Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (by Francesca Myman)
Our very strange year invited, among other things, mournful reflections on a past that felt abruptly truncated, and a number of non-fiction titles, though surely in production before the world’s temporary suspension, were eerily attuned to this backward gaze. Then again, SF/F/H have a tendency to steep themselves deeply in their own genre pasts and traditions, even as they often compost these into unexpected futures, so the apparent synchronicity may be illusory. At any rate, Jonathan R. Eller’s
Bradbury Beyond Apollo satisfyingly closed out a minutely researched and finely realized three-volume biography of Ray Bradbury. This concluding tome covers his life and work from the late 1960s through the end of his life in 2012. Collection
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They re there hidden in the world of atom, occupying your cells, dancing along the helical twists and turns of your DNA, and entangled in the ghost in the machine inside your brains.
You ll find them haunting the laws of thermodynamics, the mystical shiver of Einstein s Theory of Relativity, frolicking across the first microchips, and reaching across the Cosmos.
When Mexican-American historian of science and technology Dr Jimena Canales, author of
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, went looking, she found them lurking everywhere.
But Science s demons are not the supernatural souls of religion.
They re a visceral portal into the under-acknowledged power of the imagination in the scientific process.
At this point, everyone knows about Murderbot. If you don’t know about Murderbot, what rock have you been hiding under? (Is it a comfy rock? I could use a nice rock-based holiday, away from all the news. And the pandemic.) Martha Wells’s
Fugitive Telemetry is the sixth outing in the award-winning Murderbot Diaries. It forms a prequel to 2020’s
Network Effect – a novel I read four times within a month of it arriving on my doorstep, and delighted in each time.
Fugitive Telemetry is not as substantial a story as
Network Effect: it’s a long novella rather than a novel, and so it packs rather less in. It’s also a little bit less compelling, for where most of the other Murderbot stories are in the action-adventure mode,
The Jack L. Chalker Young Writers’ Contest is open to original science fiction and fantasy submissions by Maryland students “no younger than 14 and no older than 18 years of age.” First, second, and third prizes are $150, $100, and $50, respectively, and the deadline for submissions is March 31st, 2021.
The contest is run by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) and “Judges shall be drawn from the membership of BSFS, Inc.” For more information, including complete submission guidelines, see the official contest page.
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