By: Joshua Glenn

Behind the scenes at the taping of our 2nd podcast!

By: Joshua Glenn

“Aphrodite, forgive me! I have failed in my mission!”

By: HILOBROW

Sarah is a gifted child…

By: HILOBROW

“These are my demands.”

By: HILOBROW

The first time we made someone have a heart attack…

By: Joshua Glenn

The theme of our next episode: “Scary Supermen.”

By: Annalee Newitz

DE­PRESSUR­IZATION EMERG­ENCY. PLEASE PUT ON VACUUM SUITS.

By: HILOBROW

Coming up later today, a ripping yarn set in a mining camp in the Asteroid Belt: “The Great Oxygen Race,” by Annalee Newitz. And later this week, we’ll publish our first micro-fiction contest’s three Honorable […]

By: HILOBROW

“Can you tell me why you’re here, Lesley?” the guidance counselor asks me in this voice like I just got off the short bus.

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 […]