By: Peggy Nelson

He’s still there because it’s there.

By: Joshua Glenn

John Carter, Professor Challenger, and Fu Manchu — that’s why!

By: Joshua Glenn

Some say the world will end in fire, others cosmic dust.

By: Joshua Glenn

Juvenile and YA science fiction that’s actually good.

By: Mark Kingwell

A notebook kind of writer.

By: Joshua Glenn

We want Radium-Age telepaths out of our heads!

By: Joshua Glenn

Some say the world will end in fire, some in ice — some in communist aliens!

By: Joshua Glenn

Mechanical humanoids who continue to haunt today’s sf.

By: Joshua Glenn

The influence of Radium-Age supermen remains a powerful one.

By: Peggy Nelson

The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat. Welcome to HiLo’s Wide World of Xtreme Sports, where tests of endurance determine who goes to extremes: of nature, of humanity, and of storytelling itself. [Jim […]

By: Matthew Battles

THOR HEYERDAHL (1914–2002) lived a long life, but so much was left undone: he might have piloted an ice floe from Porvoo to Hokkaido to prove Finland’s nomadic Sami peopled Japan; he might have shown […]

By: Lucy Sante

JIM THOMPSON (1906-77) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma, in a room above the jail, the son of a crooked sheriff. A good part of his destiny was cemented then and there. Early on he became […]

By: Tor Aarestad

We’re riding a swell of black-humored children’s literature, these days — the Lemony Snicket books are just a whitecap. However, as dark as these contemporary tales may be, none is so misanthropic as those of […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.

By: Lucy Sante

If CHESTER HIMES (1909-84) hadn’t found himself broke in France in the mid-1950s he might today be remembered only as the author of some acute, painful treatments of racism and prison life — the kind […]