By: HILOBROW

We’re reading 225+ stories about troubled and troubling super­humans.

By: Mark Kingwell

Influences: Scottish gothic, science fiction, and radical left-wing politics.

By: Joshua Glenn

Is enjoying Battlefield Earth really so crazy?

By: Matthew Battles

Some people like to surf memories. Others use them as ringtones.

By: Lucy Sante

You are the host of a virus; the virus is life; you are fucked.

By: Joe Alterio

GEORGE A. ROMERO’s (born 1940) movies are charming, because they aren’t ashamed to send the same counterintuitive message, again and again. Before Romero, “zombie” was strictly a voodoo term; in horror movies, zombies were slaves […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“The planet has a fever,” Al Gore told Republican skeptics in Congress on March 21. “If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says, ‘You have to intervene here,’ […]

By: Matthew De Abaitua

GRANT MORRISON’s (born 1960) house was on a distinguish­ed street in Glasgow, purchased with the proceeds from his 1989 Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum. In the attic was a replica of his teenage bedroom; downstairs […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Mechanical humanoids who continue to haunt today’s sf.

By: Joshua Glenn

Here it is: the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” HiLobrow.com’s Radium Age Science Fiction podcast, recorded every month (as of January ’10) at Pazzo Books, here in Boston. Below, you’ll find an introduction to […]

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 6th and final reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped on January 15th; […]

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 5th reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped on January 15th; it’s not […]

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 4th reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped on January 15th; it’s not […]

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 3rd reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped on January 15th; it’s not […]