Science Fiction

Science Fiction

Vonnegut on Film

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.21.2010 7:29 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted Books, Movies, and More

We the Living lives, a lesson from the newspaper business, Cory Doctorow's Makers, and exposing Mexican injustice

Brian Doherty, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Radley Balko | 1.27.2010 3:00 PM

Culture

One Step Closer to Idiocracy

Brian Doherty | 1.14.2010 10:00 AM

Culture

Liberals and Libertarians at the Movies

Peter Suderman | 1.12.2010 11:13 AM

Culture

Transhuman Wrap: Come for the Little-Kicks Dance, Stay for the Toe Shoes

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.6.2009 9:55 PM

Culture

Literary Corner (Genre-Crossed Edition)

Jesse Walker | 11.20.2009 3:02 PM

Politics

Zombies: A Rothbardian Perspective

Jesse Walker | 9.7.2009 8:30 AM

Zombies

Zombies, Man, They Really Creep Me Out

Damon Root | 6.22.2009 11:27 AM

Culture

Death of a Dystopian

The life and legacy of J.G. Ballard

Joanne McNeil | 6.19.2009 12:00 PM

Culture

Sixty Years After 1984

Does Orwell's dystopian classic still matter?

Cathy Young | 6.11.2009 6:00 PM

Politics

The Politics of Superheroes

Want a map of the debates of the early 21st century? Watch a comic-book movie.

Jesse Walker | 5.5.2009 7:00 AM

Culture

Philip Jose Farmer, RIP

Jesse Walker | 2.26.2009 7:26 AM

Politics

Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner in France

How TV's most individualist character made a communitarian country swoon

Emmanuelle Richard | 1.15.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Patrick McGoohan, RIP

Jesse Walker | 1.14.2009 1:44 PM

Policy

Michael Crichton, R.I.P.

The novelist and public policy provocateur dies at age 66.

Ronald Bailey | 11.6.2008 12:00 PM

Intellectual Property

Remixing Television

Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground

Jesse Walker | 7.18.2008 12:00 PM

Obituaries

Thomas M. Disch, RIP

Jesse Walker | 7.7.2008 10:52 PM

Politics

Lost in Political Philosophy

The popular show drops plenty of clues but, can you trust them?

Brian Doherty | 2.5.2008 12:20 PM

Culture

Madeleine L'Engle, RIP

Jesse Walker | 9.10.2007 9:33 AM

Culture

When Imaginary Worlds Collide

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2007 9:45 AM

Culture

My Clothes Are a Harsh Mistress

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2007 4:55 PM

Politics

Robert Heinlein at 100

How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist world.

Brian Doherty | 7.9.2007 12:06 PM

Television

The Horrible Truth About Super-Science

Jackson Publick of The Venture Brothers on superheroes, satire, and the '60s

David Weigel | 7.1.2007 12:35 AM

Culture

Scientifiction Makes Good; Gernsback Smiles

Brian Doherty | 6.22.2007 6:15 PM

Culture

Is It Too Late To Piss on Kurt Vonnegut's Grave Using Kilgore Trout's Unusually Shaped Penis?

Nick Gillespie | 4.20.2007 7:30 AM

Culture

Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

Jesse Walker | 4.12.2007 9:32 AM

Politics

Porno for Paranoids

Jesse Walker | 4.11.2007 10:21 AM

Science Fiction

Jump In The Urinal And Stand On Your Head. I'm The One That's Alive. You're All Dead.

Jesse Walker | 3.28.2007 11:30 AM

Culture

We the Living Dead

The convoluted politics of zombie cinema

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.25.2007 2:48 PM

Politics

Illuminated Manuscripts

The legacy of Robert Anton Wilson

Jesse Walker | 1.16.2007 5:08 AM

Culture

When Piracy Becomes Promotion

How unauthorized copying made Japanese animation profitable in the United States.

Henry Jenkins | 11.17.2006 2:44 AM

Science Fiction

Empire of the Green Sun

Jesse Walker | 9.19.2006 12:19 PM

Culture

Happy 40th Birthday, Star Trek

Why Captain Kirk's story is the story of America

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.8.2006 10:40 AM

Culture

The Parables of Octavia Butler

A science-fiction writer's rich libertarian legacy

Amy H. Sturgis | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Television

Reclaiming My Inner Geek

Jesse Walker | 3.17.2006 4:01 PM

Culture

Dhalgren in New Orleans

A classic science fiction novel comes to life in the Big Easy.

Bidisha Banerjee | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Out to the Black

The existentialist libertarianism of Joss Whedon's space western

Julian Sanchez | 9.30.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

Dhalgren in New Orleans

What an old science-fiction novel can tell us about the Big Easy

Bidisha Banerjee | 9.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

American Anarchist

The life of Mary Frohman

Jesse Walker | 6.9.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future

The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.

Mike Godwin | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

Can't Blame the Big Ape

Fay Wray, RIP

Jesse Walker | 8.10.2004 12:00 AM

Culture

Cybergreen

Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future

Mike Godwin | 1.1.2004 12:00 AM

Culture

Time Enough for Love

Heinlein's new oldie

Matt Welch | 12.1.2003 12:00 AM

Culture

Theological Science Fiction

Why The Matrix matters

Gregory Benford | 5.23.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

Anarchies, States, and Utopias

The science fiction of Ken MacLeod.

Jesse Walker | 11.1.2000 12:00 AM

Policy

Looking Back at Looking Backward

Edward Bellamy's famous utopian novel is set in today's America. Are we living his crazy dream?

Tom Peyser | 8.1.2000 12:00 AM

Policy

Copy Catfight

How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture.

Jesse Walker | 3.1.2000 12:00 AM

Politics

News from Nowhere

Jesse Walker | 12.1.1999 12:00 AM