Category Archives: Science Fiction
Thinking about Gaia
In this month of Earth Day and marching for science and climate, I’m thinking about Gaia. A hashtag popped up on Twitter last week: #ifonlytheearthcouldspeak ...
Grieving for a whole planet
When I saw the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope, I couldn’t get past that moment when Princess Leia sees her home planet, Alderaan, ...
An Alternate History reading list for this moment
Are we living in an alternate branch of history? I’ve been asking myself that question since waking up the morning of November 9, with the ...
Other Times, Other Worlds—Fran Wilde & Lawrence M. Schoen
I’m excited to be part of All But True’s next author event, “Other Times, Other Worlds,” with two award-winning science fiction authors: Fran Wilde and ...
Ursula K. Le Guin: Telling makes the world
Maria Popova has written on her wonderful website Brain Pickings about Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay on the nature of speech, “Telling is Listening.” This brought ...
The radical leaps of A Wrinkle in Time
I was in sixth grade when I was swept up in the world of A Wrinkle in Time, part of the first generation of girls ...
Kate Atkinson and quantum physics
Kate Atkinson has now won the Costa Book Award twice in the past three years—for her companion novels, A God in Ruins (2015) and the stunning ...
Remembering Sun Ra
Space is the Place—the wild space-fantasy film starring Sun Ra, the legendary experimental jazz artist—came out in 1974. It follows Sun Ra and his Arkestra ...
Nikola Tesla’s hidden contribution
Nikola Tesla is a hero to geeks everywhere, who will be celebrating his birthday this week. World-famous in his lifetime, the prodigiously gifted inventor fell ...
Gravity and the Noosphere
I loved seeing Gravity. In my opinion, the Planet Earth should be nominated for a supporting-player Oscar. I drank in the massive, stunning views of ...