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Bruce Sterling
May 8, 2009 9:20 AM

M. John Harrison Recommends Genuinely Interesting Science Fiction

*Maybe the best list of its kind I've ever seen.

*And I've seen plenty.

http://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/some-interesting-science-fiction/

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