New Books in Science Fiction
Episodes
Keith Cooper, "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" (Reaktion, 2025)
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a double sunset on Tatooine, stand among the sand dunes of Arrakis or gaze at the gas-giant plan...
E. and H. Heron, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective" (MIT Press, 2026)
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method...
In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s new series Pluribus. The show posits an extraordinary ...
Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we conclude our analysis of the FX series Alien: Earth with episode 7, “Emergence” and episode 8, “The R...
Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of the FX series Alien: Earth with episode 5, “In Space, No One…” and episode 6...
Wu Jianren, "New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel" (Columbia UP, 2025)
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens if you took one of the classic characters of Chinese literary fiction and dropped him into early 20th-century China? That’s the premis...
Maria Dadouch, "I Want Golden Eyes" (U Texas Press, 2025)
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This interview is with one of the translators, M. Lynx Qualey. A girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in...
Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Metamorphosis and Observation
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of the FX series Alien: Earth with episode 3, “Metamorphosis” and episode 4, “O...
Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A magnificent cultural biography, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler (Amistad, 2025) charts the life of one of our greatest...
154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With influential series on California, on the terraforming of Mars, and on human civilization as reshaped by rising tides, Kim Stanley Robinson h...
Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Superhero violence and graphic action sequences are prevalent on the screen and on the page, but this book takes an alternative route with practical g...
Christy Climenhage, "The Midnight Project" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery interviews Christy Climenhage, the author of the highly-anticipated science fiction thriller, The Midnight Project (Wolsak &...
Lindsay Wong, "Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories" (Penguin, 2023)
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, Hollay Ghadery speaks with Lindsay Wong about her short story collection, Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality (Penguin, 2...
The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the UConn Popcast, and we continue our analysis of Andor season 2 with the conclusion to the series. We break down, analyze, and explain the p...
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the UConn Popcast, and we continue our analysis of Andor season 2 with episodes 7-9. We break down the politics of these episodes, focusing o...
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the UConn Popcast, and we continue our analysis of Andor season 2 with episodes 4-6. We break down the politics of these episodes, focusing on...
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we react to Andor Season 2, episodes 1-3. We break down the politics of these episodes, focusing on the motives a...
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked...
Badiucao and Mellissa Chan, "You Must Take Part in Revolution" (Street Noise Books, 2024)
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You Must Take Part In Revolution is a mind-bending graphic novel by award-winning journalist Melissa Chan and acclaimed dissident artist Badiucao....
Ben Berman Ghan, "The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024)
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Berman Ghan is the author of the bestselling novel, The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024). The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is...
Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk o...
Suzy Krause, "I Think We've Been Here Before" (Radiant Press, 2024)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suzy Krause’s latest speculative fiction novel, I Think We’ve Been Here Before (Radiant Press, 2024) is a compulsively readable and cosy story. ...
Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With this dry observance Peter Darbyshire introduces us to Cross, a man who has lived thousands of years, though he’d prefer not to have, and who is...
Emily A. Weedon, "Autokrator" (Cormorant Books, 2024)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born nameless, in a rigid, autocratic society that has relegated all women to non-person status — Unmales — two women fight against their invisibi...
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hig...
Benjamin Resnick, "Next Stop" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024) A hole opens in the universe and suddenly consumes a buildin...
CK Westbrook, "The Aftermath" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2024)
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's been almost five years since a wrathful extraterrestrial called Rex perpetrated a mass shooting that caused hundreds of millions of people to tak...
Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When three people in Philadelphia inhale dust developed by a scientist who has discovered parallel universes, they are transported into an interdimens...
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial pla...
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
n this special Star Trek Day episode on the New Books Network, hosted by Dessy Vassileva from Vernon Press, we celebrate over 55 years of Star Trek ...
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society wh...
Graham McNeill, "Horus Heresy - False Gods" (Games Workshop, 2014)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For years, fans have been clamoring for novels about the Horus Heresy - the bloody civil war that set Space Marine against Space Marine and nearly spe...
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Star Wars' is a global phenomenon that in 2022 celebrated its 45th year of transmedia storytelling, and it has never been more successful than it is ...
Wole Talabi, "Convergence Problems" (Astra Publishing House, 2024)
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his new story collection Convergence Problems (DAW Books, 2024), Wole Talabi investigates the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in...
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we discuss Netflix’s new screen adaptation of Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin’s Three Body trilogy....
Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024)
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her t...
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kalpavigyan—science fiction written to excite Bengali speakers about science, as well as to persuade them to evolve beyond the limitations of religi...
Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Phil...
Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. In Wag...
Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through s...
Stefano Gualeni, "The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction" (Routledge, 2023)
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the ...
Waubgeshig Rice, "Moon of the Turning Leaves" (William Morrow, 2023)
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been over a decade since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy. Evan...
Jarret Keene, "Hammer of the Dogs" (U Nevada Press, 2023)
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Jarret Keene's, Hammer of the Dogs (University of Nevada Press, 2023), is a literary dystopi...
Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from t...
Reese Hogan, "My Heart Is Human" (Space Wizard Science Fantasy, 2023)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My Heart Is Human (Space Wizard Science Fantasy, 2023) by Reese Hogan is about a human and robot who come to occupy the same body. The body belongs ...
Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I am talking today to Mingwei Song about his new book, Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia UP, 2023). The book is a sweep...
What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard for a conversation a...
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Studios and directed by Ishirō Honda, creating a gl...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the publication of John's book Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea (My Reading), with Oxford University Press (2023), John and Elizabeth take to the ai...
Em X. Liu, "The Death I Gave Him" (Solaris, 2023)
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Em X. Liu’s The Death I Gave Him (Solaris, 2023) brings a science fiction twist to Shakespeare’s beloved Hamlet. Working at Elsinore Labs, Hayde...
Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels l...
Nick Harkaway, "Titanium Noir" (Knopf, 2023)
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to Merriam-Webster, noir is “crime fiction featuring hard-boiled, cynical characters and bleak, sleazy settings.” The Cambridge Dictio...
Arin Greenwood, "Your Robot Dog Will Die" (Soho, 2019)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Arin Greenwood about her new book Your Robot Dog Will Die (Soho, 2019). When a global genetic experiment goes awry and canines sto...
Karen Lord, "The Blue, Beautiful World" (Del Rey, 2023)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In science fiction, aliens who come to Earth are usually scary and menacing, aspiring to destroy, conquer, or even eat mankind. But the aliens in Kar...
CK Westbrook, "The Shooting" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022)
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The Shooting (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022), the first book in a trilogy, CK Westbrook superbly places real-life characters in a fantasy world ...
Scott Russell Duncan, "El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl" (2022)
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mexican American writers make their mark in Science Fiction literature! In this first of a kind anthology, written solely by Mexican Americans, we are...
Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism (MIT Press, 2022), edited by Roy Christopher, is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample, t...
Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a first for the Peoples & Things podcast: it features a guest host. It is something you will be seeing more of in the future. Guest ho...
Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse comm...
Emma Mieko Candon, "The Archive Undying" (Tordotcom, 2023)
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Archive Undying (Tordotcom, 2023) is Emma Mieko Candon’s ambitious epic science fiction novel about intertwined human survivors following the v...
Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea" (MCD, 2022)
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominat...
Gareth L. Powell, "Descendant Machine" (Titan Books, 2023)
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gareth L. Powell’s Descendant Machine (Titan Books, 2023) is set about 200 years in the future, and yet the recent explosion in A.I. technology su...
Brad Kelly, "House of Sleep" (2021)
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Brad Kelly about his novel House of Sleep (2021). A cerebral PsyFi thriller that will break your heart and then set it free. Think...
Leslye Penelope, "The Monsters We Defy" (Redhook, 2022)
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leslye Penelope’s latest novel, The Monsters We Defy (Redhook, 2022), takes readers to a version of 1920s Washington D.C. where bootleggers, power...
Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big...
Lavanya Lakshminarayan, "The Ten Percent Thief" (Solaris, 2023)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s science fiction novel, The Ten Percent Thief (Solaris, 2023), is set in a world centered on meritocracy, where everyon...
Denise Crittendon, "Where it Rains in Color" (Angry Robot, 2022)
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Denise Crittendon’s debut science fiction novel,Where it Rains in Color (Angry Robot, 2022), is set far in the future, long after the Earth has bee...
Annalee Newitz, "The Terraformers" (Tor Books, 2023)
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In their new novel, The Terraformers (Tor Books, 2023), Annalee Newitz leaps 60,000 years into the future, redefining ideas of peoplehood, democra...
Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Stanley Robinson, SF novelist of renown, has three marvelous trilogies: The Three Californias, Science in the Capital and Red Mars, Green Mars...
Hiron Ennes, "Leech" (Tordotcom, 2022)
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Soft sci-fi, gothic body horror” is how Hiron Ennes describes their debut novel, Leech (Tordotcom, 2022). But that’s just the tip of the iceb...
