Monthly Archives: July 2011

Lisa Yasyek  in the School of Literature, Culture and Communications at Georgia Tech asked me the other day to come up with a possible syllabus for a science fiction course that I would teach.  Here’s my first attempt. Comments welcome. … Continue reading →

When I was in high school, I heard about John Barth’s The Sot Weed Factor. I aquired the book one Friday, and did not sleep ’till I had finiched reading it several days later. The Sot Weed Factor is John … Continue reading →

Just finished reading China Mieville’s Embassytown. Wow. Mieveille writes in a different style every book. This time he’s channeling early Delaney, LeGuin, with some 50’s Pohl added for fun. Plus a real 50’s sf ending.