“Aye, clear that shit off and ride, nigga!” The broken glass was the thing that I’ll always remember first. A window of my old white Nissan Sentra, broken in the night before, and thousands of tiny shards scattered everywhere. A stolen bag. Fingers cut from clearing that shit off the…

As a young aspiring science-fiction writer, Octavia Butler has always been a spirit guide to me. I went to sleep and woke up with Kindred, the…

Is artificial intelligence a threat to humanity? According to a group of very rich, very smart men, mankind should be worried about advancing intelligence in computers. That group of rich and smart men is chock full of people who many consider to be role models and intellectual titans. They are the paragons of the “disrupter class,” people who have completely changed the tech and science worlds. And they’re afraid that what might disrupt those worlds after…