Monsters

In the days of Dr. Schaefer, and as late as the 1980s in some medical publications…

Science Fiction Frames: Interstellar and Dystopian Optimism

Earth Day Short Fiction: Harold

A short story by Jennifer Clark, winner of the Sapiens Plurum Earth…

The Adventures of Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion Car: A Book Excerpt

Buckminster Fuller was a visionary. Though he devoted much of his career to…

Why Climate Fiction?

How speculative fiction thinks about social change.

Science, for Dummies?

Scientific jargon is funny thing. Within a given field, it allows scientists like myself to be precise and succinct. But…

Ghost Stories in the Machine

How science fiction about artificial intelligence uses horror tropes to explore our fears about minds and…

Some of us are born in orbit

On Franny Choi's poem "Turing Test," artificial intelligence, emotion…

Leaving Trinity: Ten Ground-Zero Swerves

Inside Jumbo, the two-hundred-ton cylinder built to house the…

Cylon Folk Wisdom

Behold the Acheulean Hand Axe — among the earliest Paleolithic stone tool technologies. These were conceived and crafted by…