The Great Unfinished Generational Epic George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers. Jason Garshfield 10 Feb 2025 · 26 min read
Abiding Legends Richard Matheson, George R. Stewart, and the birth of the Calipocalypse. Kevin Mims 9 Jul 2024 · 23 min read
The Problem with Utopias The history of utopian fiction proves that we can’t even imagine a better world. Ewan Morrison 23 May 2024 · 15 min read
93 Years of Shatner A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper. Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2024 · 21 min read
An Unlikely Cinematic Triumph Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ seemed doomed to failure—until Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster. Allan Stratton 15 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
China, the West, and The Three-Body Problem The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic. Jason Garshfield 15 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it. Stewart Slater 5 Dec 2023 · 9 min read
Strange New Sci Fi If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first casualty of culture war. Johnny Schmidt 21 Sep 2023 · 17 min read
The Libertarian History of Science Fiction The connection between SF and liberty is not simply an accidental byproduct of the colorful history of SF publishing, but a necessary one tied to certain fundamentals of the genre. Jordan Alexander Hill 12 Jun 2020 · 15 min read
Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together. Craig DeLancey 5 Nov 2019 · 9 min read
Utilitarianism’s Missing Dimensions According to the ethical theory of utilitarianism, refusing to push the strange man is unethical. In both scenarios, the ethical action is to sacrifice one to save five. Erik Parens 3 Jan 2018 · 11 min read
