Selected Works

James Machell has been publishing since 2019, beginning with “Sunflowers” for Utopia Science Fiction Magazine. This page provides links to samples of his work which can be found online as well as a list of his interviewees. (Sixteen of those interviews can be found in the collection, Human Voices, Alien Conversations, and further poems in The Kingdom of Hell is Inside You.) Additional work, not listed here, can be found in print. See James Machell on The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for a partial bibliography.

Fiction

• Hair of the Dog
• Playing with Lions
• Trip Through Eternity
• The Fun They Hadn’t

Poetry

• Survivor

Non-Fiction

• Big Three of Fantasy
• Gravity’s Rainbow, Star Wars, and SF’s Identity Crisis
• The Weirdest Jobs in Science Fiction

Interviewees

• Ken Liu
• Bogi Takács
• Paolo Bacigalupi
• John Picacio
• John Clute
• Samuel R. Delany
• Samantha Mills
• Jeff Noon
• Steven Youll
• P. Djèlí Clark
• Chris Moore
• Ai Jiang
• Cheryl Morgan
• Neil Clarke
• Pat Cadigan
• Matthew Holness
• Alyssa Winans
• Justine Norton-Kertson
• Travis Baldree
• S. T. Joshi
• Tristan Evarts
• Rachel Cordasco
• Jean-Paul L. Garnier
• Steve Davidson
• Tran Nguyen

Interviews with James

• Vector
• Space Cowboy Books

Book Reviews

• All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu

Videos

• Why Asimov Hated 1984
• The Atom Bomb Destroys Science Fiction
• The Psychedelic Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Visit Fell Purpose channel page for the full list.

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE)

Several posts available through the SFE Substack, which James curates.

Click here for the full list of contributions to the SFE main site.

Selected Magazine and Podcast Covers