One thing that it seems everyone in the world has in common these days - and yes, I like to look for things we have in common, no...

        We recently had the opportunity to see the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon,” which had funny moments, and dark moments, and an...

        On May 5, Maria Devlin McNair had a piece in the Boston Globe that you need to read.  It covers a whole slew of points that I’ve...

        Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-2018) died on Tuesday, and I have long admired her as a masterful maker of worlds, a soaringly beautiful w...

        Here’s an interesting article by sci fi author David Brin on his definition of the difference between sci fi and fantasy.  You sh...

     Heroism Is Contagious        I recently read about a couple of social psychology studies that left me feeling pretty I-told-you-...

     Inspired Inventions         Last post I mentioned Neal Stephenson's claim that it's the job of speculative fiction writ...

    Less Dystopia, Please         I've said it before and I'll say it again: one of the roles I think speculative fiction can...

        All stories have some level of social agenda, (even if that agenda is merely to cater to the latest fad in the hope of making the ...