This is very 90s.  Nowadays that makes it dated, but someday it'll be historical. If you can't glide on skates like Lipinski And ...

Many of the chapters in Van Vogt's classic The World of Null-A  have epigraphs, most of them taken from  Alfred Korzybski's magnum o...

The scene in Lord of the Rings where, after the Orc attack, Aragorn and company decide to rescue Merry and Pippin, leaving Frodo and Sam to ...

The Childe Cycle was published over a period of 48 years (41 years during Dickson's life.) Given that, it's a bit astonishing how c...

Suppose Dickson had lived to publish Antagonist .  Having brought the stories of Hal Mayne and Bleys Ahrens to more or less the same point, ...

Here we see highly principled journalist Chis Wallace cheerleading for Dick Cheney's torture regime.  What could be worse, you ask?  Som...

"Perfectly Adjusted" is a short story that Sandra Miesel calls the "Satyr Play" of the Childe Cycle.   She refers to the...