SF

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

• Envisioning Astroculture in the American Hemisphere

  "Past Futures" is an exercise in remembering an exuberant, experimental current of artistic production that had a deep engagement with a global astroculture.

  De Witt Douglas KilgoreSep 24, 2015

  • SF

• Wake Up and Smell the Weird

  "Three Moments of an Explosion" is not a manifesto, and it is in no way overtly politically didactic.

  Rhys WilliamsSep 6, 2015

  • SF

• Superbeings Who Walk the Boundaries

  Jama-Everett upends the cultural assumptions common to many familiar superhero stories.

  Michael BerrySep 5, 2015

  • Comics

  • SF

• Will Robots Inherit the Earth?

  How much technology should we be willing to use to stay alive? Will robots inherit the earth?

  Temma EhrenfeldAug 26, 2015

  • SF

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Neal Stephenson’s Ideal Forms

  Neal Stephenson combines the earthly and the ideal to create a nerdish homebrew 21st-century Platonism.

  Peter BerardAug 18, 2015

  • SF

• Beautiful, Broken Bodies

  "Sing Me Your Scars" is not always a pleasant read. It's hard not to squirm as the women in these stories are crucified, stabbed, beaten, bruised, and incised.

  Helen MarshallAug 11, 2015

  • SF

• If Colonialism Was The Apocalypse, What Comes Next?

  Two new collections of African SF by Dilman Dila show us life in the postcolony.

  Aug 5, 2015

  • SF

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  Rock Your World (Or, Theory Class Needs an Upgrade)

  Humanities scholars are getting used to talking about reality again — only it’s not your granddaddy’s reality.

  Timothy MortonJul 28, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • SF

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  Uses of Displeasure: Literary Value and Affective Disgust

  Samuel Delany’s novel Hogg is an affectively disgusting book that lends itself to politically charged and urgent kinds of reading.

  Liz JanssenJul 18, 2015

  • SF

• Spaces Where Maps Fail

  Carroll is interested in an endemic and unavoidable failure of cartography.

  John RiederJul 13, 2015

  • SF

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  The Women You Didn’t See: A Letter to Alice Sheldon

  Alice Sheldon wrote under the names James Tiptree, Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon. Novelist Nicola Griffith sends her an open letter.

  Nicola GriffithJul 9, 2015

  • SF

• The Persistence (and Failure) of Memory

  Slow Bullets is a story of revenge and redemption, high-tech problems and low-tech solutions, and the preservation of memory through surrendering the past.

  Stan Hunter KrancJul 6, 2015

  • SF