Investigator Ana Dolabra and her assistant, Dinios Kol, are called to Yarrowdale, a community at the far edge of the Empire, to investigate what appears to be an impossible crime. A Treasury officer disappeared, abducted from his quarters where the doors and windows were stilled locked from the inside and the entire building is under Continue reading

For no reason that anyone can understand, Earth’s moon one day quite unexpectedly turns into a massive, round cheese ball (or, as NASA refers to it – “a newly developed organic matrix”). The moon appears to have the same mass but it has increased in size. It is also causing some massive ejections of its Continue reading

CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Richard Ayrault is a major player (a stockholder) with Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company. The company has begun the process of tilting the Earth’s axis so that it might be more useful to the most people on the planet. With this already well underway, the adventurous men decide they should travel to some of Continue reading

CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK In the course of interstellar colonization, humans discover the L’Vrai – another race rapidly expanding their own presence in the galaxy. It’s important to make contact and hopefully prevent a costly war or even genocide. There are ‘tamers’ – the front line soldiers sent to meet the L’Vrai head on; but it Continue reading

CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Nevia is a planet many light years away from Earth. The planet is running out of iron – an essential source of energy for the aquatic inhabitants. The Nevians have developed technology that can pull the iron out of just about anything … including human blood. The Nevians attack an unsuspecting Earth Continue reading

CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite, working authors, and has been since I started reading his work in the late 1980’s. It’s nice to see that his older work is being reissued to be found by new audiences or re-discovered and re-enjoyed by those of us who’ve read it before. Continue reading