Bookish Miscellany – R.D. Mathison

War and Identity in Heinlein, Haldeman, Scalzi, and Steakley

By Bob May 30, 2025Bookish MiscellanyNo Comments

There is no shortage of war stories in science fiction. Real-world conflicts are allegorized and translated into grandiose space operas where human bodies are broken or rebuilt or reshaped or…

Why Are We Drawn to Dark Futures?

By Bob May 30, 2025Bookish MiscellanyNo Comments

Y’know, reading the Earthseed Saga really got me thinking. There’s this thing that happens when you walk into a bookstore or scroll through Goodreads, hoping to stumble upon something interesting…

The Genre Divide

By Bob May 30, 2025Bookish MiscellanyNo Comments

I recently read Good Morning, Midnight—a book whose journey I loved, but whose destination I found to be sorely underwhelming—and it, along with an ongoing argument with a friend, got…