The New York Review of Science Fiction

19/11/2020

We don't use the FB page much, but here's a quick note because people have been asking: We are alive, all healthy, but we feel ground down.

We're working on an issue that I hope will be out by the end of the month and then perhaps another issue before the end of the year.

Thanks for your patience and concern.

06/06/2018

BTW, we are still around--it's just that none of the staff are really Facebook users, so we tend to forget to update. Go check us out at our actual web site, http://www.nyrsf.com! There's an RSS feed and everything!

Reading science fiction like it matters since 1989.

08/04/2017

New free articles are up on NYRSF.com from Issue 339: http://www.nyrsf.com/2017/04/nyrsf-339-november-2016-table-of-contents.html

The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock, reviewed by Mark Scroggins Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature, edited by Jacob Weisman, reviewed by Joe Milicia Darrell Schweitzer: An Interview with Albert E. Cowdrey Mike Barrett: “A Story to...

16/03/2016

The David Hartwell memorial volume is now available free in PDF, epub, and mobi format at Weightless Books:

https://weightlessbooks.com/format/new-york-review-of-science-fiction-330/?ap_id=nyrsf

Three articles were accidentally omitted from the table of contents, and we apologize to the authors:

Jean-Louis Trudel, page 36
Darrell Schweitzer, page 51
Ron Drummond, page 55

We will have updated versions of the files as soon as possible, but this is something we expect you'll want to read now.

Today we 1) post a new forthcoming ebook, 2) publish a(n e)book, and 3) update a 10-year-old ebook! Next February we will publish Juan Martinez’s debut Best Worst American. It is great, well, obviously. Curious? Read a story: “Domokun in Fremont” (TriQuarterly) “The Spooky Japanese Girl is There for…

03/09/2015

I reviewed all of these plays when they were originally produced. They are amazing, and the company is doing them again. All. At. Once. Go if you can. These are some of the most amazing and galvanizing sf theatre productions I've seen.

Buy tickets for at

20/08/2015

The shoggoths are baaaack. I've reviewed a couple of these in past years, and it tends to be fun.

14/07/2015

Go New Horizons! Get all your good Pluto stuff here:

NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

17/06/2015

Sparks Will Fly. Awesome little SF ditty for a Wednesday.

SPARKS WILL FLY © Nat Cassidy (I) And so He’s left alone No one to fill Another empty lonely day ‘Cuz love Is like a ghost You hit the light And see it quickly fade away But all he

19/04/2015

Quotes A Delany aritcle from NYRSF

George R.R. Martin: “We’re SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FANS, we love to read about aliens and vampires, and elves. Are we really going to freak about Asians and Native Americans?”

18/03/2015

Just posted four new free articles from NYRSF 318. Check them out at www.nyrsf.com.

Reading science fiction like it matters since 1989.

22/02/2015

For your wintry Sunday enjoyment.

07/02/2015

Now that they've done studies I would have to add: "Unknown DNA that has become what watches me as I exit the 6 train."

Why I’m leaving ¶ New York ¶ Rising rent prices in Long Island City. ¶ Tourists who walk too slow. ¶ The G train is …

26/01/2015

Lots of new free articles just went up on www.nyrsf.com.

http://www.nyrsf.com/2015/01/geek-theater-edited-by-jen-gunnels-and-erin-underwood-reviewed-by-aaron-grunfeld.html

for instance. Happy reading!

Reading science fiction like it matters since 1989.

10/01/2015

Again, it's all about perspective. Look at it as astronaut training!

Wow.

09/01/2015

Sf playwright Mac Rogers is Person of the Decade!!!!

Our fifth Person of the Decade is another of indie theater's true Renaissance Men: he's probably best known as a playwright, but he's also an expert actor and director, and is part of one of NYC's leading companies, Gideon Productions. Yes, I am talking about MAC ROGERS. Truly a deserving honoree! P…

09/01/2015

My bags are packed.

The US space agency has created a series of striking travel posters inviting tourists to visit recently discovered “exoplanets”, including Kepler-16b, which orbits two stars

09/01/2015

Congratulations to the nominees.

The judges of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce six nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the ...

21/12/2014

Read. Read like the wind.

Locus Online News

19/12/2014

Venus. It's like a giant bug zapper.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/after-8-years-orbit-venus-express-headed-towards-fiery-death

The European Space Agency (ESA) is bidding a sad farewell to its trusty Venus Express probe as it slowly plunges into the hellish Venusian atmosphere, bringing its eight-year mission to a dramatic, fiery end. Full contact was lost with the craft last month after a series of exhausting manoeuvres dra…

14/12/2014

Awww, man, my eyes were shut in this one.

One day this will be humans looking back at our planet.
We are the Mars Generation!!

11/12/2014

It's all about perspective. So next time you see it snowing ...

See you on Neptune.

02/12/2014

If these are in the running for our robot overlords, we'll be TOTALLY fine.
http://www.themarysue.com/22-poorly-made-robots-trying-to-fight-each-other-is-the-best-video-of-the-day/

Poorly made robots fight each other.

27/11/2014

The future. It's getting shaped.

The literary genre isn’t meant to predict the future, but implausible ideas that fire inventors’ imaginations often, amazingly, come true

21/11/2014

Pretty.

Ron Miller's new coffee table book The Art of Space is a gorgeous history of scientific illustrations, full of retro rockets and stunning planetscapes. It's also a glimpse back at the cutting-edge astronomy of yesteryear. We've got a gallery of some of the most striking work from the book.

20/11/2014

Saturn used to be Bob.

No, seriously. "George" was named by it's discoverer in honour of George III. It wasn't popular and Uranus, the father of Saturn in Roman mythology, was eventually settled upon.

18/11/2014

I don't know. The 'burbs are pretty freakin' weird.

Since first posting this science, we've gone so far!

Where would you travel in a rocket ship?

16/11/2014

CJ Cherryh's aiji-dowager Ilisidi from the Foreigner series comes to mind as a great example of a wise crone figure. While perhaps few, I'm sure there are others.

“The childishness noticeable in medieval behavior, with its marked inability to restrain any kind of impulse, may have been simply due to the fact that so large a proportion of active society was actually very young in years.” — Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

06/11/2014

http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2014/11/curtains-speculative-fiction-theater/

04/11/2014

Although given the number of books we all read, we've exceeded this by several factors of 10.

Depicting electric sheep, mysterious monoliths, and alien life forms, science-fiction is more visionary than any other genre of fiction.

27/10/2014

I will share this, but I am disappointed that "Space Girl" by The Imagined Village didn't make the cut.

Whether it be rock or rap, metal or country, no genre of music has been left untouched by the influence of science fiction. Here are the 100 greatest songs about science fiction.