In a moment where the future seems impossibly turbulent, leaving us feeling powerless, science fiction can help us get our heads around the complexity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2019-12-31 14:00:05 UTC ]
Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-31 13:53:59 UTC ]
Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-31 13:53:59 UTC ]
Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-31 13:53:59 UTC ]
Futurist and artist Syd Mead has passed away at 86 due to complications from lymphoma. Even if you don't know his name, you've probably felt his impact on Hollywood, especially on the science fiction genre. Mead designed Blade Runner's world and tech... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-12-31 13:01:00 UTC ]
We're visiting Book Riot's Swords & Spaceships newsletter to get recommendations of 2019 standalone science fiction and fantasy novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-30 11:31:11 UTC ]
Two related events shaped the last 10 years in science fiction and fantasy—the most transformative we've seen in the history of the genres. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2019-12-29 14:00:00 UTC ]
Test your knowledge of women writers with a fun pop quiz. First Round Name the title and author of the first-ever science fiction novel. This Pulitzer-prize winner and Italian translator declared in 2015 that she is now only writing in Italian. Name this author. The 2018 Nobel laureate for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces about science fiction and fantasy, by John Seabrook, Julie Phillips, Colson Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, and Joyce Carol Oates. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2019-12-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
How William Gibson keeps his science fiction real Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker While a lot of sci-fi is obsessed with the distant future, one of the best authors of the genre takes a different approach. The New Yorker explains how William Gibson... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-12-14 17:30:00 UTC ]
I spent most of the year living in a small town in Oregon where I read a lot of student work and finished my MFA thesis. There I read my first but not last book by Octavia E. Butler, Kindred. I borrowed Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, from a graduate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-12-14 16:00:42 UTC ]
News and Events Michelle Johnson In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pieces by translators about their work. In... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-12-10 14:32:34 UTC ]
The Science Fiction Writers Association does not tell him much, only that he will be taken in the dead of night to shoot down to Los Angeles in a high-speed train. There will be two men, they tell him, who will ride with him and deliver him to his final destination. As she books his […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-10 09:48:15 UTC ]
End-of-year titles, from wild science fiction to road-tripping memoirs, make promising presents. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-03 18:10:36 UTC ]
The Massachusetts-based translator has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-03 10:00:21 UTC ]
Chinese science fiction is a rich world of diverse, engaging stories that expand one's mind. But with all that is out there, where should you start? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-11-27 11:39:41 UTC ]
There were too many to choose from. Our reviewers explain their picks, from “The Hanging Artist” to “The Night Tiger” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-11-21 14:12:00 UTC ]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reads the first novel in Isaac Asimov’s juvenile science fiction series Science fiction set in our own solar system arguably began with Lucian, the classical author whose short satirical piece True History paved the way for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2019-11-15 15:00:55 UTC ]
The dense, interconnected network charts decades of collaboration and research. Nature, the multidisciplinary scientific journal founded in London in 1869, celebrates its 150th anniversary this week. Known for its innovative approach to publishing original research across all sorts of scientific... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-11-11 08:00:45 UTC ]
This past summer, I stumbled across a link on social media to Chris Marker’s 1962 science fiction film La Jetée. For those who don’t know it, Marker’s miniature masterpiece—its running time is 28 minutes—mixes black-and-white stills with narration to tell the story of a man who circles back in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-07 09:49:34 UTC ]