Articles tagged "fiction"

Has the storied genre where Nazis triumph and the South beats the Yanks been consumed by the scourge of Steampunk?

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

In a stunning upset of red-hot author Junot Diaz, Claire Vaye Watkins took home The Story Prize, the Stanley Cup of short-fiction prizes.

"Revolution," the widely-watched JJ Abrams show that premiered on NBC this week, is the latest entry in sci-fi's raggedest subgenre. Call it the dystopia of failed technology, the powered-down apocalypse; it's speculative fiction that peers into poss…

“The world is carnage.” Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. But that phrase has become a familiar refrain—almost comforting, despite its gloomy message—to fans of Henderzones, the best-kept secret of Twitter-based serial storytelling. Updated re…

I put the question about cyberpunk to ten science-fictional thinkers, including a coterie of the genre’s parents/

Cyberpunk writing was “not outside us, but next to us. Under our skin; often, inside our minds.”