Robert Heinlein And The 100 Year Starship Study
Anyone who looks back on Robert Heinlein’s ‘juvenile’ novels, twelve books written for young adults between 1947 and 1958, as inspiration for his current work gets my attention. I loved every one of those novels, particularly Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) and Starman Jones (1953), but David Neyland says it was Time for the Stars…
How Pulp Science Fiction Cover Art Got Its Sense of Wonder
We all love the colorful richness of science fiction pulp cover art. But pulp art didn’t spring into the world fully formed, full of beautiful women adventurers and marauding robots. Science fiction book cover art as we know it today was born in the pulp era of 1920-1955, but the process of evolution actually started…
10 Science Fiction Books That Changed the Course of History
Many science fiction books imagine strange new worlds — but only a few science fiction books have actually changed the world we live in. A few visionary authors have managed to make such an impression that they left the world a vastly different place. Here are 10 seminal science fiction novels that changed the world…
When did magic become elitist?
It used to be that anybody could learn magic, in pop culture as well as folklore. But in recent decades, magical powers have become an inherited trait, which only a few people are born with. What changed? David Liss, author of The Twelfth Enchantment, explores the trend towards elitism in our fantasy stories. My mother…
