All Tomorrow's Cultures

I just finished reading Ben Bova's Mars Life , largely because of its enigmatic dedication to the former polygenist, Carleton S. Coon. C...

As the Python sketch said long, long ago: "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" By definition, future forms and practices will...

In the New York Times on Friday (10/24), a really astounding admonition by Alan Greenspan, looking a bit like a drunk on the morning after: ...

It's pretty hard to imagine a more Gothic city than Baltimore (in the literary sense). You've got the Faulkner-esque kind of gothic...

The robot-gone-awry has been a theme in literature and popular culture from at least Goethe. The 20th century variant generally revolves ar...

I just finished M. John Harrison's Light (2002)--that novel, as well as those of Gaiman, Egan, and other contemporary, SF authors, seem...

I've been thinking on and off about aliens these days. One of the reasons must be because I'm on the CONTACT! listserve, which is f...