The Technologies That Remake Us: On Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation: Stories”
“Exhalation: Stories” is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction, from an author whose star will only continue to rise....
“Exhalation: Stories” is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction, from an author whose star will only continue to rise....
Transcending hate and hope in China Miéville's "This Census-Taker"....
"The Water Knife" oscillates between nightmarish fantasy and discerning perception....
California is SF's natural home....
IN HER 2010 BOOK Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, political theorist Wendy Brown examines the recent trend of building physical walls to mark and police borders, a seemingly paradoxical initiative in a time characterized by a global, hence borderless, economy. As forces ...
One story about the origins of science fiction points to the specialty pulp magazines that appeared in the 1920s, when terms like Hugo Gernsback’s “scientifiction” first came into popular usage, distinguishing certain stories from the detective, romance, ...
This future is a scarier place, by far, than any that SF has yet imagined....