Charlie Jane Anders shares a space opera reading list and you should peruse it! “We are living in a new golden age of space opera. People have proclaimed the death of this vital subgenre many times over the decades — but like a deep space probe upgraded by […]
I’ve read plenty of good “first contact” stories, and a few great ones. A personal favorite, The Mote in God’s Eye, goes some distance to portraying the tragically insurmountable gulf that might appear when two very different species encounter one another. But no one has realized that gulf […]
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The Cultural Gutter 