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UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?
I’m going to give you the bad news first. The distances between stars are so large that they might be impossible to routinely cross. Sure, maybe you send robot probes that reach their target in two...
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Reese Hogan on Sentience, Humanity, and Robots
My Heart is Human by Reese Hogan is about a human and robot who come to occupy the same body. The body belongs to Joel Lodowick, a single parent and trans man whose only wish, at the story’s outset, is...
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Space Pastoral: Finding a New Literary Genre in the Slow Death of the...
The International Space Station is a beguiling thing. Twenty-three years into its orbiting life, twenty-three years of continual human habitation, fifteen contributing nations, its story is an eloquent...
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Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction
In 2009 I was working with the prison book program in Asheville, North Carolina when I got a request for shapeshifting. I was shocked and thought it was funny, until I came to realize esoteric...
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Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her...
Science fiction made me want to be a writer. As a child in the ‘90s I read Interstellar Pig because my older sister loved it, and that’s when it started—a lifelong obsession with alternate universes,...
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How a 20th-Century Czech Play Influences Our Understanding of Science and...
Nature discovered only one method of producing and arranging living matter. There is, however, another, simpler, more malleable, and quicker method, one that nature has never made use of. This other...
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Martin MacInnes on Crafting Psychologically Rich Science Fiction
From an early age Dr. Leigh Hasenboch, the central character in Martin MacInnes’ stunningly immersive Booker-longlisted novel In Ascension, is fascinated by the ocean and by Niewe Maas, the icy river...
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Here are the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards, recognizing some of the best SFF writing from 2023. SFWA is also honoring Susan Cooper...
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Why you should read some Samuel Delany today (and every day).
Today Samuel Delany–inventor/expander of several galaxies–turns 82. And I for one would like to throw some birthday love towards this greatest of octogenarians. Known for his high-concept science...
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Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet
Let’s assume, for a moment, that the universe is teeming with life. In that case, the obvious question is: Where is everyone? In my introductory astronomy class, “From Black Holes to Undiscovered...
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