Disch on dreams and stuff

In dreams begin responsibilities. But it’s no less true that in dreams begin irresponsibilities. The menu, in terms of our possibilities in both those respects, is well-nigh infinite. Science fiction is that menu.
Title: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
Author: Thomas M. Disch
Year: [...]

Sturgeon’s solution to the Battle of the Sexes

You cannot be objective about it because you have been indoctrinated….. you come from a time and place in which the maleness of the male, and the femaleness of the female, and the importance of their difference, were matters of almost total preoccupation.
Title: Venus Plus X
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Year: 1960
Rating: 2/5 stars
On [...]

Anachronisms — a fair offering from the little-known Hinz

Yes, said the alien. By the standards of your race you are a monster — a freak — an accident of nature. But you are also their only hope.
Mars Lea knew it was true.
Title: Anachronisms
Author: Christopher Hinz
Year: 1988
Rating: 3/5 stars
I find Christopher Hinz mildly frustrating in that he possesses [...]

Robinson falls short in attempt to remake history

History is a particle accelerator. Energies are not always normal. We live in a condition of asymptotic freedom, and every history is possible.
Title: Remaking History and Other Stories
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Year: 1991
Rating: 1/5 stars
If you were to pick up a book by a known science fiction writer (Kim Stanley [...]

Bester’s classic tale of tension, apprehension, and dissension

WWHG.” ‘Offer refused.’ Refused! REFUSED! I knew it!” Reich shouted. “All right, D’Courtney. If you won’t let it be merger, then I’ll make it murder.”
Title: The Demolished Man
Author: Alfred Bester
Year: 1953
Rating: 3/5 stars
I’m happy to say I’m all caught up on essential Bester. [...]

Contest: name a robot, win some books

The folks at Angry Robot, the new SF imprint from Harper Collins, are offering you the chance to win copies of the first seven books they publish. All you have to do to win is….. name that droid! That’s right, apparently part of the reason their robot is so angry is because it [...]