Monthly Archives: December 2020

I just finished reading The Runaway Bride by Lucy Gillen, a Harlequin Romance written in 1972, so you wouldn’t have to. The heroine and her love interest are pretty standard 70s fare–a childish woman who doesn’t know what she wants, … Continue reading →

Let’s break down the structure of The Green Rain to see how it works as a piece of science fiction and a piece of social commentary: Inciting incident: a rocket containing a chemical called chlorophylogen, intended to terraform the moon, … Continue reading →

“Whatever man has built throughout the centuries has been destroyed by man himself–because he could not leave Nature alone.” This underappreciated science-fiction novel, which was written just five years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a … Continue reading →