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Improbable, but not impossible, ascents to the world stage...
Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers
Improbable, but not impossible, ascents to the world stage...
Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers
Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
Apr. 2nd, 2025 10:18 am
You bring the snacks, we'll bring the zombies, robots, and life-threatening peril!
Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
Taking a stand, while facing overwhelming odds.
Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements
These sleuths bring a little something extra to the table...
Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities
Not all systems and bureaucracies are corrupt.
The System Works: Five SFF Organizations and Institutions Worth Defending
Stories that lead to different conclusions than the author intended...
Five Works of SF That Undermine Their Own Thesis
It is more prudent to observe ETs at a distance. How might that be done? And how might they see us?
Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance
Five futures ranging from the bucolic to the dystopian...
Five SF Novels About Being the Last People on Earth
Sometimes empires just kind of fall apart over time—no catastrophe required.
Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper
Knowledge is power, but cluelessness is a great way to kick off a story...
Five SFF Stories Driven by Plot-Facilitating Ignorance
From nuclear bombardment to homicidal ghosts, these stories are unexpectedly upbeat.
Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
What happens when one individual owns the whole planet?
Five SF Stories About Owning the Entire Earth
Incorporating stellar nomenclature into fiction can be a wild ride.
The Treacherous Business of Naming Stars in SF
Taming the High Frontier
Feb. 5th, 2025 10:16 am
From Babylon 5 to RPGs, everybody loves space colonies!
Taming the High Frontier: Five Works Featuring Space Colonies
Whether corrupt schemers or hapless hacks, bad advisers excel at creating drama...
Five SFF Works Featuring Treacherous or Ineffectual Advisers
If reports are true, and I did not simply misunderstand, we bid a fond farewell to an SF institution.
The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed
What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us? That would probably suck for all of us.
Five Books About Very Real Gods Causing Very Real Trouble
