AltWeeklies Wire
Charles Stross Brings Robert Heinlein's Robot Sexy Backnew
For those uninitiated to speculative fiction's history and tropes, Stross' Saturn's Children (Ace) is a simple tale about a sex robot who is out of work because the humans she was built to service are extinct.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
08-05-2008 |
Fiction
Andrew Blechman Checks in on What's Really Going Down in Retirement Communitiesnew

Blechman goes where few under the age of 50 have dared go when he probes at the smelly underbellies of America's age-restricted retirement communities.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
07-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Iain M. Banks' Latest Won't Win Him New Convertsnew

His latest sci-fi epic, Matter, is dense, both in terms of weight and scope.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
04-08-2008 |
Fiction
Go Way Out With 'Space Opera'new
After falling on hack times in the 1970s, the space opera makes a comeback.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
07-03-2007 |
Fiction
The Go-Betweensnew
Writers dismantle and recombine genre in search of fresh modes of storytelling.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
06-05-2007 |
Fiction