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In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. Greg Bear is one of the most respected science fiction writers to emerge in the latter part of the 20 th century, producing books on a great variety of subjects, in a wide range of settings, with all of them being well-constructed a...

The year is 1944, and the daimons are rising. With the Inner Guard thrown into disarray by the German blitzkrieg, the daimon-born nefilim of the Scorpion Court gather in Paris, scheming to restore their rule over the mortal realm. Working as a double-agent, Diago Alvarez infiltrates his family’s daimonic court, but soon finds himself overwhelmed by his kin’s multiple deceits. Meanwhile, Ysabel Ramírez hunts a Psalm that will assist Operation Overlord, the Allies’ invasion of Normandy. Her objective takes her to Paris—into the heart of territories controlled by Die Nephilim and her po...

Is­sue #38, January/February 2021 $3.99 digital only, bi-monthly. Science fiction and fantasy magazine with original and reprint fiction, non-fiction essays, inter­views, and poetry. This issue includes fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Paul Cornell, Christopher Caldwell, and Ma­rissa Lingen; a reprint from Del Sandeen; essays from John Wiswell, Octavia Cade, Katherine Cross, and Aidan Moher; interviews with Miyuki Jane Pinckard and Paul Cornell; and poetry. Cover art by Nilah Magruder. E-book subscribers receive the complete ebook on the first Tuesday o...

Pixel Scroll 12/17/20 For He To-Day That Scrolls His Pixel With Me, Shall Be My Sibling; Be He Ne’er So File Posted on (1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair stretched on her back on the white enamel surgical table with its drain and clamps…

(1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair stretched on her back on the white enamel surgical table with its drain and clamps… “How old is she?” I asked. “Twenty-­five,” Freddy told me, at work in his rubber gloves with the bottles of pink embalming fluid.