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Science Fiction
November 4, 2015
Evan Kindley
Kurt Vonnegut’s Electric Literature
The author’s inspired years among the scientists at General Electric.
April 17, 2015
Jeet Heer
Science Fiction's White Boys' Club Strikes Back
February 28, 2015
Tom Carson
Why Leonard Nimoy Came to Embrace His Long, Prosperous Life as Spock
October 28, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Michel Faber Wrote This Heartbreaking Book While His Wife Was Dying. Now He Says It's His Last.
October 18, 2014
Peter F. Hamilton
Can Science Fiction Writers Predict Technology’s Future?
June 20, 2014
Esther Breger
‘Orphan Black’ Embodies the Female Gaze Better than Anything Else on Television
June 9, 2014
Jeet Heer
A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
Robert A. Heinlein became increasingly right wing, and his novels suffered for it
March 21, 2014
David Thomson
The Story Behind the Greatest Movie Never Made
January 3, 2014
Jerry A. Coyne
Isaac Asimov's Predictions for 2014 Were Eerily Prescient. Except for the Internet.
November 18, 2013
Ursula Le Guin
Doris Lessing's First Sci-Fi Book Reads Like a Debut Novel
October 13, 1979
July 9, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
And Martians Shall Save the University
Why do we need the liberal arts? Because it gives us sci-fi
May 7, 2013
Leon Neyfakh
Margaret Atwood: The Literary World's Technology Mascot
June 10, 2002
Stanley Kauffmann
Star Wars Is Impervious to Film Criticism
A review of "Episode II: Attack of the Clones."
April 26, 1969
Michael Crichton
Read Michael Crichton’s 1969 Review of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’

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