Reprint: Death

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Alasdair Gray, Bob Shaw, Bram Stoker, Brian Stableford, Colin Greenland, Dante, Greg Egan, Iain Banks, Ian Watson, Jeff Noon, John Bunyan, Lucius Shepard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M.R. James, Michael Swanwick, Philip Jose Farmer, Rudy Rucker, Russell Hoban, Sheridan Le Fanu, T.S. Eliot, William Gibson

More and more, as I read science fiction, I have become aware that death is the most consistent theme. You could almost say that science fiction is a literature about death. I wrote this Cognitive Mapping piece back in 1997 (it appeared in Vector 195, September-October 1997), I could write a similar column now just using works published since that date. In fact I could write it several times over, so pervasive is the theme. So this is just one aspect of a very much bigger conversation.

Reprint: Founded on the Shambles

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Alfred Bester, B.F. Skinner, Francis Bacon, Gene Wolfe, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Henry Neville, Jack Vance, James Tiptree Jr, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Lenin, Marge Piercy, Philip Jose Farmer, R.A. Lafferty, Samuel R. Delany, Terry Carr, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Ursula K. Le Guin, Utopia, Vonda McIntyre, W.H. Hudson, William James, William Morris, Yevgeny Zamiatin

Not a review this time, but an essay I wrote about ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ by Ursula K. Le Guin. This essay appeared in Vector 249, September-October 2006.

Reprint: The SFWA European Hall of Fame

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Andreas Eschbach, Arthur C Clarke, Bernhard Ribbeck, Claude Dunyach, Cyrano de Bergerac, Damon Knight, David Hartwell, Eleni Aresenieva, James Morrow, Joao Barreiros, Joelle Wintrebert, Johanna Sinisalo, Johannes Kepler, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Antonio Cotrina, Jules Verne, Kathryn Morrow, Lucian Merisca, Marek S. Huberath, Ondrej Neff, Panagiotis Koustas, Pedro Jorge Romero, Philip Jose Farmer, Ricard de la Casa, Sergei Lukyanenko, Stanislaw Lem, Strugatskis, Valerio Evangelisti, W.J. Maryson, Zoran Zivkovic

My recovery of old reviews continues with another from The New York Review of SF, in this instance The SFWA European Hall of Fame edited by James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow. The review appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction 234, February 2008.