ASIMOV! by Robert SilverbergScience fiction has given the world a legion of baaaad robots over the years. Back in the Gernsbackian antiquity of our genre, killer-robot stories were a pulp staple. Abner J. Gelula's “Automaton” of 1931 portrayed a lustful robot that makes erotic overtures to its cr...
So at least we have something in common. But Palacio (1906-1947), whose complete works fill a slim volume of about 175 pages that has achieved canonical status in his native land, was a unique figure in Ecuadorian literature. He was, in the words of one critic, a “doomed precursor” of the Latin A...
Lovett* * * *Illustrated by Mark Evans* * * *First contact is likely to require special skills—and not necessarily the ones you might think!* * * *Billy Whilmer wasn't sure when he realized there really were thoughts better left unthunk. Not that he believed in thought police waiting to get him. ...
Hakaru saw it for the first time as he was trudging along the highway, suitcase rolling behind him in the rain. It had been half a mile by foot from the train station, and although he had been looking for the turnoff to the village, it was so narrow, less than six paces wide, that he was on the p...
LovettSome science fiction writers start as scientists. Not Alec Nevala-Lee. He always planned to be a writer, even going picking his college major with a literary career in mind. “I chose classical studies [at Harvard],” he says, though he admits he's now forgotten most of his Latin and Greek. “...
O MORES! OLYMPIAD! by Steven Saylor* * * *Art by Jason C. Eckhardt* * * *The third in a series of stories about the young Gordianus the Finder that EQMM has been running, “O Tempora! O Mores! Olympiad!” will appear later this year as part of Steven Saylor's latest novel. Other recently published ...
He has written novels in collaboration with the late Robert Asprin, including the pre-Katrina New Orleans mystery NO Quarter (DarkStar Books), and on his own, such as Nightbodies (Ravenous Romance). Readers can find out more about his work at www.ericdel carlo.com. Eric tells us that “Friendlessn...
LovettThere are things so pervasively important to people that it's hard to define their essence....Seattle, 2010I sit in the park, watching children play. I imagine their packs swinging as, earlier, they'd sprinted home from school, glad to be released into a spring afternoon. Later, dinner will...
His next one, Chained to the Alien, will be an anthology of essays from Australian Science Fiction Review (Second Series). Other recent publications include two collaborative SF novels: The Book of Revelation, written with Rory Barnes, and Post Mortal Syndrome, written with his wife Barbara Lamar...
(Isaac Asimov kept one, and it stood him in good stead when he wrote a huge two-volume autobiography, another thing I've never felt the urge to do.) But people often ask me what the life of a science fiction writer is like, since they find the idea that I have put in more than fifty years writing...