Science Fiction

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  • The blogger as starmaker

    Never mind the inventors -- Andrea's posts make things happen. Chapter 6 of "Themepunks."
    By Cory Doctorow October 17, 2005

  • Making the panopticon user-friendly

    Lester solves messiness! Chapter 5 of "Themepunks."
    By Cory Doctorow October 10, 2005

  • The last frontier: Roommate ware

    Andrea abandons Silicon Valley, knockoff kitchen gnomes from Eastern Europe flood the market, and Lester and Perry get their first business plan. Chapter 4 of "Themepunks."
    By Cory Doctorow October 3, 2005

  • "Strange Itineraries" by Tim Powers

    The combination of Powers' noir-existentialist worldview with elements of SF, fantasy and literary fiction makes these nine stories truly unique.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 1, 2005

  • Boogie Woogie Elmo and the junkyard future

    What happens when you match 3D printers with free computing power? Chapter 2 of "Themepunks."
    By Cory Doctorow September 19, 2005

  • Themepunks

    Is it already time for the way new economy? Chapter 1 of a new science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow.
    By Cory Doctorow September 12, 2005

  • Yurts, robot secretaries, and talking dinosaurs

    In Carla Speed McNeil's "Finder" comics, cultures past, present and future clash and combine to create a fantastic vision of a different world.
    By Douglas Wolk August 5, 2005

  • Lost in space

    Douglas Adams fans, anxiously awaiting "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" movie, debate how to express their passion for the sci-fi novelist without looking like nerds.
    By Emily Biuso April 28, 2005

  • The future perfect

    Famed Scottish novelist Iain Banks talks about how science fiction has turned anti-American, and why there'll be no WMD in outer space.
    By Andrew Leonard February 17, 2005

  • Anda's game

    Killing newbies who were trying to cheat the system seemed like a good way to make a buck. But in this simulated reality, who is scamming whom?
    By Cory Doctorow November 15, 2004

  • Three cheers for the Surveillance Society!

    In the brave new future, Big Brother will watch our every move. But that's OK, because we'll be watching him too.
    By David Brin August 4, 2004

  • Archaeologist of lost worlds

    Overdosed on Harry? Had it with hobbits? Steven Erikson's sweeping 10-volume series, "The Malazan Book of the Fallen," might be just the fantasy epic that adult readers have been longing for.
    By Andrew Leonard June 21, 2004

  • Creative destruction

    With his new novel, "The Zenith Angle," Bruce Sterling abandons the cyborg future for the more terrifying present of amoral terrorists and capitalists
    By Andrew Leonard April 30, 2004

  • The Salon Interview: Neal Stephenson

    The author of "Cryptonomicon" and the "Baroque Cycle" talks about the brighter side of Puritanism, the feud between Newton and Leibniz, and the literary world's grudge against science fiction.
    By Laura Miller April 21, 2004

  • Miscarriage of justice

    Imagine a future where the punishment for not having your baby is a life sentence of hard labor.
    By Robert J. Howe March 24, 2004

  • Retroactive anti-terror

    A century after dying the first time, Peter Skilling is about to discover that the future doesn't look kindly on the minor indiscretions of the past.
    By Alex Irvine February 19, 2004

  • Strong medicine

    In the nanotech future, hunger may be a thing of the past, but there will always be a place for a good man with a knife.
    By William Shunn November 10, 2003

  • Truncat

    What if you could file-share someone's consciousness? Would it be a violation, or the ultimate communication therapy? A short story by Cory Doctorow.
    By Cory Doctorow August 26, 2003

  • Love in the age of spyware

    Their affair was nurtured by a robot and watched by millions -- but its ratings were shaky.
    By William Shunn July 16, 2003

  • A future worth fighting for

    Yes, "The Matrix Reloaded" delivers phantasmagoric visuals. But it also introduces a new level of grown-up human passion into this saga of technology and salvation.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 15, 2003

  • "Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fforde

    Literary detective Thursday Next teams up with Dickens' Miss Havisham to fight world destruction and an outbreak of deadly coincidences.
    By Laura Miller March 13, 2003

  • Nodal point

    William Gibson talks about how his new present-day novel, "Pattern Recognition," processes the apocalyptic mind-set of a post-9/11 world.
    By Andrew Leonard February 13, 2003

  • Liberation spectrum

    Wi-Fi radio and Indian sovereignty make for a potent mix -- even without antsy venture capitalists mucking things up.
    By Cory Doctorow January 16, 2003

  • "Solaris"

    Sure, it might not have a plot, but Steven Soderbergh's sci-fi reverie floats through space on a cloud of pure cinema.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 27, 2002

  • "0wnz0red"

    Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick: A new short story from one of science fiction's bright young stars.
    By Cory Doctorow August 28, 2002
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