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Destination: Mars

Destination: Mars

How we imagined the Red Planet
By Andrew Liptak May 16, 2022
Irradiating SF

Irradiating SF

MIT Press is reissuing Joshua Glenn's The Radium Age series
By Andrew Liptak Mar 8, 2022
The best SF/F books of 2021

The best SF/F books of 2021

Essential reads from a bleak year
By Andrew Liptak Jan 6, 2022
Transmission of Habit

Transmission of Habit

How do groups and organizations foster healthy futures?
By Andrew Liptak Oct 8, 2021
The prescient Octavia Butler

The prescient Octavia Butler

By Andrew Liptak Jun 23, 2021
Narratives of modernization

Narratives of modernization

A history of Chinese science fiction Image: Andrew LiptakIn 2015, author Ken Liu stepped up to the podium at Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, to accept the Hugo Award for Best Novel on behalf of Liu Cixin, author of The Three-Body Problem. It was a historic moment: Liu
By Andrew Liptak Feb 12, 2021
Buck Rogers could be the next big sci-fi franchise

Buck Rogers could be the next big sci-fi franchise

By Andrew Liptak Feb 4, 2021
Cyberpunk's power came from global dystopian politics

Cyberpunk's power came from global dystopian politics

It might look like the 1980s, but we're still living in it
By Andrew Liptak Dec 10, 2020
At Last, Dangerous Visions

At Last, Dangerous Visions

Harlan Ellison's long-unfinished science fiction anthology might finally see the light of day
By Andrew Liptak Nov 18, 2020
Dragonlance changed how we read fantasy

Dragonlance changed how we read fantasy

The franchise's original creators have sued Wizards of the Coast for breach of contract over a new book trilogy
By Andrew Liptak Oct 22, 2020

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