By: Joshua Glenn

Her hair was long, her foot was light,/And her eyes were wild.

By: Joshua Glenn

The X Factor (1965), by Andre Norton.

By: Joshua Glenn

The Tragedy of X (1941), by Ellery Queen.

By: Joshua Glenn

Fritz Leiber’s SF satire The Silver Eggheads first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959. In it, he imagined a future world in which books — cranked out at the rate […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The Big X (1959), by Hank Searls.

By: Joshua Glenn

The Game of X (1965), by Robert Sheckley.

By: Andrew Sempere

Chicago is semi-porous: even now you can traverse the layers and see the bones where the roads hit the water.

By: Joshua Glenn

Venus Plus X (1960), by Theodore Sturgeon.

By: Joshua Glenn

Why were eggheads associated with sex at midcentury?

By: Andrew Sempere

Telekinesis may rattle the flatware, electricity washes your dishes.

By: Andrew Sempere

Ghosts, Zombies and Facebook. OMG.

By: Alexis Madrigal

A vernacular clean technology of countryside contraptions.

By: Joshua Glenn

Not made for this world’s pain…

By: Andrew Sempere

Guiteau prayed and God showed him the way: ungrateful Garfield had to die.

By: Joshua Glenn

X (1963), adapted by Eunice Sudak from the 1963 movie X.