A desperate couple, William and Susan, use a new time travel service to escape backwards to 1938 (of all years), evading their own partici...

Science Fiction Hall of Fame entry by Damon Knight is an alternate take on Lovecraft's perennial "Outsider," in this case a g...

Neal Asher in Analog , May/June 2020. Interstellar exploration team led by Perrault, Gleeson, and Arbeck seeks to converse with a unique ali...

There's an old post-apocalyptic tune by The Police, "When the World is Running Down You Make the Best of What's Still Around,...

While an abundance of science fiction fiddles with Alternate Universes,  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy does the hard work of ph...

Once upon a time, back when dinosaurs read newspapers and so forth, I wrote a short piece for the Mobile Register 's Sunday Book Page ...

During my previous life as a turn-of-the-century seller of used and rare books, I witnessed internet technology transform the business, as...

Pink Floyd's final studio offering is a resurrection of ideas abandoned in 1994, when The Division Bell was cut down to a single album...

Christmas 1998, Sonny Brewer invited a retired actor friend of his, Sam Busby, to do a holiday reading at Over the Transom. We borrowed th...

At some point in the early 1980s, I took an oddball science fiction course -- one of only two such classes in fantastic fiction offered by...

This is a 1932 Chrysler Roadster. Or rather, a model of one. The kit was purchased by my father some time in 1997, just before his long ...

I wandered into my college career with a rough draft of a novel already under my belt: The Stonehenge Connection , a space opera in five ...

IFC recently spent a few weeks running Jackie Brown (1997) with the same frequency AMC airs  The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Even so,...