All is Vanity
Matt E. Lewis reviews “The Changeling” by Victor LaValle....
Battling with Technology: The Mystery of “The Human Slaughter-House”
Alexander Landfair ponders the mysterious, short-lived success of “The Human Slaughter-House,” a long-forgotten technophobic novel....
Intergalactic Gothic
Michael Tate reviews Jaroslav Kalfař’s first novel, “Spaceman of Bohemia.”...
“Islandia” and the Dangers of Globalization
Carl Abbott on the politics of utopia in Austin Tappan Wright’s “Islandia.”...
How to Travel in Time
Is the age of time travel already over, and when did it begin?...
Epigenetic Television: The Penetrating Love of “Orphan Black”
Everett Hamner discusses his series of essays on “Orphan Black,” which will be posted on BLARB....
Heroes and Villains in Ken Liu’s “The Wall of Storms”
Andrew Yang on Ken Liu's "The Wall of Storms."...
Indelible Pasts, Broken Futures
Ilana Teitelbaum on the myriad worlds and monstrous futures of Sofia Samatar's short story collection "Tender."...
An Unkempt Jeremiad
Rob Latham on Norman Spinrad's latest novel, "The People's Police."...
Salvage Love
Andrew Hageman on Jeff VanderMeer's new novel, "Borne."...
The Ghost in the Ghost
Anne Anlin Cheng on "Ghost in the Shell."...
From Elsewhere to Elsewhere
Soviet sci-fi, avant-garde experimentalism, and Tibetan Buddhism converge in “Radiant Terminus,” Antoine Volodine’s longest narrative to appear in English....
