Category: Books
Cordwainer Bird
Harlan Ellison is one of my favorite authors. He mixed genres and included mature themes in his work when it was truly a struggle to do so. In fact, he used a pseudonym...
Soft science fiction
Soft science fiction or soft SF is science fiction whose plots and themes tend to focus on human feelings, while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and...
The term fantasy
There is no universally accepted definition of “Fantasy Fiction,” and furthermore, the characteristics of the form and its many overlapping sub-genres are...
What is hard SF?
It is not what you are thinking. Get your minds out of the gutter. Hard science fiction, or hard SF, is a subgenre of science fiction characterized by an interest in...
The Term Cyberpunk
The term was originally coined in 1980 by Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke for his short story, “Cyberpunk,” which was first published in Amazing Science...
Sex in Science Fiction
Modern science fiction frequently involves themes of sex, gender and sexuality. This was not always so. During the 1930s and 40s “golden age” of science...
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk (a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk) is a sub-genre of science fiction which focuses on computers or information technology. The plot of cyberpunk...
Blue Blood
The first place I ever saw science fiction erotica was in Blue Blood Magazine. I got a copy at a Baltimore science fiction convention and took off full tilt and...
