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Link Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard
Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts…

July 25 2010, 7:13am | Comments
Link Who Goes There by John W. Campbell
Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story…

July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments
Blog Post To crush a Morlock’s skull

June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments
Link Why science fiction matters for people who don’t…
Science fiction dates as quickly as any genre, and Bradbury is not entirely immune to this. The futuristic rocket ships he wrote about in 1950 look a lot like the…

May 16 2010, 4:34pm | Comments
Link Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery
In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life…

May 16 2010, 4:33pm | Comments
Link Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On…
Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or…

May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments
Link Philip K Dick journals to be published next…
The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53,…

May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments
Link Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox
When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction…

January 24 2010, 6:06pm | Comments
Link When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like…
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the…

December 23 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical… The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years…

September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Link Is Star Trek A Religion?
Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the…

July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments
Podcast Moon

July 18 2009, 2:58am | Comments
Blog Post Moon

July 18 2009, 2:58am | Comments
Link How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race
This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a…

June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments

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