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Now Hear This: Audible.com Brings SF Off the Page, by R Michael Harman (8/25/03): Review.; The voices in the works I sampled were all at least adequate to the task at hand, and in a few cases were excellent. . . . "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman features Ellison himself narrating, and none other than Robin Williams in the title role.
Gedankenexperiments: Michael Swanwick's "Periodic Table of Science Fiction", by R Michael Harman (12/23/02): Review.; As a whole, this series is a great example of why short fiction—especially freely available, web-published short fiction—is such an important part of speculative fiction.
Political Surrealism: Brooke Burgess's Broken Saints, by R Michael Harman (10/14/02): Review.; Broken Saints lends itself to wild speculation at least as well as conspiracy-based TV shows like The X-Files.
All That Glitters Is Not Pyrite, by R Michael Harman (2/4/02): Editorial.; Written text has been around as a medium for storytelling for a few thousand years. Our "new media" category includes all those nifty devices that have shown up in the last century and a half or so. This includes motion pictures, including animation; high-quality mass-produced graphics, from coffee-table art books to comics; and recorded sound. . . . [as well as] innovations such as the interactive story, which is the driving force behind many modern forms of game—computer games, role-playing games, and so on.
Fan Culture and Serial Fiction: The Guilty Pleasures of Tad Williams' Shadowmarch, by R Michael Harman (11/26/01): Review.; Some very smart people have contributed to the design and functionality of the Shadowmarch site, a fact made clear by the ease of its access and usage, and the addictive nature of its social model.
Speculative Fiction on the Web, by Janean Nusz and R Michael Harman (9/3/01): Review.; Whatever it is you like in a story, you'll most likely be able to find it in one of the many magazines residing on the web.
Kubrick's A.I. and Square's Final Fantasy: Plastic for the People, by Danyel Fisher and R Michael Harman (7/16/01): Review.; Both movies are beautiful, but ultimately empty.
Can a TV Tie-In Novel Achieve Excellence? Jeanne Cavelos' The Passing of the Techno-Mages, by R Michael Harman (6/11/01): Review.; It is a curious contradiction that a magician, while he may never reveal his tricks, can't show that he is a magician without revealing that he has tricks. In order to effectively mystify onlookers, he must not only perform feats that defy explanation, he must make his persona as enigmatic as any of his deeds.
The Reluctant Heroine: The Longest Journey by FunCom, by R Michael Harman (5/14/01): Review.; April . . . has accidentally crossed the boundary between two Earths. She is native to Stark, a world where science and logic hold sway, where physical law is not subject to whimsy or fantasy. The dreamworld she enters is Arcadia, a realm where power can be channeled by the will of sorcerors, but machines are prone to breaking, and scientific study must always allow for magical exceptions.
SF and Politics, by R Michael Harman (2/5/01): Editorial.; Thus, as has often been noted, democracy seems a somewhat difficult notion. People may know what they want, but if most of them don't know how to get it, or how to determine who does know, the idea of voting seems a bit futile. Unfortunately, as has equally often been noted, democracy is still better than any known alternatives.
Unbreakable, by M. Night Shyamalan: Solid Suspense, by R Michael Harman (11/27/00): Review.; David Dunne . . . is the sole survivor of a violent train wreck. He is shocked by his luck, but it doesn't seem to affect him very deeply at first—he has been having trouble with his marriage, doesn't have any friends, and sleepwalks through his days on the job as a stadium security guard.
First Chapter of an Epic: Rebel Sutra, by Shariann Lewitt, by R Michael Harman (10/30/00): Review.; Rebel Sutra can be seen from two points of view. First, it is a fine novel, presenting the harsh planet Maya, the interesting people who inhabit that world, and a fast-paced, engrossing plot. Second, it gives us a glimpse of a much larger setting and plot: the future of the interstellar Flower Empire, ravaged for decades by civil war, depends on the events taking place on Maya, a world which has been separated from its imperial heritage for generations.
The Legend of Dragoon: Thoughtful fantasy, beautiful graphics, and gratuitous monster-slaying, by R Michael Harman (10/2/00): Review.; The game is set in a world where every few millenia, new species emerge from the Divine Tree. Dragons, the 105th race, were once lords of land, sea, and sky, but in the modern age, are known only through myth.

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