Frederik Pohl is a certified science fiction legend: A multi-award winner. A distinguished editor. The man credited with bringing Samuel R. Delany’s million-selling Dhalgren to market. His late-inning emergence as World’s Greatest Elderly Blogger (he kept at it right up until his death in 2013 at age 93). The funny thing is, though his place in genre history […]
Science fiction grandmaster Frederik Pohl’s Gateway, one of the genre’s best-known, most-lauded novels, has been picked up by the Syfy channel for development into a series, offering additional evidence that the once-maligned network is committed to living up to its name.
To quote Douglas Adams, “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Considering we already routinely get lost just driving to a new city—even with the benefit of a tiny AI giving us directions—there’s no questioning that once humans have reached the point that we’re actually traveling […]
The future of healthcare in the United States might be the most pressing, divisive issue of the day—which makes it only natural to check out what science fiction has to say about it. Sci-fi books have long predicted what’s coming in the world of medicine—concepts like nanobots and robotic prosthetics were once the province of […]
Netherspace is a new space opera from Andrew Lane and Nigel Foster. Probably. It certainly takes an interesting approach to the genre—you’ll be hard-pressed to find any humanoid aliens, sleek spaceships, or attempts to justify how technology works. In the place of all that, it offers a universe of truly alien extraterrestrials, questionable trade deals, and a method of space travel […]
