In the hour since I finished reading Brad Torgersen’s second collection of short stories, Racers of the Night, I’ve tried to come up with clever ways of saying nice things about Brad’s short fiction. Really. I have. He’s the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème, the ace in the hole, as fine […]
Science Fiction as the Best Social Fiction of Our Time: The Chaplain’s War by Brad Torgersen
2014-08-20 · by ·
Author Doris Lessing once noted that “That function of a writer is to raise questions not find answers.” A Nobel Prize winner, Lessing famously responded to a critic of her Canopus in Argos series–a work of science fiction, in contrast to what critics considered her more serious literature–by saying: “What they didn’t realize was that […]
Utah Writers Are Taking the Hugo Awards by Storm
2014-04-23 · by ·
Utah authors are taking the Hugo Awards by storm. Indeed, if I wasn’t from around here and hadn’t been following some of these guys for a while, I might wonder what it is in the water that has Utah taking over fantasy/science fiction’s best well-known (and as it appears, most controversial) award. Here’s who has […]
Brad Torgersen in the running for the Hugo
2014-04-22 · by ·
Last year, I made a fortuitous find at the Salt Lake ComiCon: Brad Torgersen. This year, Torgersen is getting some Hugo love, with two nominations. Nominated for the Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula—all in the same year (2012)—and 2010 winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, Torgersen’s science fiction is a breath of […]
