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Reprint: The End

27 Friday Jan 2017

Posted by Paul Kincaid in science fiction

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Alfred Bester, Brian Aldiss, Carolyn See, Clifford D. Simak, Douglas Adams, Edgar Pangborn, Elizabeth Hand, George R. Stewart, Greg Bear, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Jack London, James Morrow, John Wyndham, Keith Roberts, Lucius Shepard, Mary Shelley, Nevil Shute, Octavia Butler, Peter George, Philip Latham, Piers Anthony, Raymond Briggs, Richard Jefferies, Ronald Wright, Russell Hoban, Stephen Baxter, Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I had great plans for my Cognitive Mapping series that ran in Vector between 1995 and 2001. At one point I envisaged producing 100 of the columns, which could then be gathered together as a decent-sized book. But at some point the project ran out of steam. I had maybe another half-dozen columns started but never completed. Apart from a parody piece (written by another hand, not naming names Mr B****r), the column was over. But at the end of 2005 I produced one last hurrah, appropriately enough on how science fiction deals with the end of things. This last column was published in Vector 244, November-December 2005. Continue reading →

Reprint: Mars

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Arthur C Clarke, Ben Bova, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Elisabeth Malartre, George Griffiths, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, H.G. Wells, Ian McDonald, Ian Watson, John W. Campbell, Kim Stanley Robinson, Paul McAuley, Percival Lowell, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Z. Gallun, Roger Zelazny, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Terry Bisson

Another Cognitive Mapping column. This one, which discusses one of science fiction’s great objects of desire, appeared in Vector 214, November-December 2000: Continue reading →

Reprint: Humanity

09 Sunday Feb 2014

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Algis Budrys, Anne McCaffrey, Frederik Pohl, Greg Bear, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, James Tiptree Jr, Mary Shelley, Michael Bishop, N. Lee Wood, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Louis Stevenson

Another of my Cognitive Mapping series. This one first appeared in Vector 198, March-April 1998. Continue reading →

Reprint: Collected Bear & Vinge

16 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by Paul Kincaid in books, reviews

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Greg Bear, Joan D. Vinge, Vernor Vinge

A couple of big names this time: The Collected Stories of Greg Bear and The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge. This review was first published in the New York Review of Science Fiction 172, December 2002. Continue reading →

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