We Read Science Fiction

A good friend and regular reader here gave me a copy of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend this summer and urged me to read it soon. This 1954 novella is largely credited with starting or significantly revolutionizing a number of fiction sub-genres — namely, the modern vampire, zombie and disease-induced apocalypse genres. Though I’d contest [...]

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Spin by Robert Charles Wilson is number 9 on my all-time top 10. A strange addition, as I’m sure you’ll agree, since it was only written in 2005. However, as I was reviewing my list, the stories all seemed to be a least 10 years old, and therefore didn’t take much of the new science [...]

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