Paul Kincaid, author of Brian W. Aldiss, answers questions on his book influences, editorial discoveries, and reader takeaways from his book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
Q&A with Paul Kincaid, Author of Brian W. Aldiss
Category: science fiction
Q&A With Rachel S. Cordasco, Author of Out of This World
Rachel S. Cordasco, author of Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium, answers questions on her scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader […]
Q&A with Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo
Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo, the final book in his trilogy biography of Ray Bradbury, answers questions about his reasoning for writing a trilogy, academic and literary […]
Ray Bradbury Birthday Bundle Sale
Happy 100th birthday, Ray Bradbury! The Press is excited to announce that today, on the Bradbury Centennial, we are releasing the final addition to Jonathon Eller’s Ray Bradbury trilogy, Bradbury […]
Joanna Russ Finalist For 2020 Hugo Award
We’re pleased to announce that Joanna Russ by Gwyneth Jones in our Modern Masters of Science Fiction Series, is a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Awards in the Best Related […]
Get a Free Ebook of “Octavia E. Butler” by Gerry Canavan
Giveaway alert! We’re offering a free ebook of OCTAVIA E. BUTLER by Gerry Canavan during November. Butler’s experiences as an African American woman in the world of white male-dominated science […]
So You Want to Read Joanna Russ: Reading Guide by Gwyneth Jones
Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ’s groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped […]
Q&A with Gary Westfahl, author of “Arthur C. Clarke”
Gary Westfahl, formerly of the University of La Verne and the University of California, Riverside, has now retired to focus exclusively on research and writing. His many books on science […]
#PressforProgress Reading List: Key Books on Women in Media
In honor of Women’s History Month, UIP will be releasing weekly reading lists with some of our favorite women’s history books. We are joining the call to #PressforProgress for gender […]
Q&A With D. Harlan Wilson, Author of “J.G. Ballard”
D. Harlan Wilson is a professor of English at Wright State University–Lake Campus. He is the author of Cultographies: They Live, Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction, and […]
200 Years of Illinois: Death of a science fiction master
On February 25, 2009, science fiction master Philip José Farmer—author of the Riverworld series and the Hugo-winning To Your Scattered Bodies Go—departed our reality at age 91. When it happened I wondered, How […]
Alfred Bester’s writing process
Excerpted from Jad Smith‘s book Alfred Bester, the latest volume in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series. After Boucher accepted “Fondly Fahrenheit,” Bester revealed his particular investment in the […]