Divided We Stand: “Confederate” and Civil War Alternate Histories
Civil War alternate history isn't just a genre that romanticizes the Old South. It ponders (but rarely doubts) why the Confederacy deserved to perish....
A Computer Scientist Makes the Case for Speculative Fiction
Why should computer science students read "The Circle"?...
“Still No Master Plan”: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu’s “2023: A Trilogy”
Ron Hogan on The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu’s long-awaited, heavily collaged novel “2023: A Trilogy.”...
Dystopian Surrealism for Our Times: Karin Tidbeck’s “Amatka”
Karin Tidbeck’s surrealist novel engages with the inertia of European democratic socialism and imagines a more liberated posthuman condition....
African Science Fiction
A comradely incitement to our own peripheralization....
Thomas M. Disch Versus the Catholic Church: “The Cardinal Detoxes”
Kevin Power on the late Thomas M. Disch's one-act play....
The Intuitive Thing: Ray Bradbury on the Arts
Ray Bradbury shares strong opinion on art, architecture, and the creative life....
No, Speed Limit: John Scalzi’s “The Collapsing Empire”
John Scalzi’s “The Collapsing Empire” is one of the most important revisionist hyperspace narratives to come along in some time....
The Secret History of Dune
Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” an enduring science fiction classic, owes much of its mythology to “The Sabres of Paradise,” an undeservedly forgotten history....
On Fuel
Imre Szeman reviews Karen Pinkus’s inventive and engaging “Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary” — a notable addition to the “energy humanities.”...
Protest Unceasing, Redemption Unfinished: An Interview with “Orphan Black’s” Graeme Manson and Cosima Herter
Biology and genetic science are always political....
Dystopian Resistance: Christopher Brown’s “Tropic of Kansas”
Christopher Urban on Christopher Brown’s SF thriller “Tropic of Kansas.”...
