The Future in ‘Proof of Concept’ Might Not Be Far Off
The central question is not “How do we fix the world?”, but rather, “How do we escape?”
Tag: science fiction
How John Scalzi Wrote ‘The Collapsing Empire’
It’s like Game of Thrones in space, if George R. R. Martin limited himself to 300 pages and liked to curse more.
Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’ Imagines a New Path for Democracy
Penned by a governance researcher who spent more than a decade working in humanitarian aid and development, this cyberpunk political thriller challenges many of the assumptions we so often take for granted.
‘Iceling’ Is YA Sci-Fi at its Most Engaging and Frustrating
Sasha Stephenson’s engaging but occasionally frustrating ‘Iceling’ opens sixteen years ago, when a team of scientists discover a bundle of abandoned human babies in the Arctic. As a work of YA genre fiction, it gets many things right.
‘Last Year’ Explores the Potential of Paradox-free Time Travel
Before there were skyscrapers in Chicago, the city was just a small cluster of buildings sprawled across the Illinois plains. Robert Charles Wilson’s latest science fiction novel, Last Year, gives us a glimpse into that distant Chicago, going as far back as 1876.
‘8th Street Power & Light’ Examines the Cost of Living in the Dark
Genre often holds the paradoxical role of both classifying works of literature and being used as a tool by authors to tear apart, reimagine, and defy archetypical parameters.
In ‘Central Station,’ Lavie Tidhar Imagines Tel Aviv in the Far Future
An interview with award-winning science fiction author Lavie Tidhar.
In Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy,’ Data is Your God
There was a strain of thinking right after the fall of the Berlin Wall that the march of capitalism and the spread of democracy would usher in an “end of history,” where the great ideological struggles that had so roiled the 20th century would give way to the logical marketplace of ideas.
‘Neon Green’ Mixes Sci-Fi, Family Drama, and 90s Nostalgia
At first, Margaret Wappler’s Neon Green seems like a typical family drama set in the mid-90s. Ernest, Cynthia, and their two teenage children—Gabe and Alison—live in a Chicago suburb near a park.
10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels to Read This July
Forget the flippant summer beach read. Ring in the dog days with these 10 science fiction, fantasy, and speculative novels picked as July’s best.
