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The Black Market vs. the Hypercorp, by Fred Bush (8/18/03): Article.; Is it too much to think that interplanetary or interstellar trade could be organized on an eBay model?
A Plat for the Future, by Fred Bush (6/2/03): Article.; Let a fringe group explore the stars, and the result will be a patchwork of marvels, and often a shockingly weird culture for Our Heroes to encounter.
Pyewacket: Names Familiar and Unfamiliar, by Fred Bush (2/17/03): Article.; No witch is complete without her black cat.
Speculative Fiction: A Dozen Doorways, by Fred Bush (1/20/03): Article.; But what do you recommend to an adult who doesn't read much speculative fiction, to get them hooked?
Guillotines and Body Transplants: the Severed Head in Fact and Fiction, by Fred Bush (9/30/02): Article.; Why is the severed head such a powerful image throughout movies and within our heads? I want to begin by taking us back to some prehistoric conceptions and myths surrounding severed heads, and then move to some more contemporary science fictional ideas.
The Time of the Other: Alternate History and the Conquest of America, by Fred Bush (7/15/02): Article.; What I've identified as the "it could have happened here!" fearmongering agenda explains one possible motive for strengthening the Native Americans in an alternate history: it makes them more dangerous and more credible opponents, and thus makes the victory over them seem the greater. One story, "In the Circle of Nowhere", does indeed feature Native American war canoes enslaving the European mainland. Other stories feature tough Aztecs battling Vikings, or Crazy Horse leading a unified army out of the hills to battle a weak Irish confederation. The threat of a real Indian war looms.
The Way the West Was Lost: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, by Fred Bush (5/20/02): Review.; [T]his . . . is a prolonged meditation on social change, the impact of science on society, and religion's place in modern life. It's about books and why we read them, tales and how we learn. But it's also about monkeys.
Interview: John M. Ford, by Mary Anne Mohanraj and Fred Bush (4/29/02): Article.; "SF/F is very often about The Event—getting the space colony built, defeating the Dark Overlord; the characters are there to help or impede that effort, and to tell us what we're supposed to think about it. I want to come at it from the characters' angle, and trust the reader to decide what the moral implications are."
Steven Brust's Issola: of Assassins, Gods, and Etiquette, by Fred Bush (10/8/01): Review.; Issola is a book that reveals secrets. It's a book that releases world-shattering energies, features gods and even more powerful creatures as main characters, and explains the origins of magic and sentient life. It also features Vlad Taltos, sarcastic skuldugger extraordinaire, making wisecracks as usual about everything and anybody. Unfortunately, the combination doesn't work.
Fun with Your New (Vintage) Disch, by Fred Bush (7/30/01): Review.; Vintage Books has recently republished 334 and Camp Concentration, two of Disch's early works, in handsome new editions. Reading them is like walking into a black, windy, rainy night, or exploring the decaying sub-basement of a government office without any idea of how to escape its winding corridors.
Frank Herbert's Dune: It can be filmed! A Review of the Sci Fi Channel Miniseries, by Fred Bush (1/22/01): Review.; The "money shot" for a Dune film is a sandworm erupting out of the ground, mouth agape. The miniseries pulls it off in grand style: all I could do was sit there and gape . . . as I got my first glimpse of a worm. The shots of a tribe of Fremen on board a worm vanishing into the distance are haunting.

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