Recent Columns

Believing in the Unbelievable: A brief history of black holes

by Marshall Perrin

23 June 2008

Black holes are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of astronomy: mysterious and dangerous, the end result of millions of years of evolution, perfect predators which hold our fascinated attention all out of proportion to their actual rarity.

Ender's Decline

by James Schellenberg

9 June 2008

There's just something about this particular tale: a young child growing up in difficult circumstances, taken away from family and sent into intense military training, and then facing ever more difficult obstacles in the pursuit of saving humanity.

boo.

by Iain Jackson

2 June 2008

So why is it that horror on film or in books or audio works, and horror in comics just kind of ... lays there?

The Antidote to Dystopia

by Matthew Cheney

26 May 2008

Two stories of technology and society, one true and one speculative. For Alice Ramsay, technology became a liberation; for Forster's Vashti, technology created a prison.

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