1970, trans. by Chris Herriman 1973)original ↗

11 Jan 2026

My 2025 in Review (Best Science Fiction Novels and Short Fiction, Reading Initiatives, and Bonus Categories)original ↗

2 Jan 2026

2025

Short Book Reviews: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Icehenge (1984) and Peter Vansittart’s The Game and the Ground (1956)original ↗

22 Dec 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII original ↗

29 Nov 2025

Short Story Review: Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021)original ↗

15 Nov 2025

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVI (Kim Stanley Robinson, Miriam Allen DeFord, Keith Laumer, and Jack Dann)original ↗

26 Oct 2025

Book Review: Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984)original ↗

19 Oct 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVI original ↗

12 Oct 2025

Short Fiction Reviews: George H. Smith’s “The Last Days of L.A.” (1959) and “In the Imagicon” (1966)original ↗

4 Oct 2025

Updates: Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Purchases No. CCCXLV (Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Garner, Burt Cole, and a Cyberpunk Anthology)original ↗

19 Sept 2025

Short Book Reviews: Joe Haldeman’s All My Sins Remembered (1977) and Burt Cole’s Subi: The Volcano (1957)original ↗

13 Sept 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXV original ↗

31 Aug 2025

Book Review: Jack Dann’s Timetipping (1980)original ↗

24 Aug 2025

Short Story Review: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, trans. 1966)original ↗

17 Aug 2025

Short Fiction Review: John Wyndham’s “The Man From Beyond” (variant title: “The Man from Earth”) (1934)original ↗

10 Aug 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIV original ↗

27 Jul 2025

Book Review: Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979)original ↗

25 Jul 2025

Exploration Log 11: Interview with Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke, author of Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution (2025)original ↗

21 Jul 2025

Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The Flowering Bodies of Attilio Uzzo original ↗

17 Jul 2025

Book Review: George Hay’s Flight of the “Hesper” (1952)original ↗

11 Jul 2025

Magazine Review: Galaxy Science Fiction, ed. H. L. Gold (November 1950) (Brown, Asimov, Boucher, Leiber, Knight, Simak)original ↗

2 Jul 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIII original ↗

29 Jun 2025

Exploration Log 10: Interview with Jaroslav Olša, Jr., author of Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles: Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer and the Birth of Science Fiction (2025)original ↗

23 Jun 2025

Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIV (Margaret St. Clair, Edgar Pangborn, Keith Laumer, and Edmund Cooper)original ↗

18 Jun 2025

Magazine Review: Galaxy Science Fiction, ed. H. L. Gold (October 1950) (Simak, Sturgeon, MacLean, Matheson, Leiber, Brown, Asimov)original ↗

8 Jun 2025

Short Book Reviews: Edgar Pangborn’s The Company of Glory (1974, novelized 1975) and Harold Mead’s Mary’s Country (1957)original ↗

1 Jun 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXII original ↗

26 May 2025

Short Fiction Reviews: Cherry Wilder’s “The Ark of James Carlyle” (1974), “The Phobos Transcripts” (1975), and “Way Out West” (1975)original ↗

19 May 2025

Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIII (Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, Chuck Rothman, Philip José Farmer, and an anthology on Future Love)original ↗

10 May 2025

Exploration Log 9: Three More Interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988)original ↗

27 Apr 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXI original ↗

20 Apr 2025

Short Story Reviews: E. C. Tubb’s “Without Bugles” (1952), “Home is the Hero” (1952), and “Pistol Point” (1953)original ↗

13 Apr 2025

Science Fiction in Dialogue with The Great Depression: Frank K. Kelly’s “Famine on Mars” (1934)original ↗

27 Mar 2025

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLII (Robert Silverberg, C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Peter Tate, and Thomas Burnett Swann)original ↗

24 Mar 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XX original ↗

17 Mar 2025

Book Review: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, ed. Frederik Pohl (1955)original ↗

9 Mar 2025

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLI (Pamela Sargent, Lan Wright, Burt Cole, and an Anthology on Post-Apocalyptic Fiction)original ↗

28 Feb 2025

Adventures in Science Fiction Art: Rodger B. MacGowan’s Approachable New Wave Art, Part I original ↗

23 Feb 2025

Exploration Log 8: Pat M. Kuras and Rob Schmieder’s “When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom” (1980)original ↗

16 Feb 2025

Short Book Reviews: Margot Bennett’s The Long Way Back (1954) and Mack Reynolds’ The Earth War (1964)original ↗

9 Feb 2025

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XIX original ↗

25 Jan 2025

Short Fiction Reviews: Philip K. Dick’s “Explorers We” (1959) and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “Painwise” (1972)original ↗

19 Jan 2025

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXL (Philip José Farmer, L. Sprague de Camp, George Alec Effinger, and an Anthology of SF by Women)original ↗

11 Jan 2025

Exploration Log 7: Interview with Jordan S. Carroll, author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (2024)original ↗

6 Jan 2025

My 2024 in Review (Best Science Fiction Novels and Short Fiction, Articles/Podcasts, Reading Initiatives, and Bonus Categories)original ↗

5 Jan 2025

Book Review: Future Power, ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin, Damon Knight, James Tiptree, Jr., Gene Wolfe, etc.)original ↗

1 Jan 2025

2024

Short Story Review: Poul Anderson’s “The Troublemakers” (1953)original ↗

28 Dec 2024

Book Review: In the Drift, Michael Swanwick (1985)original ↗

15 Dec 2024

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XVIII original ↗

7 Dec 2024

Exploration Log 6: Clifford D. Simak’s 1971 Worldcon Guest of Honor Speech original ↗

30 Nov 2024

Short Fiction Reviews: Leigh Kennedy’s “Salamander” (1977), “Whale Song” (1978), “Detailed Silence” (1980), and “Speaking10 to Others2; Speaking3 to Others20” (1981)original ↗

17 Nov 2024

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXXXIX (Frank Herbert, Alan E. Nourse, Ann Maxwell, Craig Harrison)original ↗

9 Nov 2024

Short Book Reviews: Lisa Goldstein’s A Mask for the General (1987) and Philip McCutchan’s The Day of the Coastwatch (1968)original ↗

6 Nov 2024

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XVII original ↗

2 Nov 2024

Book Review: Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak, Clifford D. Simak (1967)original ↗

27 Oct 2024

Short Story Reviews: Philip K. Dick’s “Stand-By” (variant title: “Top Stand-By Job”) (1963), Milton Lesser’s “Do It Yourself” (1957), and H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire’s “Hunter Patrol” (1959)original ↗

13 Oct 2024

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXXXVIII (Gregory Benford, Dean McLaughlin, Warren Norwood, and Aileen La Tourette)original ↗

5 Oct 2024

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XVI original ↗

29 Sept 2024

Short Story Reviews: Ted White’s “Growing Up Fast in the City” (1971), “Junk Patrol” (1971), and “Things Are Tough All Over” (1971)original ↗

26 Sept 2024

Exploration Log 5: “We Must Start Over Again and Find Some Other Way of Life”: The Role of Organized Labor in the 1940s and ’50s Science Fiction of Clifford D. Simak original ↗

13 Sept 2024