Robert B. Marks·Feb 1The Fall of an Interstellar EmpireEvery now and then something crosses my radar that is just too juicy to ignore. In this case, it is something from a recent episode of…
Robert B. Marks·Jan 15“Look Behind You” — Iran, the Progressive Left, and the Right Side of HistoryWhen it shows up in a story, it’s often a great moment. A character is in a coma or dream, and there’s something behind them — something…
Robert B. Marks·Jan 2It’s Time to Talk About the Revolution in IranIt’s quite a thing to watch a revolution by the people of Iran play out in front of you. It is equally astonishing to watch the journalism…
Robert B. Marks·Aug 15, 2025It’s Fantasy, but it CAN’T Be Whatever You Want it to BeThere is a phrase I have come to detest in the genre fiction discourse: “It’s fantasy, so it can be whatever you want it to be!”
Robert B. Marks·Jul 21, 2025The Techbros Are Wrong — ChatGPT Will Never Write a Good BookA couple of days ago, I watched a video by Meredith Novaco, a Youtuber with a computer science degree, about whether Del Rey had tried to…
Robert B. Marks·Jul 2, 2025“No, he’s NOT a Nazi!” — Who the Nazis really were, and why that mattersIf there’s one political artifact that annoys me more than any other right now, it’s the tendency towards declaring that people are Nazis…
Robert B. Marks·Mar 3, 2025Escape and Rescue — Adapting Grimm’s CinderellaMy upcoming book The Fairy Godmother’s Tale releases this week, and I thought it would be interesting to talk about the process of…
Robert B. Marks·Feb 14, 2025Snow White: The Most Difficult Fairy Tale?Having adapted several Grimm’s Fairy Tales for my new book, The Fairy Godmother’s Tale, the most challenging of them all was also one of…
Robert B. Marks·Jan 13, 2025The Remarkable Accuracy of Space 1999’s Moonbase AlphaI’m in the research and planning phase of my next novel, which is a hard SF story set on the moon. This has so far been a lot of fun, not…
