Browsing the archives for the Science fiction category

Review: Shards of Honor

Originally posted to Goodreads. It was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons, with a secret agenda. Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force is captured by her enemy, Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar. Source: Goodreads Yesterday I read Lois McMaster Bujold’s Shards of Honor, the first […]

Defining science fiction

Some Facebook friends and I recently had a discussion sparked by an article posted on Tor’s Star Wars site. The author puts forth the argument that Timothy Zahn’s 1991 novel Heir to the Empire moved Star Wars out of the realm of space fantasy and into the realm of true science fiction, setting the genre […]

Visual Dare: Distorted

A flash-fiction response to this week’s Visual Dare, hosted by Anonymous Legacy. Technically the word limit is 100 words, but-that’s more like a guideline than an actual rule, right? Distorted The footsteps behind him beat a warning rhythm into the cobblestones. Even so he hesitated as he came upon the edge. He looked down into […]