Starboard Wine

This year saw the publication of Grandmaster Samuel R. Delany's first novel in half a decade, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. As if that were not enough, hard on its heels comes this welcome reissue of his essay collection from 1984, subtitled "More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction." His analysis of Heinlein's under-appreciated Glory Road is alone worth the price of admission.

May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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