A Book That Could Help You Survive Almost Any Disaster
Daisy-chain earthquakes, mega-tsunamis, nuclear blasts, fast-style zombies: These are the troubling pictures moving on the walls of Sam Sheridan’s brain at night. He’s obsessed with the end of the world as we know it-or TEOTWAWKI, as certain advance-planning citizens, generally referred to as survivalists, know it. Sheridan ventured deep into the TEOTWAWKI demimonde in the…
The 40 Most Amazing Toys From Toy Fair 2013
Every year, New York’s Toy Fair offers the biggest, most astounding display of upcoming collectibles and toys you will soon be lusting after. Today, we hit the floors of Javits Center in New York City and perused the panoply of playthings on display. Here’s the very best of what we saw. These are the 40…
An incredible book of poetry about DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes
Is this your first visit to the 30th century? Those of you from a millennium past may experience disorientation. Know that we have addressed our epoch to utopia. Know that we looked to you when we designed the answer to the question of our future, a fiction. —”Welcome Visitors,” Raymond McDaniel (Special Powers and Abilities…
Did the very first science fiction magazine appear in Russia in 1894?
We tend to think science fiction magazines started when Hugo Gernsback introduced the concept of “scientificion.” But for the quarter-century leading up to the Russian Revolution, the Russians were massive consumers of “scientific fantasy,” and they had a popular magazine called Nature and People, full of science-fictional speculations. Cornell University Professor Anindita Banerjee uncovers the…