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NYRSF Issue 356 Editorial: What Year Is It, Anyway?
Welcome to our fourth issue for March 2020! Time has officially ceased to have any meaning in the face of the pandemic, so why not embrace it? I had not realized back in the Before Times how much of my...
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Sandra J. Lindow: Crafting the Hinge in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home
Influenced by the women’s movement, Ursula K. Le Guin’s controversial 1985 carrier bag novel Always Coming Home (ACH) depicts the Kesh, a dynamic, postapocalyptic, matrilineal, matrilocal culture that...
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Sandra J. Lindow: Crafting the Hinge in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming HomeAmerican Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s, edited by Gary K. Wolfe, reviewed by Joe MiliciaMichael...
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To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer
New York: Hippocampus Press, 2019; $20.00 tpb; 374 pagesPost-Ligottian FictionA lot of people go mad in this book. This is not just an occupational hazard for Matt Cardin’s characters; it almost seems...
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David Langford: Beyond the Outposts: An Introduction
To repeat myself: Algis Budrys (1931–2008) was a noted science fiction author—his Rogue Moon in particular is an acclaimed classic—who also wrote much memorable and witty criticism of the field. His...
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NYRSF Issue 355 Editorial: Getting Past
Okay, it’s been a little while again. While the pandemic is not gone, here it is waning. Thanks to the efforts of local politicians, the New York government opened a region-specific vaccination site in...
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Mark Scroggins: Wheldrakean Lineages: Michael Moorcock and Algernon Charles SwinburneMir Seidel: Tesla and Gernsback: An Untold Influence on the Birth of the GenreEric Leif Davin: The Facts in the...
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Mir Seidel: Tesla and Gernsback: An Untold Influence on the Birth of the Genre
The relationship between Hugo Gernsback and Nikola Tesla is hidden in plain sight in the pages of Gernsback’s early publications. Yet the influence of the older inventor on the younger publisher and...
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Eric Leif Davin: The Facts in the Matter of Hugo Gernsback and Stanley G....
The idea that Hugo Gernsback paid “absolutely nothing” for Stanley G. Weinbaum’s “A Martian Odyssey” and the other five stories Weinbaum published in Gernsback’s Wonder Stories seems to be one of those...
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The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein by Farah Mendlesohn, reviewed...
Unbound, September 2019, $32.95 hc; 480 pagesThe title of this thoughtful, challenging book about the work of a writer once hailed as the Dean of Science Fiction and first to be inducted as a Grand...
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