In 2018, I was approached by best-selling science-fiction writer Blake Crouch who had been asked by Amazon to originate an anthology of six new futuristic short stories. Having secured the participation of Andrew Weir (The Martian), Paul Tremblay (The Cabin at the End of the World), Veronica Roth (Divergent) and NK Jemisin (the…(Read More)

At one point in A Gentleman in Moscow, the character Mishka ruminates that the line was one of Lenin’s greatest innovations: “He established it by decree in 1917 and personally took the first slot as his comrades jostled to line up behind him. Then one by one, every Russian took his place, and the…(Read More)