Woman-as-monster: Medusa, bronze medallion from Pompeii, photo Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons

Reclaiming the Monster

Women can be monsters too. From snake-haired Medusa to the horrifying mama-alien of the Alien movies, female monsters have often embodied male fears of women’s ...
Cover image Our Shared Storm by Andrew Dana Hudson

Our Shared Futures

Can climate fiction help us see our way through the maze of possible futures we face? Can it help us move forward from our present ...
Message From the Future

Message From the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate-fiction blockbuster, The Ministry for the Future, has galvanized readers both within and outside the science fiction community—riding the wave of anxiety ...
The Uncanny Valley of Zoom backgrounds

The Uncanny Valley of Zoom backgrounds

We’ve all been talking about the Zoom experience. How it’s slightly off from the in-person experience, in ways that can be disorienting and exhausting. Yet, ...
Starfish - really alien aliens are known as "starfish aliens"

Blobs, Orbs, and Starfish: Really Alien Aliens

Book blogger Shruti Ramanujam recently published a list of “oddly specific storylines” she loves in books, that made me laugh out loud. And it made ...
The Only Harmless Great Thing cover

Elephants and Radium Girls

In The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander has taken on two strange and disturbing events from the early 20th century: the willfully negligent poisoning of ...
Trinity fireball, with lightning storm behind

Doctor Atomic’s blast zone

The latest production ofDoctor Atomic, the opera about the birth of the Nuclear Age by composer John Adams and director/librettist Peter Sellars, saw it coming ...
The Broken Earth: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky covers

The Broken Earth Trilogy

Reading each volume of The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin left me electrified. The first two books, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk ...
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Coming out as a Fan

It’s time for me to come out as a member of sci-fi fandom. I love science fiction and fantasy. I’ve read the books, watched the ...
Violet Fire, an opera about Nikola Tesla

Tesla, recorded

Violet Fire, the opera about Nikola Tesla that I worked on as librettist with composer Jon Gibson, is finally getting a studio recording! It’s a ...
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