World vision
From China to Russia and beyond, SF is emerging as the genre best able to articulate the relentless pace of global changeLanguage may be the most obvious barrier to cultural exchange, but it is also the easiest to hurdle: a good translator can capture ...
The Quest for e-Weird concludes
My epic voyage through the electronic universe in search of brilliant writing has been arduous, but it's yielded some remarkable treasureMy quest for weird has turned up some gems, and shown me that we need to nurture new writing talent in both mainstr...
Join the quest for e-weird
Fellow seekers, I need your help as I seek the grail of great, original and independently-published fiction in ebooks and on the webPeople have been telling weird stories for as long as we've been huddling around fires attempting to keep the dark at ba...
Bewitched by magic
From Merlin to Harry Potter, English magic has a long tradition. But what does it say about today's culture?English occultist, bohemian and author Aleister Crowley defined magick as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with wil...
Will books and the net merge?
The difference between ebooks and the internet is minimal, and we should be glad the two are growing closer and closerIt's easy to forget that the world wide web as we know it today evolved from an early attempt to put books on the internet. When Tim B...
Should science fiction and fantasy do more than entertain?