What makes a mad scientist "mad"? It is not a clinical diagnosis of mental illness; instead, it is working far outside the usual collaborative nature of the scientific process, whether due to obsessiveness, idiosyncratic goals, or an intellectual, social, or moral style that doesn't mesh well with o...
Is expecting a book subtitled "Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction" to provide speculative fiction stories about genderqueer characters too much to ask for? Apparently so, if this collection is any indication. It's not that I didn't enjoy any of the stories. It's that almost none of t...
Sea of Cortez: 4/5Eye of the Storm: 5/5Fisherman: 4/5Pirate Solutions: 2/5"A Wild and Wicked Youth:" 3/5Prosperine When it Sizzles: 4/5The Faerie Cony-Catcher: 4/5Palimpsest: 3/5Another Coming: 4/5Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot: 3/5The Ghost Party: 3/5Boneh...