IN THE EARLY months of 1944, half a year before the Russians liberate Auschwitz, one of the protagonists of Lavie Tidhar’s A Man Lies Dreaming overhears a conversation between two of his fellow inmates. Prisoner 174517, who survived in real ...

NOTHING EASIER, you might think. Robert Silverberg has been so central to the writing and presentation of sf over the last 60 years that it seems somehow careless of the rest of us, who have flourished under his sanction (see below) ...

IT PROBABLY TAKES a Canadian, even a convert like Robert Charles Wilson, to think it might be a good idea to begin a novel in Buffalo. Or, I guess, maybe, Joyce Carol Oates, whose Upstate New York tales sometimes edge gingerly ...