SF

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

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  Internet User Cory Doctorow

  Cory Doctorow discusses his process, projects, and projections for our (perhaps) not so dystopian future.

  Joshua RigsbyApr 29, 2016

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  The Desire of Angels

  "Glorious Angels" asks questions about sexuality and desire and offers a model that alters socially sanctioned arrangements.

  Ritch CalvinApr 27, 2016

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  Weather Permitting

  Perhaps we could chip away at capitalism, "Green Earth" suggests, if only it became obvious that the world was beginning to end.

  Rebecca EvansApr 19, 2016

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  The Multiple Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Nnedi Okorafor’s Literary Nigeria

  Kinitra D. BrooksApr 13, 2016

  • Fiction

  • SF

• A History of Patriarchy

  D. Harlan WilsonApr 3, 2016

  • SF

• Love in the Time of Apocalypse

  Like so much else in Charlie Jane Anders's "All the Birds in the Sky," the question of sanity is relative, not absolute.

  Kate BurnsMar 29, 2016

  • SF

• Climate-Anxious Late Environmentalism

  "Green Planets" takes as its starting point the fact that we and everything else that lives on/in/through planet Earth are in a lot of trouble.

  Veronica HollingerMar 17, 2016

  • SF

• Reading for Delany

  The beauty of "Stories for Chip" is the way in which work that celebrates Delany generates new sentences full of possibility and danger.

  Mark C. JerngMar 13, 2016

  • SF

• The Art of Genre

  "Falling in Love with Hominids" by Nalo Hopkinson offers new work and recent career highlights that delight and disturb.

  Brent Ryan BellamyMar 10, 2016

  • SF

• Myths as Mitochondria

  One of the most refreshing things about Reed's world is that it is true speculative fiction.

  Jacqueline SteigerMar 8, 2016

  • SF

• Empire, Nation, and Time

  "The Grace of Kings" is novel about a nation experiencing revolution as it transitions from one form of empire to another.

  Andrew YangMar 6, 2016

  • SF

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  The Deep Wound

  A writer's best work tends to acknowledge early obsessions, especially the conflicted ones.

  Ian DenningMar 5, 2016

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • SF