Book Name: Forty Thousand in Gehenna Author: C.J. Cherryh First Published: 1983 Nominated for Locus Award (1984) Author Carolyn Janice Cherry is better known by her pen name C. J. Cherryh. She is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer with 40 novels under her belt. Cherryh is pronounced “Cherry”. When she first began […]
Last month, in this very same column, we talked about speculative fiction generally, and science fiction particularly, in terms of their place on the literary fiction/genre fiction spectrum. I concluded that while it may be perfectly accurate to consider science fiction “genre fiction”, we are entering an era in which media does not have to […]
Book Name: Contact Author: Carl Sagan First Published: 1985 Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1986 Dr. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1934. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Cornell and gained a double doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1960. He became a professor of astronomy and space […]
Author Elizabeth Guizzetti is a science fiction author who writes what she wants and hopes to slay her readers with an emotional connection to her characters. Hi everyone, my name is Elizabeth Guizzetti, and when I am not writing or drawing, I also enjoy hiking and birdwatching. I live in Seattle with my husband and […]
In the early days of cinema, male scientists in science fiction and fantasy had female counterparts, usually assisting, sometimes as partners, but generally in peril and requiring rescue once the action builds to a climax. Those roles have evolved over time, echoing changing roles for women in society. Still, gaps in the amount of screen […]
Book Name: Neuromancer Author: William Gibson First Published: 1984 Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards winner, British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1984. Hugo Award winner, 1985 William Ford Gibson was born in the late 1940s and remained in the United States until the Vietnam War. Like many of his generation, he evaded the draft during […]
Do you ever stay up late at night, lying in the dark, with some event or conversation from the day playing over and over in your head? Each time, you think of some alternate way it could have happened, some other word you could have used, some detour you could have taken, some tip you […]
As a medium given to formulaic plot lines, mainstream television can be slow to embrace new narratives and cultural change, but the science fiction genre can take some strides, given its “futuristic” format. Star Trek justifiably comes to mind as the series legendary for the first interracial kiss on the small screen and for its […]
From the beginning, women have traveled alongside men in the exploration of our planet. So too in space. Women have served in space since Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova orbited the globe on June 16, 1963. At the same time, men and women sought to balance the demands of career and family. As roles changed, science […]
Title: One Fell Sweep (The Innkeeper Chronicles #3) Publisher: NYLA Author: Ilona Andrews Pages: 338 pp Price: $4.99 (ebook) / $13.99 (paperback) The Hook: Dina DeMille is an Innkeeper. She runs the Gertrude Hunt, a bed and breakfast in Texas. But Dina is a very unusual Innkeeper, and the Gertrude Hunt deals with a very […]
