SF

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

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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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• Nnedi Okorafor’s Wild Ride

  Ericka HoaglandDec 16, 2013

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• YAC HIT LIST: Young Adult Science Fiction

  Beth RevisDec 13, 2013

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  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

• Changing Up Alternate History

  Michael LevyDec 8, 2013

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• A Genre in Crisis: On Paul Di Filippo's "Wikiworld"

  Paul Graham RavenDec 1, 2013

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• The Future Is a Foreign Country: On “Twenty-First Century Science Fiction”

  Nov 3, 2013

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