Recent Columns

Xenobiology At the Extremes: And You Think Your Neighbors Are Weird?

by Marshall Perrin

25 August 2008

Over the past decade or so, spurred in part by the biological revolution and in part by our increasing confidence that earth-mass planets are potentially common, astrobiology has started to come of age.

Welcome to the Real World

by Iain Jackson

18 August 2008

Of course, the advantage of having both invented and mobile geography is that you can demolish it without aggravating people quite so much. I mean, readers might get just the teensiest bit upset at a superhero fight that knocks the capital off the Chrysler Building, for example -- or they might think it's the coolest thing ever!

Glitz, Flash, and Fun

by James Schellenberg

11 August 2008

A look at some of the recent videogame titles for the PC that are focused on creating spectacle. Some even have a decent storyline to go along with the eye candy.

Ordinary Zhang

by Matthew Cheney

4 August 2008

A couple years ago, I picked up another copy of China Mountain Zhang at a used bookstore, but I didn't dare read it. Much of the science fiction I had loved as a teen had turned out, when read as an adult, to feel simplistic, clunky, shallow. I preferred my memories.

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