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Microsoft's Free Anthology Includes Some Of Today's Best SF Authors

Earlier this week, Microsoft released a short anthology titled Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by…

Andrew Liptak

PublishedNovember 21, 2015

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MIT Just Put Out One of The Year's Best Collections of Science Fiction

MIT’s Technology Review has a bit of a secret: just about every year, they put together a science fiction edition…

Andrew Liptak

PublishedAugust 30, 2015

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<i>Meanwhile in the Future</i>: Never Sleep Again, Using This Drug

Meanwhile in the Future: Never Sleep Again, Using This Drug

If there was a drug that meant you never had to sleep again, would you take it? Would those who didn’t need to sleep…

Rose Eveleth

PublishedJune 16, 2015

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Women Dominate The 2015 Nebula Awards

Last night in Chicago, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the winners of the Nebula…

Andrew Liptak

PublishedJune 7, 2015

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How to Turn Real Science Into Great Science Fiction

Science fiction is the literature of discovery — and there are tons of great ways to come up with stories worth…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedSeptember 18, 2013

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can't Afford to Miss in November

November's books are bursting with excitement! There's futuristic pulp fiction, swashbuckling excitement, reimagined…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedNovember 13, 2012

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Science Fiction Authors Who Could be Hollywood's Next Philip K. Dick

When Hollywood wants a futuristic, paranoid thriller where nothing is what it seems, the studios reach for the work…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedJuly 30, 2012

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Some of the Coolest Space War Stories You've Ever Seen

War and Space: Recent Combat, from editors Rich Horton and Sean Wallace is possibly one of the finest anthologies…

Andrew Liptak

PublishedJuly 25, 2012

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Touch a piece of science fiction history — and help keep live SF readings alive!

The Fantastic Fiction series at New York's KGB Bar has featured everyone from China Mieville to Joyce Carol Oates,…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedOctober 12, 2010

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2009's Best SF Novelists: Kage Baker, Nancy Kress, Cherie Priest, Robert Charles Wilson And Kim Stanley Robinson

Locus Magazine announced the finalists for its reader-selected Locus Awards — and the five best science fiction…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedApril 19, 2010

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Learn The Craft Of Novel-Writing From Walter Jon Williams And Nancy Kress

The Taos ToolBox Writers Workshop is taking applications for its "graduate level" writing classes, taught by Walter…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedDecember 2, 2009

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Hugos 2009: The Fashion, The Fervor And The Suspense!

Last night, the 2009 Hugo Awards Ceremony brought together many of the genre's leading lights, and we were there. A…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedAugust 10, 2009

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Is "Sense Of Wonder" Just A Code For Returning To Childhood?

Science fiction writers and fans clamor for a return to "sense of wonder," marveling at the richness of the…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedApril 21, 2009

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Our Alien Origins: 21 Panspermia Tales

Planet Earth might be home sweet home, but is it really humanity's birthplace? We explore science fiction stories…

Alasdair Wilkins

PublishedFebruary 1, 2009

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Larry Niven's Iron-Clad Rules For Predicting Future Tech

How can you predict future technologies? You can't, according to five great science fiction authors quoted in the…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedDecember 17, 2008

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Has "Sense Of Wonder" Gotten Senseless?

"Maybe the world has gotten too grubby and jaded for "awe." Or I have. At any rate, a "sense of wonder" is no longer…

Charlie Jane Anders

PublishedNovember 25, 2008

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Aliens Don't Care Enough About Us to Invade

The author of over a dozen books, including the well-received Probability trilogy, Nancy Kress loves to thwart our…

Annalee Newitz

PublishedMay 28, 2008

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Michael Chabon and Nancy Kress Top the List of Nebula Winners

Over the weekend, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented its annual Nebula Awards for best…

Annalee Newitz

PublishedApril 28, 2008

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Performance Art Terrifies SF Writer

Nancy Kress— author of one of the ten books we can't wait to read this year — is worried that being a science…

Graeme McMillan

PublishedFebruary 26, 2008

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