Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fiction

• Mermaid Care. Mermaids Monthly 12 (Dec 2021). Story notes.

Articles

• Maps in Science Fiction. The New York Review of Science Fiction 356 (Feb 2022), pp. 23-27.
• Mermaid Care. Mermaids Monthly 12 (Dec 2021). Story notes.
• Celebrating Christopher Tolkien’s Cartographic Legacy. Tor.com (now Reactor), 22 Jan 2020.
• Where Do Fantasy Maps Come From? Tor.com (now Reactor), 23 Sep 2019.
• An Exercise in Telling: Sylvain Neuvel’s Themis Files. AE, 10 Jul 2019.
• Fantasy Maps Don’t Belong in the Hands of Fantasy Characters. Tor.com (now Reactor), 28 May 2019.
• What Does a Fantasy Map Look Like? Tor.com (now Reactor), 19 Mar 2019.
• A Literary Love Letter to Maps: The Writer’s Map. Tor.com (now Reactor), 26 Nov 2018.
• The Dúnedain and the Deep Blue Sea: On Númenórean Navigation. Tor.com (now Reactor), 7 Nov 2018. Reprinted as “Navigating Middle-earth Before the Bending of the Seas,” Tor.com (now Reactor), 16 Aug 2022.
• God and the Machines: The Short Fiction of Peter Watts. AE, 25 May 2015. Reprinted as “Dieu et les machines: les nouvelles de Peter Watts,” afterword to Au-delà du gouffre by Peter Watts (Le Bélial’, 2016), pp. 463-467; translated by Erwann Perchoc.
• Here Be Blank Spaces: Vaguely Medieval Fantasy Maps. The New York Review of Science Fiction 300 (Aug 2013), pp. 14-16.

Essays

• Some Half-Formed Thoughts on Short Fiction Reviews (2 Jan 2018)
• T. Rex Machina (29 Nov 2017)
• The Rebel Alliance Has Terrible OpSec (17 Oct 2017)
• Are Conventions Necessary? (20 Apr 2017)
• In Defence of the Tolkien Estate (5 Mar 2011)

Books Reviewed

In Publications

• The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. Strange Horizons, 22 Jul 2022.
• Undiscovered Territories by Robert Freeman Wexler. Strange Horizons, 25 Mar 2022.
• Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes. Strange Horizons, 12 Jan 2022.
• Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro. Strange Horizons, 26 Jul 2021.
• Driftwood by Marie Brennan. Strange Horizons, 8 Feb 2021.
• Instances of Head-Switching by Teresa Milbrodt. Strange Horizons, 3 Jun 2020.
• Necessity by Jo Walton. AE, 23 Aug 2016.
• Company Town by Madeline Ashby. AE, 6 Jun 2016.
• Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer. AE, 14 Mar 2016.
• Echopraxia by Peter Watts. AE, 14 Dec 2015.
• Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson. AE, 28 Sep 2015.
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. AE, 17 Aug 2015.
• The Just City and The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton. AE, 20 Jul 2015.
• My Real Children by Jo Walton. AE, 27 Apr 2015.
• Elements by Suzanne Church. AE, 23 Mar 2015.
• Irregular Verbs and Other Stories by Matthew Johnson. AE, 26 Jan 2015.
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. AE, 24 Nov 2014.

On This Website

• Putting the Fact in Fantasy ed. by Dan Koboldt (21 May 2022)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein by Farah Mendlesohn (30 Mar 2019)
• Head On by John Scalzi (12 Oct 2018)
• The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (30 Apr 2018)
• All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault by James Alan Gardner (27 Apr 2018)
• The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer (22 Feb 2018)
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz (27 Dec 2017)
• Artemis by Andy Weir (14 Nov 2017)
• Venera Dreams by Claude Lalumière (10 Nov 2017)
• Infinity Wars ed. by Jonathan Strahan (12 Oct 2017)
• Amatka by Karin Tidbeck (29 Aug 2017)
• The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross (26 Jul 2017)
• The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard (4 Apr 2017)
• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (23 Mar 2017)
• Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling (1 Dec 2016)
• Bridging Infinity ed. by Jonathan Strahan (23 Nov 2016)
• Invisible Planets ed. by Ken Liu (1 Nov 2016)
• Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal (29 Aug 2016)
• Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (26 Apr 2016)
• My Father, the Pornographer by Chris Offutt (11 Feb 2016)
• Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente (14 Jan 2016)
• Child of a Hidden Sea by A. M. Dellamonica (8 Jul 2015)
• Lockstep by Karl Schroeder (31 Mar 2014)
• Princes of Sandastre by Antony Swithin (12 Dec 2012)
• The Islanders by Christopher Priest (6 Apr 2012)
• When the Great Days Come by Gardner Dozois (24 Jul 2011)
• Among Others by Jo Walton (18 Jan 2011)