In ‘Central Station,’ Lavie Tidhar Imagines Tel Aviv in the Far Future
An interview with award-winning science fiction author Lavie Tidhar.
Tag: science fiction
In Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy,’ Data is Your God
There was a strain of thinking right after the fall of the Berlin Wall that the march of capitalism and the spread of democracy would usher in an “end of history,” where the great ideological struggles that had so roiled the 20th century would give way to the logical marketplace of ideas.
‘Neon Green’ Mixes Sci-Fi, Family Drama, and 90s Nostalgia
At first, Margaret Wappler’s Neon Green seems like a typical family drama set in the mid-90s. Ernest, Cynthia, and their two teenage children—Gabe and Alison—live in a Chicago suburb near a park.
10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels to Read This July
Forget the flippant summer beach read. Ring in the dog days with these 10 science fiction, fantasy, and speculative novels picked as July’s best.
A Historical Future: ‘Too Like the Lightning’ by Ada Palmer
Sci-fi in the vernacular of the Enlightenment.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Next Book, New York 2140, Will Feature a Half-Submerged Manhattan
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with science fiction as a teenager, thanks to the groundbreaking Mars trilogy about mankind’s centuries-long colonization of the red planet. His most recent novel, Aurora, about a generation ship tasked with investigating and colonizing the first exoplanet, made my year-end list of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2015.
