Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Short Story Review: Richard Wilson’s “Strike” (1953)

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVIII

Exploration Log 13: Interview with Matthew I. Thompson, author of On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (2026)

Short Fiction Review: Alan E. Nourse’s “Marley’s Chain” (1952) and Edward W. Ludwig’s “The Rocket Man” (1951)

Short Book Reviews: Fritz Leiber’s Gather, Darkness! (1943, novelized 1950) and Gillian Freeman’s The Leader (1965)

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVIII (Eric Frank Russell, Ben Bova, Pat Frank, and John Collier)

Generation Ship Short Stories: Mari Wolf’s “The First Day of Spring” (1954) and Francis G. Rayer’s “Continuity Man” (1959)

Book Review: William Tenn’s Time in Advance (1958)

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVII (Edgar Pangborn, Rudy Rucker, Sally Miller Gearhart, and a SF anthology)

Exploration Log 12: Adam Rowe on the Best Retro Science Fiction Art Collections

Short Story Review: Herbert W. Franke’s “Slum” (1970, trans. by Chris Herriman 1973)

My 2025 in Review (Best Science Fiction Novels and Short Fiction, Reading Initiatives, and Bonus Categories)

Short Book Reviews: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Icehenge (1984) and Peter Vansittart’s The Game and the Ground (1956)

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII

Short Story Review: Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021)

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVI (Kim Stanley Robinson, Miriam Allen DeFord, Keith Laumer, and Jack Dann)

Book Review: Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984)

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVI

Short Fiction Reviews: George H. Smith’s “The Last Days of L.A.” (1959) and “In the Imagicon” (1966)

Updates: Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Purchases No. CCCXLV (Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Garner, Burt Cole, and a Cyberpunk Anthology)

Short Book Reviews: Joe Haldeman’s All My Sins Remembered (1977) and Burt Cole’s Subi: The Volcano (1957)

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXV

Book Review: Jack Dann’s Timetipping (1980)

Short Story Review: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, trans. 1966)

Short Fiction Review: John Wyndham’s “The Man From Beyond” (variant title: “The Man from Earth”) (1934)

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIV

Book Review: Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979)