By: Charlie Jane Anders

Why the return of 1970s-style apocalyptic movies?

By: Matthew Battles

From old optical tricks to revelatory moving speculation.

By: Joshua Glenn

The greatest blog in the multiverse.

By: Matthew Battles

So long as the coarse texture of pop is not touched by a paltry culture…

By: Andrew Sempere

In late 2001, Soft Cell’s Marc Almond appeared with Rosenstolz on Eurovision as the guest musical artists. They performed a cover of the Klaus Nomi song Total Eclipse of the Sun. This video is an […]

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Why do science fiction characters flee their home-worlds?

By: Andrew Sempere

In naming the mechanical conveyances that carry us under our cities, I far prefer the word  subway to underground, metro, ubahn, tube, T. There is a mysticism inherent in subway that does not come through […]

By: Matthew Battles

Pioneering solar flight offers us a glimpse of another aviation.

By: Joshua Glenn

Best science documentary ever.

By: Andrew Sempere

I have a recurring dream in which a house that I have just moved into contains a hidden panel, a door or passage that leads me to a room full of ephemera. The key element […]

By: Matthew Battles

The creative ecology of the copy.

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Which science fiction pantheon is the lamest?

By: Matthew Battles

Sucking the lifeblood from a spirited original.

By: Joshua Glenn

Who are the most patriotic superheroes?

By: Matthew Battles

Caught between techno-apologists and paleobibliophiles.