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 […]
Books, Myth + Spirituality, Science Fiction
Alternate History, Climate Change, Science Fiction
Our Shared Futures
Can climate fiction help us see our way through the maze of possible futures we face? Can it help us
Climate Change, Science Fiction
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
Arts in the Digital Age, Look up at the sky, Science Fiction
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
Books, Science Fiction
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
Alternate History, Books, Myth + Spirituality, Nikola Tesla, Science Fiction
Elephants and Radium Girls
In The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander has taken on two strange and disturbing events from the early
Myth + Spirituality, New Opera & Performance, Science Fiction
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
Books, Science Fiction
The Broken Earth Trilogy
Reading each volume of The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin left me electrified. The first two books, The
Books, Science Fiction
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
New Opera & Performance, 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
Alternate History, Books, Myth + Spirituality, Science Fiction
American Bardo
As I read George Saunders’ daring first novel Lincoln in the Bardo recently, I was struck by its strangely close parallels with
Books, Climate Change, Myth + Spirituality, 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
Books, Climate Change, Science Fiction
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
Alternate History, Books, Science Fiction
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
Books, Science Fiction
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
Books, Science Fiction
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,
Nikola Tesla
Living Tesla’s Dream
Today is the 160th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s birth. Tesla was a seer of electricity, whose vision of a world transformed with
Books, Myth + Spirituality, Science Fiction
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
Nikola Tesla
Tesla in Bankruptcy
On March 18, 1916—one hundred years ago today—the New York World ran an article with the headline: “Tesla No Money
Books, Science Fiction
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
