Necromancy Never Pays

Guest post by Joan Slonczewski, science fiction author: In 2000 I started to write about a student who went to college in space to escape di...

During the month of June, the publisher for Joan Slonczewski's Elysium Cycle, Phoenix Pick, is offering free access to the e-book versio...

Joan Slonczewski is a friend of mine and has been for almost twenty years now, so my copy of her SF novel that is dedicated to me and Ron, ...

Sometimes I bring in real, live authors (in person or via the internet) and give my class the chance to ask them questions. Oddly enough--o...

The first time I read Daughter of Elysium, when the author's children were young and mine were not yet born, I found it to be an optimis...

When I go to a party and someone asks what I "do" and I tell them some variation on "I have a PhD in English and try not to w...