Monthly Archives: August 2011

At one point in Nicola Griffith’s Slow River, the heroine, who works at a sewage treatment plant in a northern English industrial city, shows up for her shift together with her boss.  Seeing Lore and the boss arriving together, their … Continue reading →

OK, let’s see if I can get it to make a link this time: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books That’s better! 7 ahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury at an SF convention would be like Leonard Cohen at Lollapalooza.  In a genre devoted … Continue reading →

Who can resist a list? NPR has come out with a list of the best sf/fantasy books of all time: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books What do you think? What’s missing that deserves to be on there? Which of the listed items suck? Here … Continue reading →