The Electronic Frontier Foundation is out there fighting for civil liberties and privacy on the Internet and the…
It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read…
MIT’s Technology Review has a bit of a secret: just about every year, they put together a science fiction edition…
In 1993, sci-fi author Bruce Sterling testified in front of a House subcommittee about the future of the internet —…
Another new science fiction magazine has just joined the internet. Vice Magazine, which was already writing about…
When I first obsessed about the idea of being a science-fiction writer, I was captivated by the Slipstream movement,…
As is tradition, Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky have kickstarted the new year by discussing the current state of the…
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Wind-Up Girl author Paolo Bacigalupi's essay over at Wired is both a must read and a quick read. The essay is mostly…
Some people's futures are determined by popular vote: American Idol contestants, class presidents, and people who want…
Sometimes it seems like science fiction, and especially fantasy, are genres that lend themselves exclusively to…
Rudy Rucker was the first author to win the Philip K. Dick Award, right after Dick's death in 1982. Around that time,…
Apple software engineer Nirav Patel wanted to create something useful with his 3D printer, so he designed a system that…
Bruce Sterling is known as a prescient futurist, a brilliant science fiction author, and the author of a seminal…
You might think there's a limit to how weird Rudy Rucker or Bruce Sterling can get, but when they team up, their…
The finalists for the 2009 Sidewise Awards, honoring the best in alternate history, have been announced. And just in…
In real life, Charles Babbage was a relatively unknown inventor who pioneered early computers. In modern alternate…
We can't wait until our brains are hardwired into cybernests, so we can fully appreciate the hilariousness of…
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