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: 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.

By: Joshua Glenn

Carol Emshwiller’s THE MOUNT

By: William Nericcio

A lurid, Vonnegut-esque dissection of the America to come.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ken MacLeod’s DARK LIGHT

By: Lucy Sante

Weaponry, war between sexes, television culture, moral decay, and of course advertising…

By: Joshua Glenn

Trondheim and Larcenet’s ASTRONAUTS OF THE FUTURE

By: Mark Kingwell

Every kid I knew had a favourite Thunderbird.