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…
Life on a Tidally Locked Planet Habitable planets are a staple of science fiction, but until the mid-1990’s, no planets…
I’m not sure which of Philip K. Dick’s novels I read first. I suspect it was The Man in the…
Values and Science Fiction In her book, Science Fiction and Philosophy, Susan Schneider describes the best science fiction novels as…