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science fiction

Dec
15
Cover of "Roadside Picnic". A guy in a weird egg-shaped spacesuit holds a strange mechanical device.

Year's end weird book roundup

Strugatsky Brothers, John Bellairs, Jack Vance
5 min read
Jul
21
Bela Lugosi as Dracula, but tinted blue and orange to make him look cyberpunk

Is Dracula the first cyberpunk novel?

It's more likely than you think!
6 min read
Apr
16
Statuette of an inhuman figure with slitted eyes and a drooping nose

A prodigious moonfish

reviewing every single Clark Ashton Smith story, part 4
6 min read
Mar
16
Cover art depicting a fleshy pyramid, a human nervous system, and a melting wolf's head.

Mini-Reviews 1: Simak & Moorcock

The world's first multiverse crossover. Also: WEREPYRAMID
6 min read
Feb
18
Cover art depicting an alien playing cards with four hands.

Purest Hazard

The Grand Wheel (1977), Barrington J. Bayley
5 min read
Feb
06
grainy monochrome photograph of mysterious talismanic sculptures

the mystic syllables yop, yeep, and yoop

reviewing every Clark Ashton Smith story, part 3
4 min read
Jan
22
Book cover depicting three women in togas, all bearing knives, apparently mirror images of each other.

The Adventures of "The Adventures of Alyx"

This was in Ourdh, where all things are possible
7 min read
Jan
08
Grainy monochrome photo of an eerie, melancholy stone head

Among the Worst Ways to Die...

Reading every Clark Ashton Smith story, part 2
5 min read
Dec
09
Grainy photograph of an eerie stone sculpture sitting among leaf litter on the ground

Dark Flowers of the Pulp Age

reviewing every Clark Ashton Smith story, part 1
7 min read
Aug
02
book cover depicting a silver needle-shaped spaceship on a verdant alien landscape

Paradise and Hell: “The Gardens of Delight” by Ian Watson

with some thoughts on the value of modesty in fiction
6 min read