Ray Nayler’s beautiful novella, The Tusks of Extinction, focuses on a handful of very different characters whose lives converge on a hunting expedition in the Russian taiga at least a century in the future. That convergence manages to speak volumes about human nature, greed, memory, family bonds, the connection of living things to the earth […]
Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds: A Prefect Dreyfus Novel
Alastair Reynolds has produced a fine, fast-paced thriller in Machine Vendetta, the third, and apparently final novel in the Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies series. The series, set in the Revelation Space universe, specifically the Glitter Band of ten thousand habitats orbiting Yellowstone, began in 2007 with The Prefect, now called Aurora Rising. We had to wait […]
Time Islands – Part 3
Time Islands is the third installment of the Stories of Elektra series. (The first two were People of Light 1 and Dead Memories.) This one is fairly long, so I am publishing it in three parts on three successive days. Here is the final section: Time Islands – Part 3. Be sure to read Part […]
Time Islands – Part 2
Time Islands is the third installment of the Stories of Elektra series. (The first two were People of Light 1 and Dead Memories.) This one is fairly long, so I am publishing it in three parts on three successive days. Here is Time Islands – Part 2. Be sure to read Part 1 first. 3.After […]
Time Islands – Part 1
Time Islands is the third installment of the Stories of Elektra series. (The first two were People of Light 1 and Dead Memories.) This one is fairly long, so I am publishing it in three parts on three successive days. Here is Time Islands – Part 1. 1.He squinted his eyes in concentration and began […]
10 Favorite SFF Novels of 2023
2023 brought me some of the most remarkable reading experiences of the last several years. A few, like The Mountain In the Sea and When Woman Were Dragons were published in 2022, but there were plenty that I was able to read in the year of publication. So here are my 10 favorite SFF novels […]
Dead Memories
“Dead Memories” is the second in the Stories of Elektra series, following “People of Light 1“. These interconnected stories will appear here in draft form and will ultimately be published as a single book. 1.Peri could see Luka in her mind’s eye, and it was all wrong. Rousing in slow stages from hiber after the […]
People of Light 1
People of Light 1 is a first glimpse into a world called Elektra, settled by humans in the past two hundred years, a past, of course, far in our future. This begins a series of interconnected stories that will appear here in draft form and will ultimately be published as a single book. 1.K’Lin picked […]
