This fall, things go from bad to worse in the followup, The Dreaming Stars, the second book of the Axiom series, in which humanity faces an equally grave threat from one of its own. Today, we’re giving you a sneak peek of the action with a reveal of the cover, featuring the art of Paul […]
The Philip K. Dick Award has long been my favorite genre honor that isn’t the Hugo or Nebula. If the “big two” are analogous to the People’s Choice Awards and the Oscars, respectively, think of the PKD as a sort of Independent Spirit Award—eligible works are original novels published first in paperback within the prior […]
Artificial intelligence (AI), by definition, is somehow made, rather than innate. But how do you make an intelligence? It is a billion, trillion dollar question in the real world, and we don’t appear all that close to finding out the answer. But science fiction authors have lots of ideas about how to create intelligence and […]
The Wrong Stars is space opera, but it’s all about the people. Rather than fill his series-starter with loads of exposition about the workings and state of his universe, chameleonic genre author Tim Pratt focuses on how his characters live and interact with each other within it, building worlds through his characters, their alien antagonists, […]