SF

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

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  You Can Go Home Again, and Again, and Again

  Cory Oldweiler reviews the new translation of Danish author Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III).”

  Cory OldweilerNov 18

  • Fiction

  • SF

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  What’s the Difference Between a God and a Monster?

  Heather Macumber reviews Brandon Grafius’s “Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture.”

  Heather MacumberNov 12

  • SF

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Strange New Lows

  Adam Kotsko boldly goes into season three of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” with high expectations.

  Adam KotskoNov 7

  • SF

  • Television

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  The Baby Was Screaming

  Tia Glista examines the pro-child paranoia that fuels FX’s new series “Alien: Earth.”

  Tia GlistaNov 4

  • Television

  • SF

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  Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities

  Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

  Rachele DiniOct 31

  • SF

  • Science & Technology

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  Enuf Is Enuf

  Tom LeClair clop-clops through Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel “Tom’s Crossing.”

  Tom LeClairOct 28

  • Fiction

  • SF

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  Challenging the Myth of Firstness

  John Rieder explores Zac Zimmer’s “First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas.”

  John RiederOct 27

  • SF

  • History

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  The Ghosts of the Delivery Room

  Corinne Cordasco-Pak reviews Erica Stern’s “Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story.”

  Corinne Cordasco-PakOct 25

  • Memoir & Essay

  • SF

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  Parading Around Among the Living Like Nothing Happened

  Zachary Gillan explores Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories,” translated by Megan McDowell.

  Zachary GillanOct 22

  • SF

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  I’m Gonna Act as Though What Seems Real Is

  Raphael Helfand speaks with David Leo Rice about his new novel “The Squimbop Condition.”

  Raphael HelfandOct 22

  • SF

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  Lost Horizons

  Brendan Boyle writes on the voyages beyond in “Contact” (1997) and “Alambrista!” (1977), in the newest installment of Double Feature, from the LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

  Brendan BoyleOct 20

  • LARB Lit

  • Film

  • SF

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  Life Finds an Investor

  Karoline Huber discusses the phenomenon of “de-extinction” in SF and popular culture.

  Karoline HuberOct 15

  • SF