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 Fiction RingworldOctober 2005
A science fiction book needs to be the first of its kind if it is to be regarded as a classic. Ringworld is the very first science fiction novel about a 'big dumb object'. Big dumb objects are now so rife in science fiction that they have their own entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.  Less Than HumanSeptember 2005
Science fiction books are often about our future, but few give the feeling of tasting and touching a near-future world. Maxine McArthur's Less Than Human succeeds where other writers merely doodle.  The Plot Against AmericaAugust 2005
In 1940, Charles A. Lindbergh beats Franklin D. Roosevelt and becomes President of the USA. Young Philip Roth, seven years old, his brother Sandy, 12, and their parents have been doing all right until then. They survived the Depression, because Philip's father had been an insurance salesman for a large company. They live in a friendly, though not prosperous Jewish area of New Jersey.  Cloud AtlasJuly 2005
Is science fiction just history writ large or is history simply science fiction written backwards? Many science fiction writers have asked this question indirectly. David Mitchell makes it the modus operandi of his novel Cloud Atlas. 
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