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The long wait is over at last, and Too Like the Lightning came out yesterday! This is just a simple little links round-up post by Jo. Too Like the Lightning is available right now as a hardback book and as an e-book in multiple formats, and the audiobook...

You have probably seen these nominees/finalists elsewhere, since they were announced up to a month ago. But you haven't seen them here yet, which...doesn't matter to anyone, but it sounds like a comeback. Anyway, if you are looking for things to read...

Fifty years after “Star Trek” made its debut, the science-fiction saga’s biggest legacy may well be its inspirational impact on millions of scientists and engineers, writers and fans over the decades. Humanity hasn’t yet invented the starships and transporters...

I am going to be teaching a couple of science fiction/fantasy courses in the next couple of years. Someone just asked for possible source material for teaching a college level course. These are the sources I recommended from my “desk” in the UK. (This...

And so we come to the final Classics of Science Fiction volume, The Best of James Blish, published in August 1979. Final as in the last one published, not the last one we’ll talk about here. We’re at roughly the halfway point in terms...