Here's my review of James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel's The Secret History of Science Fiction from the latest issue of Locus -- with thanks as always to the Locus folks for permission to excerpt a bit of my column from time to time. Herein I do not so much review the anthology -- which is well worth reading -- as use it for a springboard to address certain literary questions that I've thought about for a long time but have never before wrestled into coherent form. *** The seeds of James... read more