On a clear night in 1986, my dad showed my sisters and me Halley’s Comet,…
Author: T.D. Walker
March is an ideal time to revisit the works of Mary Shelley, Margaret Cavendish, Charlotte…
When I reread A Handmaid’s Tale a few years ago, a couple things struck me.…
In my previous blog post, “Science Fiction Poetry: Some Starting Questions,” I posed a few…
Not the Homogeneous States of America: Political Engagement and Place in Near-Future Science Fiction
The recent election season in the US highlighted simplified views of place1, especially views of…
Classifying literature as one genre or another helps us as readers to set our expectations…
Readers of science fiction may wonder these days if the word “dystopia” shouldn’t really be…