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Sensor Sweep: The Handmaid, Beren & Luthien, Ballantine Adult Fantasy, and Gebirgsjäger

Monday , 12, February 2018 Morgan Sensor Sweep 12 Comments

Fiction (The Spectator): “Needless to say, some critics have acclaimed the show as an eerily timely warning about Trump’s America (just as the book supposedly was about Reagan’s). But needless to say too, there’s one problem with this: nothing even vaguely similar is ever going to happen, let alone become ordinary, in Trump’s America (just […]

Do Good Science Fiction Novels Require Memorable, Powerful Protagonists?

Saturday , 22, July 2017 Vlad James Authors, Book Review, Fiction 38 Comments

My own column from two weeks ago got me thinking recently. Has there ever been a good, nevermind great science fiction novel that did not feature a strong, unique hero? We’re not considering short stories or novellas, as some don’t even have significant protagonists, but full-length works. At first, my mind couldn’t come up with an […]

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