SF

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

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  A Fitting Tribute

  Darren Harris-Fain Dec 16, 2014

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  William Gibson’s Breakfast Burrito

  “The Peripheral is thus less interested in specifying two fully articulated hypothetical futures than in inviting us to reflect on our present-day imaginative relationship to the future …”

  Lee KonstantinouDec 12, 2014

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  No Escape

  John CluteDec 7, 2014

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  Who Are We? Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?

  David BreithauptDec 1, 2014

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  The Real Mr. Difficult, or Why Cthulhu Threatens to Destroy the Canon, Self-Interested Literary Essayists, and the Universe Itself. Finally.

  Nick MamatasNov 24, 2014

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  We Need To Talk About Tyrion: How HBO Failed George R. R. Martin’s Iconic Character

  Ilana TeitelbaumNov 21, 2014

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  The Genetics of Genre, the Genre of Genetics

  Noah BerlatskyNov 18, 2014

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  A Subtle Weave of Layers

  Nick HubbleNov 10, 2014

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  What Does Not Exist

  Paul KincaidNov 7, 2014

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  Writing Is a Lonely Business: James McKimmey, Philip K. Dick, and the Lost Art of Author Correspondence

  "At times Dick’s letters read like outtakes of his books, with allusions to alternate realities merging with accounts of everyday life."

  Jason StarrNov 3, 2014

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• A Sweet Theorem of a Book

  John CluteDec 22, 2013

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• Pynchon’s Launch Party

  Pynchon’s literary career has shared more with the dehumanizing ethos of Silicon Valley than has been recognized. Siri is a Pynchon character.

  Rebecca LiaoDec 22, 2013

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