D.F. McCourt

Margaret Atwood is a name that sparks all kinds of reactions from science fiction fans. In 1987 A Handmaid’s Tale won her the inaugural Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel. As David Langford observed, she has spent the rest of her career trying to live it down.

J.J.S. Boyce

World-building seems like something that is bound to roll to a stop. Hasn’t every major iteration of an alien planet been done, in broad strokes, at least?

Having just completed Sun of Suns, the first volume of the Virga series, I’m pleased to be proven wrong on that score.

Helen Michaud

It seems that every few weeks someone writes a piece about why agents will stop reading your manuscript, often within the first few sentences. It doesn’t seem fair, and perhaps it isn’t, but these are readers with a finely honed sense of what works — or more precisely, what they can sell — and they know that no one with buying power gets any more forgiving further downstream from them.