Paul Kincaid is a recipient of both the Thomas D. Clareson Award from the Science Fiction Research Association, and the British Science Fiction Association Award for nonfiction. He is the author of What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction (2008) and Call And Response (2014). His forthcoming book Iain M. Banks will be published by Illinois University Press in 2017.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
This is Science Fiction?
Who ended up in Jeff and Ann VanderMeer's "The Big Book of Science Fiction"?...
The Destruction of Genre
David Mitchell's "Slade House" demonstrates once again that no genre, no narrative device, is ever allowed to stand unchallenged....
What Does Not Exist
AROUND THE MIDDLE of the second century of the Christian Era, Lucian, a satirist from Samosata in what is now Turkey, ...
Everything Can Be a Myth
Mythical speech is made of a material which has already been worked on so as to make it suitable for communication.” - ...
Jetsam on the Terminal Beach: M. John Harrison’s “Empty Space”
Science fiction is conjured out of the past, made anew, and torn apart....
The Widening Gyre: 2012 Best of the Year Anthologies
The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. THE OVERWHELMING SENSE ONE GETS, working through so many ...
Playful Games with Reality: Christopher Priest’s “The Islanders”
"Part of this is play; part of it is deadly serious."...
