Where setting is the dominant character, wonder and harshness entwine, and mood ignores details.
Short life update + entry points for A Fire Upon the Deep.
Light and shadow, left and right, human and alien—the distinctions blur in these two masterworks of SF.
Every bed of moss is a tiny forest full of alien creatures.
What is nothing? + Oh, the perils of screens. + Acrobatics by the pond. + Artist’s books.
Like Brandon Sanderson? Your quest for new reading may get some fresh momentum.
Is magic a good metaphor in cyberpunk? + Golden halls, round. + The writer’s bane. + Into the sunset.