All Tomorrow's Cultures

How many books are there (in anthropology and elsewhere) describing/advocating/conjuring up "post-socialism"? I'm looking at o...

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...