Feb 21 2018
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Amazon’s been making some major genre plays in its original programming recently, but its latest grab is one of its…
Sep 21 2015
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Tom Toner
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In the 1660s the Irish chemist Robert Boyle made a list of 24 wishes: a page or two of solutions to all the…
Jul 1 2015
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What would Herman Melville have made of Larry Niven’s huge space mega-engineering project? You don’t have to wonder…
Jun 30 2015
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The founder of Facebook is reading a book every two weeks, and discussing it with the Facebook community. And his…
May 7 2015
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There’s no such thing as a perfect book — but some books feel as though they could be just about perfect, if they…
Apr 2 2015
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We all know that economists love science fiction — especially Isaac Asimov fan Paul Krugman. But science fiction and…
Jan 26 2015
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Dec 19 2014
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Iain M. Banks is one of my favorite science fiction writers, and we've done a guide to his Culture novels, but I…
Nov 28 2014
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It's okay to disagree with your friends or loved ones about certain things. But still, some things are sacred. Which…
Sep 30 2014
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Abhimanyu Das and Charlie Jane Anders
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One of the most alluring dreams in science fiction is the post-scarcity society — a place or time where nobody…
Sep 29 2014
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Every few years, there's another essay insisting that irony is ruining culture. Hipsters and postmodernism have…
Apr 1 2014
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A lot of science fiction's most quotable authors do seem to write a ton of aphorisms — Robert A. Heinlein comes to…
Feb 18 2014
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Sadly, it's not a novel — but it's still pretty exciting to have one last glimpse inside the mind of the legendary…
Aug 7 2013
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So, your friendly neighborhood post-apocalyptic fake mailman has been hanging out in this place called Bridge City,…
Jul 8 2013
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Iain M. Banks has joined a select group of science fiction creators who've received the ultimate tribute, of having…
Jun 17 2013
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Just a month before his passing, Iain M. Banks did a final interview with the Guardian, and it's a must-read in…
Jun 10 2013
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Over the weekend, author Iain M. Banks died of cancer — just two months after announcing that he had less than a…
Jun 9 2013
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We knew this day was coming, but we hoped that it wouldn't be so soon. Iain M. Banks, author of the Culture series, T…
May 21 2013
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Iain M. Banks has had two astoundingly great careers — with the middle initial, he's one of the most influential and…
May 21 2013
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It's summer movie season, the time when blockbuster films come out every week and we pit Vin Diesel against…