... Tales That Made Us Love Virtual Reality For almost as long as there has been science fiction, there's been virtual reality, teaching us about worlds inside machines before we even knew what the internet was. Here are five of the earliest, and ... "Vurt" by Jeff Noon. Are there any other Virtual World science fiction stories, or Virtual Reality stories I missed ...

Samuel R. Delany is one of those criminally under-read science fiction authors, the size of whose readership seems inversely proportional to the ... Part of the reason, I think, is that Delany writes literary-intellectual science fiction: “intellectuals” tend to turn up their noses at anything even vaguely associated with genre-fiction, while hardcore sci-fi fans want more guns & fewer ...

... ! I'm stoked to let you know that Curse of the Spider King will be featured this week on the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. If you don't know the CSFF, allow me to tell you that their mission in life is to make more and more readers aware of good SciFi & Fantasy written by Christian Authors. With ...

... fiction, but it's nonetheless poignant. "Human Moments in World War III" ... reminds me of Kafka, and yet Willis transcends the author with all the science fiction elements she throws in (some are subtler than others). There are other commendable ... start but the author soon delves into an unexpected branch of science that sounds plausible in the context of his writing. However, Millhauser ...

... belong. On November 18th that changes. We will go to bookstores around the world and move science fiction and fantasy books from wherever they might be to their proper place in the ... -Science Fiction Customers? I mean they were looking for, say, Michael Chabon's work in the Fiction section and they saw it there the previous day. What happens to them? They'll think it might have sold out so ...

... Ursula K. Le Guin, or on political theory, The Dispossessed. Science fiction may not be about the real or the literal, but it is certainly grounded in Reality; science fiction is an exploration of humanity and humanness. How more Real can you get? This became a defense of science fiction; fantasy shall come at some later date. Perhaps during November, when I will be writing—heaven ...