In a truly excellent bit of synchronicity, Charles Stross, who I recently lavished praise upon, has written a wonderful little teaser concerning Robert A. Heinlein on a Peguin Group promotional blog. It appears under an ad for his excellent recent book, Halting State. Stross describes his next book, “Saturn’s Children”, as a Heinlein tribute. He [...]
Popular and acclaimed SF writer John Scalzi has posted a spirited defence of Robert A. Heinlein on his website Whatever. This defence appears as a response several recent negative articles about the retrograde Heinlein as socio-political dinosaur (which are linked to from the Whatever item). I find Scalzi’s arguments convincingly stated and I agree with the premise that [...]
In this past Sunday Times (via Ed), Bryan Appleyard takes the British people to task for their disrespectful attitude to science fiction. This is an excellent little piece. Appleyard does a particularly good job of noting the ways in which science fiction has impacted both our culture and our science. His example of Wernher Von Braun’s [...]
