The Writer’s Game of Chicken

Stanisław Lem: Solaris Kelvin arrives at a space station, and the first thing he meets is a corpse. His old mentor, Gibarian, by his own hand. The station is wrong: doors that shouldn’t be locked, a scientist who won’t come…

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A Masterpiece Out of Fear

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed I set out to read ninety-nine science fiction novels in three years, strictly from a writer’s point of view. I wanted to enjoy them. The whole project is turning into a new series of…

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