My newest review has been published on the SF Site. This time I report on my attempt to read Zoran Živković’s metafictional novel, Escher’s Loops, and how it relates to some drug trips I have been on:
This book rather effectively simulates some drug trips I have been on, where sensations, experiences and thoughts seem to [...]
My review of Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, is available from the SF Site:
Many science fiction novels ask, “What is the next big thing?” This is hardly a surprising trend. Within our own lifetimes, we have seen a succession of these next big things. It’s a theme as old as the genre itself. Makers, the extraordinary new [...]
The SFSite has published their first February update, and with it, two of my reviews. First up, my review of the UFO ‘documentary’, The Billy Meier Story: UFO’s and Prophecies from Outer Space:
“watching this film is like diving headlong into a disorienting, paranoid world of outer space visitors, grainy super-8 footage of floating trash-bins, and [...]
It happens in the life of any writer, so it had to happen to me eventually: A market to which I sold a poem has died before I got published or paid by them. Aberrant Dreams, who previously published my poem “a 24th-century reflection on emptiness” in 2008, and later that year accepted my poem [...]
I just finished a review of Robert J. Sawyer’s novel FlashForward. Since I found the recent TV series of the same name so maddening, I could not help but bring my thoughts on both interpretations of the FlashForward concept together in the review. I’ll send it in to SFSite later tonight after a bit of [...]