by marissa | Sep 5, 2013 | Science Fiction
Love Paul Di Filippo’s definition of 80’s cyberpunk. Theoretically seeking to merge the primitive vitality and anti-authoritarian disdain of the Sex Pistols and the Ramones with the noir sensibilities and digital savvy of some mythical California superman...
by marissa | Sep 5, 2013 | Personal Blog Posts, Science Fiction
This is my kinda camping. Stormy weather, empty lakes, and science fiction. 🙂
by marissa | Aug 20, 2013 | Book Reviews, Science Fiction, SFF Classics
My review of Philip K. Dick’s A Maze of Death is up over at SFF Audio. This was one of those books that started off weird, got weirder, and ended weird, and got better the more I thought about it. It’s probably not the best title to start with if you are...
by marissa | Jun 4, 2013 | Books Edited by Marissa, Science Fiction
Just started reading my copy of The Scorpion Game by Daniel Jeffries, which is now available to buy for the Amazon Kindle, and I’m excited about it all over again. I helped to co-edit this story, and re-reading it has reminded me how much fun it was to work...
by marissa | Feb 18, 2013 | Book Reviews, Science Fiction
I have a thing for artful haters, and Charlie Brooker (the grumpy British satirist, writer, critic, presenter, and producer) is one of my favorites. He’s no mere whinger, flailing around bitterly and attacking random things just to get attention. Instead he does what...
by marissa | Feb 13, 2013 | Science Fiction
Science fiction is notoriously difficult to define, but Fredrick Pohl’s definition is one of the lovelier ones. “Does the story tell me something worth knowing, that I had not known before, about the relationship between man and technology? Does it...
