I may post about my picks for Best Novella of 2016 as we work our way through the ‘year in review’ period, but for the moment I was pondering what I’d put into my old Best Short Novels series, if I was still editing it for someone today. After a bit

This week we find ourselves talking about the resurgence of the novella in fantasy and SF, the possible reasons behind it, the changes in recent print magazines Asimov’s and Analog, the question of why short fiction seems to be moving in a digital direc

As part of the lead up to the publication of Bridging Infinity, Tor.com is reprinting Ken Liu’s terrific story “Seven Birthdays”. There’s more coming soon too, including a limited giveaway! For the moment, though try Ken’s st

After a week off, we return to discuss just how science fictional the recent American elections are, whether political science fiction has ever had much impact on social attitudes or public policy, what if anything SF has to offer to the disenfranchised,

Q: Tell us about your story in Bridging Infinity? My story deals with a far-future engineering project to drill down into the Sun, for reasons that are explained in the story. But the story has its basis in the present, as the central protagonist is an In

Q: Tell us about your story in Bridging Infinity? “Rager in Space” is about peer pressure, and that moment when you realize that maybe you’ve outgrown your best friend. Sion and D-Mei have been inseparable since they were kids, and they&

Q: Tell us about your story in Bridging Infinity? What was the inspiration behind it? Pat Murphy: If you crack the ice on the right Arctic lake and toss in a match, you can set off a methane flare. That’s not fiction. It’s true. And that&#8217

Reviews of Bridging Infinity are starting to appear. Here are some links, if you’d like to see what people are saying about the book: Review by Alex Pierce at Randomly Yours, Alex Review by Adam at Edge of Infinity Review by Chris Meadows at Sci-Fi

Q: What was the inspiration behind your story? My home town of Albany, capital of the state and a city much changed by the construction of the Empire State Plaza under then – Governor Nelson Rockefeller, an exercise in grandiose architecture and me

Larry Niven and I wrote “Mice Among Elephants” because the recent LIGO discovery of gravitational waves excited our interest. We had set up in our two previous novels together, Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar, a mystery about the target star of an interst