Science fiction was birthed in the short form: stories that numbered in the thousands of words, which distilled big concepts down into fast-moving adventures that filled the cheap pulp of thousands of disposable magazines. It was decades before the genre flirted with novel-length stories, a change brought on by the emergence of the mass market paperback, the advent of chain […]
The latest episode of The Expanse, “Windmills,” takes another departure from the pages of Leviathan Wakes, providing what is probably the tensest episode of the series to date. But never fear, faithful readers: plenty of the book is still up there on the screen. As we left off, the Roci and her crew were headed off to Eros. If […]
It’s March 2015, and I am standing on the bridge of a starship. The crew work stations look worn, the walls are covered with warning signs, and the grated floor looks like something designed to be functional. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that I was standing on a real ship, hurtling through space. Instead, I am on […]