A great 1994 newsgroup posting by Iain M Banks that gives us a peek behind the scenes of the Culture: fascinating and fun.
I’ve read 16 of these and some of the others are on my to-read list. It’s a pretty good selection, although the winking inclusion of God Emperor Of Dune by the SEO guy verges on trolling.
Primer was a film about a start-up …and time travel. This is a short story about big tech …and time travel.
I’m really enjoying these sci-fi short stories that Terence is publishing on his site—one for every day of the month.
Dave’s short’n’sweet sci-fi stories, collected in one place.
Joanne McNeil on the retroactive pigeonholing of downright weird sci-fi writers like Philip K. Dick, JG Ballard and Octavia Butler:
The snobbery against science fiction in the past and today’s cartoon icons of some of its weirdest authors comes from the same root: an establishment that doesn’t know how to read or appreciate it.
And she absolutely nails the straitjacketed feeling I get from a lot of new sci-fi that’s laudable in its politics but lacking in other ways:
I suspect those authors are drawn to the genre for the thing that increasingly frustrates me about it: the way science fiction is mined for road maps and potential solutions in real situations of uncertainty and disaster. The way it’s “smart person” literature about systems with hyper-competent protagonists. I’m here for the losers. The losers are my people.
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
Greek tragedies are time-travel stories.
A spoiler-filled look at the new Christopher Nolan film.
The viewing order for a Star Wars movie marathon
A tale of two Kevins.