The images that pop up in most people’s heads when they think about superheroes can be traced back to the 1938 debut…
The name Anders Celsius will be familiar to readers from his invention of the universally-used temperature scale.…
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This is the fourth part of a four-part series on the pulps under totalitarianism. Read more: Pulp Scifi Under…
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This is the third part of a four-part series on the pulps under totalitarianism. Read more: Pulp Scifi Under German…
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This is part two of Jess Nevins' ongoing series, looking at science fiction under various totalitarian regimes — for…
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Pulp science fiction — in this case, meaning both serial magazines and stories and films which emphasized action,…
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The history of Japanese science fiction usually begins with the 1880 translations of Jules Verne's From The Earth…
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The Black Fantastic: Highlights of Pre-World War II African and African-American Speculative Fiction
Africans, and those of African descent, have not been treated well by speculative fiction, both inside its texts and…
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Who's that hairy, firearm-wielding figure above? Why, that's none other than Six-Gun Gorilla, a now-public domain…
The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they've…
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The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they've…
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Transhumanism is a popular movement to convert ordinary humans into superhumans, using technology. For 20 years,…
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A number of science fiction novels were published in the 19th century which hold up today and can genuinely be…
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Steampunk is usually associated with Europeans — and with a fascination with the glories of imperialism. So when a…
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Portland-based Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett are a husband-and-wife team of multimedia artists who have produced a…
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Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first story, "Under the Moons of Mars," a hundred years ago this month. And even…
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, everybody agreed what the label "steampunk" referred to. But now the term is…
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The origin of science fiction stories is well-known to both critics and the public: by consensus, Mary Shelley's Fra…
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The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they've…
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In many ways the science fiction pulps and the science fiction novels of the pulp era were conservative when it…
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