Back in 2016, in her book, Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Susan Schneider predicted that, eventually,…
BOOK REVIEW The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell New York: Ballantine, 1996 The title to The Sparrow comes from the verse…
Where the Axe is Buried A novel by Ray Nayler Farrar, Straus and Giroux April, 2025 More and more, many…
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pessimistic and a bit depressed by the behavior of my…
In 2000, Eugene Stormer and Paul Crutzen introduced the title “Anthropocene” to denote the modern epoch in which “major and still…
Is AI Your Friend? What to fear and what not to fear from artificial intelligence In my novel, Ezekiel’s Brain,…
The term “Prime Directive” arrived in our vocabulary via the original Star Trek series, where it is also referred to…
This blog is not about writing, but about our society. On Tuesday of this week, a federal judge voided a…
Arkady Martine got my attention by winning the 2020 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, which was her 2019…
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…
World-renown experts on AI, such as Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom, claim that the central problem of AI development, especially…