With Acceptance, a three-volume expedition into the uncanny reaches its climax.
It’s been a rough winter in the U.S., particularly if you live in the northeast—upstate New York was buried, and no one’s seen Boston for weeks. It’s time to get out of town, but then there’s the problem of navigating the hassles of winter travel. No worries: If you’re of a mind to get away from […]
There is much debate over the identity of the first science fiction story. Some people see primitive ancestors of what we’d one day term “sci-fi” deep in ancient history. Others find the first examples in the Enlightenment, when aspects of science and machinery began to appear in imaginative ways. Some cite Frankenstein as the first true science […]
Slowed only by language barriers, science fiction has flourished throughout the world, telling dazzling stories of the future, and the world we live in. But as the world grows ever more connected, something extraordinary has begun to happen: diverse strands of the science fiction literary tradition have begun to seek one another out. Magazines and major publishers are […]