By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

By: David Smay

He helped free science fiction from 19th-century (or any) values.

By: David Smay

Insanely prolific, unbelievably vital, formally inventive.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1884-93 cohort sought to make it new, to begin again.

By: Erik Davis

He introduced “outsideness” — cosmic dread — to science fiction.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1864-73 cohort is a lost generation of absurdists and experimenters.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.

By: Joshua Glenn

Moses was obsessed with micro­organisms like yeast… because God is an alien.

By: Jason Grote

The biography of ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-88) firmly places Golden-Age SF on the grand continuum of Americana: the no-nonsense engineer’s mentality of his Kansas City upbringing, his longing for military service (he graduated from the […]

By: Matthew Battles

1 …Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: […]

By: Jason Grote

Octavia E. Butler

By: Joshua Glenn

Teenage mutants…

By: Matthew Battles

THE STAR TREK MYTHOS hosts one of the most flourishing bodies of fan fiction since Euripides and the boys got busy on Homer back in the day (indeed, Trekkies ushered in the modern fan fiction […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children — wiggle their eyebrows to the beat of Freestyle Express’s “Don’t Stop […]