On H. G. Well's "The Time Machine"
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When H.G. Wells was growing up in England in the 1860s, science wasn’t part of education or everyday life the way it is now. Even though the 19th ce...
Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do women balance feminist identities whilst being science fiction fans? In Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the...
Alastair Reynolds, "Eversion" (Orbit, 2022)
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Alastair Reynolds’ Eversion (Orbit, 2022), the setting keep changing—the epoch, location, and technology—but the characters remain more or...
Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat Redux
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim talks with Gina Dominick about Ursula Le Guin’s short story “Schrödinger’s Cat” and the philosophical stakes of Schrödinger’s thought ...
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Roquet is an MIT associate professor in media studies and Japan studies; his earlier work includes Ambient Media. It was his recent mind-bendin...
Victor Manibo, "The Sleepless" (Erewhon, 2022)
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Part mystery, part thriller, with a splash of cyberpunk, Victor Manibo’s debut novel The Sleepless (Erewhon, 2022) imagines a near-future New Yor...
89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Yu won the 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown but some of us became fans a decade earlier, with How to Live Safely in a Scienc...
Joma West, "Face" (Tordotcom, 2022)
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People have always cared about their social status and how others perceive them, but advances in technology have changed how we ascend the social la...
Megan Giddings, "The Women Could Fly" (Amistad, 2022)
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Women Could Fly (Amistad, 2022) is set in our contemporary world with one big difference. A belief in witches gives rise to laws and a culture th...
F. Brett Cox, "Roger Zelazny" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) combined poetic prose with fearless literary ambition to become one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1...
85* Pu Wang and John Plotz look back on their Cixin Liu interview
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first August rebroadcast was John and Pu's 2019 interview with SF superstar Cixin Liu (you may want to re-listen to that episode before this on...
Darts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative Fiction
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s stardate 99040.01 and lead producer Jay Cockburn is temporarily taking over command of Darts and Letters for an episode. For this episode, as...
Nandita Dinesh, "This Place That Place" (Melville House, 2022)
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A nameless young woman from This Place, and a nameless young man from That Place are stuck together when That Place, the occupying force, imposes anot...
B. L. Blanchard, "The Peacekeeper" (47north, 2022)
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The rich worldbuilding of a never-colonized North America sets the stage for this unusual murder mystery debut by B. L. Blanchard. Chibenashi is a bro...
84* Cixin Liu Talk About Science Fiction (JP, Pu Wang)
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John and Pu Wang, a Brandeis professor of Chinese literature, spoke with science-fiction genius Cixin Liu back in 2019. His most celebrated works i...
Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
King Rao–one of the protagonists from Vauhini Vara’s novel The Immortal King Rao (W. W. Norton & Company: 2022)—is like many of the tech found...
José Rivera, "Lovesong (Imperfect) (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
José Rivera's Lovesong (Imperfect) (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021) follows a passionate love triangle in an unusual situation: the US government ...
The Career of a Writer: A Discussion with Douglas Richards
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of How To Be Wrong, we talk with novelist New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Douglas Richards, about his career as a wr...
John Scalzi, "The Kaiju Preservation Society" (Tor Books, 2022)
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One could call The Kaiju Preservation Society (Tor Books, 2022) a pandemic novel because a) John Scalzi wrote it during the pandemic and b) the pan...
Nathaniel Isaacson, "Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction" (Wesleyan UP, 2017)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current...
On Teaching Religion on YouTube
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew M. Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religion at Boston University and founder of the educational YouTube channel, Religion for ...
Khan Wong, "The Circus Infinite" (Angry Robot, 2022)
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few writers are as qualified to set their book in a circus as Khan Wong, who has not only performed in a circus but is an internationally recognized ...
Outdated Futures
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saronik talks with Manish Melwani about outdated visions of the future and stale science fiction ideas that just won’t die. Manish is a Singaporea...
Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bo...
Chris Panatier, "Stringers" (Angry Robot, 2022)
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Take an average-to-below-average man, his loyal best friend, a jar of pickles, and some bug sex facts, and what do you have? The answer to that is St...
Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices...
3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Yu won the 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown but some of us became fans a decade earlier, with How to Live Safely in a Scienc...
Mike Chen, "Light Years from Home: A Novel" (Mira Books, 2022)
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Literature is full of families torn apart by tragedy—death, war, crime. But what if the members of a family can’t agree on the cause of the traged...
Sequoia Nagamatsu, "How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel" (William Morrow, 2022)
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Sequoia Nagamatsu about his novel How High We Go in the Dark (William Morrow, 2022). In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in ...