Articles by Claire Evans

On the futility of assigning names to grains of sand.

From the cover of OMNI's second best of sci-fi issue…

The covers of Omni Magazine tempted me with airbrushed cosmic landscapes and headlines like, "Missing Time: A New Look at Alien Abductions" and "Riding Comets to the Stars." I brought a stack home. The love affair was instantaneous.

What the late sci-fi master had to say about the ultimate weapon.

Artists Pablo Garcia and Addie Wagenknecht asked sexcam performers to replicate poses from iconic works of Western art.

A spacesuit is a spaceship for one. Bridging fashion, architecture, and engineering, it's a portable environment, a single garment built to protect human beings from the void.

Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss.

Inventing drugs is a tradition that dates back to Homer. From the Odyssey and its lotus-eaters to the psychotropic inventions of the substance-addled Philip K. Dick, from the ambrosia and manna of mythology to the psychedelic Spice of the desert plan…

In geosynchronous orbit, a ribbon of space 35,786 kilometers above mean sea level, a satellite can hang out for billions of years. A few clicks in either direction, and the rate of decay is visible. In geosynchronous orbit, however, with no atmospher…

_"The computer [is] the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it is an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it the wheel is a mere hula-hoop."_ -- Marshall McLuhan, from War and Peace in the Global Village_ Last month,…