By: Joshua Glenn

Nalo Hopkinson’s MIDNIGHT ROBBER

By: Tony Arcabascio

Nothing could fuck with me when I had that extra skin on.

By: Annie Nocenti

Locke slips out of his own clothes and into Robertson’s life.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ken MacLeod’s COSMONAUT KEEP

By: Guy Trebay

Both a key to the plot and a kind of subliminal tell.

By: Jonathan Lethem

It’s a sort of talisman or conch shell from which Ish derives his authority.

By: Joshua Glenn

Iain M. Banks’s LOOK TO WINDWARD

By: Joshua Glenn

From VINELAND and POSSESSION to USE OF WEAPONS

By: Dave Walker

“Only six of these cameras were ever made. Only five of them ever worked. We have four of those.”

By: Madeline Ashby

They’re bargained for and killed for and they’re worth sacrificing marriages for.

By: June Thomas

A classic piece of working-class chic.

By: Joshua Glenn

China Miéville’s PERDIDO STREET STATION

By: Vanessa Berry

The marlin seems less like a trophy and more like a familiar.

By: Carolina A. Miranda

He doesn’t so much play the accordion as let it play him.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ken MacLeod’s THE SKY ROAD