The Anachronist

John Skylar, in some timelines, is a Professor of Anachronism at the University of Constantinople, but mostly he is a bioscientist and SF author living in New York City. You can follow johnskylar.com on tumblr or on twitter as johnskylar. If you live in New York, you might enjoy a chat with him at the Immodest Proposals discussion series, which he started with Better Worlds.

Quick Book Review: SPIN, RC Wilson

Cover of "Spin"
Cover of Spin

Right, so the quest to read the Hugos continues.

I finished SPIN, by Robert Charles Wilson.  Great book!  It’s a mixture of hard science fiction and literary fiction.  Strong characters and a world that obeys normal laws of science.

Unfortunately, this is often the exception in SF.

Beyond that, Wilson is a master of information control and when you turn the corners in his book, you see something of what you expected, but it’s never quite what you were bargaining for.

On to Sawyer’s HOMINIDS.

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