A new book unveils how two giants of their fields — a master of science fiction and a visionary of cinema — made film history out of an unlikely partnership.
A human discovers an alien device on an ancient starship. Gloved hands, shielded from the void, but not from curiosity, grasp the artifact. The human possesses the item, but only in a physical sense. Metaphorically, and psychologically, it possesses its claimant. This relic is a deviation from a universe where humans reign as the sole […]
The shadow of Arthur C. Clarke continues to loom large over modern sci-fi, from the monolithic pop-culture impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the endless imagination of his novels and short stories. He is unquestionably still inspiring new generations of authors; certainly two of them, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds, have taken inspiration to its logical extreme with […]
On this day in 1986, the loss of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger woke us up to the very real human costs of space exploration. The lives of Dick Scobee, Mike Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnick, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe ended tragically on flight STS-51-L, but it is their pioneering […]
Science fiction history has its share of disputes and disagreements, but there’s only one that left a plane crash, untold awards ceremony speeches, and the world’s first combination war treaty/book dedication in its wake. Today, in honor of the light-hearted tomfoolery April Fool’s Day inspires in us all, I’m taking a look at the rivalry […]