Cosmogramma

A selection of sci-fi stories that feels self-consciously literary. I have nothing against literary sci-fi, to be clear, but I do like some sense of conviction - most of these stories stop exactly at the moment where they get really interesting and/or suspenseful. That's just sad, man! Keep going! D......more

3 stars - One of those books that I am of two minds about. I think that could be explained by the author coming from the world of contemporary literature and not from the SF/F/H-community. So, this book is written better than most SF/F/H-works. I was impressed by the writing, the beautiful descripti......more

I used to devour short story compilations as a kid, partially because they were a bite-sized way of getting the sci-fi thrills I was looking for, partially because my local library had a lot of them. In the 80’s a lot of the bigger SF authors had graduated by writing for the pulps, and then the more......more

After reading the authors novel A River called time at the beginning of the year I was excited to be notified of Cosmogramma. The title is a reference to the music artist Flying Lotus and the work contains 15 stories, all fresh but with some, reworkings of genre tropes - sentient robots, mysterious......more

Cosmogramma is a collection of speculative short stories that imagine alternative futures, exploring robots, space travel, new species, and achieving the seemingly impossible. Some stories consider what happens in near futures where strange seeds appear or transformations of humans occur, whereas ot......more