By: Adam Harrison Levy

There is a powerful irony watching the film in August 2020.

By: Joshua Glenn

Margaret Atwood’s ORYX AND CRAKE

By: Lisa Jane Persky

As quickly as we glean the gist it is more and less forgotten.

By: Joshua Glenn

Charles Stross’s SINGULARITY SKY

By: Sara Ryan

“The only industry left on our planet was the manufacturing of spaceships!”

By: Joshua Glenn

Maureen F. McHugh’s MISSION CHILD

By: Carolyn Kellogg

They just talk to each other, with the vast desert landscape as backdrop.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ken MacLeod’s ENGINE CITY

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

The precision of every visible movement, nothing naturalistic, not even the breathing.

By: Joshua Glenn

Elizabeth Moon’s SPEED OF DARK

By: David Levine

What starts out nightmarish ends up flatly descriptive.

By: Joshua Glenn

China Miéville’s THE SCAR

By: Gary Panter

The mission’s leader is the scariest monster in the movie.

By: Joshua Glenn

Octavia E. Butler’s CLAY’S ARK

By: Rob Walker

The point of the huge lie is protecting an idea of truth.