"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
The Tales of Old Miura (I racconti del vecchio Miura), published in Italy by Lindau, brings together short stories by Kidō Okamoto (1872–1939), a Japanese playwright and novelist best remembered for his contribution to kabuki theater and historical fiction. Born in Tokyo during the Meiji era,...
Automation, Tradition, and the Architecture of a Crowded Future When Isaac Asimov published The Caves of Steel in 1954, he achieved something remarkable: he fused the detective novel with hard science fiction, using the tropes of noir to explore the sociological and technological anxieties of the...
Once upon a time two merchants lived in a certain town just on the verge of a stream. One of them was a Russian, the other a Tartar; both were rich. But the Russian got so utterly ruined by some business or other that he...
