The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Suspension of disbelief is a heck of a thing. Some books ask for a little more heavy lifting than others, especially when travel from the “real world” to an alternate universe is involved. No one wants a dissertation on quantum physics, but sometimes the mechanisms for traveling to a magical land are startlingly… well, the […]

There are plenty of eye-catching numbers in the realms of speculative fiction. J.K. Rowling has sold the most copies of any book series: 450 million. Game of Thrones, much to HBO’s chagrin, is consistently the most pirated TV show ever: in a mere four-week period it was downloaded almost 1.6 million times. A few weeks back, John Scalzi netted […]

Another year, another prediction of apocalypse…but the end-of-the-world scenario pegged to September 23, 2015 is different: instead of being predicated on weird biblical interpretations, asteroid impacts, or societal collapse, it is a heady mish-mash of all of those things. Reading the laundry list of “clues” and “evidence” that something awful is about to happen is headache-inducing. […]

Growing up is a strange experience, mainly because we assume more or less arbitrarily that certain things we enjoyed as kids must be given up once we hit adulthood. Cookies for breakfast are awesome, yet at some point, we decide we must eat grapefruit and hate life. Reading out loud was also awesome when we were kids, […]