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Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures
Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More
By
Lincoln Michel
| May 13, 2025
Lincoln Michel on the Pulpy, Rollicking, Resonant Early Sci-Fi of John Wyndham
Way Back in 1936,
Stowaway to Mars
Asked: “Does man rule machine or do machines rule man?”
By
Lincoln Michel
| July 6, 2022
Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?
Lincoln Michel Goes Deep Into the Prose of America’s Pastime
By
Lincoln Michel
| October 28, 2021
In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation
Lincoln Michel Considers the Expansive Power of Genres
By
Lincoln Michel
| September 21, 2021
COVER REVEAL: Lincoln Michel’s
The Body Scout
Plus, Read an Excerpt From This Near-Future Dystopian Neo-Noir
By
Lincoln Michel
| February 2, 2021
Let's Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate
Lincoln Michel Proposes a New Way to Think About Fictional Worlds
By
Lincoln Michel
| September 17, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story
By
Lincoln Michel
| October 24, 2019
Do Great Writers Really Steal? On Plagiarism and Publishing
By
Lincoln Michel
| July 19, 2018
Will Iain M. Banks's Bonkers Space Opera Novels Work On Screen?
By
Lincoln Michel
| February 28, 2018
Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix
Why It’s Ok to Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle Fiction
By
Lincoln Michel
| January 12, 2018
Books With Beasts: An Animal-Filled Reading List
Lincoln Michel Explores His Animal Nature
By
Lincoln Michel
| October 13, 2015
Kaley Cuoco is in a third crime show!
October 8, 2025
by
Olivia Rutigliano
Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien Life
October 8, 2025
by
Daniel H. Wilson
The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck Mystery
October 8, 2025
by
Anbara Salam
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"King captures her guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never…"