Yanked from james_nicoll who got it from.
No idea how these were chosen.

60 Essential Science Fiction & Fantasy Reads

Bold the ones that you have read.
I guess I'm pathetic.

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre
Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodRange of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, J. G. Ballard succumbed to illness caused by prostate cancer. He was 78. He had been ill for several years, as he revealed at the end of his very last book, Miracles of LifeJGB was a brilliant writer, a highly original thinker, my favourite author and an interesting man in his own right. No one saw the world just as he did, and he ( Read more... )

The US Army Times reports on a conference where the US Marine Corps concept of using rockets to land as many as 13 lightly armed troops anywhere in the world within two hours of Something Happening was discussed ( Read more... )