In 2004, I wrote I, Carlos, a novel in which a new form of entertainment, called neurostories, involved implanting a…
Some books have the power to generate iconic images of the future. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, for instance, with…
Our human minds were constructed over hundreds of thousands of years (actually millions of years, considering pre-human evolution), cellular circuit…
Could humans disappear from earth? Far-fetched as it sounds, the chances of such an outcome are not as small as…
Today’s the day. Ezekiel’s Brain, my new mind-bending science fiction novel about artificial intelligence and space travel is published and…
Over the last several decades, science fiction has merged with fantasy and retrovisionary techno-fiction (e.g., steampunk), to expand its subject…
Many years ago, when I was in college, I remember hearing about a new TV series that was a “must…
Interested in speculative fiction—sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural, futuristic—novels? I’m a science fiction reader, a fan of novels about the future, robots, space…
There is a thin line between alternate history novels and science fiction. Both clearly belong in the category of speculative…
The Novelist as an Advocate I was tempted to call this newsletter entry, “Reading The Ministry for the Future in…
As a clinician, I’ve had many fascinating cases over the years. One teenage boy had one-half of his brain removed…
A lot of people have the dream of becoming a writer. With print-on-demand paperbacks, ebooks, and the exploding opportunities for…
Philosophical Science Fiction Susan Schneider has said that science fiction sometimes represents “long versions of philosophical thought experiments.” When I was…
Novels offer escape to other world’s, to other experiences, and to other identities. They can be exciting, scary, exhilarating, arousing,…
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, 1927 In his 1942 story, Runaround, Isaac Asimov formulated his famous “Three Laws of Robotics”: A robot…