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Julie E. Czerneda’s To Each This World, which will come out in November, 2022, is one of the most thought-provoking,…
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Blasting Into Space With A Song The U.S. Space Force, an independent arm of the service that operates under the…
I was surprised when my publisher categorized my novel, Ezekiel’s Brain, as “Dystopian fiction” on Amazon. Still, it’s a category…
A lot of people these days feel as if their world is out of control. In addressing the two biggest…
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If you read science fiction, this is a great time to live in. If you haven’t tried reading science fiction…
Arkady Martine got my attention by winning the 2020 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, which was her 2019…
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Award winning Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu has said, “Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.…
In my quest to find out how other science fiction writers have handled the subject of first contact with an…
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values By Brian Christian I must admit that I was taken by surprise…